Hal Douglas, whose voice you’ve heard even if you never knew his name, died last week at the age of 89.

Don “In a World…” LaFontaine died in 2008.

Movie trailers are increasingly non-verbal.

Some movie trailers are works of art in their own right that exceed the actual movies they advertise. Prometheus is a recent example. Watch this trailer and tell me you don’t, just for a moment, forget the disappointment of the actual film:

The crowning achievement in movie trailers, though, has to be 1989’s The Abyss. The movie ended up pretty forgettable, IMHO, but the trailer still stands as one of the best scifi short films in history:

Maybe the era of awesome movie trailer narrators is over, alas. Here’s a snarky treatment of the passing of a generation: