Welcome to the 100 Best Trailers of 2008. This is the 8th Annual List dating back to 2001 and my fourth year bringing it exclusively to JoBlo.com. If you visit the Trailers Page frequently, you should know my tastes quite well.

The 100 Best Trailers are listed in order from worst to first. Bear in mind that each year over 400 hundred trailers are released and not every trailer can fit on this list. The selection of the 100 Best is not compiled by the site as a whole, nor is it based on reader feedback. This is not a survey, nor did anyone vote. Just one Schmo’s opinion on things.

Selection of the 100 Best depends on a multitude of criteria. Paramount to making a great trailer, previews must excel in edit, music selection, character and story development, and originality. There are standard types of trailers that movie audiences are accustomed to seeing; this list intends to encourage filmmakers and marketing firms to break those molds. Each movie is only allowed one entry on the list. The power of the movie trailer is not in the safe and secure track, but the exploration of new ways to grab the audience’s attention. Trailers that were released last year (like some of the trailers for THE DARK KNIGHT) are not qualified for this list.

This list will consist of two parts 100-26 and 25-1. I will feature the Worst Trailer of the year on my personal MYJOBLO Profile. Previous Best of the Years Winners include: FUNNY GAMES, 300, JARHEAD,

GARDEN STATE, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, FEMME FATALE, and 40 DAYS, 40 NIGHTS.

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Before I delve into my explanations of the Top 10 Trailers, realize this – almost all of the trailers on this list are excellent. Granted, some of the movies wound up high on the refuse pile. Nevertheless, it is becoming more and more apparent that trailer editing is exceeding filmmaking in quality. Look at TROPIC THUNDER. The trailer for THE FATTIES: FART 2 was the funniest part of that movie. For the most part when I go to the movie theater I am expecting to see great trailers and hoping the movie afterward might entertain me. Anyway, here’s my list of the 10 Best Trailers of 2008. Disagree? Feel free to throw snotballs at me in the Strike Back section.

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Okay kiddos, that’s my list. Care to offer something else as the Best Trailer of 2008. Post away in the Strike Back section below!