Let's count all the movie trailer clichés.

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1) IN A WORLD PLAGUED BY FEAR...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

2) Speed-cut action scened with "Carmina Burana" on the background.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

scenes

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

3) THIS SUMMER, ACTION HAS A NEW NAME...

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

4) Scenes fade to black to the rhythm of a heavy drum to emphasize their seriousness.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

scenes that aren't in the movie.

― piscesboy (piscesboy), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

5) JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO...

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

6) HE WAS A COP ON THE EDGE...

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

7) Soothing melody. Needle scratches across record. George Thorogood & The Destroyers.

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

LOCK THREAD

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link

'Bad To The Bone' To Be Used In Film
April 22, 1998 | Issue 33•15

HOLLYWOOD, CA—In an inspired act of film soundtracking, Paramount Pictures announced Tuesday that its forthcoming family comedy Twerps will feature the rock song "Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood. "We feel the song will greatly enhance the scene in which the 12-year-old protagonist and his two pals go on a shopping spree and dress up as tough kids," said Paramount executive Edward Wohl. "As the children outfit themselves in leather, denim and sunglasses, the song's bluesy riffs and 'don't-mess-with-me' lyrics will provide the perfect musical accompaniment to the kids' get-tough makeover." Paramount also intends to use James Brown's "I Feel Good" for the film's closing-credits sequence, moments after the lead character defeats the neighborhood bully in a climactic roller-hockey match.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

8) SHE IS A VOLUPTUOUS CYBORG COP. HE IS A HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR WITH A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT. TOGETHER THEY ARE... IMPERFECT PARTNERS.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

9) Serious, ominous beginning ... OH NOES, IT'S A COMEDY - YOU JUST GOT PUNK'D!

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

10) I'M GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS SH-

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

rofl hurting otm

― Ste (fuzzy), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

11) super fast montage: STARING/RUNNING/HUGGING/CRYING/ARMS OUTSTRETCHED IN RAIN/EXPLOSIONS/KISSING/LAUGHING/DRINKING COFFEE/WWII/BLACK SCREEN...

TITLE

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

12) TITLE & OSTENSIBLE END OF TRAILER--SCENE OF DUDE GETS HIT IN NUTS--COMING JULY 2007

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Scene of Autobot hit in nuts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I would almost rather see Transformers-as-slapstick than Transformers-as-directed-by-Michael-Bay.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

13) anachronistic music that may not even be in film (Blur during '80s-set History Boys)

14) genre thriller/actioner setup reveals 'comedy' after 20 seconds (Reno 911! I'm lookin at you)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

15) FROM THE DIRECTOR OF...

and its bizarro equivalent

16) FROM THE PRODUCER OF...

'cause yeah it's really important to me who signs the cheques for a film.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Er, I think the producers used to have, and some of them still have, much more power over the film than signing the cheques.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

they use 'producer' merely to get name of hit film in yr head

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

17. FROM THE STUDIO THAT BROUGHT YOU SHREK

― a.b. (abanana), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

18. (American Trailers For Foreign Films): No dialogue whatsoever. Just shots w/music.

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

See the recent South Park ep where Stan coaches a peewee hockey team for every single one of these, including the record scratch.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

19."Two Thumbs Up!"

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

11) super fast montage: STARING/RUNNING/HUGGING/CRYING/ARMS OUTSTRETCHED IN RAIN/EXPLOSIONS/KISSING/LAUGHING/DRINKING COFFEE/WWII/BLACK SCREEN...

TITLE

hahaha

― v (sleep), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

20. "ONCE IN EVERY MAN'S LIFE..."

