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XXII: "Baby, I was born to... most likely be dead by now" A sample of old "Born To *" movies. Thumbnailed because some of these images are greater than 1000 pixels high. Born to Battle  Born to be Loved  Born to the Saddle  Born to Gamble  Born to Kill  Born to Fight  Born to Speed  Born to the West  Born to be Bad (1934)  Born to be Bad (1950)  Born to Dance  and a bonus "I don't know what's going on here but this deserves to be seen" 
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Maxwell Lord posted:Doing... THAT to Virginia Madsen's face has got to be some kind of crime against humanity. Purify your mind. 
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Aug 11, 2013 02:09
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TheJoker138 posted: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. There's also the variant 
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Aug 11, 2013 03:22
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opengl128 posted:There's also the variant Still red and blue for no goddamn reason. gently caress mondo.
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Aug 11, 2013 03:31
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effectual posted:Still red and blue for no goddamn reason. gently caress mondo. Thank god studio movie posters never use that color scheme.
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Aug 11, 2013 03:44
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The great thing about that poster is that they should have watched the movie before making it. The Elysium side has way too much empty space, Jody Foster is way too prominent and could be filled with William Fitchner, the guy who plays Patel, and Kruger's two CCB partners. The bottom silhouette, in particular is funny, because those aren't main characters, it's not Alice Braga and her daughter, it's just some immigrants who managed to make it passed the orbital defenses.
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Aug 11, 2013 03:46
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Not only did Mondo use some colors in a poster, they also poo poo in my cereal, kicked my dog, and keyed my car. Those motherfuckers.
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Aug 11, 2013 04:29
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Mister Chief posted:Thank god studio movie posters never use that color scheme. Hes not saying the colours are bad it's the fact that there's no reason to use them. It doesn't fit the movie and it looks weird. I don't like or dislike the poster but that's clearly what that post meant.
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Aug 11, 2013 04:33
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My favorite John Wayne film is The Searchers (cause it's a pretty rad flick) let's look at the poster I've managed to find on the internet!      DVD Cover?  
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Aug 11, 2013 04:41
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boom boom boom posted:Kitamura found the guy who played the main character, Tak Sakaguchi, when he saw him fighting a dude in an alley. Kitamura went up to him and said, "Your strength is wasted on the streets, come be in my movie" Funny thing is that Sakaguchi has made more entertaining movies than Kitamura has at this point (and by "entertaining" I'm including his insane comedies like "Battlefield Baseball").
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Aug 11, 2013 05:01
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Ez posted:Hes not saying the colours are bad it's the fact that there's no reason to use them. It doesn't fit the movie and it looks weird. I think it's a decently composed poster, but yeah, the color doesn't seem to be really accomplishing a whole lot. I mean, I haven't seen the movie yet, but from what I know Elysium and Earth are radically different places. This poster tells me that... Elysium is slightly more cold and Earth is slightly more warm. It doesn't really say anything besides "Elysium is a movie these are some things in it, drawn stylishly." And honestly I think someone who doesn't know Mondo like we do wouldn't be so put off by it; the fact that we know they pull this poo poo all the time makes it more grating.
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Aug 11, 2013 05:09
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Spatula City posted:No because the woman in that poster was actually in the movie. Nope. I actually remembered this People article even after all these years. I'd bought that issue because Raiders of the Lost Ark was on the cover. 
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Aug 11, 2013 05:22
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Not only did Mondo use some colors in a poster, they also poo poo in my cereal, kicked my dog, and keyed my car.
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Aug 11, 2013 05:25
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tliil posted:Hold on, mom, gotta make another post defending this company that makes limited edition movie posters... Did you typed what you meant to say and said what you meant to type? Or is TheBigBudgetSequel your mom?
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Aug 11, 2013 05:56
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I would totally watch the Bruce Willis movie that Mondo poster is advertising. I don't know what it has to do with Elysium though.
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Aug 11, 2013 07:04
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I personally thought he looked more like Kurt Angle with a few more wrinkles but yeah I can see Willis in there.
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Aug 11, 2013 07:21
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It's not even that they use a red blue color scheme. It's that all the colors in it are gradients of red/orange and blue. The variant is better, Jodie Foster actually looks like she's skin tone, but Damon still has the skin tone of a loving Oompa Loompa for no reason. Even when real studio posters use that color scheme it's usually not the only colors on the poster, just the main elements. Doing the rings for earth in an orange/red and then the rings of Elysium in blue, but having the people actually people colored would have been fine. I'd have really liked that poster if it was like that. But the way they used the colors, and the lack therefore of, is just...weird looking.
