Top 15 Trailer Mash-Ups of All-Time
Get ready to lose an hour of your life (don’t worry, it’s totally worth it). Those trailer fanatics over at TrailerSpy have outdone themselves with their latest list of tangled trailers: The Top 15 Trailer Mash-Ups of All-Time. For those working on their own entries into this web-genre, take note: the more disparate the source material, the better it all fits together.
So this Harrison Ford action mash-up tentatively titled Wife Force One functions more like a highlight reel than a coherent trailer. On the other hand though, this awesome meshing of the original Transformers movie and the trailer for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings works wonderfully (and should be way higher than 14):
Lord of the Rings + Transformers
Aside from confirming the brilliant possibilities of digital culture jamming, the trailer mash-ups open up some legitimately interesting possibilities. Like, for instance, Tom Hanks being the next James Bond (people are really eager to pick Daniel Craig’s successor, huh?). Indeed, some of these homemade trailers do more than simply match images from one film to audio from another, and actually re-write the movies they work with. Hence this brilliant trailer for Hanks is Bond coming in at number 7 in the Top 15:
Casino Royale + Hanks, Tom Hanks
The best (in my humble opinion), comes with TrailerSpy’s number 5 entry, which goes for maximum disparity by combining several Martin Scorsese movies and Sesame Street (or maybe Listicles just has a persistent Muppets addiction). Behold:
Sesame Street + Martin Scorsese
Other trailer mash-ups TrailerSpy missed or non-existent entries for the wish-list? Let us know in the comments.
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