Ya, this topic is going to underwhelm everyone like crazy, but here it goes.
For the longest time, I've searched and searched for an Apollo 13 trailer that is not featured on any DVD, Laserdisc or websites. Well, the strangest thing happened today when I was doing some research on Laser Discs. Some one was posting pre-movie trailers that appears in front of the movie on VHS tapes. One of them was Waterworld and look what showed up.
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Wow. I thought I'd never see it again. I knew this trailer existed because even at 12 years old, I loved movie soundtracks, and I instantly recognized it as Jerry Goldsmith's music from Total Recall. Specifically the track titled "The Mutant" from the soundtrack. Even in the real trailer that is widely available has about 3 seconds of the music where this one was all Goldsmith.
This is one of those rare trailers that freaked me out as a kid. The image of the Apollo ship losing Oxygen, getting smaller and smaller as the camera gets further away and how far they are from Earth would have been enough to scare me, but what did that trailer department do? Throw in non-stop chatter as this all happens.
"Their heart rates are skyrocketing."
"We got a 401 alarm."
"That can't be real.."
"I, uh. I, uh. I keep losing radio signal."
"That can't happen. It's gotta be instrumentation."
"We got some serious time pressure here."
:confused
"We're looking at less than 15 minutes of life support left."
"Flight, they're all over the place."
"Damn, we're losing it!"
:eek
Holy sh&%..... They're gona die! I don't want to see this movie! :cry
Bear in mind, I did not know a lot about the Apollo space program at this. I didn't even know that much about Nasa other than they went to the moon and had that big shuttle. My parents were gracious enough to not tell me what happens in the story, but were cruel enough to let me know that this did in fact happen in real life. And oh yes, my stomach twisted and turned when the movie was finally released and it really felt like getting ready for a space flight.
Any trailers you remember that affected you like that? I got some more, but this one is special since it brought back so many memories of what used to scare me as a kid and how engaging trailers used to be.
For the longest time, I've searched and searched for an Apollo 13 trailer that is not featured on any DVD, Laserdisc or websites. Well, the strangest thing happened today when I was doing some research on Laser Discs. Some one was posting pre-movie trailers that appears in front of the movie on VHS tapes. One of them was Waterworld and look what showed up.
LINK
Wow. I thought I'd never see it again. I knew this trailer existed because even at 12 years old, I loved movie soundtracks, and I instantly recognized it as Jerry Goldsmith's music from Total Recall. Specifically the track titled "The Mutant" from the soundtrack. Even in the real trailer that is widely available has about 3 seconds of the music where this one was all Goldsmith.
This is one of those rare trailers that freaked me out as a kid. The image of the Apollo ship losing Oxygen, getting smaller and smaller as the camera gets further away and how far they are from Earth would have been enough to scare me, but what did that trailer department do? Throw in non-stop chatter as this all happens.
"Their heart rates are skyrocketing."
"We got a 401 alarm."
"That can't be real.."
"I, uh. I, uh. I keep losing radio signal."
"That can't happen. It's gotta be instrumentation."
"We got some serious time pressure here."
:confused
"We're looking at less than 15 minutes of life support left."
"Flight, they're all over the place."
"Damn, we're losing it!"
:eek
Holy sh&%..... They're gona die! I don't want to see this movie! :cry
Bear in mind, I did not know a lot about the Apollo space program at this. I didn't even know that much about Nasa other than they went to the moon and had that big shuttle. My parents were gracious enough to not tell me what happens in the story, but were cruel enough to let me know that this did in fact happen in real life. And oh yes, my stomach twisted and turned when the movie was finally released and it really felt like getting ready for a space flight.
Any trailers you remember that affected you like that? I got some more, but this one is special since it brought back so many memories of what used to scare me as a kid and how engaging trailers used to be.
