Super Bowl LVIII movie trailers, ranked

Everyone with a TV saw the new trailers for Deadpool 3, Twisters, and IF, but which one was the best?

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Super Bowl LVIII movie trailers, ranked
Clockwise from top left: The Fall Guy, Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, Twisters, Despicable Me 4, A Quiet Place: Day One, IF, Wicked, Deadpool & Wolverine (Screenshots: YouTube) Image: The A.V. Club

Some people watch the Super Bowl for the football, some people watch for the halftime show, and some people even watch just for the commercials (gotta see what new innovations are coming to Doritos this year), but plenty of people just tune in for a specific kind of commercial: movie trailers. Nerds of a certain age remember exactly how hyped they were when they first saw the Matrix Reloaded trailer during the Super Bowl in 2003, and we’re all still trying to chase that high.

This year’s Super Bowl trailers aren’t as life-changing as The Matrix Reloaded, but at least we finally got a look at the new Deadpool movie (not to mention its new full title, Deadpool & Wolverine). And here they all are, conveniently arranged in this slideshow from worst to best.

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | Official Trailer

The apes are back, and this time they’ve got a whole kingdom. We’re getting closer to the world of the original Planet Of The Apes in this reboot franchise, assuming this is all part of the same canon as those earlier Apes reboot movies, with the apes talking about building a society and capturing humans and that sort of thing. As for this trailer … once you’ve seen a trailer for an Apes movie, you’ve kinda seen them all.

8 Comments

  • crithon-av says:

    twisters? really? I mean universal makes money, I guess, but man, it’s lacking A LOT! It really doesn’t have that umph it had in 1996.

    • tdoglives-av says:

      Hopefully they are saving the return of Cary Elwes and The Evil Storm Chasers for the actual movie instead of spoiling it in trailers.

    • frankwalkerbarr-av says:

      Wait until the third movie Twister 3. In it David Fincher will kill off the cute little girl introduced in Twisters in the opening few minutes!

  • Mr-John-av says:

    We’re all assuming Reynold’s is an IF right?

  • ceminger-av says:

    Love the stock image of people eating spaghetti as a placeholder for Despicable Me 4

  • stevennorwood-av says:

    Ranked how, exactly? Because Twisters was such a carbon copy of the original it was kind of embarrassing.

  • ghboyette-av says:

    I think it was a smart move to hold back on showing Logan in the Deadpool trailer. Especially with the amount of photo leaks we’ve have in the last 6 months. 

    • deusx7-av says:

      the trailer basically was Loki ep 1, didn’t excite me at all, and the humor was the same Ryan jokes that he used up in Waiting and Van Wilder…

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