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43. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
Stanley Kubrick (who looms large in this list) hadn’t released a film in 12 years when “Eyes Wide Shut” premiered in 1999. He also died four days after completing it (although argument remains about how complete it is, since he wasn't alive to approve the final CGI edits of the mask-clad orgy scenes to gain a more desirable R rating). Given this, Kubrick’s legendary status, and the film's final on-screen uniting of power still-couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the trailer for “Eyes Wide Shut” could have been nothing but a minute-long black title screen announcing its arrival and still had people spilling their popcorn.
Instead, they were given an ingeniously jazzy concoction set to Chris Isaak's "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing," promising a world of high-end Manhattan misbehavior. The glimpses of a couple making out, the woman distracted, a young girl’s nymphish grin, a morgue, the flash of a surreal gothic underworld, all cut with the occasional sudden blinding frame of black horizontal bars, barely hint at the disquieting meditation on sex and love that was Kubrick’s last masterwork. --Brandon Kim
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!