Super Trailers

When a movie has done well, an extended or super trailer is sometimes released. If you don't have 2 hours (or 12 if its the Lord of the Rings) to watch the entire movie, then the super trailer is your ticket. It is a highly condensed version of the film with all the best parts and lines. I've posted three: The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, Elizabeth The Golden Age, and The Lord of the Rings.

The Narnia uber-trailer really is a doozy as it comes in at a length of 9 minutes. Its nearly twice as long and the other two I've posted. This trailer really gives away just about every bit of the movie. So if you feel like watching both Narnia movies in one night but don't have the time, then just watch this first and then pop in Prince Caspian. Most of the music is taken from movie's soundtrack. The beautifully powerful music from about 5:42 until 8:30 is a mix of pieces from the main theme of Children of Dune, composed by Brian Tyler.

Elizabeth is a well made extended trailer and includes an great scene towards the end of Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth telling off the Spanish ambassadors. The music that starts up at the 4 minute mark is "My Name Is Lincoln", composed by Steve Jablonsky, from the movie The Island. Steve Jablonsky also wrote the music for the Transformer movies.

The Lord of the Rings super trailer is my favorite of the three. This super trailer really is a time saver! It takes you through each individual movie, condensing 12 hours of movies into almost 7 minutes. Each segment is well edited, accompanied with that movie's music, with great transitions between the movies. The trailer helps put the three movies into perspective with how J.R.R. Tolkien saw the books as one entire story (He wanted it published as one book). At the end of the trailer, it has a great sequence of all the key characters accompanied by a beautiful piece of music titled "In Dreams" performed by Edward Ross, that is found on the Fellowship Of The Ring: The Complete Recordings soundtrack.

Enjoy the 20 minutes of trailers!

Star Trek

If you didn't see J.J. Abrams' reboot of the Star Trek franchise, then now you have something to do this weekend. While numerous well made trailers were released for this movie, the preview titled as Trailer 3 was the best. Prior trailers had much more dialogue and spoilers; this third one feels more like a souped up teaser, showing off the spectacular visuals. The dialogue is done in mostly narrative descriptive tones, with scenes matching the spoken dialogue.

The best part of this trailer is the music. The scenes from the trailer is beautifully edited to the music, adding to the rise and fall of the dramatic emotions portrayed in those scenes. The name of the piece is "Freedom Fighters" by Two Steps From Hell. They compose music specifically for movie trailers. Thomas Bergersen, one of the composers, wrote on his blog that the executives over at Paramount liked the music so much that they bought the rights to it so that no one else could use it! The music ends up being why you're watching.

So... enjoy the trailer, its one of my favorites.

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Inception

Chistopher Nolan's next movie. Apparently he likes taking breaks in between his Batman movies; e.g. Batman Begins in 2005, The Prestige in 2006, The Dark Knight in 2008, and now Inception this July.

The trailer is fast paced, with great dramatic bass music in the background. I haven't found the name and composer of the trailer's music, but Hans Zimmer is composing the score for the film. If you're not familiar with him, he's done the musical scores for Gladiator, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Black Hawk Down, and the two newer Batmans; besides many many other films.

The narrative, presumably taken from the film, minimally explains what the film is about but leaves an immense amount of intrigue when coupled with the crazy awesome scenes of folding cities, fights transitioning from the floor to up the walls, and Ellen Page screaming to be woken up at the end followed by the heavy bass of the music.

Official Site: inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com

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