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Aug 11, 2013 08:30
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ShufflerZero posted:Born to Kill
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Aug 11, 2013 11:23
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effectual posted:Still red and blue for no goddamn reason. gently caress mondo. If by no reason you mean "a stylistic choice used because it creates a visually pleasing contrast" then yes, I agree. You're not raging because it looks bad, you're raging because it's overdone, which is loving stupid.
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Aug 11, 2013 11:50
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mr. mephistopheles posted:If by no reason you mean "a stylistic choice used because it creates a visually pleasing contrast" then yes, I agree. Or someone could just genuinely dislike the way it looks. I admit it's hard for me to articulate what I don't like about it. I think it's the same thing that makes some CGA PC games or Super Game Boy stuff hard to look at -- they work in a super-restricted color palette and harsh or ill-fitting colors end up getting used a lot. It ends up looking sickly.
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Aug 11, 2013 13:44
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The lack of colors is primarily due to that fact that all of their posters are screen printed. I don't even like that poster, I just think it's color scheme is the least of its problems.
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Aug 11, 2013 14:07
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Spatula City posted:No because the woman in that poster was actually in the movie.  (yeah, VHS cover, but I don't think this cut ever got a theatrical release) Circled: Things appearing in this film. Green X: Things not appearing in this film.  Not only are there no flying horses in the film, it is set in a world where horses do not exist in any way shape or form. Also there are no robots, and the protagonist is not a man.
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Aug 11, 2013 14:34
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Ah yes. The original American release of Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind. I've heard that Hayao Miyazaki was absolutely heart broken over how it was butchered and it took a lot of hard work for him to be convinced to let the US translate any more of his movies over. It's one of the reasons he has a good relationship with John Lassater; the man understands and respects his movies.
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Aug 11, 2013 15:00
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I saw that picture years before seeing the movie, and I always thought they were riding a sandworm of some kind.
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Aug 11, 2013 15:31
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Lotish posted:Ah yes. The original American release of Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind. I've heard that Hayao Miyazaki was absolutely heart broken over how it was butchered and it took a lot of hard work for him to be convinced to let the US translate any more of his movies over. It's one of the reasons he has a good relationship with John Lassater; the man understands and respects his movies. The whole debacle did lead to one of the greatest "gently caress you" messages in film history though: quote:Dissatisfied with Warriors of the Wind, Miyazaki suggested that people should put it "out of their minds." Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki have asked fans to forget its existence and later adopted a strict "no-edits" clause for future foreign releases of its films. On hearing Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein would try to cut Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable, one of Studio Ghibli's producers sent an authentic katana with a simple message: "No cuts"
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     Ahhh, that's better. Fatkraken posted:Not only are there no flying horses in the film, it is set in a world where horses do not exist in any way shape or form. Also there are no robots, and the protagonist is not a man. When I was a little kid I saw that version on HBO or rented it and I loved it; way later, when I was in my 20s I saw the English printing of the manga and wondered why it looked so drat familiar. After a kitten fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Aug 11, 2013 |
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Aug 11, 2013 17:23
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Why did someone strap that poor camel to the top of a B-2 bomber??
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It really does lose something as just a silhouette doesn't it? Just goes to show that bluray covers are bad all over the world.
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a kitten posted:It really does lose something as just a silhouette doesn't it? Just goes to show that bluray covers are bad all over the world. There are a lot of good bluray covers, this is just further proof that minimalist covers are bad all over the world.
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New mission, thread: Post GOOD Blu Ray covers that are not Criterion or Special Edition.
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Aug 11, 2013 18:49
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Pascallion posted:New mission, thread: Post GOOD Blu Ray covers that are not Criterion or Special Edition. 
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Aug 11, 2013 19:47
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Typo spotted. Funny thing though, google images shows that "women" is spelled correctly on other sources for the cover. I wonder what happened. step aside fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Aug 11, 2013 |
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Aug 11, 2013 19:53
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That's Collector's Edition, I think it counts as special.   
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Does the blu-ray of highlander come with a stand?
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Aug 11, 2013 20:27
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 The lesson seems to be good blu-ray covers are usually the poster art.
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Aug 11, 2013 20:31
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Seeing this makes me wish for the first time that I didn't live in Canada where I have to read S.O.S. Phantomes under the title. (Yes I'm aware I can order from the US online)
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Aug 11, 2013 20:32
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penismightier posted:
I could do without the quote, but yeah. I like the alt cover with the head in the street, too.
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penismightier posted:
I don't know if the guy asking for these would count this as it was limited edition from...FYE? I want to say FYE. But I always loved this steelbook of Cloverfield, to the point where if I ever upgrade to blu ray I'll just swap the discs and give the DVD in the blu ray case to my father or something: 
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