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Desperado Bones posted:I've been staying away from remakes since for a while,and because I loved Let the Right one In I've been staying away from that remake. Is it really good? Really,really good? I won't come back here to scream at you guys? Yeah, it's great. On a good day I like it way more than the original. On a bad day I like it the exact same.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:You'd think with all the apocalyptic Earth movies being released around the same time, the Star Trek posters would try to differentiate themselves by looking like... I don't know, Star Trek?
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Desperado Bones posted:I've been staying away from remakes since for a while,and because I loved Let the Right one In I've been staying away from that remake. Is it really good? Really,really good? I won't come back here to scream at you guys? Your results may vary, but I like it more than the original and I quite liked the original. It really compliments the original too because it shows how you can make a movie that's similar but how some slight changes in tone make it a completely different movie. There's also a scene in the remake that is probably the best thing in either movie.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I really don't get the marketing campaign for this movie. The previous one made a ton of cash and showed a lot more things on the posters that screamed 'Star Trek'. This time around I've seen a grand total of one poster with even one shot of the Enterprise. It's all very surprising, but it does make me wonder if someone believes this movie is somehow a tough sell? I don't get it. Star Trek fans will go see this regardless of the teaser poster. By minimizing the name and classic imagery, they're hoping to rope in some people that might not otherwise see it. Besides, not every Star Trek poster needs to be a beauty shot of the ship.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I really don't get the marketing campaign for this movie. The previous one made a ton of cash and showed a lot more things on the posters that screamed 'Star Trek'. This time around I've seen a grand total of one poster with even one shot of the Enterprise. It's all very surprising, but it does make me wonder if someone believes this movie is somehow a tough sell? I don't get it. The first movie did well in the English speaking market but poorly everywhere else in the world, apparently because scifi doesn't sell well if it is advertised as such up front. So for Into Darkness they are primarily focusing on the action selling point.
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I did not know that Adam Levine was in this movie... I'm sure the ladies will appreciate it.
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Desperado Bones posted:I've been staying away from remakes since for a while,and because I loved Let the Right one In I've been staying away from that remake. Is it really good? Really,really good? I won't come back here to scream at you guys? There's stuff they touch on in that movie that the original leaves out of the book. I'd say that the two movies and the book are all worth consuming as they all have their merits.
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ShufflerZero posted:Volume 7: What I asked for VS. what Mum brought back from the video rental place Really enjoying these installments, thanks! Here's one from the 'movies I watched last night' files.  I really can't tell if it's a lightly-filtered photo of the actors, or just a great illustrator. Something about the lighting and the reflectiveness of their skin is throwing me off.
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Darthemed posted:Really enjoying these installments, thanks! I love the tagline in that poster - it firmly establishes this weird binary between "Valley" and "Not Valley." It doesn't really matter where Nic Cage's character is from...it's just *gasp* NOT from the Valley.
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What ISN'T wrong with that?
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Darthemed posted:Here's one from the 'movies I watched last night' files. In terms of historical periodization my first break is always on a personal level of either "That was before my time, it's historical" or "I remember living through this." The early 80s is in this weird grey zone that whenever I see posters or ads from that time, my gut reaction is along the lines of "I don't understand this style at all. What is going on? Were people actually like this? Are they aliens?"
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Darthemed posted:Really enjoying these installments, thanks! Looks like a really great illustrator. And I don't think I can get enough of the  face in that.FlamingLiberal posted:What ISN'T wrong with that? Looks like only the butterfly, as that is the only thing in proper scale and proportion to anything else on the poster. Or the hospital is for Chris Kattan sized people, then that only makes the ambulance marginally wrong in scale. Terminal Entropy fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Desperado Bones posted:I've been staying away from remakes since for a while,and because I loved Let the Right one In I've been staying away from that remake. Is it really good? Really,really good? I won't come back here to scream at you guys? It was an alright remake, I guess, but I didn't find it to be anywhere near "modern classic" status like I feel the original achieved. Put it this way: I never think about Let Me In unless someone posts about it on the forums every once in a while, and even then I'm not thinking it was a great movie. With Let The Right One In, certain scenes will run through my mind from time to time completely unprovoked and I'll think "drat, what an incredible film."
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schwenz posted:This is kind of cool What a fun poster. I hope that sees release by Festival season this year.
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boom boom boom posted:I had the exact opposite impression of the original from y'all. I assumed that the kid was gonna end up like the dude at the beginning, that the girl had been doing the same thing for centuries; getting a little boy to fall in love with her and then using him for a few decade before moving on. John Ajvide Lindqvist's sequel story, Let The Old Dreams Die, answers this question once and for all. I'm not going to tell you what the answer is, even in spoilers - you really need to read it.
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twoot posted:The first movie did well in the English speaking market but poorly everywhere else in the world, apparently because scifi doesn't sell well if it is advertised as such up front. So for Into Darkness they are primarily focusing on the action selling point. feedmyleg posted:Space movies don't sell well over seas, gotta hide that Star Trek takes place in space. Huh, that's surprising information.
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There's also a certain novelty to showing a different side of what Star Trek can be. Like it or not, the title has a stigma. You can mitigate it by showing people stuff they'll find exciting and THEN letting them know it's Star Trek.
