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Paul Allen posted:New Great Gatsby poster. That's terrible, but it's pretty obviously a book cover and not a poster.
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Feb 28, 2013 20:49
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Paul Allen posted:
50 of them by the looks of it.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:01
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FoneBone posted:That's terrible, but it's pretty obviously a book cover and not a poster. That makes it even worse. 
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Feb 28, 2013 23:02
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Movie tie-in book covers are literally always terrible.
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Feb 28, 2013 23:36
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Do book-movie-book covers usually list the actors?
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Feb 28, 2013 23:38
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I love Morgan Freeman. With the right material, he is really good. I know his filmography well enough to say that I don't think he's ever impressed upon me as a Badass Motherfucker, and I think he's horribly miscast in any film where he is supposed to be physically imposing. I heard his hands are so bad he could barely hold a prop firearm on the set of Red.
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Feb 28, 2013 23:52
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Pope Mobile posted:Do book-movie-book covers usually list the actors? I've seen a handful of them more recently, yeah.
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Mar 1, 2013 00:04
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Stare-Out posted:That looks like a Downton Abbey-themed softcore porn with midgets or two giants. Sold.
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Mar 1, 2013 05:01
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Wubbles posted:Movie tie-in book covers are literally always terrible.  I think of this cover as one of the low points of our civilisation.
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Mar 1, 2013 05:20
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Firstborn posted:I love Morgan Freeman. With the right material, he is really good. I know his filmography well enough to say that I don't think he's ever impressed upon me as a Badass Motherfucker, and I think he's horribly miscast in any film where he is supposed to be physically imposing. I heard his hands are so bad he could barely hold a prop firearm on the set of Red. You gotta see Street Smart, man. He's terrifying in that. I wish he still took chances like that, but the last 15 years of his career have been incredibly bland.
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Mar 1, 2013 05:24
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MikeJF posted:I think of this cover as one of the low points of our civilisation. 
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Mar 1, 2013 05:28
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MikeJF posted:
Do you want what is on the cover? Don't buy this book! Do you want what is inside? You hate this cover! I'm so glad "inspired" isn't really a thing, because the second I see Arnold Schwarzenegger on a Phillip K Dick cover I'll drown myself in a puddle.
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Mar 1, 2013 05:30
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I don't often scoff out loud but seeing this as I walked through a Barnes & Noble made me almost choke on my mocha frappe.
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Mar 1, 2013 05:44
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MikeJF posted:
This is hilarious
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Mar 1, 2013 05:46
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You see, when Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, what he was really dreaming about was killing zombies with a big fuckoff scythe and his book having a 16-page full color insert.
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Mar 1, 2013 06:09
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Haha this can't be real
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Mar 1, 2013 06:13
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Anything to get kids to read classics, I have no problem with that.
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Mar 1, 2013 06:14
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Oblivion looks kinda of neat, but then I remember I already own the Life After People DVD sets. Y'know, the game wasn't bad, either as a game or an adaption of the Inferno. But good lord why would you pick the Longfellow translation for the tie-in? It's as stuffed-shirt overwrought as it can possibly be.
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Mar 1, 2013 06:21
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Vegetable posted:Anything to get kids to read classics, I have no problem with that. Anyone who buys Dante's Inferno based off that picture will not finish it.
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Mar 1, 2013 06:23
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Vegetable posted:Anything to get kids to read classics, I have no problem with that.  
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Mar 1, 2013 06:49
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I'm gonna need a source on these because I refuse to believe they are real.
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Mar 1, 2013 06:57
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This is available on Netflix and I attempted to watch. It has boobs. Cartoon boobs. So it's got that going for it.
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Mar 1, 2013 07:02
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Byzantine posted:Y'know, the game wasn't bad, either as a game or an adaption of the Inferno. I suspect because it was public domain, and hence more money was to be made than if they tried to pursue e.g. the Esolen translation.
