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I didn't know that he didn't actually direct it, but I loved that movie. In all seriousness though, the writing was the movie's strongest point, and the direction was passable at best. Louis C.K. wrote one of the funniest films ever made, and he should hold his head up high and be proud of that.
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I can't help but wonder what lucky bastard walked off the Last Action Hero set with that prop, or if the studio either retained or destroyed it.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 04:06 |
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I can't believe I'm just finding this thread now. Anyway here are some of the worst ones to catch my eye in my movie poster folder (sorry if any of these are reposts): Aligator Eyes Death Threat (wait, what is this movie about?) A Certain Sacrifice (lookin' good Madge!) Assassin Biker Zombies (aka "my first photoshop assignment") Bootleggers (don't let your kids draw your posters part 1) This one is labelled as 'Carnal Madness' Dark Sunday (I don't care how big your gun is, I'm not afraid of anyone wearing that hat) Dragon Lady (don't let your kids draw your posters part 2) Salt in the Wound (if you think this one looks OK, check out the guy's arms and hands) If anyone wants to see them I have many, many more.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 04:19 |
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How could you post Assassin in a Worst posters post?
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 04:27 |
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Aphrodite posted:How could you post Assassin in a Worst posters post? Well the text is basically unreadable.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 04:28 |
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Huh, there's text.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 04:30 |
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Why would a robot need a nasal cavity? Couldn't they just give him a little metal nose to hang the flesh nose on? Or just make it all smooth like a Ken doll's crotch?
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 05:01 |
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ShufflerZero posted:If anyone wants to see them I have many, many more. That would be a big yes.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 06:26 |
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Remember when Fred Savage was a thing? If you've never seen this movie, which I doubt many have.. it's bizarre. This poster is awesome (Road House is awesome) because it tells you everything you can expect from the movie. Patrick Swayze is gonna beat poo poo up and most likely be shirtless, there's gonna be a bit of romance for the ladies and we're gonna finish out with action and explosions for the guys. No false advertisement. All kinds of batshit crazy perspective bits going on here but the tiny man at the bottom is what sells it. Loved this movie. Still have no idea why. Judge Reinhold is gonna skateboard all over your poo poo. Bonus points for having people named "Swoosie Kurtz" and "King Baggot" in the text at the bottom. Apologies if any of these have been posted previously, I dont remember seeing them but this is a long thread. Orange Carlisle fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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I remember Little Monsters. This poo poo gave me nightmares back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBy_LinV4w
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 08:33 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
That looks like Fred Savages head on another persons body or its a bad angle.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 08:34 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
Because it's awesome? Mr. Carlisle posted:
Is this a rip off of Big or Freaky Friday?
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 08:34 |
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Mister Chief posted:Because it's awesome? More Freaky Friday because a son and father switch places instead of a mother and daughter... but a little bit of Big because a mystical artifact causes the switch. Lets combine those things and throw in a gender swap:
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 08:46 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
Holy poo poo I forgot this existed. That is terrifying.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 11:56 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:More Freaky Friday because a son and father switch places instead of a mother and daughter... but a little bit of Big because a mystical artifact causes the switch. Or as Netflix describes it: quote:Two heads may not be better than one when workaholic department-store executive Marshall (Judge Reinhold) and his son Charlie (Fred Savage) innocently touch an ancient skull -- and soon discover their bodies have switched. I don't think there is any appropriate use of the phrase "innocently touch an ancient skull."
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Mr. Carlisle posted:More Freaky Friday because a son and father switch places instead of a mother and daughter... but a little bit of Big because a mystical artifact causes the switch. Speaking of gender swap movies:
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 17:03 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
Fred Savage is still around, its just he's become a more behind the scenes type of guy who does a lot of TV show directing.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 17:25 |
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I envy you people that haven't heard of Vice Versa or Like Father Like Son. Less of a tagline, and more of a... sentence.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 17:29 |
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Chicolini posted:I envy you people that haven't heard of Vice Versa or Like Father Like Son. Why is the suit too small for the son, and the jeans and shirt combo too big for the father? Even if Kirk Cameron is taller than Dudley Moore, it makes no sense from a thematic standpoint. The son should be wearing a baggy business suit, and the father should barely fit into his son's clothes. Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 17:36 |
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Little Monsters is an awesome movie and you should track it down if you haven't seen it.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 17:38 |
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muscles like this? posted:Fred Savage is still around, its just he's become a more behind the scenes type of guy who does a lot of TV show directing. Also he played a rapist on SVU.
