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29. Point Blank (1967)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
"Walker is an emotional and primitive man." Breaking into a woman's house, tossing her to the floor, and pumping lead into her bed is what leads gravelly voiced narrators to such drastic conclusions. John Boorman's masterful revenge thriller "Point Blank" is the benefactor of this suitably terse and violent trailer. The title is literally blasted onto the frame by Walker's gunshots, a canny reflection of the movie's brutal rhythms. Lee Marvin's footfalls echo through malevolent modernist buildings, his Walker a single-minded perpetual motion machine out to get what he's due.
Stripped of his sense of self by a faceless corporatized mob (later embodied in the eternally oily John Vernon), Walker's vengeance is an expression of character, his ugly individuality better than acquiescence. Pistol-whipping his way through the nightclubs, bungalows, and banal offices of L.A., his footsteps tap all the way, haunting the mob's yes men. Carroll O'Connor's middle-manager calls Walker "a very bad man", but at least he's an active one. --R. Emmet Sweeney
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!