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Holiday weird old trailers: Blue Thunder (1983)
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.