Movie Trailers Should Be Given Awards

Back in the late 70s and early 80s a movie trailer was the only way you knew about the film, there were no set spies or script leaks online or flat out spoilers from the production team. So what we ended up with were just the trailers and back then they either gave you a decent guess of what you were getting into when you bought your (properly priced) ticket or gave you a johnny mindfuck that left you wondering what the hell you were actually getting into but either way the trailers were solid, great, and they actually had to do with the movie itself. Lets take a look at one of the greatest trailers ever made without a single word.. Turn off the lights and turn up the sound and I promise it will creep you the hell out especially if yer reading this late at night and lets not kid why wouldn't you be reading this late at night with nothing to do anyways.

Beautiful straight forward mindfuck but still it has the general idea of the movie and you know you are getting something that is going to scare the living crap out of you and it did Who would have thought a movie about face rape would receive such a reaction it made people actually run out of the theater terrified in Dallas

Lets look at another trailer for one of my all time favorite films of all time, The Thing (The Carpenter version not the 50s or prequel versions. 

Damn that's awesome and in the case with both of the above trailers, their films lived up to their expectations because that's what we had to go on at the time and it worked. That's not to say that modern trailers don't still kick ass and the movies do too, so today were gonna look at 3 specific Zack Snyder trailers because obviously his trailer team kicks all kinds of ass

I remember the first time I saw this trailer and i think I leaked a little and I think im gonna go watch that tonight again now. Of course the movie kicked ass too

Personally I enjoyed  Watchmen and I actually think the changes to the ending worked a lot better than the comics silly psychic octopus  ending and certainly a lot of the filler in the comic was removed and most of it wasn't missed, i didn't give a damn about the relationship between the kid and the guy at the newsstand at all, or Specter II s whiny relationship with her moms and I think he did it as well as anyone could have (Except maybe Terry Gilliam but he wouldn't have had the budget to do it properly anyways)

And while were on the topic of kick ass trailers and Snyder we cant skip the movie that should have kicked so much ass it would have been legendary in the nerd library.

Goddamn what a trailer!! Shame the movie didn't live up to it, when I do watch this one I skip  ahead to the first action scene and watch it from there  because the plot just sucks. But what this means is a very talented crew of people put a ton of work into these amazing trailers and get zero recognition for it even if the movie is a hit and that is a flat out shame. because if we didn't have trailers we wouldn't even bother with the movie.  I mean even with UR/NC17 movies that rarely have any hype we can find a trailer online that tells us we have to see this film for whatever reason. 

And it cannot be an easy process, picking what cuts to show, what song plays in the background to make it all work (Especially with Watchmen and Sucker Punch) but when was the last time you ever heard  of a best trailer award?  Does even the joke that is the MTV Movie Awards have a best trailer award? Doubt it and there are so many great trailers out there that when I go to an actual movie (Which is rare these days after my 50 dollar Transformers 3 debacle ) i absolutely HAVE to arrive before trailers start because I completely love seeing trailers on the big screen  even as a deaf person I can enjoy those 2 minutes of ass-kicking, loud music and the best scenes the movies have to offer. 

Im going to leave you with one more trailer for something that most of you haven't heard of it yet but it looks amazing and was written by one of the comedy gods from cracked.com Mr David Wong (I stole the  idea of the blog from cracked.com i just wanted to put  the theory in my own words and show something a little different besides Alien)

John Dies at the End by horror legend Don Coscareilli

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