Not sure if this is in line with your intentions for this thread, Jet, but I'm sharing it because I can't hear or read the word
trailer without this coming to mind. It's a little trailer anecdote.
A few years ago my friend and I were watching Enemy of the State on DVD when we both had the day off for some reason. We were already familiar with the film and just lazily enjoying it's expensive ridiculousness, which you can always depend on with these Bruckheimer productions. Each of us thought we knew it better than the other. Roughly halfway through a building explodes. Gene Hackman and Will Smith are driving away at top speed.
SMITH: "What the hell is happening?!"
HACKMAN: "I blew up the building!"
SMITH: "Why?!"
HACKMAN: "Because you made a phone call!"
Because you made a phone call...Even though I knew the film I didn't remember that line. My friend was like, "yeah, that line will be in the trailer". I disagreed. We argued about it for the rest of the film. It had become a big deal. We found the trailer in the special features. He was sure the line would be in the trailer, I was sure it wouldn't. As the trailer played I got more and more excited as the line didn't get said... the title came up and I was sure I'd won... I was getting cocky... starting to crow...
Oh dear. At the
very last moment, as I was at the very brink of triumph, defeat twisted back around and smacked me in the mouth. It was as if the Balrog's whip had stretched out and yanked me into the abyss by my ankle. "Fly, you fool!"