My Favourite Movie Trailers

The movie trailer as a form of media has undergone its own stages of evolution alongside movies. Early Hollywood promos tended to rely overly on large title cards, then came the narrator/voiceover trend which lasted many decades well into the 2000’s (“In a world, where…”), after which trailers began relying solely on footage and dialogue from the movie itself, well into present day.In the last decade or so, movie trailers have become more optimized for YouTube and for attention-grabbing, and thus you get that weird 5-second trailer before the actual trailer. Most seem to follow the predictable sequence of dramatic silences, escalating music, quick cuts, and closing with a one-line joke.There’s also a new meta-trend where these teasers reveal far too much about the movie, often the entire plot, and essentially ruin any surprises it may have. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I willingly watched one on YouTube in its entirety, because I usually know within the first 30 seconds of…