trailer from one of my favorite movies College freshman John (Gib) Gibson decides to go cross country to visit his friend in California during winter break. Awaiting there is a bikini-clad babe whom his friend assures him is a “sure thing”. Meanwhile, Allison, a cute (but somewhat anal retentive) girl at Gib’s college has also decided to head out to Cal. to see her boyfriend during break. Gib and Allison are thrust together on a road trip from hell, and somewhere along the way, they find each other’s company to be tolerable. Now, what will become of Gib’s “sure thing?”
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Where to find Movie Trailers Online
There are several places to go online to get all the new upcoming movie trailers. These sites are very popular and you can see trailers or previews on your computer screen. Sites that feature movie trailers are some of the most popular on the internet and continue to grow day by day.
The number one movie site is www.apple.com/trailers Without needing any extra technology most people can just go to this site using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox and watch dozens of new movie trailers. The home page usually features around ten movie posters. You click on one of them and it goes to the viewing page for that film. You can then choose to watch movie trailers in one of three formats usually, small, medium, or large.
is another site that yahoo publishes and has lots of great movie trailers on it. On this site if you place the cursor on top of the film artwork it gives you an arrow. When you click on these arrows you are directed automatically to another page where the movie trailers play instantly.
Another big corporate site is www.moviefone.com and this is owned by aol.com so although it features a lot of movie trailers, it mostly has just the big studio ones. www.fandango.com also has a great site but it once again features mostly big Hollywood movies.
There is also www.comingsoon.net and www.traileraddict.com and these have mostly the same ones but in not so friendly to use formats.
There are several sites that feature independent film movie trailers such as www.trailerspy.com and www.iftrailers.com. Some of the finest films made each year are made outside the big studio system and if you really like movies you should do yourself a favor and check these out.
Movie Trailers
If you are a big fan of Japanese animation (Anime) you can check out those movie trailers at http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/video/trailers. Two great anime movies are “Ponyo” and “Howl’s Moving Castle”, both released by Disney.
There are some really good movies set to be released and you can also go to the studio websites themselves to see their lineups. Suggested are www.paramount.com, www.mgm.com, www.imagine-entertainment.com, www.universalpictures.com, and many others.
Some of the great looking trailers out there right now include “Defendor” starring Woody Harrelson as a wannabe super hero. A similar theme runs through “Kick Ass” which is about a teenager who decides one day to become a costumed crime fighter though he lacks any kind of superpowers at all. “Alice in Wonderland” is the live action remake of the Disney classic starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton. This movie looks amazing and fans will line up to watch it in 3-D.
Great Movie Posters from Great Movies
These days, movie posters appear as the front cover of the DVD box and that is the most familiar version that most movie fans see. The artwork however starts as a full-sized poster first and can be found prominently displayed in the display cases that most movie houses have either in front on the sidewalk, or more probably inside the lobby of your local multiplex. When you walk into your standard multi-screen theater with ten to twenty movies showing at any one time, you may see large 3-D cutouts and Point of Purchase (P.O.P.) displays instead of traditional movie posters.
Most movie posters are very forgettable but the best of them get scorched into our public collective mind. Who can forget the hand with the single red rose laying on the girl’s abdomen from “American Beauty” or the black background and white puppet strings attached to the words “The Godfather”? Certainly one of the most iconic images of all time in movie posters was the giant great white shark coming straight up out of the depths to (we assume) munch on the tiny figure of the swimming woman in the artwork from Steven Spielberg’s classic “Jaws”.
James Cameron’s epic “Titanic” had the most gorgeous imagery of the prow of the ill fated ship coming straight at us, with Leonardo and Kate’s downcast faces blended in at the top, looking in opposite directions. This poster was very effective and the movie was an international blockbuster that at the time broke every record for attendance in every country it was shown in.
When King Kong came out in 1931, the poster must have shocked and awed movie goers worldwide. Showing a color painting of a giant ape perched atop the Empire State Building, with flames in the background, holding the beautiful blonde Faye Wray in his mitts was enough to make every schoolboy clamor for a nickel to get in to the picture show.
One of the greatest movie posters of all time was for “Vertigo” and featured the outline of a man and a woman seemingly falling into a graphic white edged spiral against a red background. The lettering in this poster was one of the most memorable parts of it, as is the case in many of the ones we have mentioned. One wonders how much art direction came from the old master himself, Hitchcock.
Movie Posters
Some other great movie posters include the ones for “Nosferatu”, “A Clockwork Orange”, “Alien”, “The Last Detail”, “Lolita”, “Last Tango in Paris”, and “Barry Lyndon” just to name a few. What these movie posters all have in common are the ability to communicate in just a single image what the movie will be about and make audiences line up around the block to watch the film.
The Best Thriller Movies and Creative Vision
Best Thriller Movies Demystified
American cinema has really changed in the last ten years as more and more studios and directors use elaborate and stylized techniques as well as digital effects in their films. The best thriller movies however still have to have some old-fashioned elements in order to be successful including great writing, acting, directing, and editing.
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Great writing seems to be something that we take for granted when we go to the see thriller movies but it is also the hardest thing to get right and one of the rarest things in Hollywood movies. Since most Hollywood studio films are written by committee these movies often seem overblown, formulaic and just plain silly. The very best written movies are always written by one person with a unique vision that has hopefully not been tampered with by too many hacks along the way. Under the current Hollywood system a writer has little chance of fulfilling his grand vision. Instead he or she is subjected to script meetings with talentless and arrogant studio executives who proceed to systematically kill any dream the writer happens to have of creating a piece of art.
Best Thriller Movies Demystified
Art is not essential in the minds of studio executives. Putting people into seats for opening weekend is what matters most. Unfortunately the ultimate result of this type of backward thinking is that you draw for the first week of release based upon hype and advertising then lose audiences with bad word of mouth. Thriller movies can’t be made by number crunching but by directors and writers with vision and creative genius.
Martin Scorcese is one present day artist that does not compromise when it comes to originality and creativity. He is one of the lucky few that get to make movies without interference from the powers that be. One of the great movie thrillers was Scorcese’s remake of Cape Fear starring Robert DeNiro.
Scorcese’s latest movie is the suspense thriller Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio and pairing him with Robert DeNiro once again.
Good movie thrillers are like wine and get better with age. Rear Window was one of many Hitchcock masterpieces that viewers can watch over and over again and still enjoy. The Birds and Psycho are more examples of the British director’s genius.
Thriller Movies
Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Best Picture winner The Silence of the Lambs still remains to this day one of the best of the best movie thrillers ever made. In 1971 Clint Eastwood made his directing debut with the incredibly scary Play Misty for Me. One year later director John Boorman made his Academy Award winning masterwork Deliverance starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight. One of my all-time favorite movie thrillers is John Schleshinger’s 1976 spy film Marathon Man starring a young Dustin Hoffman.
The United States does not have any particular stranglehold on movie thrillers as was demonstrated in the great 1990 film La Femme Nikita by French director Luc Besson. Stephen Spielberg started his career with one of the simplest and best movie thrillers Duel about a deranged trucker.
One thing all great movie thrillers have in common is the element of surprise and the ability to make audiences squirm and sit on the edge of their seat.