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23. Red Eye (2005)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
No one knew quite what to make of a Wes Craven movie starring up-and-coming actress Rachel McAdams and Irish thespian Cillian Murphy, and the opening of the trailer for "Red Eye" doesn’t clear much up. With its shots of the jumble and bustle of airport hassles and a meet cute between the two leads, it could be setting up any number of romantic comedy plotlines. The couple are waiting out the delay for their overnight flight to Miami, and flirt over Tex Mex in an airport restaurant before realizing they're seated together on the flight. “You’re not stalking me, are you?” Murphy asks, in the low, gurgly American accent he adopted for the role. Then a look is exchanged between the couple, with the shot of Cillian Murphy’s crazy blue peepers irising into a single eye, which suddenly glows a rather Satanic red. “Sometimes bad things happen to good people,” we hear him say, and with that it seems clear that Craven has gone for chills over conventional horror: the tone of his excellent psychological thriller is set, and so were the calendars of millions of moviegoers. --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!