Mr-Fusion
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
roozbehjouleh
It's definitely great. I don't watch a whole lot of Youtube shows but I started watching this one about a year ago and I have to say it's freakin perfect! It's hilarious, awesome and as it's called "HONEST trailers" most of the things that Jon Bailey says are true! For example the first couple of times that I watched Fight Club's Honest Trailer I thought it was kinda funny. After watching it with my friend once more I realized that they actually have a point. A lot of the things they say make sense! I don't wanna say that they ruin the entire movie for you. They just open interesting subjects that you usually don't notice. At the end I have nothing but best wishes for Jon Bailey and Screen Junkies!!
borkoboardo
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!
Joel Harris
Honest Trailers is the brilliant work of The Screen Junkies show where they take a movie and make their own 'honest' trailer of it, essentially making fun of the movie, and pointing out plot holes etc.As soon as I watched my first one, I couldn't stop watching them. The voice acting is done brilliantly, the script is continuously hilarious and original and the editing is superb. You can really see all the hard hours of work put into these, all the editing, all the hilarious jokes, it is really very well done.I would definitely recommend this to anyone who takes interest in movies, I've watched them all about fifty times each. It's a great laugh for everyone, if you haven't seen them, be sure to go and check it out! :)
