# Greatest movie trailers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230 "2011-06-03T19:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/1 "2011-06-03T19:04:48Z")
What are some of the greatest movie trailers you’ve ever seen? Trailers that just made your blood run cold when you first saw them. Some of my picks, in no particular order: [Pineapple Express](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYg2EJLJids) [Watchmen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU) [300](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDiUG52ZyHQ) [Where the Wild Things Are](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-PqqifyjA) And, of course, the trailer for the 1969 film [True Grit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn_N17JyPbc). Links, people, links! ---
**Author:** ![Dietrich\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@Dietrich\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dietrich_K)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/2 "2011-06-03T20:03:46Z")
1979’s [Alien](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhGdRSkiUw) 1972’s [The Last House on the Left](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W9KPhmYYtg) 1973’s [The Exorcist](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDGw1MTEe9k) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/3 "2011-06-03T20:10:06Z")
**The Comedian** ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/4 "2011-06-03T20:41:26Z")
[Spider-man teaser](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc0eP7ausWE) - When this trailer was new, I remember seeing it at a theater and it just looked like some generic action movie until… the reveal! Everyone in the theater started cheering. Awesome. It had a short shelf-life, though, as September 11 was not long after that. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/5 "2011-06-03T22:31:03Z")
Certainly the most excited I have ever been for a trailer was the first trailer for [The Phantom Menace.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6hOlI9cg4o) My lord I was excited for that movie, and the trailer is really well put together. As for pure entertainment value of the trailer, I have to agree with [Comedian](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDzuT0fXro). ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/6 "2011-06-04T01:00:13Z")
I think I would stand behind just about all of the ones on this [list](http://www.avclub.com/articles/comingattraction-attractions-24-movie-trailers-tha,45589/). Especially Alien, The Social Network, Superman Returns, Spider-Man and The Minus Man (A movie I had never heard of until I saw it on this list. ---
**Author:** ![Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@Gilles\_de\_Rais](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilles_de_Rais)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/7 "2011-06-04T02:17:00Z")
When it first appeared, I couldn’t watch the trailer for [Shadow of a Vampire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBt5DDFcQY) often enough. Still gives me a great laugh. The one I am addicted to now is this fall’s coming movie [_Anonymous._](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PaliLAQT8k) Brilliant tag-lines, great use of a Radiohead tune in a period flick, and a trailer that gives me the shivers every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/8 "2011-06-04T02:21:56Z")
I have a few: Not a widely seen movie, but a very creative trailer. Check it out. [Minus Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MG6cZvL0NQ) And: [Watchmen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU) [Phantom Menace](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6hOlI9cg4o)- I can not believe how bad this movie is compared to its trailer. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/9 "2011-06-04T03:02:14Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > What are some of the greatest movie trailers you’ve ever seen? Trailers that just made your blood run cold when you first saw them. [Ju-on](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8R1dODSbzU). Maybe the creepiest movie I’ve ever seen. Trailer pushes the right buttons. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/10 "2011-06-04T03:17:45Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > [Watchmen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU) > [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Watchmen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU) I liked the [other](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXRdlOvLNeo&feature=relmfu) Watchmen trailer better. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/11 "2011-06-04T03:54:41Z")
I can’t find a link to it but I recall a really short **Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring** teaser that was basically little more than some of the rousing music and and Frodo and crew cresting a hilltop. I think the movie was at least a year or so off but I could tell from that little snippet that it was going to be special. The trailer for **300** rocked. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/12 "2011-06-04T04:20:11Z")
[Fight Club](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8PRC3HbWqo) ---
**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/13 "2011-06-04T04:37:28Z")
I love this trailer for [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSgSe2GzDc&feature=related). Great use of the E.L.O. song Mr. Blue Sky toward the end. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/14 "2011-06-04T08:10:56Z")
The first [Kill Bill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-czwy-aVbbU)trailer, if only for introducing the world to that piece of music. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/15 "2011-06-04T08:44:31Z")
> [@mack](#): > > I can’t find a link to it but I recall a really short **Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring** teaser that was basically little more than some of the rousing music and and Frodo and crew cresting a hilltop. I remember that, too. I am sure it was only that shot included, but the only one I can find is [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-7x5D3v6jE) which has a bunch of other clips in it first. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/16 "2011-06-04T12:30:49Z")
I think the trailer for the Kevin Costner “Robin Hood Prince of Thieves” had a shot of an arrow flying through the air that wowed audiences so much that they put it in the movie when initially they weren’t planning to. I don’t know if it was in the trailer but the “That’s not a knife. Here, This is a knife” scene for “Crocodile Dundee” used in TV commercials was so good that I remember a number of people saying they would see the movie just because of that. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/17 "2011-06-06T17:51:37Z")
[A Few Good Men](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AC0wWxadvc) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/18 "2011-06-06T18:01:47Z")
The trailer for “Cloverfield” was sensational, much better than the movie ended up being. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/19 "2011-06-06T18:12:33Z")
> [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](#): > > I love this trailer for [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnSgSe2GzDc&feature=related). Great use of the E.L.O. song Mr. Blue Sky toward the end. In a similar vein, the trailer for the Kaufman-Jonze collaboration of **Adaptation** great, offering a sense of the film without just offering a cut down version of the story. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/20 "2011-06-06T18:19:05Z")
I remember seeing the trailer for [_Sorcerer_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMof5PuQF7w) in the theater in 1974 and thinking, “Dayum! I’ve GOT to see that!” And I did - the week it opened. And it was (and remains) awesome! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230.md?page=2)