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30. Femme Fatale (2002)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
If you hadn't seen this inventive trailer until now, you might think Brian De Palma's Euro-trashy 2002 neo-noir had been leaked in full on YouTube. The actual opening credits begin over a TV playing "Double Indemnity," the screen reflecting a topless Rebecca Romijn (then with an extra -Stamos) as she watches from a hotel bed. Then someone hits the fast-forward button, and "Femme Fatale" zooms forward, only stopping fleetingly for tantalizing moments out of context: Romijn's lesbian encounter-turned-heist with a model wearing a barely-there bikini made of gold (in a Cannes Film Festival bathroom, no less!); a woman in camouflage shorts, boots and bag, seen only from the waist down, running from two more pairs of legs in slo-mo; the introduction of paparazzo Antonio Banderas, who has apparently gotten twisted up with Romijn's titular temptress. A striptease, an interrogation, a shooting -- what's going on here? The closing credits race up the screen, and one final title teases: "You've just watched Brian De Palma's new film. You didn't get it? Try again..." A clever gimmick, but you had us at lesbian encounter-turned-heist! --Aaron Hillis
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!