Sounds like you've only seen the "teaser." The full trailer has the heartbeat sequence.

I'm still trying to figure out what the first movie was that used it. I know it was in the last couple of years, and then suddenly it was the "hip" thing to do amongst marketing fools with no original ideas of their own.

Doesn't the Alien trailer use this technique? There is an Exorcist trailer (scariest damn trailer I've ever seen!) that flashes photo negative images in rhythym, but I can't remember if their is a heartbeat or not.

The guy who says "In a world where..." doesn't actually write the lines, he just says it.

I love how everytime people mention how it sucks they use Gladiator music for all of the trailers, when Gladiator used Conan's score. Pretty funny, it happens probably about 1 x week.

I dislike this as well. I used the Gladiator theme reference because that's a new piece of score that I've been hearing them use for other movies in trailers. Just because Gladiator (or any other movie) ripped the Conan score in its trailer does not make it any different.

In a world where trailer music is recycled . . .

BaBump.

In a world where Ebert gives it two thumbs up . . .

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In a world where Roeper sheepishly agrees because he loves this gig . . .

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A world that ends for the main character's love interest . . .

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A world where we have nothing better to do . . .

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He is loose . . .

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Again . . .

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Grrrrrrrroooooowwwwwllllllll.

i hate movie marketers right now

for me they are the biggest to blame for the sucky quality of many movies

they cater to the lowest common denominator, believe we are all dumb, just stick to their market research, and have no heart

i believe in following your instinct and combining it with some market research, that's how you come out with a winner, yet at the same time, very deep movie.

Hey don't blame the marketers....blame the idiots in nice offices who give a movie the greenlight.

The marketers job is to sell the movie, the fact that the movie sucks isn't there fault, I imagine it makes their jobs much harder.

I loved when they did that thing on the Daily Show about movie trailers. And they talked about how they're always like "SUCK MY " - cut to explosion. And then they did a trailer of the commentary on trailers. Hilarious!

another one i hate, is when you think you are going into a serious art house movie, but then you see that its a comedy, it was good the first time, but now all movies seem to use it. (especially sequals)

I'm eagerly awaiting this one too.

I followed the link supplied in the follow-up posting .. and finally I can put a face to the one person working in the movie industry that I loathe the most ...

In a land .. beyond time... one man stands alone ... blah de blah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !!!

What I dont like about trailers are when they have scenes in the trailers that are not in the movie. They edited the movie but not the trailer and Im waiting for a scene or two that never shows up. My wife is real good about pointing those out!!

Speaking of trailer's including cut scenes in them & then are either removed from the trailer on dvd or the trailer's not included at all!


Changing Lanes is said to have a few moments that are cut from the film,yet are nowhere to be seen on the dvd.


My brother rented 40 Days & 40 Nights on dvd.While i did not watch the film.I did check out the trailer's just for the hell of it.They had a trailer for The Faculty only it was alot dumber & just used clips from the film..rather than the original trailer which includes plenty of cut footage!

As usual Miramax markets the trailer as "hip,cool...so in so is in it,you must see it to be coo!" attitude which i really hate. In fact i just laughed my ass off when they advertise the latest direct to video in the name of greedfest Hellraiser:Hellseeker as "Better than the original,scarier than the original...the greatest sequel ever!!!" when most likely the film will be a piece of crap.

How do i know? It's Dimension/Miramax rushfest as usual,just like all there usual crap they release & try to market as 'hip & scary" when they are anything but! So i just avoid there films as much as possible


While i'm not a fan of Scary Movie.I would have liked to see all the cut footage shown in the trailer(Short's 'rules' parody) + theres plenty of other outrageous cut footage cut to avoid an NC-17 & some stills have shown up in Fangoria including one which i will dub the 'nipples' scene. Of course none of that showed up in the deleted scenes section. + It was a much more 'gooy' film long before the MPAA & studio got on there tail if that tells you anything.


Oh speaking of 40 days,40 Nights...they only included a teaser for the film.What a surprise that it has no footage from the film itself! Yet it does use that one song Under Pressure by the Talking Heads or someone.I forgot exactly who. i'm sure the full trailer gives away the whole film + is the usual Miramax self-indulgent crap.Though funny it's not on the dvd,i bet it's on another of there dvds(they do that alot it seems) or only include a crappy video advertisment.


While the film may have sucked as did all the crappy studio wannabe horror films of the late 90's.The I Still Know What You Did Last Summer teaser was awsome! To bad it's not on the dvd from what i've read. It was much better than the film itself,actually atmospheric & creepy.Really makes you want to see the film when it's over.

man, i went and saw half baked in the theaters just to see jim brewer try to jump over the parking meter and not make it...

and it wasn't even in the freaking movie!

there was like one or two NC-17 scenes imo (the one where greg calls a play, and hop along shorty)

I like teaser trailers better.

Dunno if this was mentioned, cuz I didn't read every single reply but the thing that bugs me about trailers is when they show stuff that was actually deleted .. Like U571, Hollow Man and a few others

for all of you who hate that guy, you must see the trailer for Comedian, if you haven't already:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.html

hilarious!

The Hop Along sequence was one of the few good original laughs in the film.Really sucks that is had to be cut. Besides it was not explicit graphically,just dialoguewise which is rather tame anyway.Man the MPAA sucks.


Yet theres much more including a much more graphic Shannon Elizbeth death,more gross out imagery usualy involving bodily fluids(blood among other things) & so on. Practically everything mentioned to be outrageously gross(all in the name of bad taste of course which was there goal) yet was fun to film stuff is obviously not in the film.Which is no surprise as Miramax films are cut severely by the studio 99.9% of the time. The aforementioned "nipples' scene shows the lead girl unbuttoning her shirt to reveal a line of nipples running down her chest/stomach like a animal.


So it was hilarious watching the mainstream eat the film up finding it to be the most extreme gross out/outrageous film they ever seen.When sure the language may have been graphic & sometimes funny in the hit or miss aspect.Yet thats not much considering theres plenty of non-mainstream films you can see with that type of language like Troma or a Gre Arakki film like The Doom Generation or Nowhere.

I never bothered with the sequel which looks very stupid.Though did catch a few minutes of it on cable & didn't find it funny at all.At least the dvd appear's to include all to most of the deleted scenes which i hear are alot funnier than whats left in the film. So i may rent the dvd eventually one of these days.

The one trailer device that gives me a headache is the whiteflash/BOOM! which I guess got really old fast and some genius decided to turn it on it's head and it's now the diptoblack/SILENCE. Problem is it hurts your pupils anyway and you never get to finish seeing what you're looking at.

Every movie doesn't need to be sold like it's the Indy 500. I'm sure today a trailer for Driving Miss Daisey would have a heart-pounding sequence with some quick flashes of Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman with their eyes wide open in shock and some sped up footage of the car coming out of the driveway and sucession slo-mo diptoblack/BOOM! shots of Morgans hand reaching for the car door handle.

Holy old thread revival, Batman!

I think this thread is a fake. No patented Groucho humor in here.

Many people get turned off by the early Groucho pieces, but the true Grouchologists find value in all his works.

Movie trailers are no joking matter.