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Goons hate Mondo? Can someone explain? I thought Mondo was like the Criterion Collection of posters. Last time I checked goons loved Tyler Stout.
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eminkey2003 posted:Goons hate Mondo? Can someone explain? I thought Mondo was like the Criterion Collection of posters. They look like garbage. They look lie a computer generated tracings with two colors that never fit the movie. E: Tyler Stout was kinda an early adapter of the style that Mondo has run into the ground. Tyler Stout was new and neat, but he is a one trick pony and people quickly grew tired of him.
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Oct 4, 2013 00:42
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eminkey2003 posted:Goons hate Mondo? Can someone explain? I thought Mondo was like the Criterion Collection of posters. Last time I checked goons loved Tyler Stout. They look like poo poo, doesn't take that much explanation.
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Oct 4, 2013 00:43
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Is it just Tyler Stout though? But... people used to rave about him! e: I still think they look gorgeous, but if all they ever do is Stout-style, that's no fun. It's consistently good but not as traditional as Drew Struzan, or as wild as Polish posters. eminkey2003 fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Oct 4, 2013 00:44
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eminkey2003 posted:It's consistently good 
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Oct 4, 2013 01:03
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A lot of people are also unhappy about the whole false scarcity thing they do where they don't print very many and then never do reprints. So unless you're extremely lucky to get one right when they go on sale you're basically stuck paying out the rear end to a scalper.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:04
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Mondo puts out really pretty posters every once and awhile but they cost way too much since the first (only) run gets snapped up by scalpers in 20 seconds.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:08
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eminkey2003 posted:Goons hate Mondo? Can someone explain? I thought Mondo was like the Criterion Collection of posters. Last time I checked goons loved Tyler Stout. Goons used to love The Boondock Saints and Family Guy too.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:11
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eminkey2003 posted:Is it just Tyler Stout though? But... people used to rave about him! .jpg) I LIKE THE ROBOCOP ON ROBOCOP ON MURPHY ACTION GOING ON RIGHT THERE!  Also, is that Dick Jones?
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Oct 4, 2013 01:13
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muscles like this? posted:A lot of people are also unhappy about the whole false scarcity thing they do where they don't print very many and then never do reprints. So unless you're extremely lucky to get one right when they go on sale you're basically stuck paying out the rear end to a scalper. Understandable and fine with screen prints (which would also legitimise their limited palette). It's absolutely a dick move intended to make it 'so super duper special' to own one when machine printing is being used and making them to order is very much an option. Their artists talent leans more towards mediocre and only looks noteworthy because the only things we tend to see otherwise are the contractually destroyed unimaginative floating head official posters and the babby's first photoshop minimalist fan posters. Note to Mondo: doing the polar opposite of minimalist posters isn't significantly better.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:16
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Sad lions posted:Understandable and fine with screen prints (which would also legitimise their limited palette). 99% of their posters are screen printed.
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Oct 4, 2013 01:24
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eminkey2003 posted:Goons hate Mondo? Can someone explain? I thought Mondo was like the Criterion Collection of posters. Last time I checked goons loved Tyler Stout. SMG said he didn't like Mondo posters one time and welp
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Oct 4, 2013 01:36
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Alouicious posted:SMG said he didn't like Mondo posters one time and welp Nope, some of the posters are just ugly. I think this topic is full of goons over reacting to posters but that doesn't change the fact that while some Mondo posters are enat, alot of them are really ugly and the false shortages they create are dumb. I mean maybe SMG also doesn't like them but I've also never even seen him post in here.
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Oct 4, 2013 02:21
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Sad lions posted:Understandable and fine with screen prints (which would also legitimise their limited palette). They're well aware of how quickly their posters sell out, and when you're setup to screen print something once you can make as many as you want, so the artificial scarcity thing is absolutely a real thing.
