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Movie trailers can be as dull and formulaic as movies themselves can be. But also like movies, sometimes a movie trailer can be a real work of art in its own right. Sometimes a movie trailer can be better than the movie it’s advertising. For Episode 50’s Top 6 segment, we’ve compiled lists of our favorite movie trailers. What are yours?
As always, we recommend listening to the episode before reading further.
Here’s another one of Stephen trying and failing to pronounce words, this time in Episode 47.
Sound film didn’t just arrive in the industry as a singular entity, a crystal clear technological gift to the industry. A lot of different companies and research groups devised different means of using sound in the movies, and there was real competition, especially between Warner Bros. with Vitaphone and Fox with Movietone. But there were other systems as well, such as Vocafilm, that were ultimately either bought up or squeezed out.
In 1928, none of the fates of these technologies were quite clear.
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Gambling is an interesting subject for movies because it’s inherently dramatic. Gamblers are interesting characters for movies, because it’s easy for stories to put them in extreme situations. By watching gambling movies, we can experience the excitement of gambling without the risk. A lot of great gambling movies have been made, and our six favorites appear in Episode 49’s Top 6 segment.
What are your favorites?
As always, we recommend listening to the episode before reading further.
For some reason, no matter how I tried to phrase it, I couldn’t quite narrate the fact that the badguys were inside the rocket, and our hero McBlaine was hanging on outside.
Then again, maybe my subconscious was trying to suggest that David Lynch should be the film’s director.
This blooper is, of course, from Episode 48’s Pitch segment.
