Which movie trailer had you obsessed the instant you watched it?

Watchmen. Read the comic after the trailer. Became pretty obsessed with all of it in my early 20s. I enjoyed the movie as it’s own thing, but I enjoyed the trailer more

It’s a dumb popcorn flick, but go back and watch the trailer for 300, it’s really f****** awesome great movie if you shut your brain off

*Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace*

The Force Awakens trailer had me hyped like I hadn't been in a long time

INCEPTION

The music/editing on that Miami Vice trailer with the Jay Z x Linkin Park song got me going pretty good. Most of the editing they used is cliche at this point, but it had me in a chokehold at the time.

The movie was awful…but Battle: Los Angeles had a masterpiece of a trailer.

The Cloverfield debut trailer Transformers weekend, ill never forget that shit, I was instantly hooked

The Dark Knight

Star Trek (2009) is one of the best trailers of all time.

Men In Black. Back in the day, you didn’t really have a way to see movie trailers on demand. But if you had a subscription to Entertainment Weekly, they’d regularly (monthly?) include a VHS of movie trailers. I watched the Men In Black trailer hundreds of times. Everything about it looked cool to me as a kid. Aliens, gadgets, that Cadillac with jets on the back, all of it.

the matrix

The first Godzilla 2014 trailer with the HALO jump was really well done.

The trailer for “The Batman” was a thing of perfection (even though the movie underwhelmed for me). Fury Road was another that just cooked my brain and was an instant “I must see this”.

Most recently, 28 Years Later. "Boots" being recited on an old vinyl record as the tension increases and disturbing images flash... maybe the most unsettling trailer I've ever seen in my life, and it made me feel like I NEEDED to see this in the theater.

*28 Years Later* really got me hooked with its first trailer.

The Green Knight as well as Nosferatu; both had just the most stunning visuals.

Mad Max Fury Road when it first dropped. Still think it’s one of the best movies in the series

Prometheus

I think we have a lot of Marvel fatigue right now, but I think people forget how hyped we all collectively were for the Iron Man trailer when it dropped.

[Godzilla (2014)](https://youtu.be/vIu85WQTPRc?si=O8osUGL4iiEAuvxj). I know people are mixed on the actual film, but the trailer still gives me goosebumps. It really did a masterful job of selling the film without showing you anything.

28 Years Later (Unfortunately I was incredibly disappointed in the movie itself - still haven’t seen Bone Temple yet though)

The trailer for Inception. It was such an influential trailer that nearly all big movies started following the same 'BRAAM' type of sound for creating tension. And then that simple water glass scene and the hotel scene with gravity changing directions. I have never been obsessed with any other trailer as such. And then the best part was that the movie still exceeded my expectations.

The first Independence Day trailer was wild. That was hype.

Thor: Ragnarok trailers were amazing...especially the one with Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". The flashes of Hela vs the Valkyrie army, the Fenris Wolf, Surtur...there was so much awesomeness to take in.

Incredibly, The Purge, with its chaotic scenario where the government allowed a night of crime, was a premise that really grabbed me, but the movie isn't that good

Skyfall had a banger of a teaser with that simple yet hard as hell music. That got me so hyped.

Where the Wild Things Are; Mad Max: Fury Road; Wakanda Forever; Godzilla: King of the Monsters; Prometheus.

Trailer for Dune 3 in IMAX is the best I’ve ever seen

TENET

Kill Bill original teaser trailer Minority Report The Black Dahlia

The Social Network - trailer 1, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - teaser, The Wolf of Wall Street - trailer 1, Mad Max: Fury Road - Comic-Con trailer,

I’m going back a lot further. Teaser trailer of The Shining. With the elevator, blood, and haunting, piercing music. Imagine seeing that at age 9 as a late-night TV commercial…

Terminator 2 "You could be miiiiiine"

matrix resurrections -- YES INDEED the movie was such a letdown -- but the trailer for it was an utter masterclass in trailer making --- https://youtu.be/9ix7TUGVYIo?si=1kr7cZhoFYi0V283

Two Towers Oh man. I was a freshman in college when I saw the trailer and we were all obsessed with watching it. Lived up to the hype!!

