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The best ones are more memorable than the movies from whence they came, or even make the movies themselves irrelevant. If movies are life distilled, and trailers are movies distilled, trailer lines are like beautiful blue meth crystals of pure cinema. Occasionally, in only the best of scenarios, that 1-2 minutes will boil down even further, into a single, definitive line one glorious soundbite of pure sizzle, so hot it burns your tongue.
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Not a summation, but an encapsulation of the feeling the movie is meant to produce - “sell the sizzle, not the steak,” as they say. There is, perhaps, no more perfect illustration of movies’ inherent cheese than the “trailer line.” The film trailer, of course, attempts to reduce a feature-length film down to a 1-2 minute advertisement. And what’s more corny than finding common cause with your fellow man? The best ones find that common corn in all of us. Yes, they can be the absolute corniest thing in the world, but the corniness is part of what makes them great. And the film was shot mostly in LA, with some exterior work in NYC.Movies are a lot like rock ‘n’ roll. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think. Well, Paramount will have until August 11 to release another trailer.
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Luckily, at the very end of the trailer, there is something that looks good: A cool shot of Cage and Pena under the rubble, and the camera pans up. We hope there's more naturalistic use of sound in the movie, because the trailer is telling us in big letters not to see it. When Gothamist thinks about September 11, we don't have a sweeping soundtrack telling us to cry playing. Maybe the trailer will play well in parts not near NYC, but it really seems to trivialize what happened, to assign emotions to an event many people already have very strong emotions about. All the dialogue seems stilted and hokey - again, maybe not an issue with the movie itself, but in the trailer, it's like a lead weight The trailer cuts from horror on the streets of downtown Manhattan to a woman (maybe Maria Bello) tenderly hugging fresh laundry for support - we don't know why it bothers us so much, but maybe because imagery is so overwrought It makes the trailer seems half a step away from one of those "In a world where bad things happened to good people" cliched movie trailer lines. It has one of those treacly, cornball musical scores, you know, it's like something out of a Hallmark movie to Make. Story and casting aside, the trailer sucks on these grounds: World Trade Center is based on the accounts of two Port Authority police officers who were trapped under WTC rubble Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena play the officers, Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal play their wives. Well, Gothamist hopes it's a sign warning them that the trailer is terrible.
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In fact, some theater chains will be posting signs to warn moviegoers. And Paramount Picture will have a warning before it plays, given how some people were upset when the Flight 93/United 93 trailer came out in March. World Trade Center movie, will be shown during previews this weekend.