De meeste film trailers zijn voorzien van alle grote actie momenten, en houden zich aan een aantal ongeschreven regels. Daarom heeft de website Mania.com deze top vijf gemaakt van trailers die beter waren dan de film zelf. Ik deel dan ook de mening over de onderstaande film:

5. The Phantom Menace

Let's not devolve into Prequel Trilogy bashing, shall we? It's like Marilyn Manson said: "Everything's been said before/Nothing left to say anymore." Also, "I am the god of fuck." But besides that, we all saw the trailer for The Phantom Menace six months before the movie hit. We were psyched. It hit all the right notes. Obi Wan Kenobi was there meeting Anakin Skywalker. Yoda was being all wise and shit. And, most of all, we heard those beautiful Ben Burt sound effects. You know the ones--the sound of lightsabers and blasters over that John Williams score. It was like someone had geeky cyber sex with every nerd on the planet all at once. The value of Charmin stock shot up overnight.

And then, the movie came out. Geeks argued for years about the relative merits (or lack thereof) of the movies. A bunch of die-hards kept screaming how you just had to pretend you were 12 or something, as if doing mental acrobatics would make a bad film better. But, the trailer managed to hit the sweet spot that the movie never did. It looked and felt like Star Wars. We didn't know that those scenes with Jar-Jar Binks getting his face shocked or little Orphan Ani' with his mom would portend such a bad movie. But, for a few months we were all in geek heaven, thanks to a trailer for a movie that just didn't deliver.