Wow. Ok, I'm not going to claim that this is representative of all film trailers during the same time period, but the original Star Wars trailer is surprisingly poorly done. Something that has always irked me about many modern movie trailers is the fact that they practically give away the whole film within a couple of minutes. It seems like trailers have become Cliffs Notes versions of the actual film, sometimes with major plot points and scenes revealed. Why do I mention that now? Well, this Star Wars trailer is so far removed from that idea, so amazingly cryptic and scatterbrained (and just plain ol' cheesy), that it looks like it's for a half-finished film. I wonder if someone spent more than like 20 minutes editing this thing. Something like this would never get by today's standards. Anyway, totally worth watching! I mean, it was "a billion years in the making", after all.(via Hacking Netflix)
1. I guess I won't make friends when I say that I find the actual film almost as bad as this trailer.
Posted at 8:47AM on Jan 24th 2007 by Herb