Honest Trailers

There's no shortage of parody to be found on YouTube, but I can't think of a more winning concept than "Honest Trailers". It captures the spirit of the classic voiceovers dude from the '80s while skewering all manner of mainstream garbage.

And after so many years, it still hasn't gotten old. For me, Jon Bailey is the secret weapon; he makes for an excellent Epic Voice-over Guy, channeling Don LaFontaine with plenty of room for his own humorous touches. It doesn't matter whether they're taking jabs at some low-hanging fruit like "Armageddon" or a bulletproof classic like "The Empire Strikes Back", it's always funny. And when they're really trashing a movie, it is glorious (*cough* "Suicide Squad" *cough*).

Few YouTube shows are consistently this entertaining.

10/10

The honest trailers of today may have lost the brilliance of the initial ones....but we're still here

but in all honesty...bring back the voice guy that came after the very first...or was it the third...i think it was the third

or was it the one that did it...went away...came back then went away again

i think so...yeah...bring him back

and how come this voice guy has been doing it soo long....all this while...retire bro!!...

we need another voice guy.

They only had one good video, the phantom menace (and maybe Kingdom of the crystal skull) but that's it.

In 1990, a website was made called the Internet Movie Database, otherwise known as the IMDb because apparently, lowercasing things makes them easier to spell. Go to see this website and talk about all your favorite movies and shows. That is, until they take down all the forums. Gee, I wonder if YouTube getting rid of their comments on kid's shows had anything to do with this? Only until 1998, did they actually put reviews on it. Oh dang, you guys could have gotten this stuff out before Amazon did!

Maybe this website will eventually allow you to review food items too. Spend hours looking at information and trivia on pop culture. Don't worry, it still won't be as addictive as TVTropes! Allow yourself to easily review anything you want. A pity you won't be able to tell how upvoted your review will be. Don't worry, this website isn't distinct enough to give off many memes.

Watch as you are forced to give a perfect score to the Breaking Bad episode "Ozymandias" and a horrible score to "Cumali Ceber". How does that film not even have its own Wikipedia article, by the way? Go back and give a higher or lower score to anything when you realize something holds up better or worse when you rewatch it or you know, are too lazy to see the whole thing again. Indulge yourself on how many times you can spot Kevin MacCleod. Try to make a combination on the Advanced Title Search no one's ever made before. Starring Game Of Thrones Fans, Justin Bieber Haters, People Who Have Forgotten Soap Operas Yet Still List All Their Episodes, And Those Who Quote Arnold Schwarzeneggar. Internet Movie/TV/Video Game/Short Film Database.

Seriously, why are these guys so much more forgiving on films than RottenTomatoes? "A Thousand Words" should be on the Bottom 100.

Who cannot remember his/her first honest trailer? What a blast it was! From that moment on it's a catching-up-game to watch them all.

Honest trailers to me is very comparable to South Park - which also had very good and most of all diverse ideas at the beginning but after they had to produce season after season it became very formulaic and "by the books". The same thing happened to honest trailers - one might argue it is because I'm now used to the concept. But still, when I watch older Honest Trailers the laughing comes instantly back.

There may be more than just one reason for this. One is definitely the choice of movies as the makers primarily choose current blockbusters or all-time-classic blockbusters which are very formulaic in their nature, leaving not much room for parody. Therefore most argumentations are based on the same flaws in those movies, and subsequently very similar.

Also Honest Trailers work mostly on bad films which are made with good intentions but fail to convince. But the fans demand Honest Trailers for basically every current blockbuster (good and bad) and so it also happens that movies are picked which are actually very good (Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Ang Lee's Hulk, etc) to create an artificial parody about points which aren't very just.

Still, the idea is highly original and here and there a good one pops up - not as frequent in quality as it used to but therefore in quantity. Almost every Screen Junkies box out a new one. Maybe that's also a reason for the decline in quality, but I don't give up hope! I'm still always happy when a new one comes out!