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Supercar Gautier posted:There's also a certain novelty to showing a different side of what Star Trek can be. Like it or not, the title has a stigma. You can mitigate it by showing people stuff they'll find exciting and THEN letting them know it's Star Trek. It's not Star Trek though. Star Trek is slow, boring plot driven scifi stuff and that's what fans like about it. You can make someone watch Die Hard and then tell them it's Shakespeare but it doesn't make it so. Anyway, don't want to derail. I don't know why I haven't posted this before because its been my favourite bad poster for years:  Look at it, it's marvellous.
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That somehow manages to be worse than the Chris Kattan movie poster.
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Prometheus II So Aliens then. e: Alien, that is. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Ez posted:It's not Star Trek though. Star Trek is slow, boring plot driven scifi stuff and that's what fans like about it. You can make someone watch Die Hard and then tell them it's Shakespeare but it doesn't make it so. That's pretty impressive. I like the placement of the keg as a silver tray for the tagline. e: Just noticed the frat letters.
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Ez posted:Anyway, don't want to derail. I don't know why I haven't posted this before because its been my favourite bad poster for years: Oddly enough, the thing that irritates me the most about this poster is the text on the banner in the background clearly isn't centered.
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couldcareless posted:Oddly enough, the thing that irritates me the most about this poster is the text on the banner in the background clearly isn't centered. It could just be hanging crooked and end right after it disappears behind the sombrero.
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Ez posted:It's not Star Trek though. Star Trek is slow, boring plot driven scifi stuff and that's what fans like about it. Slow and boring? Hmm.
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Ez posted:Anyway, don't want to derail. I don't know why I haven't posted this before because its been my favourite bad poster for years: I don't really understand this tagline.
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Here's another Into Darkness poster that is almost as visually interesting (although not as cool overall IMO) as the Spock one: I wish it was crisper- the blur kind of ruins it.
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Chieves posted:Here's another Into Darkness poster that is almost as visually interesting (although not as cool overall IMO) as the Spock one: Star Trek: Fantastic Voyage
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I've never met anyone who has seen The Ritz. It seemed a strange choice by my parents for a family movie outing but when you're nine a screwball comedy is a screwball comedy. Rita Moreno certainly showed a different side from what I was familiar with from The Electric Company.   EDIT: Just found an alternate poster for it I've never seen. In the movie Jack Weston is making that exact face, but Rita's hand is somewhat farther South... 
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 This may have been in the thread before, but just in case. Also which countries dislike space films? which are the bad countries?
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So here's a poster for the Fritz the Cat movie. I think the VHS release used this for its cover art, based on video store memories. And here's the one they used for the DVD, Netflix, and (probably) the Blu-Ray (if it exists).  Kind of an interesting example of ad standards changing over time. I'm guessing this was an intermediate version, since they've moved the hands, but kept the paraphernalia.  Stupid Dirty Duck bonus: 
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Interesting that they moved his hand out of her shirt but also made him staring at her tits.
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Chieves posted:Here's another Into Darkness poster that is almost as visually interesting (although not as cool overall IMO) as the Spock one: See this gets me intrigued, along with the bit in the trailer that leads me to believe a section of this was either shot or edited to look like false-colour infrared, which is aces. I can't find it right now but there was a video up that some guy had posted of stuff shot on infrared 16mm film and it looked amazing.
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Chieves posted:Here's another Into Darkness poster that is almost as visually interesting (although not as cool overall IMO) as the Spock one: I can't wait to see Kirk escape from the cranberry swamps of Planet Ocean Spray(tm)!
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"Hey, there was this Canadian movie I remembered seeing that was set in world war 2 - I wonder if I can find the poster for that?" "Ok, so it's only available really small, with really bad quality. Shall I keep looking?"  "Well...that's...not very good." 
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Is that a fan poster or something? At some point wouldn't slapping any random frame grab from the film on the cover be a better selling point? Or do they really need to see Loren Dean on the cover to be all "Hell yeah, time to watch The War Bride"?
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tvb posted:I can't speak for "Let Me In," but I honestly can't believe it when people say this about TGWTDT. Fincher's version was aggressively stylish (in his typical Fincher-y way), whereas I thought the original was really bland and flat by comparison. I can't fathom that people think of Fincher's version as an unnecessary remake. I never said it was unnecessary, nor that it was necessarily "shot for shot" or whatever, just that it tread a lot of the same ground and the... pacing was very similar, even if the cinematography of the selected scenes was a lot different. To tie this back in to movie posters, here is the poster for the Millennium Trilogy GWTDT:  Not terrible, but kind of generic. It doesn't commit any terrible design sins, and it incorporates the essential elements (Lisbeth, the missing daughter, the opulent estate). And here's a nice Greek poster:  The design is even simpler, but I like the stark aesthetic more than the generic "international poster". It feels more dirty, Lisbeth looks less confrontational and more inward. Here's the theatrical poster for the Fincher version:  It's not bad, but the "Giant head with figure inside" is getting to be way overdone. It's not as terrible as most of those tend to be, but again, it's looks rather generic. They should've just went ahead and aped the "...Kicked the Hornet's Nest" poster like they started to do, but left Daniel Craig out instead. And finally, here's that notorious   poster that was making the rounds around the time of the remake's release:http://i.imgur.com/eUY9lvs.jpg While I'm not appalled or offended by the nudity, this just seemed really gratuitous even if it fits Lisbeth's character. It just looks like some kind of ad you'd see in GQ or some other "Men's Magazine", rather than a poster.
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