Patriots Day trailer + an instrumental cover of “America the Beautiful” Oh, you better believe 2015’s teen dystopian action film “Insurgent” also used a cover of “What a Wonderful World.” Clearly, this is a bad world.
Insurgent trailer + a cover of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” They are very much not.īirdman trailer + CeeLo covering his song “Crazy”ĬeeLo Green’s slower, edgier version of his own “Crazy” in the Birdman trailer is as on-the-nose as any trailer song in recent history. Jay and Daisy are so happy together … OR ARE THEY? No.
In case you were misled by his fabulous lifestyle, Filter’s cover of the Turtles’ “Happy Together” offers a glimpse into the inner life of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby in 2012’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby trailer + a cover of the Turtles’ “Happy Together” Because, as explored in The Social Network’s Oscar-winning adapted screenplay, Mark Zuckerberg is a “weirdo” who “doesn’t belong here.” He belongs on Facebook, which he invented. The Social Network trailer + a choral cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”Ĭertainly, yes, a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” seemed thematically in order. It’s the standard by which all moody covers should be judged, and found lacking. The standards are slightly different here though: It’s her song, after all. As we call time of death, accompanied by a dour version of “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life,” please revisit the single highlight and extreme lowlights of the serious, and often seriously sardonic, trend.ĥ0 Shades of Grey trailer + Beyoncé’s sexier “Crazy in Love” coverīeyoncé’s slow, sexy cover of “Crazy in Love” for the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack served as both a high-water mark and a harbinger of covers to come. But now feels like the time to recognize that overly obvious elegiac covers have jumped the shark, which is also something awesome that seems like it might happen in Geostorm. This trend isn’t new, and it has inspired a lot of passion on both the pro and the anti side of the conversation.
In the more recent, and perhaps most egregious, example, Warner Bros.’ new Geostorm trailer features a grim rendition of Louis Armstrong’s classic tune “What a Wonderful World.” The dramatic cover is, of course, meant as a bit of irony, because as you can see, the world depicted in Geostorm is clearly not wonderful: It’s filled with lightning and tornadoes and hail large enough to destroy a city bus. There is a pervasive trend in modern movie trailers you are undoubtedly familiar with by now: the solemn, slow cover of a very famous, well-regarded song.
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