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Pick Hard posted:The original Volcano posters didn't give the viewer a clue as to what Tommy Lee Jones would be doing in the film. Luckily bluray cover artists have come along to give the viewer a much more tantalizing picture of what they're in for. That's more of a "Did I lock my car doors?" look than "OH poo poo A VOLCANO IS GOING OFF ALL AROUND ME" look.
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ShufflerZero posted:Breaking Away (German poster)
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Pick Hard posted:The original Volcano posters didn't give the viewer a clue as to what Tommy Lee Jones would be doing in the film. Luckily bluray cover artists have come along to give the viewer a much more tantalizing picture of what they're in for. This one reminds me a lot of that Nic Cage 'Taken' rip off, 'Stolen':  Cage is coping with the fireball a lot better than Tommy Lee Jones from the looks of things. Poor fella. e: Stolcano?
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Tommy Lee Jones in ELDERLY MAN HOBBLES AWAY FROM CAR FIRE. This is some seriously crummy work.
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Codependent Poster posted:That's more of a "Did I lock my car doors?" look than "OH poo poo A VOLCANO IS GOING OFF ALL AROUND ME" look. Actually, the look is more "Where's the bathroom? I'm about to crap my pants" than anything else.
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Young Freud posted:Actually, the look is more "Where's the bathroom? I'm about to crap my pants" than anything else. Tommy Lee Jones in INCONTINENT OLD MAN NEEDS RESTROOM
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Pick Hard posted:The original Volcano posters didn't give the viewer a clue as to what Tommy Lee Jones would be doing in the film. Luckily bluray cover artists have come along to give the viewer a much more tantalizing picture of what they're in for. Grandpa we told you to keep an eye on that turkey fryer!
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I, Butthole posted:Where are you based? Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble ship outside the US; express shipping for a 5lb box to Australia (as in I ordered on Thursday night, and will have it on Tuesday) cost $50. If I had wanted to wait another ten days it would only have cost $25 but I needed one as a present, and it was even better because Barnes and Noble currently have 50% off Criterions...that sale usually rolls around again in November. Denmark. I forgot all about B&N. I'll keep an eye out, thanks.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Tommy Lee Jones in "Volcano" is a metaphor.
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Whoa, I think the Mondo people are watching this thread! 
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Ha, so that's what inspired Fossil to include "2 & 1/2 Years In The Making" in the music video for their song "Moon". For more directly-related content, here's a poster I always kind of liked, despite the disappointing nature of the movie itself.  I guess they didn't bother to check the readability of their tagline before sending out copies.
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I really want a Tommy Lee Jones bobblehead now.
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I read that as "a Tommy Lee Jones bobsled" and now I really want one of those, preferably with a bobblehead on the front of it.
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Darthemed posted:Ha, so that's what inspired Fossil to include "2 & 1/2 Years In The Making" in the music video for their song "Moon". I loving love this movie.
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 Yeeeeeees once more! Can you tell that I loved this movie?
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Waffleman_ posted:
If you wanted one of these you should have posted here. They had a giant stack at my midnight IMAX showing and me and my friends all just took several of them. I would have sent you one for S&H if it had been before they were all claimed by others.
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Has this been posted before? Because  
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gmq posted:Has this been posted before? Because It has. The trailer looked like it was trying to be Wet Hot American Summer so much I just watched that instead.
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It wasn't that bad a movie. It wasn't great either, but for $5, I didn't feel ripped off. Had some laughs here and there. I was glad I saw it instead of some dumb poo poo like Red 2 or Grown Ups 2.
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Does Andy Samberg play Ras Trent in it?
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I felt that it was American Pie with a female lead and heavy 90s nostalgia. I quite enjoyed it, though as much as I love Aubrey Plaza, this was not the role for her. I would definitely watch it again.
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I know the Thor poster was already posted up but I saw this was amused.
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That's clearly leading up to the Avengers 2 poster being a huge group hug.
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Throb Robinson posted:I know the Thor poster was already posted up but I saw this was amused. I think this was probably done on purpose, and they're probably attempting to have a through line in their advertising for Phase 2 stuff.
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TheJoker138 posted:I think this was probably done on purpose, and they're probably attempting to have a through line in their advertising for Phase 2 stuff. Yeah, the font for the actors is the same. So they're trying to keep everything similar marketing-wise.
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So Cap2 will be Scarlett Johanssen and Chris Evans in that pose?
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Aatrek posted:So Cap2 will be Scarlett Johanssen and Chris Evans in that pose? Cap and Winter Soldier. They will espouse very liberal values, in that film.
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Aatrek posted:So Cap2 will be Scarlett Johanssen and Chris Evans in that pose? I would wager that Scarlett Johansson will be hanging out in the same area of the poster as Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce and Anthony Hopkins. In other news, when DVD covers end up racist and sexist. The Australian musical comedy, loosely based on actual people, The Sapphires is about an indigenous singing group and their manager in the late 60's and 70's, where they face bigotry at home and the dangers inherent in a warzone when they head to Vietnam to entertain the American troops. On the left is the US cover for the DVD that is due to be released this week. On the right is the one from Australia and New Zealand.  The four women that the film is loosely based on are appalled at the American cover, and the chairman of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service where two of them work had this to say on their behalf. quote:As I'm sure you can appreciate, the treatment of people of colour in Australia mirrored much of the trauma to which people in the United States were subjected," their letter reads. The Chief Executive of the same organisation has also added quote:What has upset us is that the DVD cover appears to miss that point [of the film] entirely. It's disrespectful to the very talented young Aboriginal actors in the film, and it's disrespectful to us as a group. Meanwhile, Chris O'Dowd who finds himself featured front and centre, and also appears to be the sole focus of the film's narrative, has repeatedly criticised it, calling it "ridiculous, misleading, ill-judged, insensitive and everything the film wasn't" as well as labelling it "vile."
