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Jul 4, 2013 14:03
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Flaskraven posted:I feel like I've seen that trailer forever. Perhaps because it's so boring. I really hate it, even though Owen Wilson's cool. I'd probably shrink the checkered border down to only three rows. Feels like it overwhelms the composition. Still pretty solid though.
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Jul 4, 2013 14:28
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Flaskraven posted:I feel like I've seen that trailer forever. Perhaps because it's so boring. I really hate it, even though Owen Wilson's cool. That looks like it should be the design for the pan & scan VHS box cover.
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Jul 4, 2013 15:06
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Mister Chief posted:Why isn't Samurai in Japanese? Writing things in English excites the hell out of Japanese people, mostly because they adore American culture. People are gonna read the poster and think "oh poo poo that English text says SAMURAI! I have to see this". Basically why people get tattoos in foreign languages: It's foreign and exciting!
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Jul 4, 2013 15:46
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ruddiger posted:That looks like it should be the design for the pan & scan VHS box cover. Only if the soundtrack was completely replaced with Ska music.
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Jul 4, 2013 15:46
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Kikka posted:Writing things in English excites the hell out of Japanese people, mostly because they adore American culture. People are gonna read the poster and think "oh poo poo that English text says SAMURAI! I have to see this". Are you sure you don't mean they adore English culture? I've heard of Anglophilia, but I've never heard of anyone outside the US who liked American culture (the joke being that we have none  ).Wait... what day is it?! OH SHI-    Well time to watch Will Smith extend a friendly greeting to some extraterrestrials  .
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Jul 4, 2013 19:33
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FutonForensic posted:Are you sure you don't mean they adore English culture? I've heard of Anglophilia, but I've never heard of anyone outside the US who liked American culture (the joke being that we have none Nope, it's pretty commonly known that Japan is pretty much super into anything and everything American. It's why you still see people over there dressing like super exaggerated versions of 1950's greasers and the like.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:30
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FutonForensic posted:Are you sure you don't mean they adore English culture? I've heard of Anglophilia, but I've never heard of anyone outside the US who liked American culture (the joke being that we have none American cultural hegemony around the world has been one of the most powerful influencing forces in the 20th century.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:33
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FutonForensic posted:Are you sure you don't mean they adore English culture? I've heard of Anglophilia, but I've never heard of anyone outside the US who liked American culture (the joke being that we have none Yes it is very hard to find anyone outside America who watches American movies and tv shows.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:34
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marktheando posted:Yes it is very hard to find anyone outside America who watches American movies and tv shows. they also hate our music and bluejeans
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Jul 4, 2013 20:39
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FutonForensic posted:
The original Red Dawn is so good. The remake has them pretty much win. gently caress that remake so hard.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:42
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This number of words which need to be cut from this mouthful of a tagline is at least six.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:47
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qntm posted:This number of words which need to be cut from this mouthful of a tagline is at least six.
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Jul 4, 2013 20:57
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It's clunky as gently caress, anything would be better.
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Jul 4, 2013 21:30
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Flaskraven posted:Anyway, I went looking in my old photoshop folder and found a poster I made for Taxi Driver. I'm actually pretty pleased with it. There are plenty of things I would change if I still had the .psd, like font and adding actor names. But yeah, have a fan poster of a great movie I guess. I would maybe put an undermask on the title or do something to up the contrast. Currently, it blends too much into the yellow. And like Sockser said, reduce the border some. Otherwise, it looks like a decent poster for an one-time engagement or special showing.
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Jul 4, 2013 21:43
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Wendell posted:It's clunky as gently caress, anything would be better. I disagree, it makes your eyes read the text and then realize how huge the UFO is when your eyes scroll down. It probably suffers from extreme perspective issues though.
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Jul 4, 2013 21:47
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:American cultural hegemony around the world has been one of the most powerful influencing forces in the 20th century. DR1: USA: 66 % Europe: 21 % Denmark: 12 % DR2: USA: 65 % Europe: 23 % Denmark: 4 % TV 2: USA: 75 % Europe: 16 % Denmark: 4 % How well this matches other places I don't know, but it gives a sense of American cultural hegemony.
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Jul 4, 2013 21:50
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Re: ID4 poster... Not only that, but as your eyes go downward, and see the opening over the city, you immediately grasp that these aliens aren't friendly. Had you seen nothing promoting it, you immediately got the gist of the film. The poster is, interestingly enough, quite minimalistic in design. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jul 4, 2013 |
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Jul 4, 2013 21:51
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Flaskraven posted:I feel like I've seen that trailer forever. Perhaps because it's so boring. I really hate it, even though Owen Wilson's cool. I keep thinking I am looking at an image that has a transparency layer under an image that is still being edited, with a boarder to follow soon.
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Jul 4, 2013 21:55
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Vegetable posted:It looks okay to me. What would you cut it to? "We are not alone"? How about get rid of it entirely? A big rear end spaceship is looming over New York, what else do you need?
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Jul 4, 2013 22:56
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Peanut President posted:How about get rid of it entirely? A big rear end spaceship is looming over New York, what else do you need? I dunno, the tag line plays nicely as a rebuke to the 90s UFO conspiracy trend. "Are we alone in the universe? No. Here's a big loving flying saucer."