Best trailers ever: Spider-man 2 LOTR: two towers Man of Steel

True Romance

Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones teaser that was just shots cut to the Darth Vader breathing sound effects. Soooo good!!!

The trailer for Pineapple Express dropped when I was a freshman in college and every I knew was obsessed with it and the MIA song

Nobody mentioned this yet but Infinity War's trailer was generational. Never been hooked so hard onto a movie like that

JJ Abram’s first Star Trek teaser

The 300 trailer 9 with welcome home Spider-Man 3. It changed my life as a kid lol

I saw a trailer, in the theatre, for Michael Keaton's Batman. This was pre internet, I had no idea it was coming, I had never seen a "dark" Batman. I think my mouth was still hanging open the next day.

Terminator: Salvation

Into the Spider-Verse. Saw it in the theater and had no idea they were making an animated Spider-Man movie. The visuals were incredible, unlike anything I’d ever seen

When I saw the first trailer for *Bullet Train*, I leaned over to my wife and said, “I’d watch the shit out of that”. Even though I fully expected to like the movie, I was not at all prepared for just how fun that movie was.

Promising young woman

Just saw Project Hail Mary this past weekend and prior to the film, the trailer for The Odyssey was shown, and I’ve never sweat and clinched during a trailer as much as I did during those 2 minutes.

Stop! That! Train!

Logan with that Johnny Cash Hurt https://youtu.be/Div0iP65aZo?si=XN-uM1xLpBDyccd2

Dune: Part Three The Bride! (mainly because of the use of Florence + The Machine's song) Man of Steel (the one that used the LOTR track from Moria) MaXXXine

Project Hail Mary

Fellowship of the Ring. I was 6 when it was announced and really into fantasy books. When I saw that trailer it was the coolest thing I had ever seen in my life and I begged to see it. Dad said only if I read the books hoping that'd buy him some time but by the time the movie came out I was halfway into Two Towers. 

A star is born (2018)

Dude me too! That very first teaser trailer they ever released was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

bro, Cloverfield was wild! that shaky cam and the mystery of the monster had everyone losing their minds. I’d say the trailer for Inception had that same effect on me—so many layers and that epic score, instant hype!

Jerry Maguire 30th Anniversary trailer. I never heard of this movie until I just saw the anniversary trailer. #IYKYK

Terminator 2. I would rent other movies just to watch this one.

The Matrix Reloaded

Scott pilgrim with the prodigy song

Kangaroo Jack

I still go back to the Godzilla: King of Monsters Clair de Lune trailer

The first transformers trailer

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. I can’t count how many times I watched that thing as a kid. The music complemented the trailer perfectly and captured how epic the end of the trilogy was going to be.

LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring. I would just sit at the movie's website (since that was a thing back then and no one was on YouTube) and just watch it again and again.

The Matrix: Reloaded was a stunning trailer at the time.

Captain America: Civil War The premise of Iron Man getting his ass kicked by Cap out me in the theater for only the second MCU movie I had ever seen.

Cap America: Civil War and Infinity War "But he's my friend..." "So was I." *Cap holding back IG*

Sinners, the first teaser trailer. Thankfully I saw it in theatres before I saw the full trailer. But that teaser trailer was perfection.

The teaser for Interstellar. https://youtu.be/nyc6RJEEe0U?si=xopRkBRCRPXMTxUj The better your movie, the greater your confidence that you can stick a teaser like *this* one.

Satans Alley

Some of the marvel trailers especially with their music choice like Wakanda Forever teaser, i just love that transition to Alright in the middle, then there's Age of Ultron with that haunting "I have strings..." building upto that creepy af stare from Ultron...