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hyperhazard posted:Why is the suit too small for the son, and the jeans and shirt combo too big for the father? Even if Kirk Cameron is taller than Dudley Moore, it makes no sense from a thematic standpoint. The son should be wearing a baggy business suit, and the father should barely fit into his son's clothes. No... something is definitely off. The Suit should be too big and the clothes should be too small. The whole thing is flip floped and reversed.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 18:13 |
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hyperhazard posted:Why is the suit too small for the son, and the jeans and shirt combo too big for the father? Even if Kirk Cameron is taller than Dudley Moore, it makes no sense from a thematic standpoint. The son should be wearing a baggy business suit, and the father should barely fit into his son's clothes. CaptainHollywood posted:No... something is definitely off. The Suit should be too big and the clothes should be too small. The whole thing is flip floped and reversed. Dudley Moore is in the taller Kirk Cameron's body. He wants to wear his normal clothes. His normal clothes are too short for him. Kirk is in the shorter Moore's body. He's a teen that wants to wear his normal clothes. They are now to baggy for him. Right?
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 18:22 |
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Some 80s posters did get kinda text-heavy. Apparently you were expected to stop and read them. They didn't quite have the tagline down to... a science.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 18:25 |
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muscles like this? posted:Fred Savage is still around, its just he's become a more behind the scenes type of guy who does a lot of TV show directing. And occasionally watches Danny DeVito enforce contract clauses
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 18:29 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:Some 80s posters did get kinda text-heavy. Apparently you were expected to stop and read them. It's like you're watching the film's trailer just by reading the poster. All you need to do is imagine that tag
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Mustached5thGrader posted:Dudley Moore is in the taller Kirk Cameron's body. He wants to wear his normal clothes. His normal clothes are too short for him. The only way the poster makes sense is if they switch actual heads and then wore clothes one size too small or large for each other.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 20:33 |
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These both own pretty hard.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 22:49 |
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Look at Costner's stumpy little arm and crossed eyes.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 23:50 |
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I-Mockery did a feature on foreign movie posters recently. A lot of great ones along with some awful ones. This is my personal favourite.
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# ? Jan 13, 2013 23:54 |
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ShufflerZero posted:
I would love to know what thought process led to that title. Mr. Carlisle posted:
I have a theory, and I don't know if there's any evidence of this aside from the movie itself, that "Little Monsters" started life as a straight horror movie. Then Fred Savage got cast, the studio realized he was popular with the kids, and it became the balls out insane, mood-whiplashy thing it is today. Mr. Carlisle posted:
All while -in' it up in this piece.
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 00:05 |
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ShufflerZero posted:Dragon Lady (don't let your kids draw your posters part 2) I know in my heart that this isn't a kaiju movie where a giant topless woman battles a giant golden idol... but I really want to see that now.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I-Mockery did a feature on foreign movie posters recently. A lot of great ones along with some awful ones. Yeah I've seen that Jaws 2 one before, it's a terrific poster. From that link: This one is really cool I think.
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 01:03 |
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Stare-Out posted:
His arm looks stumpy because they inflated his head. It should be about half the size of it is on the poster.
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 01:04 |
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I wasn't a big fan of this when it was first posted here, but recently they've displayed it in my local theatre. I have to it's a lot more impressive in person when it's given a backlight. It illuminates the florescent bulb in the picture in just the right way and gives the whole poster a lot more character and depth that would be missing if it were simply hung up on a wall or presented as a image on the internet.
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Tomero_the_Great posted:I wasn't a big fan of this when it was first posted here, but recently they've displayed it in my local theatre. Yeah, I have to agree. I just did our newest displays and it looks much better when backlit. I thought about taking one for home too, but it probably wouldn't look as nice without proper lighting. I'll probably take it anyway, to add to the collection if nothing else.
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 01:34 |
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Young Freud posted:His arm looks stumpy because they inflated his head. It should be about half the size of it is on the poster. I'm also positive some of the arm wonkiness comes from the fact that he's holding a revolver in the original poster. However, I think new poster guidelines say that you can't have guns pointing straight out at the viewer in the poster anymore. I remember this sort of happening with Tomorrow Never Dies as well, where the original cover had Wai Lin pointing her gun right out at you: Now they shopped a weird, other gun pointing off to the side:
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 02:02 |
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spanky the dolphin posted:Yeah I've seen that Jaws 2 one before, it's a terrific poster. Kinda want this one on my wall.
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 02:41 |
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I never realized before now, but Satoshi Kon's films have some really good posters. Paprika Tokyo Godfathers Millennium Actress And as a bonus, here are some fake movie posters from Millennium Actress:
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# ? Jan 14, 2013 05:38 |
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That list is sorely lacking in the Perfect Blue department. The first one isn't really a poster but it certainly caught my eye even when I had no idea what movie it was or who Satoshi Kons was. The second one is a french poster for Perfect Blue. NSFW for tiny nipple-slip. http://i.imgur.com/Sxqa7.jpg
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