First, I love movie trailers. Good, bad, doesn’t matter. I love seeing the glimpses of films (or in the case of the infamous Days of Thunder trailer, the entire film) and the pieces that the filmmaker and/or the studio have decided to share with us. Often the trailer is the best thing about the film.
But my favorite trailer in recent days? It’s got to be the one for the Coen Brothers film A Serious Man. You not only get a vague idea about the film’s plot, but more importantly, they’ve turned the way they edited those shots into a film in its own right. When this trailer came out I must have watched it 30, 40, maybe 50 times. Seriously, it’s fantastic how it all builds.
Now if you don’t mind, I need to watch it again.
Agreed! It’s one of the few times I’ve actually been annoyed when a trailer wasn’t on the DVD. Because normally, who cares? I have the movie now, I don’t need the trailer. But this one is it’s own piece of art.
Wait, it’s not on the DVD?
…that really sucks. It’s such a good trailer.