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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I could do without the quote, but yeah. I like the alt cover with the head in the street, too. This one?  It helps that it accurately sums up the movie in one neat image, much like the Cabin in the Woods blu-ray a few posts up the page.
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Not sure what counts as special edition but I'm going to post these anyways: Memento   Reservoir Dogs 
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Optimist with doubt posted:Does the blu-ray of highlander come with a stand? No, that's just the only good photo I could find of it. Almost forgot this one: 
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Aug 11, 2013 20:51
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Remember all the blue ectoplasm in Ghostbusters?
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Aug 11, 2013 20:53
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Darthemed posted:Remember all the blue ectoplasm in Ghostbusters? Most of the previous covers showed it as green, which is just as inaccurate. It looks better than the actual pink and clear slime in the movies.
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Aug 11, 2013 20:54
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With the giant sword, my brain keeps trying to read this as 'Thighlander' for some awful reason.
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Fatkraken posted:
Now, now, now, the thing off to the right does show up in the film. It's one of the God Warriors during the opening segment over the "Seven Days Of Fire".  Fake edit: Holy poo poo, apparently, Hideki Anno of Evangelion fame (and had been a key animator on Nausicaa) directed a live action short about the "Seven Days Of Fire", with Miyazaki's approval, called A Giant God Warrior Appears Over Tokyo. 
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I initially disliked the Super 8 blu-ray for being garish and showing you nothing about the actual movie, now I dislike it for being one of those posters that only means anything if you're "in" on the joke.  It's not a monochrome vector of a prop but it's still a reference you have to "get" for the design to make any sense.
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Vagabundo posted:This one? That's the one.
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Young Freud posted:
Huh cool, I knew that Anno worked on Nausicaa, but I had NO idea about that short. Thank you! 
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a kitten posted:Huh cool, I knew that Anno worked on Nausicaa, but I had NO idea about that short. Thank you! The interesting thing about that is that it's practical effects with digital composition. I can't tell if the God Warrior is a puppet or a really thin guy in a suit (a la Alien) and a lot of the explosion effects and buildings crumbling are in-camera.
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Aug 11, 2013 21:30
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Vagabundo posted:This one? Ooh I've never seen that one, that's fantastic.
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Young Freud posted:The interesting thing about that is that it's practical effects with digital composition. I can't tell if the God Warrior is a puppet or a really thin guy in a suit (a la Alien) and a lot of the explosion effects and buildings crumbling are in-camera. I looked it up and yeah, its a puppet, which is why when it moves its a little bit jerky in a really cool, alien way. It's a beautiful piece of special effects work, I wonder how many tiny scale models of Tokyo have been built and destroyed throughout the years.
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Aug 11, 2013 22:26
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Here is the best Blu-Ray cover.  It has everything that's in the movie, and has Stevie front and center, packing heat.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I initially disliked the Super 8 blu-ray for being garish and showing you nothing about the actual movie, now I dislike it for being one of those posters that only means anything if you're "in" on the joke. Yeah, but it's a reference that's right there in the title and is kinda fundamental in that way- it's as much about the kids' experiences, which are bound up in their shooting a movie, as it is about the actual alien intruder business. The element of nostalgia makes sense.
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Maxwell Lord posted:The element of nostalgia makes sense. The gently caress ugly design however does not.
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Goddamn I love that 7 days of fire short. It has some lovely model work.
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Young Freud posted:Now, now, now, the thing off to the right does show up in the film. It's one of the God Warriors during the opening segment over the "Seven Days Of Fire". Oh I know, I crossed it out because the picture suggests there's both a big god warrior whose head they're all standing on and a second, smaller one with the sword. And to be pedantic, unlike on the cover the ones in the seven days of fire clip have spears and don't have weird face whiskers Also holy crap thanks for the short film link, I've never seen that. Interestingly, the major sequence that Anno worked on in Nausicaa WAS the God Warrior scene where it comes over the hill, blows up some ohmu then promptly melts
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PriorMarcus posted:The gently caress ugly design however does not. The posters for VHS/VHS-2, by comparison, do a great job showcasing a dead media format without being completely incomprehensible to 90% of the population or being ugly as sin.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I initially disliked the Super 8 blu-ray for being garish and showing you nothing about the actual movie, now I dislike it for being one of those posters that only means anything if you're "in" on the joke. It might have actually been better for them to go all the way with it instead of half rear end.
