Top Five Movie Trailers of All Time

Top Five Movie Trailers of All Time

A massive amount of trailers have come out in recent months showing us what we will see on the big screen this upcoming summer and beyond. Most of them are big budget titles (Star Wars The Force Awakens being the biggest yet) as well as being highly anticipated or just incredibly hyped titles. Trailers have started to become a bigger and bigger part of a movie's production with a massive amount of its marketing budget going into creating trailers. In some cases, like what we saw recently with Terminator Genisys, trailers are even getting their own trailers. A few days before the full length trailer came out there was a thirty second teaser trailer that preceded it as well as an announcement for the full trailer. With trailers becoming bigger, flashier, and bolder let's take a look at what I consider the best movie trailers of all time.

5.) Watchmen (2009)

  

This trailer has everything you could want out of a modern superhero movie. It has action, epic music (The Smashing Pumpkins "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning"), and chilling one liners. "The world will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I'll whisper 'No.'"

4.) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (2001)



"One does not simply walk into Mordor." This trailer announced the beginning of what would become one of the biggest movie franchises in existence. The trailer shows some of the most beautiful landscapes married with epic music composed by Howard Shore that would become the staple for all of the LotR movies to come.

3.) Pulp Fiction (1994)



With a cast list that was second to none at the time of its release the trailer for Pulp Fiction was far and beyond any trailer of its time. It didn't hurt that it got a lot of help from the epic soundtrack that this movie would become known for and also for the tease at what would be an amazing story told by Quentin Tarantino.

2.) The Shining (1980)



Music is a 1theme that has been flowing through this list and the reason why is because it is the single most important aspect of a trailer. Nowhere is that more evident than the trailer for one of the most tense and scary movies of all time, The Shining. There is not a single word spoken but the picture painted by the eerie music and the shocking imagery makes this one of the best movie trailers of all time.

1.) Alien (1979)


Holy sh#&! If you tell me that this is a bad trailer I will fight you out in the street. Give me your address and I will come to your house, you bring your crew and I will bring mine and we will have a rumble, Gangs of New York style.

So that is my list, what does yours look like? Fight it out in the comments and remember knives and clubs only, no guns!

-Demo