Another vote for Swimfan. As soon as I saw the title I started laughing, then my friends started laughing, then the packed theatre started laughing. Doesn't get much better, plus I had just seen the entire plot and twists, so I never even considered seeing it. Convenient, no?

Seriously though, Episode 1 teaser was great. And the Dumb and Dumber trailer, while just clips from the movie, was absolutely hilarious.

Magnolia
Pulp Fiction

Oh yeah!

Also:

The Internet trailer for Fight Club was awesome.

The Natural History Museum T-Rex skeleton trailer for Godzilla was fantastic, too bad the movie bit.

Cliffhanger had a pretty good trailer.

Godzilla has a good trailer

I remember seeing the preview for ROTJ when I was a kid in the theater and going nuts when I found out my hero Han Solo was alive and well! (I really wanted to know that above all else.)

I saw Fulci's The Beyond on a midnight movie and they showed a trailer for a film called "Massacre Mafia Style". It has two mafioso walking through an office building just shooting everyone and each shot punctuated by the title "Massacre Mafia Style". It was shocking at first but it just keeps going on and on. Eventually I started laughing so hard in the theater I embarassed myself.

Ransom had the most amazing trailer that it gave me goosebumps. Alas, it was way better than the movie. I do like the movie, but the trailer was awesome.

totally agree here... and more recently...i think that is the same deal w/ one of the worst movies of the year...and years to come ... 'THE RECRUIT' .... udder trash... STAY AWAY... trailer=movie.... i knew everything... *blah* worst movie EVER!!! ahhh! :)

super troopers
kill bill
star wars 1 & 2
daredevil
fight club
how high
blade 2
royal tenenbaums

all .............................. glorious

Platoon. Tracks of my tears and vietnam! How great is that?

I'm surprised this hasn't been said it... Requiem for a Dream (the one with Everloving by Moby playing in the background) I remeber seeing it and just being utterly transfixed. Everything in that trailer worked so amazingly well, the somber song, the black on white quotes, EVERYTHING! I watched it like 5 times in a row just because I was so amazed by it (and the fact that I hadn't been able to go to it at the theater because I was 16... had to wait 5 months for the DVD release)

The 13 Ghosts trailer was amazing.

I really liked the Catch Me If You Can trailer....it hightlighted the film very well with jazzy sixties music.

Psycho, and Magnolia as already mentioned.....

Another one I haven't heard mentioned yet is the trailer for The Princess and the Warrior .... excellent - one of my all time favorite trailers, check it out! :)

Transporter = best trailer ever. Movie not so good.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrals teaser. No footage of the movie just Cain and Martin walking down the street and boardwalk. The voice over talks about seeing a movie centered around distinguished, well mannered, gentlemen of fine taste, etc. And as they pass a old lady bent over petty her dog. The voice over states this is not that movie as Martin pushes the lady into the bay as he casually walks by.

i recently made a vcd of my favorite trailers were (well the ones i could find online at least)
and these are in no order
1.Pulse
2.Clerks 2 internet trailer
3.Hostel
4.the Island
5.King Kong
6.Reservoir Dogs (Red band version)
7.Running Scared
8.Spider Man World Trade Center Teaser (unfortunatly, no sound)
9.Spider Man 2
10.Hard Candy
11.Terminator 2
12.Pulp Fiction (starts out like it would be an art house movie, then with gun shots and that theme song)
13.Seven
14.Fight Club
15.Into The Blue (you all know exactly why)
16.Magnolia (I like how all of the main characters introduce themselves to the camera)
17.Return of the King
18.Two Towers (love the way it uses the music from Requiem for a Dream)
19.Land of the Dead R rated version
20.Mission Impossible 3
21.matrix
22.Matrix Reloaded
23.Basic Instinct 2 R rated promo (basically this version shows alot of the sex and nudity from the film)
24.Terminator 3 international trailer (has T-X nudity
25.Oldboy japanese trailer
26.Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back internet trailer
27.Batman Begins
28.Kill Bill vol 1

i thought the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake trailer was flawless.

-NiCK

Citizen Kane
Episode I Teaser
Spider-Man Teaser
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Lord of the Rings Internet Trailer (the one that popped up like a year before Fellowship came out and gave everyone the first look at the movies).

the woman who cut that trailer now owns the largest motion picture advertising company in the industry... The Ant Farm. i used to work for her.

Yes the trailer is on the dvd and is such an awesome trailer. It is also a very good movie, great performance from Owen Wilson.

http://www.hopkinsfan.net/ah/magiczone/MagicCD2.jpg

Trailer

I think I just shat myself.

That is a good one. The Smashing Pumpkins tune "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" works perfectly with the trailer.............

that's what i came in here to post.

also another nod for ID4