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

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Top 10 Sci-Fi Movie Heroines

Top 10 Sci-Fi Movie Heroines

With a lot of talk going on in the gaming community about how the divide between men and women is now split right down the middle, I would like to explore the strongest examples of women in media. Not the ones with maximum amounts cleavage, but the ones who really are badass and know how to hold their own. With that said, here is my list for the top 10 sci-fi heroines.

10.)

Trinity - The Matrix - 1999

She's not only is an infamous hacker and computer programmer, but can also do the crane midair, kick you in the face, and send you flying clear across the room and through the drywall. She is also one of the only characters in the movie not named Neo to take out an agent (a task that is almost impossible to the regular person hacking into the Matrix). “Dodge this!”

9.)

Dejah Thoris - John Carter - 2012

Dejah is a princess of Mars and the leading scientist of that red planet. In my eyes this is an incredibly underrated sci-fi epic mainly because her character is so overlooked. How many women, who happen to be royalty on an alien planet, can also go back to back with the hero, sword in hand, and kick some alien ass.

8.)

Leeloo - The Fifth Element - 1997

She technically isn't human per se, but she is made into that form. In one of the best scenes in the movie she throws down with a room full of dog faced goons set to some upbeat operatic tunes. She manages to steal the show and charms with her alien accent and ability to convey a large amount of emotion despite not knowing any language but her own. “Moooltipass.”

7.)

Cassandra Anderson - Dredd - 2012

She is a cadet trying to become a judge in a town that is a hotbed of crime. Getting thrown right into the thick of it, taking her final test in an apartment building filled with drug dealers, she unleashes her psychic powers on the inhabitants. Although she isn't up for the task to begin with, over the course of the movie she becomes a legitimate badass and goes shot for shot with our hero Judge Dredd.

6.)

Black Widow - The Avengers - 2012

Can you do a flip off of Cap’s shield onto a Chitauri cruiser and outrun Loki all while taking out your fair share of alien scum? No? Well this Avenger can and her combat and infiltration skills are second to none. Hopefully the rumors are true and we will get to see more of her in her own solo Marvel movie.

5.)

Princess Leia - Star Wars - 1977

Sure she may have kissed her own brother. Sure she got captured and forced into that slave outfit complete with neck chain. However, this woman can hold her own because what did she do with that neck chain? She went and killed the crap out of that bulbous piece of slime with that very chain. “Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder.”

4.)

Sarah Connor - Terminator - 1984

She is the mother of the man who, in the future, will raise an army and destroy the robot overlords Skynet. She begins the series as a mild mannered, if not timid, woman but as she realizes and comes to terms with the gravity of the situation she becomes the mother of The Resistance. “...men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death…”

3.)

Gamora - Guardians of the Galaxy - 2014

Soldier. Assassin. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist. Wait, that’s not right. While the first two are definitely true this ‘last of her kind’ alien was trained by Thanos himself and is considered the deadliest woman in the whole galaxy. She even bests her adopted sister Nebula, who is a certified cyborg badass in her own right.

2.)

Katniss - The Hunger Games - 2012

“I volunteer as tribute!” Not only does she wield the bow with mastered skill but is also brave as they come when her loved ones are in danger. She not only becomes the hero during The Hunger Games but she transcends that to become the symbol of resistance against the capitol.

1.)

Ripley - 1979 - Alien

This woman is a survivor. While her crew mates are getting murdered left and right by aliens, she is the only one with enough determination to jump into a power suit and go round for round against the alien queen. All she had to say was “Get away from her bitch!” and we all knew it was gonna be lights out for any aliens dumb enough to stick their second set of teeth out at Ripley.

So that's my top 10 sci-fi movie heroines. What does yours look like? Shout out in the comments below. For a super comprehensive list of the best sci-fi movies visit imdb.com.

-Demo

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