Everything is becoming homogenised, at least that’s what it sometimes seems like. At least when it comes to movie trailers. Hollywood blockbuster movie trailers anyway. Cracked.com explain how so in this video which looks at 11 tricks Hollywood trailers use to make the trailers seem so epic and to engage our attention.

Actor JD Walsh, who you might know from Two and a Half Men, heads out onto the streets of Los Angeles and asks random strangers if they want to film a scene with him. If they say yes he films some dialogue between them and he then uses that scene to edit into a trailer [...]

If you ever wondered what the Coen Brothers stoner classic The Big Lebowski would be like with the sweeping songs of John Williams, then this mashup trailer that combines that and Star Wars: The Force Awakens will show you. It makes for a much more dramatic tone to the criminal yet comical proceedings of Lebowski [...]

Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers series has really outdone itself here, because they’ve managed to bag Ryan Reynolds to do the voiceover for their Deadpool Honest Trailer. The whole thing came about because the creator of Honest Trailers tweeted Deadpool’s producer and asked to help get Reynolds involved. He also rallied the HT fanbase to help [...]

Aldo Jones is an Italian video editor who has a penchant for creating truly bizarre but very funny parodies of popular trailers—he did a great one for Batman Vs. Superman and now he’s turned his singularly weird skills to Marvel’s eagerly awaited Captain America: Civil War. Similar to Jones’ previous efforts it involves adding loads [...]

As much as Star Wars Episode VII met with pretty much universal acclaim you can rely on the guys over at Honest Trailers to take it down a peg or two and find some chinks in its armour. And a lot of those are the video ribbing The Force Awakens for copying A New Hope, [...]

Later in 2016 DC Comics Suicide Squad movie will assemble some of the most infamous crims and villains from their comic book universe, like the Joker, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and Captain Boomerang. This Funny Or Die video imagines what might happen if those guys were unavailable and they had to get the B-Team together instead.

There is no mercy spared in Screen Junkies Honest Trailer for the final instalment of The Hunger Games film series, “After four long years waiting for the epic final chapter of The Hunger Games, watch it limp to the finish line in an underwhelming conclusion,” the voiceover says, setting the tone. From their it picks [...]

Even though the film isn’t even out yet, Jimmy Kimmel has debuted a deleted scene from the upcoming movie. Ben Affleck was on his show after the Oscars and its then that Kimmel revealed that he’s in the film. But Affleck had to break it to Kimmel that, sadly, the scene was actually cut [...]

If the idea of Donald Trump becoming president seems like the end of the world to you, then you’ll enjoy this X-Men: Apocalypse trailer parody where Trump is the apocalyptic villain who even the x-men seem to fear. Trump certainly comes across like some kind of overblown villain from a movie, if only he was.

If you’ve seen the red band trailer for soon-to-be-released superhero movie Deadpool then you’ll know it’s pretty far removed from anybody’s idea of a romance movie. But with the magic of editing anything is possible, even the seemingly impossible challenge of turning the violence of Deadpool into romantic drama.