Should there be an Academy Award for Best Trailer?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-12 05:16pm

I was just watching the trailer for The Matrix Reloaded (for the tenth or so time), and I realized how much work must go into creating a trailer. I mean, these guys should get some kind of credit. It's not as simple as splicing some clips together anymore; it's a full-blown art. You have to find appropriate music for sequences, and the editing is just fantastic.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-04-12 05:27pm

Yeah.

That The Matrix Reloaded Trailer is beautiful.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-12 05:31pm

Watched the Superbowl trailer for Matrix at school (Broadband rocks) and was amazed. Got home and had to use a download manager and ten hours before i managed to get the two TV spots and the Final Theatre trailer. It was well worth it.

And in an effort to stop this devolving into another "How much is the Matrix gonna rock" thread i also think that The Two Towers trailer with that kickass music (some said it was Requim for a Dream?) just blew me away when i first saw it.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-12 05:58pm

I agree here. The Matrix Reloaded trailer was the only one to literally make my jaw drop since the Two Towers TV spot with the RFAD remix music (I have the full MP3 if anyone wants it). Trailers were designed to be hooks, and nowadays they've evolved into full-on eye magnets.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-04-12 06:01pm

No fucking way!

Trailes twists and turn.

Trailers is the equilement(sp?) of word cut and paste.

Take the good stuff put it in a row and hope somone sees the movie.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-04-12 06:30pm

Dalton wrote:(I have the full MP3 if anyone wants it)

Hell yeah! wait a sec ... i have a 28.8 modem , is it advisable that i don't take you up on this offer?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-12 07:18pm

An Academy Award for Best Trailer...

Why should people be eligible for an Oscar because they live in a low-class house?

Oh, wait, that's not the trailer you were referring to.

I don't think movie trailers are ready for their own Academy Award catefory yet. They still need to get more unique and advanced.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-04-12 07:19pm

Speaking of trailers...

1) Where can I nab the Requim for a Dream TTT trailer?

2) When can we expect the trailers for ROTK?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-12 07:23pm

The last thinng we need is that overhyped overglamorized event in general, let alone another award.

Do you think that by bringing out another award and prolonging that fetid media festival is going to get better mivies the credit they deserve? Hell no.

What we need to do is either get movie fans involved in the Academy voting process or have a fan voted award ceremony opposite. A few guys in tuxedos might think that it's wrong to let the people judge films but then again im willing to bet those guys haven't paid for a movie ticket since the last time they snuck into an R rated film after buying a PG movie ticket.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-12 07:26pm

Faram wrote:No fucking way!

Trailes twists and turn.

Trailers is the equilement(sp?) of word cut and paste.

Take the good stuff put it in a row and hope somone sees the movie.

There's a lot more work involved simply putting some clips together in Avid or FCP and calling it a trailer.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-12 07:31pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I don't think movie trailers are ready for their own Academy Award catefory yet. They still need to get more unique and advanced.

Maybe you should watch a really good trailer sometime, like The Matrix Reloaded or The Two Towers. Notice how the music, voiceovers and changes in scenes are very finely tuned. There's so much attention to small detail that you don't notice, but it all helps contribute to the whole.

One of the best things about a trailer is that it can make you salivate over even the worst of films (see Episode I). That takes work.

Darth Fanboy wrote:What we need to do is either get movie fans involved in the Academy voting process or have a fan voted award ceremony opposite. A few guys in tuxedos might think that it's wrong to let the people judge films but then again im willing to bet those guys haven't paid for a movie ticket since the last time they snuck into an R rated film after buying a PG movie ticket.

It's called the MTV Movie Awards, and I think that such an award would have a perfect home there.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-12 07:36pm

Darth Fanboy wrote:It's called the MTV Movie Awards, and I think that such an award would have a perfect home there.

Correct, but the MTV movie awards aren't truly representativ ebecause even though MTV has millions of viewers they also have millions of detractors who depise them for a wide variety of reasons. I myself despise it for the way it has cheapened and corporatized music.

You're right though that a "best trailer award" would work well there. You would then have to face facts that their best trailer might not be the beautiful TTT but something like "Dude Where's my car"....

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-12 07:41pm

A Best Trailer might not be considered for an Academy Award because technically, the trailer isn't part of the movie. If it ever were, though, it would probably be awarded in the technical ceremony they have the day before (the "sciences" part of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences) along with best sound editing and best lighting and whatnot.

It's a perfect MTV Movie Award category, though.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-12 07:50pm

Darth Fanboy wrote:Correct, but the MTV movie awards aren't truly representativ ebecause even though MTV has millions of viewers they also have millions of detractors who depise them for a wide variety of reasons. I myself despise it for the way it has cheapened and corporatized music.

Huh? How'd they do that? And aside from that, anyone can vote in the MTV Movie Awards, even those who hate them.

You're right though that a "best trailer award" would work well there. You would then have to face facts that their best trailer might not be the beautiful TTT but something like "Dude Where's my car"....

No, I think everyone equally salivated over The Two Towers.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-12 08:22pm

Durandal wrote: Huh? How'd they do that? And aside from that, anyone can vote in the MTV Movie Awards, even those who hate them.

*snip*

No, I think everyone equally salivated over The Two Towers.

My point was that people AVOID voting in the MTV movie awards because of their aversion to said netowrk.

And I know plenty of people who didn't like the TTT trailer, I hang out with a small cluster of people whohave this aversion to anything fantasy or sci/fi. It's an opinion they are allowed to hold, evne though it was awfully well done.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-04-12 08:28pm

Sounds like a good idea to me.