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Fatkraken posted:I totally agree that accusations of dreamworksface are often unfounded or flimsy, but it most certainly exists. I don't think anyone denies that it exists, it's just I'm always left to wonder why I should care and why it's even a thing worth mentioning beyond the act of pointing out a pattern.
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axleblaze posted:I don't think anyone denies that it exists, it's just I'm always left to wonder why I should care and why it's even a thing worth mentioning beyond the act of pointing out a pattern. Because it's an inherently punchable facial expression, yet they keep putting it in marketing materials for some reason?
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Because it's an inherently punchable facial expression, yet they keep putting it in marketing materials for some reason? I believe a marketing guy's explanation was "this poo poo sells" which is pretty much why you see it everywhere.
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Barudak posted:I believe a marketing guy's explanation was "this poo poo sells" which is pretty much why you see it everywhere. I believe it was "this poo poo sells to the 14-24 olds" to be exact.
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I don't like it because I associate it with lazy illustrators. That face is the go-to face for amateur cartoonists. They make everyone have this weird face that isn't even really a discernible emotion. It's almost a 'hmm' face like my avatar is, but it's also a smug smile like this ![]()
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The simplest reading of that face is "attitude", which really does appeal to 14-24 olds.
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mr.capps posted:The simplest reading of that face is "attitude", which really does 14-24 olds. Exactly; it's the new sunglasses. It feels a bit condescending.
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![]() I started looking for production stills to see if I could figure out what they'd pieced together to make this ugly thing, but then I found this instead and gave up. ![]()
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Erebus posted:
Wha... But who would... ![]()
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Odd Couple and a Baby
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Three men and a baby, right?
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And a Japanese!
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effectual posted:Three men and a baby, right? If you dare call Satan a man.
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I like to think this is just proof that both films exist in the same universe. Oscar and Felix's apartment is just down the hall from Rosemary's. "Curse it all, Oscar, you left the Satanic afterbirth in the fridge right next to the meatloaf! Now they're BOTH ruined!" "Boy, the couple down the hall sure were spirited last night. That fella sounded like a monster!" "You know Felix, what you need is to meet a nice girl. Have I introduced you to Rosemary, the concubine of Chaos Incarnate?"
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"What have you done to it? What have you done to it's eyes!" "Felix will you calm down, it's just heterochromia."
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The thing I love about this is that not only did someone have to think that these movies were appropriate for a double feature, but it was a great enough double feature that they needed to produce a poster specifically for it.
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Random Stranger posted:The thing I love about this is that not only did someone have to think that these movies were appropriate for a double feature, but it was a great enough double feature that they needed to produce a poster specifically for it. I remember Sleeping Beauty being paired with The Black Hole.back in 1980. I'm not sure if some Disney exec decided on a fourth martini for his three-martini lunch when he came up with that, because that's almost up there with this.
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Looking up movies that were filmed in Pittsburgh I never knew what the poster for, "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" looked like![]()
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Random Stranger posted:The thing I love about this is that not only did someone have to think that these movies were appropriate for a double feature, but it was a great enough double feature that they needed to produce a poster specifically for it. I dunno, was sarcasm or hipster irony a big thing in the 60s?
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boom boom boom fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Oct 6, 2014 |
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boom boom boom posted:Speaking of films that I don't think anyone outside of the city they were filmed in has ever heard of, The Astrodome is the best.
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Joe Don Baker posted:I think the last one I saw was City Under Siege. I can't tell you a drat thing about it now, though. It's really an odd movie series. The first one was sort of a lame, raunchy version of Stripes. It had boobs and blow jobs. What made them decide to turn the series into a kid friendly family movies? Have you only seen the TV edit of Stripes? It's got tits and sex as well! Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDkVjsSSDbg mr.capps posted:The simplest reading of that face is "attitude", which really does appeal to 14-24 olds. ![]() Major 'tude dude.
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Oh I have. I think Police Academy was trying to be 'dirtier' if that's the right word. Almost like one of those awful 80's sex comedies.
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wyoming posted:
Given what he became, that facial expression looks almost genial and innocent, a simpler time when Sonic's enthusiasm for running and chili dogs hadn't metastasized into angst. He doesn't quite look like a smartass there.
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Young Freud posted:I remember Sleeping Beauty being paired with The Black Hole.back in 1980. I'm not sure if some Disney exec decided on a fourth martini for his three-martini lunch when he came up with that, because that's almost up there with this. ![]()
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Yeah, I think you win.
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You know, this isn't too bad of a double feature...as long as you watch My Neighbor Totoro second, so it can bring you back to life after Grave of the Fireflies kills you.
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boom boom boom posted:Speaking of films that I don't think anyone outside of the city they were filmed in has ever heard of, This movie is great. There's a beautiful master of it up on Warner Instant for anyone who needs to see a sweaty Bud Cort in a speedo doing pullups. Among other things.
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The best part of the Totoro/Grave of the Fireflies double feature is that that's their original Japanese premiere, so nobody knew what they walked into.
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It's a parallel to growing up: you enter as a kid and leave as a shattered husk, I mean adult.
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Early screenings were actually Totoro followed by Fireflies. After a large number of walkouts they switched the running order and found people were a lot more receptive to being built back up after they were broken down into little bits.
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Party Boat posted:Early screenings were actually Totoro followed by Fireflies. After a large number of walkouts they switched the running order and found people were a lot more receptive to being built back up after they were broken down into little bits. I'm genuinely curious as to who thought up the original running order and what the Hell they were thinking.
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Mondo is doing two posters for Timecrimes (A great film)![]() ![]() Edit: The second reminds me a lot of their Vertigo poster form earlier in the year. ![]()
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achillesforever6 posted:Looking up movies that were filmed in Pittsburgh I never knew what the poster for, "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" looked like I'll see your fish and raise you... ![]() And in a similar vein to the "rag tag bunch of lovely athletes..." ![]() ![]() ![]() Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:Mondo is doing two posters for Timecrimes (A great film) What part of the movie is this? I get the clock, and the three dudes on the right, but what's the rest of it? Just in case it's obvious, and I'm being thick, I've only seen this movie once, but it was quite recently when a local cinema did a screening of it. Edited to remove spoilers. Tears In A Vial fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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Tears In A Vial posted:What part of the movie is this? I get the clock, and the three dudes on the right, but what's the rest of it? The 3 and the clock theme are all that are really in the movie, outside of the red, which is dumb enough as there isn't enough red in that movie that is makes any sense to have the entire poster be red.
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Terminal Entropy posted:The 3 and the clock theme are all that are really in the movie, outside of the red, which is dumb enough as there isn't enough red in that movie that is makes any sense to have the entire poster be red. Cool, that's what I thought. The movie has some neat imagery and a great concept that would make for a good poster. I like the DVD poster as it is: ![]() That soundtrack poster is terrible, and the first one makes it seem like a creepy 'What the window cleaner saw' porno. Tears In A Vial fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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I know this thread has a hateboner for Mondo, but I finally got my Game of Thrones poster framed and put up on my wall and I love it:![]() Original.
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GonSmithe posted:I know this thread has a hateboner for Mondo, but I finally got my Game of Thrones poster framed and put up on my wall and I love it: Wow that red matting really enhances it. Good choice. The original looks so... dead in comparison.
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I suppose it is very intentional that it looks a lot like the original Les Miserables illustrations. I like it very much.
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