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List added by Grand Assault on 26 August 2008 12:06
The greatest taglines ever conceived |
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 1317  7.8  8.5 Tagline: "In space, no one can hear you scream"
Intensifying the horror that Ripley and her crew already face is the fact that they are utterly isolated and unable to call for any help whatsoever. Who knows how many times this line has been parodied since? Relevancy 10/10 Exhilaration 8/10 
566 6.9 7.4 Tagline: "Be afraid, be very afraid"
Probably sounding out a warning about the horrors of unchecked scientific research, as well as Jeff Goldblum's doomed and terribly mutated character. Relevancy 8/10 Exhilaration 8/10 Grand Assault's rating:
 
414 7.6 8 Tagline: "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth."
If I recall they loved their own tagline so much that they slipped it into the dialogue in the film. Extremely memorable and vivid in any case. When no other explanations are offered as the cause of the zombie outbreak, you have to start formulating your own. Relevancy 9/10 Exhilaration 9/10 Grand Assault's rating:
2185 7.9 8.8 Tagline: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
Eponymous with the start of each Star Wars film. Worldwide recognition of this tagline must be huge. Relevancy 10/10 Exhilaration 2/10 Grand Assault's rating:
 
496 7.6 8.2 Tagline: "Man is The Warmest Place to Hide."
A pretty ingenious taste of what the film has to offer without giving too much of the horror away. Cleverly linking in with the fact that they are stranded in the Antarctic tundra. Relevancy 10/10 Exhilaration 8/10 Grand Assault's rating:
3513 7.9 8.7 Tagline: "One ring to rule them all"
I wonder how many times this line has appeared in a best man's speech at a nerd's wedding. Relevancy 10/10 Exhilaration 5/10 Grand Assault's rating:
 
772 7.1 8 Tagline: "His entire life was a million-to-one shot"
If this tagline does anything it at least makes you empathise with the boxer, maybe even more than his infinitely caring nature and good spirit. Relevancy 7/10 Exhilaration 5/10 Grand Assault's rating:
1115 8.3 8.8 Tagline: "As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster."
The prospects for any gangster in a mafioso film are always pretty grim, but this line adds an immediate sense of even greater foreboding. Relevancy 10/10 Exhilaration 6/10 Grand Assault's rating:
356 6.2 7.3 Tagline: "Heroes never die... they just reload"
That's more like it! If this doesn't get the adrenaline flowing more than just reading the titular character's name alone, then nothing will. It's also a pretty grim insight into the life that Rambo leads. Relevancy 6/10 Exhilaration 10/10 Grand Assault's rating:
 
638 5.2 5.4 Tagline: "Whoever wins... we lose"
As much as the film was awful beyond repair, the tagline was exceptionally brilliant given the nature of the battle that occurred within it. It was probably relevant to both film franchises too. Relevancy 6/10 Exhilaration 7/10 Grand Assault's rating:
2968 7.7 8 Tagline: "The story of an uncommonly gentle man."
A tagline that just romanticises Edward even more than his actions in the film, thus making his downfall seem all the more tragic. Relevancy 7/10 Exhilaration 2/10 Grand Assault's rating:
815 7.6 8.2 Tagline: "The first casualty of war is innocence."
War films are always treading a thin line between moral messages and cliches, but I'll just about let this one off. Just how innocent the platoon were before the war is open to question though! Relevancy 3/10 Exhilaration 5/10 Grand Assault's rating:
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When they get them right, a tagline can ingrain itself in the public vernacular. Some taglines are so successful that future generations will no doubt consider them clichés in themselves. It's only fair to take a look at some of the more popular and successful taglines ever made, whether all-prevailing or just extremely ingenious, here are a few examples where the marketing suits got it right. Here are a few examples where they weren't so lucky.
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Good list...
Horror films have the most effective tags. It's the implicit threat that makes them so impactful.
Comedies can also work very good taglines onto the poster. A fairly recent goodie is for HOT FUZZ - "Big cops. Small town. Moderate violence."