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

21. "Inspired by a True Story"

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

22. action montages w/ Kodo drumming
23. black screen + panic breathing -> split second gore images + glitched-up screams

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Thursday, 21 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

24. This is gonna be the best trip ever! -> whoa, guys did you hear that? what is that thing? -> OH MY GOD RUN! -> cue slashing, glinting/blood-stained knife/chainsaw and screaming.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

25. (horror movie trailers): period of relative calm/darkness on screen/reduced movement...annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnndOMGSUDDENSTARTLINGSLASHINGNOISEWITHMILDLYDISTURBINGSPLITSECONDVISUALWHATWASTHATJESUS

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Thursday, 21 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

26. revealing THE ENTIRE FUCKING MOVIE thus saving me $$$$

― latebloomer: glutton for PUNishment (clonefeed), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

27. In a world full of douchebags, one website has them all, posting on a pointless board. . .

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

28. in romantic comedies: 'is that all i mean to you?!!? a BET!?!!'

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

29. helicopter turns into monster, blows up american fighting men to death with forcefield/shockwave

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

30. Elephants run at camera through orange savanna grass while orchestral arrangement of led zeppelin gets LOUDER and LOUDER, then a picture of a chalk body outline on a rainy street

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

31. Spaceships docking on the Rings of Saturn to pick up an intergalactic pizza at Grimaldi's.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

31. will smith quotes sartre while mugging a fat kid

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

33. peyton manning wears a fake moustache

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

34. My acquaintances passed a brown bottle from hand to hand.

35. "Better than a kick in the crotch."

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

36. Datrha Vade and C-3PO yiffing while Han Solo watches

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

37. Troller on message board decides he's had enough, will never be part of a community, feel rejected, wetc., mows down an entire cafeteria full of people with a sawed off.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

37. boom microphone hits hugh jackman in face, handheld camerawork spins us around awkwardly to reveal that the boom is being operated by none other than jack black, who laughs maniacally, then rips off his rubber mask and it turns out he is actually hugh grant pretending to be jack black

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

39. girls learn about sports

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

40. Helen Hunt bukakke

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

41. Wayans brothers explain in the form of a rap song what happened to the caretaker of the hotel and his family the previous winter

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

42. Charlton Heston shooting himself in the face

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

43. Fozzie Bear bukakke

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I demand someone create this putative trailer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

44. bourbon cat

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

45. Roadhouse blues band playing "Sweet Home Chicago" in a dive bar attacked by hedgehogs with light sabres.

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

46. clips of football great Gino Marchetti instigating climactic Sister vs. Goo debate that goes terribly, terribly awry.

― a_p (a_p), Thursday, 21 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

47. Dead hookers

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

48. The Mummy accepts Jesus Christ as his personal savior

― latebloomer: glutton for PUNishment (clonefeed), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

49. Dom Passantino

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

50. Sensitive girl becomes werewolf

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

51. American president falls in love with oddball crack whore

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

52. Language is a virus from outer space

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

53. David Niven crucifies a toddler

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

52. Language is a virus from outer space

Who *would* star in Snow Crash anyway?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

BOOM!

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Who *would* star in Snow Crash anyway?

Tiger Woods?

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

(I mean, yes, I know why you suggest that, but still, UH.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

53. Ned Raggett reads the almanac

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

40. Helen Hunt bukakke

-- Mr. Que (pelagi...), December 21st, 2006

In the trailer for my dreams, maybe!

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 21 December 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

41. syphylitically mad roman emperor forced to choose between own sister, tough inner-city schoolroom full of urban children who might just deserve one last chance.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 22 December 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Er, I think the producers used to have, and some of them still have, much more power over the film than signing the cheques.
-- Tuomas (lixnix...), December 21st, 2006 5:26 PM. (Tuomas)
they use 'producer' merely to get name of hit film in yr head

-- Dr M (wjwe...), December 21st, 2006 5:29 PM. (Dr Morbius)

you're thinking of "Executive Producer."

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 22 December 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

54. Garfield's penis shot in night-vision

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 22 December 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

55. Abraham Lincoln's brain in Gabrielle Union's body runs in a school-board election against a 12-year-old savant stricken with an alien cancer.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

56. http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1509/thatsourmarmaduke7nx5vf.jpg

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 22 December 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

57. "trolls" bored with their cat-obsessed city thread decide to derail perfectly fine, if unoriginal, movie thread.

also, why does marmaduke dude have breasts?

― bliss (blass), Friday, 22 December 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate people who can't even follow trailers.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 22 December 2006 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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