Top Five: 80’s Action Trailers

Surely if we had time machines the first thing we would do would be do sneak into a 1986 screening of Aliens.  Just imagine you had the original movie on VHS, and weren’t aware that this one was coming – remember, there was no internet in the 1980’s and this was usually the first way you’d find out about a movie.  Then you see this trailer before a different movie, taken completely by surprise.  It also came among a new wave of faster paced trailers, more aggressive yet not disorientating, moving away from the 1970’s tradition of advertising a movie slowly to the viewer by explaining the entire plot.  This was state of the badass art.  I mean for fuck’s sake, Aliens is the first action movie to feature laptops.  In 1986!