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Mike From Nowhere posted:I'm gonna need a source on these because I refuse to believe they are real. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wuthering-Heights-Emily-Bronte/dp/0007326742/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250599705&sr=1-5 you can still buy a copy! 
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Mar 1, 2013 07:14
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Eh, as long as the text itself isn't changed, I don't really have much of a problem with tie-in book covers. Drop the "Bella and Edward" crap, and those Wuthering Heights covers wouldn't be that bad. And let's be honest here, most reprints of classic books have terrible covers, the last one that I've looked at and thought "hey, that's pretty cool" was Penguin's most recent reprint of 1984. 
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Mar 1, 2013 07:15
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The 'Complete,' 'Unabridged' at the bottom does detract from the effect a tad.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wuthering-Heights-Emily-Bronte/dp/0007326742/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250599705&sr=1-5 you can still buy a copy! Going to go walk into the ocean now.
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Firstborn posted:I love Morgan Freeman. With the right material, he is really good. I know his filmography well enough to say that I don't think he's ever impressed upon me as a Badass Motherfucker, and I think he's horribly miscast in any film where he is supposed to be physically imposing. I heard his hands are so bad he could barely hold a prop firearm on the set of Red. DNS posted:You gotta see Street Smart, man. He's terrifying in that. I wish he still took chances like that, but the last 15 years of his career have been incredibly bland. Exactly this. He received his first Academy Award nomination for that role, and he was a stone cold scary motherfucker in that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakcK_T3yFU&t=796s 13:16 - 14:50 This talks about how he drew the inspiration for "Fast Black." Edit: Here's the audition scene he described above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ8OJp0X2y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakcK_T3yFU&t=1524s 25:24 - 26:15 And finally, here he expresses frustration at being typecast. Edit: since this is the Movie Poster thread after all: 
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Mar 1, 2013 08:18
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Mike From Nowhere posted:I'm gonna need a source on these because I refuse to believe they are real. It'd be great if Kristen Stewart was more like the Brontë sisters and died before she was 30.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:12
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Gonz posted:It'd be great if Kristen Stewart was more like the Brontë sisters and died before she was 30. I'd have preferred it be Stephanie Meyer, actually.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:14
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MikeJF posted:I'd have preferred it be Stephanie Meyer, actually. I don't have anything against Stephanie Meyer. She's made billions of dollars off the literary ignorance of millions of tween girls and morbidly obese housewives. Who cares if her books read like Manos: The Hands of Fate: The Book? More power to her. I'm sure she knows her books suck, but hey, if I were that rich, I wouldn't care what reviewers and critics said. A fool and their money are soon parted.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:17
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Venkmanologist posted:This is available on Netflix and I attempted to watch. It's a game cover. Not that lovely cartoon/card board cutout movie.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:40
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Dissapointed Owl posted:It's a game cover. Not that lovely cartoon/card board cutout movie. The game also has boobs. Cleopatra's boobs that give birth to demon spiders and poo poo.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:41
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Young Freud posted:The game also has boobs. Cleopatra's boobs that give birth to demon spiders and poo poo. I know. But I doubt you can 'watch a video game on Netflix'.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:50
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Sure you can. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401113/
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Mar 1, 2013 09:52
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I stand completely and utterly corrected.
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Mar 1, 2013 09:59
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Gonz posted:I don't have anything against Stephanie Meyer. She's made billions of dollars off the literary ignorance of millions of tween girls and morbidly obese housewives. Who cares if her books read like Manos: The Hands of Fate: The Book? More power to her. Whoa. Look at this cool dude. Tell me how to be a thundering anti-intellectual contrarian like you, cool dude.
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Just a forewarning: Do NOT watch Dante's Inferno. It is absolute poo poo. Each level of hell changes the animation style, and they are all hideously ugly, the writing is absolute garbage, and just everything about it is bad. I watched it while I had a fever and still knew that it was poo poo. Don't waste your time on it.
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