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Oct 4, 2013 02:28
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Ghostpilot posted:The Cinema Snob review this one a few weeks back and it's every bit as awful as that poster suggests. Shockingly it has Jeffery Tambor (George Bluth of Arrested Development fame) as Dracula! I voluntarily watched the sequel more than once as a kid, and I don't remember all that much about it other than it looked like it was shot on a camcorder over a weekend. It's one of those abysmal films you watch when you're sick at home from school and don't really feel well enough to watch something that'll give you any kind of emotional response. It just... exists. Anyway, here's the box art:  Somebody bothered to draw that. And they might've even got paid for it.
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Oct 4, 2013 02:39
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Mister Chief posted:99% of their posters are screen printed. I didn't actually know this. I assumed they were digitally printed. That would be why they tend to have a limited color palette. I have several friends who do screenprinting, and from what I understand anything more than 2 or 3 colors is just a nightmare.
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Oct 4, 2013 05:33
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dreadnought posted:I didn't actually know this. I assumed they were digitally printed. That would be why they tend to have a limited color palette. I have several friends who do screenprinting, and from what I understand anything more than 2 or 3 colors is just a nightmare. Yep, but you can add more of a color palate to even 4-color work by using dithering and using Ben-Day dots. Color separation is still a major thing in printing and can be used with almost anything, be it screenprinting, lithographs, etc. Still, digital printers are probably the best bet, since giclée prints are fairly common place these days.
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Oct 4, 2013 06:00
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Mondo's good posters just make their bad posters look even worse. And as much as I hate most of them (and I have been bitched at for being one of "those guys" in this thread about them, so I have bitched plenty), a lot of what makes them look so terrible is that so many of them are almost good. I've seen rendering styles that were interesting, but they were used in compositions that were cluttered and impossible to decipher. Fonts that were unreadable. Slavish devotion to a style that doesn't fit the movie they're doing a piece for at all. I get this impression that if they had a creative director who just said "No, this sucks, start over" once in a while, their output could be amazing.
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Oct 4, 2013 06:34
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Alouicious posted:SMG said he didn't like Mondo posters one time and welp This time it wasn't SMG, it was just some random dude. I remember it. Someone posted a Tyler Stout poster, and the first opinion about it posted was a mocking one, like "oh, look at all the squiggly lines. Is that $wrongactor?" Then, goons being goons, the people who disliked Stout posters and had never voiced their opinions decided they must be right, someone has spoken out about it, and now is the time for a revolution. The discussion became dominated with Mondo hate, with people hand picking the worst posters they could from the library to point and laugh at and making bold claims about the limited artistry of abstract representation. By now the Mondo-likers were gone, hiding in the space previously occupied by the haters. I think it happened because of Sleeping Dogs; a lot of people were angry about a movie poster-exclusive artist branching out into such a low medium as GTA-like box art, so they opted to switch sides.
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Oct 4, 2013 06:46
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scary ghost dog posted:This time it wasn't SMG, it was just some random dude. I remember it. Someone posted a Tyler Stout poster, and the first opinion about it posted was a mocking one, like "oh, look at all the squiggly lines. Is that $wrongactor?" Then, goons being goons, the people who disliked Stout posters and had never voiced their opinions decided they must be right, someone has spoken out about it, and now is the time for a revolution. The discussion became dominated with Mondo hate, with people hand picking the worst posters they could from the library to point and laugh at and making bold claims about the limited artistry of abstract representation. By now the Mondo-likers were gone, hiding in the space previously occupied by the haters. I think it happened because of Sleeping Dogs; a lot of people were angry about a movie poster-exclusive artist branching out into such a low medium as GTA-like box art, so they opted to switch sides. Haha what dude, maybe some people just don't like the style/art in some of those posters. Everyone's got their own perspective and art is subjective as hell, it doesn't have to be part of some secret lurker bandwagon mixed with secret subliminal hate for videogames.
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Oct 4, 2013 06:55
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I've had opinions my entire life. They're often contrary to the popular ones of the time. By your logic, this all began when I didn't like SPLATT! or some other popular comic book artist in the 90's. It was all part of the plan to rope me into the Mondo hating cult 20 years later! Image Comics planted the seed!
