Episode 1 had people buying movie tickets to just watch the trailer.
lmao I remember that. The forum I was on at the time had a huge thread with people arguing about whether the dude said "it's a lion" or "it's alive"I remember when everyone thought "Cloverfield" was going to be a Voltron movie because they swore they heard "It's a lion!" in the trailer.
Feels like you might be conflating this with Meet Joe Black, which came out a month before Wing Commander, was the first movie with the Phantom Menace trailer attached, and was infamous for alleged walkouts after the trailer. So much so, that many theorized that Joe Black's initial box office was vastly overinflated by trailer-seekers.
Yep, I know.I loved PM and all its characters back when I was a kid.It is a bit disappointing now, I agree. Back then I was hyped af though. "Anakin Skywalker, meet Ob-Wan Kenobi" and Darth Maul igniting his double light saber...dayum.
For really, tell me this ain't the hardest trailer u seen in a fat minute.
Like this shit is so hype that I don't feel the need to watch any future trailer for the movie, I'm already sold and don't need any more dope shots given away.
This trailer brings so much heat that unless KOTM fails to deliver on it, Kong vs Godzilla needs to be packing a huge surprise like a 3rd act team up against Destoroyah cuz that shit is already looking like a step DOWN from this besides the insane human cast.
No but remember when Passion of the Christ didn't have any trailers in front of it at all and everyone was like "oh this is srs bsns"
Cloverfield's marketing was one of the first major uses of social media viral marketing and it was very effective. A lot of studios studied it and have tried to emulate it.
Yea I distinctly remember seeing this before Transformers too, and I'd say no, nothing has matched it since. Mostly because everyone watches trailers online nowadays and nothing will ever be that mysterious ever again.I still remember sitting in the theater hyped up on the Transformers movie and then having that trailer play.
Idk if it was just my theater, but the one I was in didn't even show the "This preview has been approved.." green screen or studio names before the trailer. It just kind of started and everyone in the theater thought that the movie may have started.
And I swear we all still thought it was just a clever intro or something, even after the Statue of Liberty's head rolled down the streets of NYC.
Then the date 1-18-08 came on the screen and everyone cheered.
I cheered. My cousins cheered. My friend cheered.
And no one even knew what we were cheering for.
Has any movie theater trailer been like that since?
I don't go to the movies as often as I used to, so I'd be interested to know.
I 100% went to see that for the Animatrix, remember having to run there as well as we thought we were gonna be late. I stayed for the film. Safe to say that was a big mistake.Edit: was it dream catcher? Yes and it was The Animatrix episode, oops my bad
I have no idea what you are referring to..I'm going to assume it is clover field. Movie sucked.
Only trailer that had any impact for me in my life was Episode 1
I only knew what you were talking about because of the Statue of Liberty head. The date is meaningless to me.
I don't know what movie OP is talking about, but I remember people going nuts over the Phantom Menace trailer.
For really, tell me this ain't the hardest trailer u seen in a fat minute.
Like this shit is so hype that I don't feel the need to watch any future trailer for the movie, I'm already sold and don't need any more dope shots given away.
This trailer brings so much heat that unless KOTM fails to deliver on it, Kong vs Godzilla needs to be packing a huge surprise like a 3rd act team up against Destoroyah cuz that shit is already looking like a step DOWN from this besides the insane human cast.