# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/41 "2011-06-27T13:54:12Z")
Forty posts and no mention of [Blade Runner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lW0F1sccqk) For shame. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/42 "2011-06-27T14:18:17Z")
John Carpenter’s [The Thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec) was, well, _chilling_. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/43 "2011-06-27T14:28:00Z")
I would pay to see [this movie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZuvJ48MZ0), if it existed. ---
**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 27, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/44 "2011-06-27T16:11:10Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > John Carpenter’s [The Thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec) was, well, _chilling_. Is that a 1982 trailer or one for a re-airing of it later? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/45 "2011-06-27T16:48:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is that a 1982 trailer or one for a re-airing of it later? That’s the original trailer, I’m certain. I think only the rating was tagged onto the front of it. Opening the trailer with the desperate radio message from Windows and closing it with radio static is pretty cool, I think. Lends the whole thing a very creepy vibe. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/46 "2011-06-27T16:56:11Z")
The trailer for [Twister](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/) (1996) was groundbreaking in that it was, I think, the first one to do that bit where you think it’s over, but then suddenly it flashes on again for a second or two to show a large piece of debris hurtling at the camera. Seems like I started seeing that used a lot afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/47 "2011-06-27T18:04:39Z")
I have no idea if the movie will be as good as the trailer but I love this trailer: [The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo](http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/trailer) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230/48 "2011-06-27T20:55:13Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I would pay to see [this movie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZuvJ48MZ0), if it existed. My sentiment exactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-movie-trailers/584230.md?page=2)