Wolfe
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« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2012, 08:12:52 AM » |
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Yeah, E! used to be amazing too before it became tailored to sad housewives. I remember watching TV at the moment E! launched back in 1990. The first thing they aired was a behind-the-scenes thing for TOTAL RECALL and then a bunch of trailers.
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2012, 08:46:59 AM » |
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I was going to ask if you thought that the shift to the Internet made trailers stop being an "event", per say, but I think I just decided that it didn't. Fifteen years ago I'd camp out in front of my TV all morning to try to catch the "Batman & Robin" trailer on E!, but if that were today I'd just be camped out in front of my computer waiting for it to go online.
If anything, they're kind of more of an event now because they're sort of like they're own little art form. It's a satisfying experience unto itself sometimes.
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Wolfe
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« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2012, 08:51:26 AM » |
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If anything, I think trailer releases are more of an event nowadays, what with trailers having their own trailers and whatnot. The thing is, I used to make sure I was parked in front of ET for trailer debuts way back when, and I can't for the life of me remember how I knew in advance that these trailers were going to be debuted without the Internet. I guess they must have been trumpeted in commercials.
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« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2012, 09:09:01 AM » |
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I still have on a VHS tape somewhere Carson Daly world premiering the PHANTOM MENACE trailer on TRL.
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2012, 09:17:17 AM » |
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My friend and I took the tape of THE PHANTOM MENACE trailer into my 6th grade class (maybe 7th grade) and made the teacher play it. I think it was his tape, but I supported him wholeheartedly, which means we both were idiots.
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« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2012, 02:37:38 PM » |
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I can't for the life of me remember how I knew in advance that these trailers were going to be debuted without the Internet. I guess they must have been trumpeted in commercials.
I remember seeing commercials that advertised someone was going to be showing a trailer. Like when "Batman Returns" was shown on network TV, and during it there were commercials for the trailer for "Batman Forever" that would be played during the news immediately following it. Turns out they meant "at the very end of the newscast," which frustrated 12-year-old ScottE to no end. |
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2012, 02:38:53 PM » |
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I remember being deathly ill and home from school one day and seeing the trailer for BATMAN FOREVER on television and being convinced for months afterwards that it was just a fever dream, and that they couldn't be making another Batman movie because that would be too awesome.
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« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2012, 02:40:04 PM » |
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And didn't Mary Hart or John Tesh end up talking over about 30% of the trailer, anyway?
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2012, 02:41:20 PM » |
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Probably. They always did that. Bastards.
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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2012, 02:50:02 PM » |
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I remember them blathering on while I was trying to focus on "The Son of the Pink Panther".
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DerickA
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« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2012, 06:20:57 PM » |
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I remember being deathly ill and home from school one day and seeing the trailer for BATMAN FOREVER on television and being convinced for months afterwards that it was just a fever dream, and that they couldn't be making another Batman movie because that would be too awesome.
This is the one I remember the most vividly. I don't blame you for thinking this. Seeing the Schumacher style after being used to Burton's was a pretty good shock. |
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Wolfe
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« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2012, 06:35:16 PM » |
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The Schumacher trailers were deceptive because they used Elfman's Burton theme, and you could set anything to that and have it seem amazing.
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« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2012, 06:54:50 PM » |
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I begged my parents for OnStar. Anybody catch that BATMAN RETURNS score is on DARK SHADOWS tv spots?
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« Reply #28 on: May 05, 2012, 01:45:12 AM » |
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The Fox 25th Anniversary special used a piece from his Back to School score for a Simpsons montage.
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