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Zzulu posted:I always wanted to see how they edited posters before Photoshop or similiar programs were around  
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Is that some Grace Jones? Yeah, they used airbrushing a whole lot back in those days. That's why Playboy photos had this kinda fuzzy quality back then. Composition was like some sort of dark magic back then. I remember watching the Blade Runner supplemental footage, where there was one featurette that was nothing but reels of effects footage and how they put it together shots. I remember that they had to shoot those Tyrell headquarters passes multiple times with different film effects, like the source footage, a mask shot, a backmask shot, then lights, then mask shots for the lights... Nowadays, you can just do it once or twice, do a vector mask in Adobe Premiere or After Effects and tweak it frame by frame.
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Speaking of randy robots, how about this Italian poster for Saturn 3?
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Young Freud posted:Composition was like some sort of dark magic back then. I remember watching the Blade Runner supplemental footage, where there was one featurette that was nothing but reels of effects footage and how they put it together shots. I remember that they had to shoot those Tyrell headquarters passes multiple times with different film effects, like the source footage, a mask shot, a backmask shot, then lights, then mask shots for the lights... EDIT: Sweet Jesus. 
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Robert Denby posted:EDIT: Sweet Jesus. Well, they managed to line up all the actor images with their credits! That's actually kind of impressive.
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Robert Denby posted:Not only that, they were doing all of that on the same piece of film. They'd rewind the camera, do an exposure, rewind again, do another exposure, etc. It was either that, or shoot all the elements on separate pieces of film, and composite them via optical printer, which could be just as big a pain in the rear end. Plus a printer would degrade the image quality more- you can see it in a lot of pre-digital process shots, everything's more grainy. (The old Star Trek was especially bad for this, which is why they re-did all the effects for the HD release.)
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Robert Denby posted:EDIT: Sweet Jesus. I don't think I've heard of half of those actors. Or maybe I have but they're just so unimportant that I forgot about them. Then again, that should apply to Donal Logue but I remember him...
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Mar 30, 2013 22:53
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Now I have a legendary music nightclub. Ho. Ho. Ho.
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The bathroom at CBs was really more made up to look disgusting than actually disgusting. Weird tag line. There doesn't seem to be a My Mars Bar Movie poster 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I don't think I've heard of half of those actors. Or maybe I have but they're just so unimportant that I forgot about them. It's sad that I recognized Malin Ackerman as Debbie Harry and caught one of the Ramones in that line-up. Completely missed the girl playing Patti Smith. The guy playing Iggy Pop looks so out of place, but looking the actor on IMDB, could be a dead ringer for him.
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spanky the dolphin posted:From the Gauntlet to the Glove:
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That guy playing Iggy is the Foo Fighters drummer. That's an.....interesting choice.
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Cleretic posted:So this beauty turned up in the AusPol thread. They also come in trading card form.     
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Not going to lie, I wasn't sold on Pacific Rim at all until I saw those cards. Something about them just tickles my manchild nature, especially Cherno Alpha's brutalist design with the nuclear theming. Now all we need are some good Lovecraftian monsters to fight and I'm there.
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It seems a little odd that Japan has the worst giant mecha of the group
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The MSJ posted:They also come in trading card form. Christ, Australia is loving awesome at building giant robots.
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Given the title I think it's equal parts talent and matters of necessity. Though that still doesn't excuse Japan.
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I honestly hope there's some awesome back story built up behind this movie to explain how this seemingly goes against every individual Kaiju/Mecha trope. Maybe the aliens have Godzilla'd Japan already, so they haven't really had a chance to build anything to defend themselves until recently? This would explain why Russia is such a powerhouse ("We do not have problem for finding Power Source.") and Australia got to use its isolation to build up the Mecha-equivalent of 80's Hulk Hogan.
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Island Nation posted:It seems a little odd that Japan has the worst giant mecha of the group They probably have one giant mecha and thousands of smaller ones. Or every citizen has a mecha.
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mind the walrus posted:Given the title I think it's equal parts talent and matters of necessity. Though that still doesn't excuse Japan. Maybe del Toro is being true to life and making Japan bad at anything involving weapons. Seriously, most of Japan's indigenous-designed weapon systems, the stuff not taken bought or licensed from America or European arms manufacturers, tend to be really poor. There's some exceptions, like the AM6 Zero, Type 89 rifle, the Type 90 tank, and the OH-1 Ninja seems to be the Comanche reborn, but most of it is oddly overly complex, ill-suited to task give to it, and poor ergonomics.
