I’m a huge fan of John Carpenter’s remake, but was delighted to find that I enjoyed the original just as much (how often does that happen with a film and its remake?!?)
Tag: trailer
Trailer Tracks: The Princess Bride (1987) – Rob Reiner
The dialogue, the story, the music, there isn’t anything I don’t love about this movie… Have fun storming the castle!
Trailer Tracks: Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott
My favorite Ridley Scott film ever. The whole future noir thing, Harrison Ford, the dark gritty future… not so far off now…
Trailer Tracks: The Rocketeer (1991) – Joe Johnston
I’ve always enjoyed the character of The Rocketeer, it’s high-flying adventure, and of course the era it was set in, so I was all for seeing the movie, and with a cast like Timothy Dalton, Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly (sigh), and Alan Arkin… I was in. Featuring a score by James Horner that I…
Trailer Tracks: Ghostbusters (1984) – Ivan Reitman
Ahh, 1984… what a year. It was a big year for me. I relocated to Bermuda, and everything seemed to get that much cooler. And boy do I remember how cool this movie was, and continues to be! Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson taking on the paranormal? Does it get…
Trailer Tracks: An American Tail (1986) – Don Bluth
Don Bluth paired up with Steven Spielberg in the mid-80s to give us the story of a family emigrating to America, and how their son got lost along the way… Oh, and he’s a mouse, named Fievel.
Trailer Tracks: Aliens (1986) – James Cameron
Yet another sequel that holds its own with the original, and could be argued exceeds it… this trailer is fantastic, and doesn’t contain a single line of dialogue, but conveys all the tension, horror and action that we can expect when the film chestburts its way onto the screen…
Traielr Tracks: The Hunt For Red October (1990) – John McTiernan
To pair up with my look at Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit today, I thought it would be nice to go back and have a look at the original trailer for the first film in the series, the still amazingly brilliant techno-thriller, The Hunt For Red October. Starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill, Scott…
Trailer Tracks: Field Of Dreams – Phil Alden Robinson
Still another entry on my Top 10 of All Time list is Field Of Dreams. I saw this in the theatre almost by accident. Wasn’t sure what to see that night, and someone came out of an earlier screening and told me to go see that one, so in we went. From the opening…
Trailer Tracks: Fried Green Tomatoes – Jon Avnet
Yet another entry from my Top 10 Films of All Time list is this wonderful film, based on the novel by Fannie Flagg, which spans generations to tell the story of the Whistle Stop Café and how events of the past can shape the lives of the future. A lonely, unhappy housewife Evelyn Couch (Kathy…
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