For a movie I had no real awareness of before I saw the trailer? Inherent Vice For something I was already hyped for and the trailer finally dropping only increased that hype? The Batman

The first LotR clip, the one in the mines of Moria ending with the cavern troll... It was my most precious QuickTime file :)

I was 13 or 14 when the trailer for The Greatest Showman came out, and I genuinely watched it nearly every day until the movie came out in theaters (I then proceeded to see the movie FOUR times in while it was in theaters)

Fellowship of the Ring. Kept my kids home from school and took them to the midnight premiere

Independence Day had me in a chokehold back in 94

the first Suicide Squad Once Upon A Time in Hollywood  

Wakanda Forever take got better emotional beats for me than the movie did

Jurassic Park. Spring of 1993. The "T Rex" stomp by the jeep with Dr. Grant & Tim pushed my 11-year old mind into the stratosphere. No trailer since has had the same affect.

Joker: Folie A Deux

John Carter of Mars

Honestly I was beyond hype for John Wick, I still remember watching it the first time and laughing, at first the "You killed my dog that was a gift from my dying wife" was so funny, like the goofiest idea for a gritty action movie, but "Brain Reaction" just kept playing in my head, and then I would rewatch the trailer multiple times a day, I would talk with people and mention this movie, I was hyping it up as much as possible, and it only happens rarely, but the movie lived up to, and exceeded, every expectation. A little sad they seemed to shit the bed afterwards, but hey I don't have to watch those.

Magnolia. Momentum is a banger of a song.

Funny enough, I never actually saw the movie. But the trailer for John Carter set to Peter Gabriel's cover of "My Body is a Cage" gave me such a feeling of frisson. The combination of the song and the visuals blew me away.

Social Network, trailer just is beautiful edited and the music is terrific

*Avengers Infinity War* (that first teaser i think), *Kinds of Kindness*, *Beau is Afraid* - the music for all of those did a lot

Heretic

Logan, Deadpool trilogy, and Spiderman NWH. And those are my most recent movies which I watched on cinema.

[Dunkirk Announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM9BWtppzko) trailer. There was something so unsettling about it. The way the music starts with that ticking clock, followed by the thumping sound, ramping up in speed as the trailer goes on with this haunting hum in the background - and the stationary shots of the horrors that have taken place on the beach (and what's to come). I was absolutely hyped. The movie itself was okay. Saw it in IMAX a couple of times. Spectacularly crafted movie, but that's about it. An hour and a half amazing technical work.

The Matrix. 

This is gonna sound stupid but I love horror movies, especially clown horror movies. I can't remember how I came across it but I came across the Clown In A Cornfield trailer sometime in the winter of 2024 and I was obsessed with it. I watched the trailer all the time. Even watched clips of the movie that we're posted early to YouTube. That was actually a movie I was excited for to be released. I think that movie had a limited release as it was only in theatres for a couple weeks and it was only in certain theatres. Fortunately for me though, the theatre in my city got the movie when it was released. I wanted to go see it opening weekend but I was sick. I did end up going to the theatre to see it though and absolutely loved it. One of my favourite movies of last year. It's still one of my favourite movie trailers I've seen.

28 years later Movie had totally different vibes from trailer but I still liked it overall

Mad Max - Fury Road

Not sure about obsessed but I remember seeing the trailer for 28 days later and being fascinated. Another less obvious one is The Impossible which looked crazy. Both were trailers I saw in theaters that I previously didn’t know existed and immediately convinced me to see them when they came out in theaters. There are of course other trailers for movies I was primed to be excited for. I like comic book movies so plenty of

The Departed

I dont have a good reason for it, and still haven't seen the movie. But I love the tone of this trailer for The Accountant 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3wRCOqyDI6E&t=20s&pp=ygUYdGhlIGFjY291bnRhbnQgMiB0cmFpbGVy#bottom-sheet

I remember being so excited by the original Gladiator [trailer.Me](http://trailer.Me) and and my best friend just looked at each other and nodded,like yep we're gonna be here for the first screening of that.

