Ranking All The Major SDCC 2016 Movie Trailers From Worst To Best

Kong: Skull Island was first announced at SDCC in 2014, and in the two years since it's gone from being a rather odd reboot decision to one of the most potentially exciting movies of 2017. Its cast is proper A-List (especially now Brie Larson bagged her Oscar) and the shift in time period to the 1970s (Viet Kong, geddit) promised more than your usual "beast meets beauty, beast kidnaps beauty, planes definitely kill the beast" story.

The trailer gave us all that (the paced reveal of the cast was a nice touch), but so, so much more. The visual style is straight up Apocalypse Now, just with a humungous ape in the background (Kong is properly big this time), and there's a scale to the monster action we haven't seen since Gareth Edwards' Godzilla.

Of course, eventually this is going to tie-in to the newly minted King of Monsters ahead of a versus movie (bet nobody thought 1962's King Kong Vs. Godzilla would get remade), and the connections are subtle, but effective; it's been commented on how flares ahead of the monster in shadow on the poster is used for both films, but on a more macro scale, the construction of this trailer, teasing the giant from a character perspective, is very reminiscent of that film. Beautiful.

What's your favourite trailer from SDCC 2016? Let us know your pick down in the comments.