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Nostalgia only works in design if people know what the hell they're supposed to feel nostalgic for. The number of people in the general public that even know that Super 8 means "film" is pretty low, the number of people that actually know what a box of Super 8 film looked like......of SCIENCE! posted:The posters for VHS/VHS-2, by comparison, do a great job showcasing a dead media format without being completely incomprehensible to 90% of the population or being ugly as sin.
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:It might have actually been better for them to go all the way with it instead of half rear end. Seriously. Some grunge, or dinged up cardboard edges would've sold it.
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tliil posted:Nostalgia only works in design if people know what the hell they're supposed to feel nostalgic for. The number of people in the general public that even know that Super 8 means "film" is pretty low, the number of people that actually know what a box of Super 8 film looked like... I think the weirdness of them being mixed onto VHS from a variety of other sources is kind of the point in the film. The 2nd one went into this with one of the characters talking about how theirs a black market for all this, and hinting that there's going to be some kind of narrative told in the in between segments from now on with the series.
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PriorMarcus posted:The gently caress ugly design however does not. I like it a lot more than the DVD and "unsleeved" Blu-Ray design, which is just sort of bland.
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Jefferoo posted:Here is the best Blu-Ray cover. The overall layout of this is fantastic, although I didn't even notice the 'The' at first (probably to try and tie it into this new remake) and that middle collage is loving atrocious. Can someone who is a design major explain to me why this is so offensive because I know it's very wrong but I don't know why
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I forgot all about that. It seems like exactly the kind of boring terrible movie I'd love to have.
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muike posted:I forgot all about that. It seems like exactly the kind of boring terrible movie I'd love to have. It's one of those concepts that you wonder how it's even possible to gently caress up. Yet...
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Byzantine posted:I like this one: Isn't that the one where the moon rocks are actually spiders or something like that? JMod posted:The overall layout of this is fantastic, although I didn't even notice the 'The' at first (probably to try and tie it into this new remake) and that middle collage is loving atrocious. I'm not a design expert by any means but all the bits of the collage have different styles and colours and it looks like a total mess. Steve on the bed in particular is just straight from the film and they should've put a filter over it to make it match everything else. The gun also makes the composition weirdly stretched out because there's now this big blank space in the middle. This is a really nice poster for the getaway. 
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Red Bones posted:Isn't that the one where the moon rocks are actually spiders or something like that? Why is there a smaller poster of the poster on the poster?
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Cacator posted:Why is there a smaller poster of the poster on the poster? The smaller one is the novel by Jim Thompson.
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Red Bones posted:Isn't that the one where the moon rocks are actually spiders or something like that? Some of them, yeah. I liked it, but I think I was the only one. 
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Byzantine posted:Some of them, yeah. Didn't that happen in Red Planet too?
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Red Bones posted:Isn't that the one where the moon rocks are actually spiders or something like that? It doesn't have a car though, given that the majority of the movie is them fleeing in various cars, a car would be nice.
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Byzantine posted:Some of them, yeah. I liked it, but I think I was the only one. I really enjoyed it, too. It just had this odd sort of foreboding.
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Wouldn't that Ghostbusters cover be 50% more iconic and actually stand out more by having black behind the logo? Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Aug 12, 2013 13:33
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Teenage Fansub posted:Wouldn't that Ghostbusters cover be 50% more iconic and actually stand out more by having black behind the logo? Yeah, but how you know its a blu-ray unless its smeared with blue poo poo?  
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The Ghostbusters logo poster is almost as iconic as the Jurassic Park logo poster. It's a shame that any cover would have anything else on it.
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Aug 12, 2013 14:29
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And '89 Batman. At least with the boxset re releases they still just have the emblem, but it's all made of stone and gritted up. Also, the font is some terrible metallic thing. I get that they were all packaged together and Batman has a different font to Returns, but looking at the original plain white Batman Returns title right now on it's poster is crashing warm, glorious waves of nostalgia over me. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Aug 12, 2013 |
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Young Freud posted:The smaller one is the novel by Jim Thompson. So the movie poster has a small advertisement for the book the movie was based on, the cover of which is the movie poster that you're looking at. They were way ahead of their time there. I wonder why that never caught on.
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