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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Sorry if this has been posted already, but the new poster for "Lee Daniel's The Butler" is out (given that the movie has been rebranded). Yeah, that's pretty cool looking. Good contrast, interesting use of red, white, blue, and black. Though I have no idea who Danny Strong is, nor why his name is so big.
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Sheldrake posted:Yeah, that's pretty cool looking. Good contrast, interesting use of red, white, blue, and black. Though I have no idea who Danny Strong is, nor why his name is so big.
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Aug 9, 2013 08:34
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DetoxP posted:Yeah, that's really the problem. The unfortunate implication is that there's this vibrant city and it's alive, and so are the two leads, but all these Japanese people are all tuned out and grey and dead inside, as if the point of the movie is "Man, if the Japanese weren't so focused on business (notice the abundance of suits and cell phones) they would appreciate what's around them!" The Japanese are alienated from their own city in this poster, when really in the film it's the two alienated from everything else. It's just unfortunate that the design that better represents the film (everything greyed except Johansson and Murray) is also the less aesthetically pleasing choice. I think your interpretation is a little wrong. If you look at the Japanese people in the poster, they are all doing everyday things people do on their way to work. They live in that city and all the things the audience and the main characters find bizarre or magical is completely mundane for them. In part because they see it every day, in part because they are not on vacation like Murray and Johansson. What I'm trying to say is I don't think there is a racist subplot here.
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Pycckuu posted:I think your interpretation is a little wrong. If you look at the Japanese people in the poster, they are all doing everyday things people do on their way to work. They live in that city and all the things the audience and the main characters find bizarre or magical is completely mundane for them. In part because they see it every day, in part because they are not on vacation like Murray and Johansson. What I'm trying to say is I don't think there is a racist subplot here. I'm with you here. Everything is strange and new to Murray and Johannson; it's commonplace to the locals.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:EDIT: Also, why is Mariah Carey the third credited actor on the text on the bottom but nowhere on the actual posters? Contracts.
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Low Desert Punk posted:I think the Star Trek movie posters need some love, and not the new ones either. They all look like covers to the inevitable novelizations of them. Going back to say to this: yeah, most of them suck, but you included the TMP poster there, and screw that, the TMP poster is baller as hell.  'This trip is going to blow your loving mind'
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Red_Museum posted:Someone had the 40 Year-Old Virgin template bookmarked Adam Scott? Richard Jenkins? Adult Children? Divorce? Is this some kind of sequel to Step Brothers?
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Aug 9, 2013 14:04
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Perfectly fine with me as Step Brothers is amazing.
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Vintersorg posted:Perfectly fine with me as Step Brothers is amazing. Also Amy Poehler, so I imagine it's just going to be a filmed version of Parks and Rec where they recast Ben's divorced parents. Or it and Step Brothers are in the same universe.
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_aaron posted:I'm with you here. Everything is strange and new to Murray and Johannson; it's commonplace to the locals. Having spent a lot of time in Tokyo, much like New York, anyone gawking at the spectacle is an obvious rube that just got there. Anyone who's been there awhile is like, "Giant animatronic Gundam in Odaiba? That's nice."
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Aug 10, 2013 04:51
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Copy and faced.
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Mother of god. I used to work at a physical therapy clinic (not doing physical therapy, but yeah) and my boss treated Wanda Sykes and I think Virginia Madsen when they were shooting here in New Orleans a while back, but I had put that out of my mind and forgot this movie was even coming out  e: Wait, July 12th? Did it already come out but not get a theatrical release? This seems like the type of lovely movie that would've made a decent amount at the box office 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Mother of god. I used to work at a physical therapy clinic (not doing physical therapy, but yeah) and my boss treated Wanda Sykes and I think Virginia Madsen when they were shooting here in New Orleans a while back, but I had put that out of my mind and forgot this movie was even coming out You son of a bitch. You could have warned us.
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Doing... THAT to Virginia Madsen's face has got to be some kind of crime against humanity.
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Wow, Camryn Manheim, there's a name I haven't seen in a million years.
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Have any of them done anything in the last 10 years or so? I remember Virginia Madsen had a brief comeback when Sideways was released, Brook Shields was in Midnight Meat Train which no one saw anyway and I can't think of anything Daryl Hannah's been in since Kill Bill I think Midnight Meat Train is the most recent out of all of that, and I'm not sure if that even counts. I don't think I've seen anything with Wanda Sykes in it either.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Doing... THAT to Virginia Madsen's face has got to be some kind of crime against humanity. I thought someone had stapled a Nicole Kidman mask onto someone's face. That's awful.
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Aug 10, 2013 05:40
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I saw Midnight Meat Train, motherfucker.
