10 Teaser Trailers that Tease(d) Me To No End

1. The Fountain

2. The Dark Knight

3. Inception

4. Cloverfield

5. Super 8

6. Rango

7. A.I.

8. War of the Worlds

9. Fallout 3

10. Portal

Honorable Mention: Red Eye

2 angsty MPDG trailer shots that didn't make the final cut

1. (500) Days of Summer: Sure, it is a little bit Being John Malkovich but I rather be on a bus of Zooey Deschanels over Malkoviches any day.

2. Vanilla Sky: I believe there is a similar scene of Penelope Cruz in a wedding dress in Abre Los Ojos but for some reason this got cut from the Crowed American version. Still, works better than her as a mime in Abre.

The real trailer isn't much better.

The Joy of The Wicker Man

I can't believe I was ignorant of this for so long. Many great YouTube videos but I picked this faux trailer made in Shinin' tradition.

Best Animated Film of 2009

Forget Up and certainly not Princess and the Frog. I am talking Ponyo by Hayao Miyazaki!

First good versus movie?

And this is coming from someone who has seen Alien vs. Predator and Freddy vs. Jason.

This movie looks really appealing. Is Dreamworks taking on Pixar? (Kung-Fu Panda was no WALL-E but a good deal better than Cars) They have definitely moved beyond their Shrek days but I doubt they have the cahones to make a WALL-E type epic.

In other trailer news, am I the only one that thinks Termination: Salvation looks terrible? Is this franchise to creatively drained they have to draw upon Transformers?

Full Watchmen TRAILER!

Is that Philip Glass I hear? Not as cool as the teaser (the full trailer rarely is). I am glad "visionary director" Zac Snyder is staying to true Watchmen but I still fear his tendency to overuse slow-mo ala 300.
Edit: It is not Philip Glass being played but Muse. Sounds just like Songs for Liquid Days though.

Video Game Trailers Get Serial

After hearing Devotchka's "How It Ends" for the Everything Is Illuminated film trailer, I officially added it to my mental list of music that makes any trailer awesome (also on that list "House, Concrete, and Stone" and "Where Do I Begin?"). Having never played Gears of War, my impression from videos/reviews is it is a standard, albeit well-made, third-person action game featuring a unique chainsaw bayonet machine gun. I guess they are trying to class-up the sequel by featuring "How It Ends" alongside a bunch of pensive, non-action related scenes. Are video games trying to go where movies have gone to become a critically acceptable art-form? After playing Bioshock (hopefully more on that later) and Half Life 2, I can say they are on there way.