PopcornTreeCt

Red band trailers are all the rage now on the internets. I didn't expect one to pop up in front of Wanted. It was for Step Brothers -which looked hilarious. This was at a Regal Cinemas theater.

Have you seen any red band trailers on the big screen?

Matthew Chmiel

Regal Cinemas have been showing red band trailers with R-rated films since March.

I believe they're the only chain at the moment doing so.

Seantn

Nope, I saw a Red Band trailer for AVP: Requiem at a Mann theater last October when I saw Saw 4. It was the only red band trailer I've ever seen in a theater.

B5Erik

I remember seeing one a few years ago. It came before an R rated movie, so while I was initially surprised it made sense.

I've only seen one or two, though.

DthRdrX

Regal bring red band trailers back

I hope the other majors theaters follow.

JPRaup

I've never seen one :/ and I go to the movies all the time...

Ginwen

Saw one for Pineapple Express before Forgetting Sarah Marshall in April.

birdseye

Last week (at a Carmike Cinema theater) I saw the red band trailer for Burn After Reading before Get Smart, which I thought was odd considering it's PG-13 and some people had young kids with them.

sauce07

I remember seeing a red band trailer for American Pie or in front of American Pie.

clemente

Last time I saw a red-band trailer was in like 1999. That'd be nice if they're making a comeback.

mdc3000

I saw the redband trailers for Pineapple Express and Hamlet 2 before You Don't Mess With the Zohan ... and the redband for Burn After Reading on Get Smart as well...both movies not rated R.

EdTheRipper

Last movie I went to see didn't have a single trailer before it. Terrible disappointment.

mndtrp

I could swear I've seen a couple at an AMC theater within the past 8 years. They would have been before R rated films.

Troy Stiffler

Theater's really aren't supposed to do that.

So when did Red Band trailers disappear? I remember seeing them sometimes at the local AMC.

OldBoy

i see red band trailers all the time. even ones attached to 'G' rated movies. i watch the trailer and then just attach the F-word 5 times in my head, even trailers for stupid looking robots that pick up trash on a ravaged future earth, and it becomes red band.

My Other Self

I saw a Red Band before Harold & Kumar 2 in early May and last night before Wanted, both at Regal.

Matthew Chmiel

What I noticed that was funny when I caught Wanted at a Regal this afternoon was the red-band trailer for Step Brothers was trimmed ...

... trimmed to remove language.

Three uses of "fuck" are fine, but you can't say any more than that (they took out one of Will Ferrell's better gags, "I'm like a complete fucking package," along with some other scattered uses of it here and there).

They also took out when Ferrell shouts out, "This sucks massive camel dick."

...

Like seriously? I'm seeing a film which has non-stop graphic violence and gore with many uses of the word fuck. Come on. I can handle a few more and a good dick sucking joke for good measure.

dyerjp

i remember seeing the red band trailer for "the couch trip" back in the late 80's at my local cineplex odeon theater.

chris_sc77

I saw a Red band trailer for Requiem for A Dream in front of Dr. T and the Women back in 2000.

My Other Self

I noticed that too. Lame.

mdc3000

I remember the first red band trailer I ever saw was for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas... someone said "Fuck" in it and I nearly spit out my drink...

Shannon Nutt

I saw a redband trailer for Pineapple Express this year - but I can't remember what movie it was attached to (it wasn't Zohan, because I haven't seen that).

I remember seeing a redband trailer for Basic Instinct years ago...I believe that was the first one I saw in a theater.

ytrez

They're all the rage on the internet? Where? I'd love to see some.

I think I saw one theatrically once in my entire life.

Matthew Chmiel

The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Knocked Up.
Superbad.
Walk Hard.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Step Brothers.
The Pineapple Express.

See a trend that started? Which led into other flicks like ....

Beowulf.
The Happening.
Wanted.
Burn After Reading.

... and a whole lot of others.

islandclaws

I love seeing red-band trailers. An R-rated film needs an R-rated trailer, plain and simple. It's hard to sell a gory horror flick, or a brutal action film, without being able to properly display what's going to be seen. Keep it up.