borrowing Solid Snake's idea...

regardless if you even saw the movie or it was a bomb at the BO. but the one that stands out the most because it was awesome!

i know this is more recent, but because of the Black Sabbath song and the kick-ass nature of the trailer, i have seen because i have sought it out and wanted to see the trailer for ...

"Iron Man"

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i love the hell out of it everytime i see it. the scene where Iron Man shoots the petit missle at the big tank with just a sound of *squink*, he walks away, and then it blows is so well done.

i know there are others, but in recent memory that does it for me every single time.

what is the best movie trailer you ever saw? (and you don't have to include the actual trailer, but that would be fun too)

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Best trailer of all I seen is this one..probably cause of the music and because I love sci-fi..and the ending of the trailer is kinda creepy.

Unfortunately I have yet to see the film LOL!

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Definitely the transformers!

My favorite trailer ever:
Imagine watching it in a pitch black movie theater!
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Twister Teaser Trailer

Not sure if my favorite of all time but one of the trailers that stands out the most. Got to see it (the trailer) when I still thought it was real but even after finding out it was not, I still loved it:

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Damn you, scott1598! Damn you, for taking the Iron Man trailer!!!

For me it was actually this teaser for Iron Man:
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and if I can't choose that well it's this:
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I remember the audience going nuts at the 'reveal' in this one:

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I remember seeing that Spidey teaser at a Yankees game about a week before 9/11. The crowd was pretty insane. Definitely one of the best.

Here is the other trailer that drove me nuts for months!

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The teaser gave me goosebumps when I saw it before V for Vendetta.

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This might be mine. Also the first full trailer for The Dark Knight which I recorded on the store DVR from HDNet and watched 20,000 times. And the teasers for Sin City and Watchmen.

Return of the King

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer with Lux Aeterna music. It's become a somewhat cliched choice for trailer music, but I believe this was the first to use it, and the shots they selected were gorgeous (a few of them didn't make the final film, sadly).

Was that scene ever intended to be in the movie, or was it made just for the teaser?

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Nothing fancy, but this is one of my faves and still makes me laugh every time:

Comedian

Trailer was much better than the movie. I still get goosebumps watching it.

The Japanese trailer for the Thai action film BORN TO FIGHT.

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just the teaser..

The movie turned out to be garbage, but the teasers for "Godzilla" were very well done.

I believe Requiem for a Dream was the first to use it (at least the first that I remember).

A few favorites:

Magnolia (Teaser or Theatrical)
Sin City (again, either)

Strange Day's teaser amazed me when I first saw it, but it has lost much of its punch since its concept has be done to death by now.
http://www.movie-list.net/classics12...ays-teaser.mov