I remember being sold immediately the first time I saw the Scott Pilgrim vs the World trailer. Became an instant fan, read all the books I could leading up to the movie, loved the movie, made me an Edgar Wright die-hard. Also, there was a Mad Max: Fury Road trailer where the music was made up of car sounds. I remember that getting me REAL hyped for that one.

Troy. When the camera panned out and you saw thousands of ships sailing for Troy. I couldn't wait to see that movie.

Spider 3... I was absolutely hooked. But then immediately after the film I got wise to the weight of expectations and one of first films that taught me behind every studio film is some ass hat producer that wants things a *particular* way to maximise profits or ultimately benefit themselves. Watched them again recently and it never occurred to me before that 3 is just a collection of awkward scenes cut together. Absolutely shit the bed.

Can’t believe no one has said pacific rim

Spiderman 2002.

Ong Bak The jump through the barb wire.. holy shit

Hitman. Baked, in a theatre, Ave Maria used to perfection, the logo being emblazoned on the sides of the gun as they form the T. Beautiful. So-so movie but the trailer stuck with me.

The teaser trailer for *Strange Days* from 1996 It doesn't actually have any footage from the movie, but Ralph Finnes recreates a short section of dialogue from the movie just for this teaser. [https://youtu.be/vK3KZiJSFHs?si=wY8-5AUhui5\_4QZV](https://youtu.be/vK3KZiJSFHs?si=wY8-5AUhui5_4QZV) Excellent movie, BTW. Introduced me to the band Skunk Anansie, too.

Logan with Hurt by Johnny Cash... I shed a tear watching it as I felt sad that an era was about to end of Hugh's Wolverine without seeing him be part of MCU or interact with other Marvel heroes in live action

Judging by this thread, whenever a Zack Snyder movie drops the trailer editors are popping champagne.

The Godzilla trailer where they're doing the high altitude jump

Convinced some friends to watch Battlefield Earth with me because I liked the trailer... I don't want to say more ...

The first trailers for both The Fifth Element and Dark City. Both of those had trailers with no dialogue, just atmospheric music and a montage of scenes from the films. They were outstanding. Both those movies didn't disappoint either!

The Dark Knight

Watchmen, The Dark Knight, Pineapple Express and Step Brothers. Idk, maybe 2008 just had the best trailers but those ones were exceptional - some better than the films themselves.

Deadpool. The “leaked” demo counts as a trailer, right? Because I was ready after seeing it.

The Matrix in 1999.

The Handmaiden has the most intriguing trailer I have ever seen

Sisu

Jurassic World. The nostalgia hit me like a truck. Just wish it had been as good as the trailer. Sigh..

Edge of Tomorrow

Spider-Man 3. I watched that trailer so many times. I was disappointed when I finally saw it. Prometheus. I was disappointed. The Dark Knight Rises. I was disappointed. I don’t really rewatch trailers anymore.

I mean when the terminator 2 trailer dropped in the 90s people lost their minds.. yeah it spoiled the plot but we didn't care. it's pretty wild seeing zoomers react to T2 after seeing the first one and not knowing the twist with Arnold. I don't think hardly anyone who saw it in the theaters for the first time went in blind like that

The trailer for Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie got me in a cinema for the first time in years. It felt so different from the typical trailers these days but also weirdly nostalgic. I went from not knowing what it was based on, to seeing the movie 3x and everything Matt Johnson has made in a span of a month.

Master and Theri

Star Wars

Independence Day That was the most hyped I had ever been at that point in my life for a movie. I could not wait for it.