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FWIW, I rented Midnight Meat Train a while back and watched it with my girlfriend. I fell asleep a little ways into it and woke up just as it was ending and she stayed awake throughout the whole thing, which is the exact opposite of what usually happens when we watch movies together. I've fallen asleep during very few movies in my years. She said I missed nothing 
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Cage posted:Copy and faced. The one good thing about this poster is that they're all wearing completely different logos for their team. Everything else is phenomenally lovely, but that tells me everything I need to know about this movie's plot.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:e: Wait, July 12th? Did it already come out but not get a theatrical release? This seems like the type of lovely movie that would've made a decent amount at the box office What about that cast, poster, title or premise screams "hit" to you? Now if you made the same movie with Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Garner, Rosie O'Donnell, Queen Latifah and Julia Roberts, then you'd have a hit.
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I saw Midnight Meat Train and its pretty much exactly what you'd expect when you rent a movie called Midnight Meat Train, but perhaps a little bit more wooden than just aggressively bad acting. I also think it might be based on a Stephen King story?
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Aug 10, 2013 11:30
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Clive Barker, if I recall correctly.
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mind the walrus posted:Clive Barker, if I recall correctly. This is it. I was sad that it wasn't all that great too, I'm a bigger Clive Barker fan than most  (most of that is probably "first horror story" nostalgia though).
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:FWIW, I rented Midnight Meat Train a while back and watched it with my girlfriend. I fell asleep a little ways into it and woke up just as it was ending and she stayed awake throughout the whole thing, which is the exact opposite of what usually happens when we watch movies together. I've fallen asleep during very few movies in my years. She said I missed nothing If it says "directed by Ryuhei Kitamura" on the box it's generally a sign that you've missed nothing. Except Versus, of course, which is a movie made by someone who thinks Highlander, Evil Dead and Escape From New York are the best movies ever made and could only be improved upon if they were all the same movie.
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Jedit posted:If it says "directed by Ryuhei Kitamura" on the box it's generally a sign that you've missed nothing. Except Versus, of course, which is a movie made by someone who thinks Highlander, Evil Dead and Escape From New York are the best movies ever made and could only be improved upon if they were all the same movie. And he was RIGHT. A bit.
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Lady Naga posted:This is it. I was sad that it wasn't all that great too, I'm a bigger Clive Barker fan than most The short story was actually rather good, with some nice tension and a Lovecraftian ending. Unfortunately the movie version is lifeless and by the numbers. Like the director/scriptwriter just glanced over a synopsis of the story or just didn't bother to give it any nuance.
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LeJackal posted:The short story was actually rather good, with some nice tension and a Lovecraftian ending. Unfortunately the movie version is lifeless and by the numbers. Like the director/scriptwriter just glanced over a synopsis of the story or just didn't bother to give it any nuance. I thought Vinnie was great in it but that's about as far as the compliments go.
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The only interesting thing about Midnight Meat Train is the title and they only kept that because they were contractually obligated to.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:FWIW, I rented Midnight Meat Train a while back and watched it with my girlfriend. I fell asleep a little ways into it and woke up just as it was ending and she stayed awake throughout the whole thing, which is the exact opposite of what usually happens when we watch movies together. I've fallen asleep during very few movies in my years. She said I missed nothing My wife and I share the same roles as far as sleeping during movies and the only one where it was completely reversed was Blade Trinity. Good lord.
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Was the For Your Eyes Only poster the origin for this particular cliche? When did it move from James Bond to American Pie Presents: National Lampoon's College Jokes?
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No because the woman in that poster was actually in the movie. 
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Jedit posted:If it says "directed by Ryuhei Kitamura" on the box it's generally a sign that you've missed nothing. Except Versus, of course, which is a movie made by someone who thinks Highlander, Evil Dead and Escape From New York are the best movies ever made and could only be improved upon if they were all the same movie. If they were all the same movie, and filmed chronologically. He decided who to kill off by how well they had performed up to that point in filming. Versus is awesome.
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LeJackal posted:The short story was actually rather good, with some nice tension and a Lovecraftian ending. Unfortunately the movie version is lifeless and by the numbers. Like the director/scriptwriter just glanced over a synopsis of the story or just didn't bother to give it any nuance. Clive Barker stories don't seem to translate to the screen very well, since it's hard to create the same sense of dread when the audience doesn't have to try to imagine what's happening. The distance it puts between the audience and the characters neuters the immediacy of the threat posed by the antagonist and makes for a less engaging experience. My own private theory is that this is the reason why there are so few horror movies these days that rely on atmosphere and the majority of them instead hang their hat on CG and sound effects/scoring to provoke a response. Not that I'm criticizing them for doing so, as I said, the other way of doing is quite difficult, so it's just that much more impressive when some pulls it off.
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I think I've figured out the thing that bugs me about even arguably well composed Mondo posters like that Elysium one. It's the color. There's no reason for that to be in only red and blue gradients, and it would look way better if it wasn't using them.
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