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Jul 4, 2013 23:16
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I dunno, the tag line plays nicely as a rebuke to the 90s UFO conspiracy trend. It also plays up the irony that the aliens aren't here for peace. The statement the tagline is based off of tends to be one of hopeful and optimistic implications.
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Jul 4, 2013 23:38
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:The original Red Dawn is so good. The remake has them pretty much win. gently caress that remake so hard. Remake? What remake?
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Jul 4, 2013 23:46
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Byzantine posted:Remake? What remake? 
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Jul 5, 2013 00:11
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Byzantine posted:Remake? What remake? Oh my, you don't know how much of a treat you missed. Just Google red dawn 2012.
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Jul 5, 2013 00:20
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I think he's just pulling the old, "boy, I wish they had made a sequel to The Matrix!"
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Jul 5, 2013 01:03
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Didn't this movie only actually get released because Chris Hemsworth became something of a big name?
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Jul 5, 2013 04:50
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DetoxP posted:I think he's just pulling the old, "boy, I wish they had made a sequel to The Matrix!" That would be nice, but I doubt it would hold up against the original.
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Jul 5, 2013 04:55
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Jerusalem posted:Didn't this movie only actually get released because Chris Hemsworth became something of a big name? No, it only got released because they "found" a way to not offend potential Chinese audiences.
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Jul 5, 2013 04:59
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Although it was filmed before he and Hutcherson got big. It sat around a couple of years because of the whole MGM thing.
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Jul 5, 2013 05:01
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Jerusalem posted:Didn't this movie only actually get released because Chris Hemsworth became something of a big name? Well MGM was going through financial troubles but the bigger issue was the fact they wanted Chinese money and the movie's entire story was built around China invading due to defaulting on a loan. So they spent money changing the plot and taking out China and it made sure the movie made even less sense. While it wouldn't have saved the film, being a message about how homeland security is more important than overseas war would have at least given the movie a message. They still try to deliver that message but it really fails with the re-writes. The funny thing is that Chinese audiences were already offended so like gently caress was anyone gonna see the movie when they knew what it was really supposed to be about.
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Jul 5, 2013 05:04
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I dunno, the tag line plays nicely as a rebuke to the 90s UFO conspiracy trend. 
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Jul 5, 2013 08:46
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I've never really been convinced to go see a movie just by a poster. Then I saw this in the subway... Oh god.
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Jul 5, 2013 12:07
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If a gorilla can play the drums, they can play baseball.
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Jul 5, 2013 13:06
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I suppose in movie world Chimpanzee pitch for minor league...
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Jul 5, 2013 13:12
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WebDog posted:I suppose in movie world Chimpanzee pitch for minor league... You'd think a levitating chimp could be put to better use than playing baseball.
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Jul 5, 2013 16:51
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Robot name that rules: Maximillian Related, but more on topic... I think this is the only poster that doesn't have the swirly-type thing going on that all the other versions have.  
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Jul 5, 2013 18:10
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How about some Predator posters? Pretty cool. Shows Arnold in a jungle with a huge gun, so you know it's probably a cool action movie. But the ghost-ish thing on the right lets you know something's amiss...  Oh no, even with his big gun Arnold is the hunted one! On to the sequel...  Woah, the Predator's back? And he's dominated the city, he's claiming victory and the colors in the background are the same colors used for his thermal-vision, so he's right at home. Who can stop him? No Arnold mentioned on the poster...  Still no human name featured prominently, though you can read the fine print to see who's in it. Predator towers over the camera to look more imposing. Decent tagline, except the "this time..." part, but it does let you know the fight has come out of the deep jungle and is a lot closer to us, raising the stakes.  Tagline reworked a little, more background shown to show he's in a city, rather than telling us like in the last poster. The clock featured must mean he's on a timeline (or we're on a deadline). Pretty good posters so far, even if P2 didn't live up to 1.  Re-colored version of an earlier poster, looks pretty cool. What's this for, just a combo-dvd of the first 2 movies or something? Now a decade later...  Not bad. The alien is above the Predator, but he has his claws up to retaliate. The poster is showing the most recognizable elements of each monster, hence the 2 not facing each other (the dreads look sweet). I never saw the movie though.  This is a sweet poster. Each monster fighting for control of the Earth, nice tagline callback to Alien.  Uh oh, we're being hunted again like in that second original Predator poster. The colors were changed on the guns and stuff though to stand out more to our eyes, rather than being pure thermal vision (inverted) like the Predator sees. Decent poster.  Shows our main character getting dirty like Arnold, but there are multiple targets on him, uh oh! Dumb tagline though. So a pretty good series, poster-wise at least.
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Jul 5, 2013 18:40
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effectual posted:
I really loved the trailer for this because one of the clips they show is of Adrien Brody standing there and about 4 or 5 of the red dot clusters appear all over his torso simultaneously.
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Jul 5, 2013 18:51
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effectual posted:
Looks like it is trying to infer a scene from Alien 3 as well: 
Terminal Entropy fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 5, 2013 |
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Jul 5, 2013 19:13
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