I, Tonya

9 A great movie. That first trailer I saw, I was hooked.

Rental family and forgotten island are two movies that I saw trailer and I am like I need to watch like now lol

The Ring. Only because the trailer/teaser showed the video from the movie. There was no advertisement for the movie. I talked to several co-workers about it, and they all thought I was nuts. It went on for months. Just a late night showing of the video from the movie, and nothing else. Eventually, they started advertising the movie along with the video. And as soon as I found out, I had to watch it.

The minimalist trailer for the ring that only played on TV after midnight

Crank: High Voltage I saw the first one drunk after losing a bet. Turns out it was a masterpiece. A couple of years later trailer 2 dropped. I was on my laptop on a bar and lost my mind. Some other dudes came over to clown on me a bit until they saw what it was. They were fans too. They watched the trailer and likewise lost their marbles. We made a pact to all see it together opening day. We did that thing. We are still all homies.

Star Trek the Wrath of Khan trailer I saw a good adaptation of Star Trek episode coming to the theaters

So many trailers, The Matrix, The Matrix Revolutions (at the end of Reloaded), Romeo Must Die (that one is a story), the banned Spider-Man teaser, X2, XXX, Watchmen, The First Avenger, Captain Marvel, The Avengers teaser, Tron: Legacy, Ghost Protocol, Terminator Salvation, Inception, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, The Losers, The Nice Guys and recently The Running Man Growing up, I barely got to see movies in theaters. My folks' thinking was why go to theaters when you can watch at home, problem being the only movies we saw in theaters were Disney and extremely few of them. The only way I could see these movies was through trailers and many just gave me goosebumps. The listed just kept me revisiting that trailer.

I clicked on this thread thinking "Cloverfield" the whole time, and then I read the last bit of your post.

Had to think on this for a while, but Fellowship Of The Ring, I think. I downloaded the original trailer online with Quicktime when we only had dial up and it took a couple hours, but SO WORTH IT. I'd read all the LOTR books multiple times and was just stoked that the trailer looked so good. Then I went to see it on opening day and it was even better than I expected.

Get Out - those bass drops outta “I got 5 on it” I will forever associate with that movie, even though it was an older well-known song!

The teaser trailer for the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was pure hype

It will never not be The Amazing Spiderman 2

Everything everywhere all at once Ive been going to the movies all my life, and in those 36 years it was the only trailer that i was emotionally invested in at all. Only trailer that made me feel like *I had to see it*, and not just a normal "that looks good" kind of response. Aaaaaaand it's my favorite movie now sooooo

LOTR: The Two Towers. Great trailer and movie.

Joker (2019) It was such a different angle to one of the most popular villains..., then there was a sequel, lol!

The Mummy trailer had me hyped as a kid and I really had no idea what to expect. That movie blew any expectations I had out of the water too

The trailers for the movie “9” with the Coheed and Cambria song and for the first Suicide Squad movie

[Fury Road Comic-Con](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akX3Is3qBpw) [The City of Lost Children teaser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0HWDOzi2h0) [Dark City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKKJzWjas4)

Terminator: Salvation. I still want to see the movie the trailer promised.

[2046](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tz6KgPfeuk)

Hereditary 

I can think of a few, but the first was Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2. I was a die hard fan, had the books, merch and movies and this was our Endgame at the time. The culmination of 10+ years of movies. The final sequence where the music goes DunDunDunDun and follows the spells shooting at Hogwarts still gives me chills. PS: it also gave us Voldemorts “Nnnyyeeeeeaaaahhh”. So that gives it bonus points off the bat. [https://youtu.be/mObK5XD8udk?si=gCHyj_UcxJEY1pRw](https://youtu.be/mObK5XD8udk?si=gCHyj_UcxJEY1pRw)

The lion king. Saw the trailer before Goldeneye in the cinema and we talked more about the trailer than the movie afterwards.

Beetlejuice. I was 7 going around saying quotes from the trailer and just guessing at what the movie was about. I don’t remember what I thought it was going to be but I loved it.

Independence Day.

Cloverfield

Project Hail Mary trailer.