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34. The Minus Man (1999)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
It’s hard to say whether this 1999 meta-trailer was a hopeful nod to the film’s edginess or a more ominous avoidance of showing us one frame of what turned out to be one of the less admired films in the Stiller/Wilson oeuvre. A couple are shown leaving a screening of "The Minus Man" at the Waverly theater in New York, already riffing on the film as they hit the sidewalk. They're shown still talking it over in a local bar -- Would you go to bed with him? What about the hair in the envelope? -- and the conversation continues into the night at a diner, on the sidewalk, under a bridge and on a park bench, the idea being that this is that best kind of date movie: the one you can’t stop talking about.
Eventually the man points in wonder at a giant sunrise -- they’ve been talking all night -- and the woman gasps in panic before booking it in the other direction. She runs through the street, through traffic and into a building, where she rapidly gets undressed in a locker room and heads out to a pool. In her lifeguard’s bathing suit she notices two of the gym’s patrons face down in the deep end, victims, as it were, of "The Minus Man"’s brilliance. --Michelle Orange
I guess you guys haven't seen the trailer for The Hughes Bros.'s Dead Presidents, huh? What about Forest Gump? I think those are the 2 greatest of all time. Gump is better than the movie. And Dead Prez is the best ever.
Oh... what about the SW Ep 1 teaser? Maybe you should call this the best film trailers on YouTube! LOL. Dead Prez is probably too hard for you to locate.
I think The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and 300 should be included!
Clerks? No love for the Clerks trailer? Sigh.
Honorable mention for the Grindhouse fake trailers? "Don't" was brilliant.
Great list, by the way. Thanks for including 'Man Who Wasn't There'
Seriously? We have to click 50 times just to get the damn list? No thanks.
Like clicking 50 times is soooo hard, right? But you guys forgot about There Will Be Blood!!
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
GREAT article and flawless pick for #1. I actually did a lil piece on that trailer at our own movie blog, so I'm elated to see as your top pick. Yay trailers!