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It is also supposed to be one of the first mechs built.
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I would be excited if it didn't just look like a modernized remake of Robot Jox.
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Help! My relative is a cannibal!   
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^^^^^I can't speak for the rest, but Parents is actually a really good movie and not at all in the class of cheese those posters suggest.Young Freud posted:
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So much cannibal cleavage...
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Parents is a loving great movie.
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I feel a little bad I legitimately laughed at "he suspects something is a foot."
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I like that they show Auntie Lee as a straight-haired blonde and then show the woman playing her who is a curly-haired redhead. No need for any consistency with a movie like this.
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ShufflerZero missed one... And, yes, that's John "Cliff Claven" Ratzenberger off to the right.
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Pacific Rim: I just noticed the Kill Count on Australia. Although maybe that just means we get attacked the most. Russia's still looks the most awesome. Also, I assume it wasn't a case of every country going off to built its own mecha by itself, rather than a collaborative effort and each country getting control of one customized one. As posters they're pretty awesome; I wonder if we'll be seeing Eureka Striker ones put up specifically down here. I have to question the Pacific Rim tagline, though. "To fight monsters, we created monsters". But usually in stuff like this, that means... monstrous. And they're not really that at all. They're huge, but they're just big robots. Unless they're alive and slightly evil, it seems like a terrible line. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Mar 31, 2013 |
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MikeJF posted:I have to question the Pacific Rim tagline, though. "To fight monsters, we created monsters". But usually in stuff like this, that means... monstrous. And they're not really that at all. They're huge, but they're just big robots. Unless they're alive and slightly evil, it seems like a terrible line. Plot twist: halfway through Pacific Rim turns out to be a live action adoptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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MikeJF posted:I have to question the Pacific Rim tagline, though. "To fight monsters, we created monsters". But usually in stuff like this, that means... monstrous. And they're not really that at all. They're huge, but they're just big robots. Unless they're alive and slightly evil, it seems like a terrible line. Maybe they use defeated monsters to make the robots? It would explain why Japan has the worst one (first one made of a monster wrecked by conventional means) and each subsequent country/collaboration has improved on the "defeat but not destroy". Kinda how Mecha Godzilla 2 or 3 was built using the bones of the original Godzilla.
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I am really excited for this even though the only Guillermo del Toro movies I have seen are Hellboy 1 (which I barely remember) and 2 (which I thought was dumb as all hell). Mierenneuker posted:Plot twist: halfway through Pacific Rim turns out to be a live action adoptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It loving better.
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MikeJF posted:I have to question the Pacific Rim tagline, though. "To fight monsters, we created monsters". But usually in stuff like this, that means... monstrous. And they're not really that at all. They're huge, but they're just big robots. Unless they're alive and slightly evil, it seems like a terrible line. I don't know much about the plot, but could that be referring to the pilots? I could see them doing something with that. Regardless, the new tag line is apparently “Go Big, or Go Extinct” according to the WonderCon preview.
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I don't know, I think 80m tall titanic warmachines designed only to destroy, loaded with nuclear reactors and guns are pretty monstrous enough as it is
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Zzulu posted:I don't know, I think 80m tall titanic warmachines designed only to destroy, loaded with nuclear reactors and guns are pretty monstrous enough as it is Noo! Giant nuclear death robots were meant to help mankind, not destroy them!
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ShufflerZero posted:Help! My relative is a cannibal! I adore posters like these but they can never live up to the promise of the awesomely creepy and oddly evocative drawings. Much like in Metal Gear Solid when a scientist working on the Metal Gear project (a walking tank that can fire intercontinental nukes) is shocked to find out that Metal Gear has been hijacked--to use nukes.
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Parents absolutely does. It completely delivers what the poster promises.
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BiggestOrangeTree posted:I am really excited for this even though the only Guillermo del Toro movies I have seen are Hellboy 1 (which I barely remember) and 2 (which I thought was dumb as all hell). Go loving watch Pan's Labyrinth and don't come back till you do.
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Go watch every Del Toro movie.
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