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Oct 4, 2013 07:01
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Posting about posting about posters. Wow. Just, wow.
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Oct 4, 2013 07:08
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Mondo sucks because they tend to apply one of 2-3 styles they have to all movies. Anyway, there are new movies out, one of which has some bad posters: https://www.google.com/search?site=...294.UEu45duO0rQ
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Oct 4, 2013 07:41
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King Vidiot posted:
It's Gahan Wilson, so he absolutely got paid for it. The guy was a published cartoonist for over 50 years.
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Oct 4, 2013 08:44
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I'm not sure how anyone thought this was a good idea.  But then I found this screenshot so dunno is it a comedy?  Edit : Oh, no, it's just really really bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBW6xZNVB4 I had to look up the director on The IMDB just to make sure this wasn't another Uwe Boll movie. Spermanent Record fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Oct 4, 2013 10:03
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I've posted about that before. It's a movie based on Viking myth but shot almost entirely in Malaysia by a Malaysian company for less than $10 million (in US dollars). The writer and actors are all non-Malaysian though. Knowing the trend in the US, they really should've made a horror movie if they want to make money there. The Malaysian film industry was until recently swamped by local horror movies. edit: VVV Old poster, actually. It gets a limited US release 4 October. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Oct 4, 2013 10:49
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frozenpeas posted:I'm not sure how anyone thought this was a good idea. I do like the 'In Production' rather than a release date. As if it was whipped up as a reassurance to investors.
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Oct 4, 2013 11:01
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frozenpeas posted:I'm not sure how anyone thought this was a good idea. Wait, is it being made by a hotel chain?
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Oct 4, 2013 13:14
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Phone posting so I'm not sure if the resolution on these got butchered, but I'm loving these American Hustle posters.     Jeremy Renner 
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Oct 4, 2013 13:25
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Lordy Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence 
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Oct 4, 2013 13:37
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Hello Lawrence and Adams! Bale is playing Les Grossman in this movie, right? Renner is pretty unrecognizable too. Canned Panda posted:Wait, is it being made by a hotel chain? And a low-cost airline. Corporate sponsorship is common for Malaysian movies. The market is small so filmmakers need all the money they can get.
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Oct 4, 2013 13:58
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Christian Bale is Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder in American Hustle. Jeremy Renner is Sean Penn in All the Kings Men in American Hustle. Jennifer Lawrence is Kate Hudson in Almost Famous in American Hustle. Amy Adams is Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! in American Hustle. 
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Oct 4, 2013 14:53
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This is the first time I've really noticed this, but Amy Adams looks A LOT like Kristen Wiig.
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Oct 4, 2013 15:10
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Goddamnit I can't not see Bradley Cooper's off-kilter eyes now.
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Oct 4, 2013 15:12
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That reminds me, did anyone here see Blood Ties, the 70s era flick with Clive Owen and Billy Crudup?
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Oct 4, 2013 15:14
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:That reminds me, did anyone here see Blood Ties, the 70s era flick with Clive Owen and Billy Crudup? Ha, I faintly remembered that movie and figured these were the posters for it.
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Oct 4, 2013 15:28
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Stare-Out posted:Goddamnit I can't not see Bradley Cooper's off-kilter eyes now. He should have kids with Shannon Doherty, that should even things out.
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Oct 4, 2013 17:25
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Phone posting so I'm not sure if the resolution on these got butchered, but I'm loving these American Hustle posters. That sure is a David O Russell film, written by David O Russell and directed by David O Russell. David O Russell. David O Russell.
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Oct 4, 2013 17:29
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So here's the Mexican poster for The Butler. Sweet jesus.
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Oct 4, 2013 20:07
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I will never get over John Cusack as Richard Nixon. I guess Alan Rickman as Reagan was even worse though while James Marsden was a really good Kennedy.
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Oct 4, 2013 20:30
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