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This could very well be racist and sexist (and likely is) but it could also be that Chris O'Dowd is the biggest name in the movie, having been in Bridesmaids, and they're trying to sell the movie on his (not all that big) name. Like after Angelina Jolie won her Academy Award and this became the new cover to the Hackers VHS:  Like I said, it's likely racism and sexism like you're pointing out. Or it could just be a misguided attempt to sell the only somewhat recognizable face given how big Bridesmaids was and they're just stupid for not considering the implications. Just a thought.
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thrawn527 posted:This could very well be racist and sexist (and likely is) but it could also be that Chris O'Dowd is the biggest name in the movie, having been in Bridesmaids, and they're trying to sell the movie on his (not all that big) name. Like after Angelina Jolie won her Academy Award and this became the new cover to the Hackers VHS: Even people who loved Bridesmaids forget what that Irish guys name is.
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Even people who loved Bridesmaids forget what that Irish guys name is. Might not forget his face though. I had no idea what movie that was, but I recognized his face right away (though I guess that was more from The I.T. Crowd). It's a way of catching people's eye, seeing a face they recognize front and center. It's still stupid.
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I'm pretty sure it's not maliciously racist/sexist. As in the distributors hate women and minorities. It's probably more, hey lets prominently feature the only guy American audiences would know. This has been done with re-releases of almost all DVD's where there is someone who would be popular later in their career who had a part in this earlier movie. Not that that is the correct thing to do. But I'm not super offended at it. The Actors in the show, and the original creators I can completely understand them getting angry, and they are completely justified in doing so. But calls of racism or sexism are a bit much.
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thrawn527 posted:Might not forget his face though. I had no idea what movie that was, but I recognized his face right away (though I guess that was more from The I.T. Crowd). It's a way of catching people's eye, seeing a face they recognize front and center. But see the other poster does that fine. He's the only guy and he's wearing red while they wear blue. It's impossible not to notice him. If I knew nothing about the Sapphires based on the American cover, I'd assume these are chicks that Chris O'Dowd banged and had a rockin' time doing it. "A blast of joy!"
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Dexo posted:But calls of racism or sexism are a bit much. I'm sorry, maybe I'm dense, but I don't see how pushing four women, who are minorities into the background, slapping a blue filter over their faces which obscures their skin colour and blends them into the background, while putting a white male front and centre, and implying the movie is entirely about him, isn't racist and sexist.
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Vagabundo posted:I'm sorry, maybe I'm dense, but I don't see how pushing four women, who are minorities into the background, slapping a blue filter over their faces which obscures their skin colour and blends them into the background, while putting a white male front and centre, and implying the movie is entirely about him, isn't racist and sexist. They also photoshopped the colour of his jacket to blue. It should be understood that someone was likely given notes on how to change the poster to what the distributor wanted.
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gmq posted:Has this been posted before? Because What bugs me is her list on the poster implies the movie is based on that girl's hookup list that made the rounds on the Internet a few years ago. Which is not only a dumb thing to base a movie on but also means Aubrey Plaza has starred in two separate movies about wacky images on the Internet.
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Vagabundo posted:I'm sorry, maybe I'm dense, but I don't see how pushing four women, who are minorities into the background, slapping a blue filter over their faces which obscures their skin colour and blends them into the background, while putting a white male front and centre, and implying the movie is entirely about him, isn't racist and sexist. Racism/Sexism implies a malicious intent because of that person's race/sex. I've seen similar things done to an all white cast when there is a more well known actor being showcased, regardless of their race/sex.
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I think some posters are missing the point that this would be less of an issue if the film were about a group of teenage hackers or a wacky wedding and not the racism and bigotry faced by the 4 lead characters who were defocused into a background blur so that a Caucasian actor could take prominence.
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Dexo posted:Racism/Sexism implies a malicious intent because of that person's race/sex. I understand your point because I've argued here before that sometimes Hollywood is just lazy. However, we're talking about Chris O'Dowd here. Chris O'Dowd is nobody. Like seriously. And this is also a movie where there isn't a big enough actor to center on the cover. We've mentioned Bridesmaids because O'Dowd was in it. Bridesmaids didn't even have Kristen Wiig's name on most of the posters. It had no names because nobody was really a big enough star to do so. And that's the movie we're trying to argue is why it's perfectly fine to center Chris O'Dowd on. No wonder he's also denounced the poster. Hell I finally found a DVD cover that lists the actors in Bridesmaids... and it only lists the women. No O'Dowd. Hell not even a mention for Jon Hamm on the cover. I don't see this being Hollywood lazy or trying to showcase the main actor. Someone specifically requested the women in the background.
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Dexo posted:Racism/Sexism implies a malicious intent because of that person's race/sex. No it doesn't, people can do racist things and be completely oblivious to how offensive they're being. Have you not met many old people?
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