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Jonny
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Posted: Wed 11 Jul , 2007 9:15 pm
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I've always loved movie trailers... I tend to think of them as poems. It's almost as if an editor is told to take a novel, cut out pieces and put those pieces into a poem.

An example that comes to mind is The Notebook - the movie itself I thought kind of cliched and slow paced but the trailer I find really moving.

The combination of narration, music, and images seem to create a much more potent version of the story than the 2 hour counterpart. Anyone else feel the same?

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Posted: Wed 11 Jul , 2007 9:55 pm
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I agree with you, Jonny! :D Even with movies that I love like LOTR I often find the trailers very moving for just the reasons you outlined. And then a lot of times the trailers are a lot better than the actual movie is...again for the same reasons. Maybe we can put up some of our fav trailers here. Like I said before I love all of the LOTR trailers...maybe I'll look for links to them and put them up. :D

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Plus, with trailers you get that amazing feeling of expectation. :love:

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In the case of Shrek III, Definitely.

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I like how they normally put all the intense bits of a film in its trailer, and then show them all fast and montaged with exciting music and narration from the badass deep-voice guy. I normally don't like watching pure action films, for example, but I love the trailers. :D


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Posted: Sun 15 Jul , 2007 12:19 am
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Trailers are really good, but annoying too. Especially if the ensuing movie sucks big time!

Luckily in that respect I see a fantasic trailer, then forget it completely by the time the film actually arrives! :LMAO:

No film is worth the hype so I try to avoid it all if I actually want to see the film. That way I stand a chance of leaving the film feeling pleasantly entertained. :) I certainly enjoyed 600 despite the fact you read some pretty dodgy neo-con propaganda into it if you really wanted too. ;)

In all trailers are works of art in themselves.

Vive La Trailers!

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EdaintheRanger wrote:
I certainly enjoyed 600 despite the fact you read some pretty dodgy neo-con propaganda into it if you really wanted too. ;)
Was that the sequel to 300? I must've missed that one!

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I've never seen any of the Rambo movies, but they have an advanced trailer of the new one that shows off its action movie heritage pretty well, with a high level of violence--be forewarned.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/19/ ... e-trailer/

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The music for the trailer for TTT was the music from Requiem for a Dream, which was remixed as "Requiem for a Tower". I loved the music. I hated the movie (I mean RfaD, not TTT).


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