In a break from tradition, this week I’m giving you a weird old trailer rather than a weird old title sequence. No doubt you’re aware of the modern trend of trailer makers to include every single interesting part of a movie in the trailer, thus ruining the whole film (cf Obsessed for example, although some may argue that was pre-ruined).
However, as this trailer for Blue Thunder shows, this trend is anything but modern. Short of the final scene, there’s not much in the plot that isn’t in that trailer. In fact, the whole conspiracy is explained in it. Which is weird.
Cracking trailer though, even if the TV series was a lump of rubbish.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
