Our Five Favorite Trailers of 2009
The lost art of the movie trailer is a bit of an enigma. A trailer's main purpose is to entice you into waiting and being able to rewatch it countless times while still being pumped for said film. Or, it is meant to shiv a question so deep into your mind that you can't help but break into a studio lot to find out why.
That said, these trailers stood out the most to us this year.
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5) Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans
Technically a sizzle reel over the actual trailer, this introduced the world to the supposed madcap nature of Werner Herzog and Nicholas Cage. Yet the actual film was far more bizarre--not for a lack of iguanas and break-dancing souls, but because so much of it depended on Cage's own mannerisms and Herzog's toying with the audience.
Which is what this trailer should've made stridently more clear, yet we were blinded by iguanas.
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4) C Me Dance
What starts out as a seemingly inspirational story quickly takes a turn for the spitting-out-coffee. Guest appearance by Satan.
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3) A Serious Man
Speaking of confusing: the Coens' latest took on a whole new life when it came to keeping the beat. The entire process was so off-kilter for a trailer, especially for one of their films, that it looked completely foreign when compared to other films at the time.
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2) After Last Season
The trailer that set off fevered search for the purpose of Mark Region's debut. After all, no one could believe this was legitimately a film--which, in the year that Old Dogs was released, is surprising.
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1) District 9
Is it a fake documentary? Is it viral advertising for Halo? Whatever it was, District 9 managed to captivate everyone through its' viral ads demanding residents were escaping and that peacekeeping forces were headed in to keep them under control.
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