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This is an easy one I'm surprised we never discussed before. Naturally, we can list off our favourite, best, or worst movies or shows. But how about the trailers that got us excited in the first place?

Just to keep scrolling time down, how about putting the video behind spoiler text? And now for some of mine:

Green with Envy (aka: The Muppets)

I legitimately saw this trailer without knowing what it was, so I wound up being completely and pleasantly surprised. Brilliantly marketed and completely in-line with classic Muppets humour.



Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

This came out in the same summer as The Phantom Menace, arguably one of the most hyped movies to come out in years. Naturally, even Mike Myers knew everyone was going to see it, so he played along with that.



Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Say what you will about the movie itself, but EVERYONE nerded out when they saw this movie.



The Lord of the Rings trilogy teaser

Up until that point, I'd honestly never read J.R.R. Tolkein's classic books. Immediately after seeing this trailer, though, I went out and bought the books (starting with The Hobbit, as suggested by a friend). This was just completely epic and made EVERYONE excited. Many people thought these movies could NEVER be made, but brother, this trailer made a believer out of you.



Superman Returns

Man, say what you will about the movie, you can't deny that this trailer was AWESOME. Just how it slowly builds up until BOOM. I had chills running up my spine the first time I watched this.



Sin City

I was so unbelievably stoked to see this.



The Matrix

The trailer really didn't reveal much about what the movie was about. Honestly, they couldn't without revealing what titular The Matrix was. But goddamn if it didn't look cool as hell.



Hellboy (second trailer)

The first one was great, but this is what REALLY sold me on the movie. If only for John Hurt's best line in the movie, which wasn't in the first trailer, "There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. We are the ones who bump back."



The Avengers

Loki: I have an army.
Tony: We have a Hulk.



Cloverfield

Goddamn, did this ever make me want to see the movie.

I really want this to be a real thing....

Medieval Fun Time

Three trailers that are great for the same reason: they're all wonderfully enigmatic. They don't tell us the whole story of each movie because they don't need to.

ThatNickGuy said:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy teaser

Up until that point, I'd honestly never read J.R.R. Tolkein's classic books. Immediately after seeing this trailer, though, I went out and bought the books (starting with The Hobbit, as suggested by a friend). This was just completely epic and made EVERYONE excited. Many people thought these movies could NEVER be made, but brother, this trailer made a believer out of you.

Spoiler: Released one year earlier in 2000

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I still feel like this was the better one to really build the hype, especially for anyone who had already read the books, even though it was more revealing.

evilmike said:

Spoiler: Dark City

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Still one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever made. Anyone who claims otherwise cannot legitimately be said to understand Sci-Fi as a genre.
And another in the category of "Hooray a trailer that didn't give away the movie"

And one in the category of "This song appears nowhere in the movie."

--Patrick

I like a lot of the trailers shown, so to as not just be posting some of the same, here's an excellent trailer for a not-quite so excellent film (that I still liked).

Definitely agree there. I didn't hate Watchmen--it was still a good watch. But the trailer was amazing. It gave me chills.

ThatNickGuy said:

Superman Returns

Man, say what you will about the movie, you can't deny that this trailer was AWESOME. Just how it slowly builds up until BOOM. I had chills running up my spine the first time I watched this.

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You are a billion times right about this. What a great trailer.