The Best Re-cut Movie Trailers on YouTube

Re-cutting movie trailers is a popular pastime for YouTube devotees if the sheer number of re-cuts out there is any indication. A search for "trailer re-cut" on YouTube gets you a return of more than thirteen hundred clips. A person could potentially spend a whole day going through re-cut movie trailers and never see the same trailer twice. The problem is that many of the trailers available on YouTube are really bad and not worth the two minutes it takes to watch them. You have to really dig through the muck to find the jewels in this mine.

I have done the dirty work for you. Here are the eight not to be missed.

1. Sound of Music recut
There were fun times and happy songs in The Sound of Music? Not in this version. It is a dark and menacing take on one of the most cheerful family musicals of all time. Who knew nuns and hills could be this creepy?

2. Office Space 'Recut'
Never has a re-cut been more effective at showing just how deceiving movie trailers can be. Office Space is a biting satire of office life. It is full of comical, over-the-top scenes and inside office jokes. This trailer shows what it could have been.

3. Brokeback to the Future
Using nothing from Brokeback Mountain except for the music, this re-cut captures the feel of the gay cowboy love story with only a few narrative words, and edits them together with clips from the Back to the Future movies. Were Doc and Marty really just good friends? Were they just genius scientist and eager protégé? Or was it love? You decide.

4. Imagine Me & You - Hermione/Ginny version
Enjoy a little creative femslash goodness with the trailer from last year's film Imagine Me & You. This re-cut version uses clips from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire over the soundtrack of the Imagine Me & You trailer, dropping Hermione and Ginny into the main roles. It is a side-splitting romp through the glories of dubbing. Watch for the glorious choices of clips and laugh hysterically.

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