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El Negocio posted:Those car logos are ridiculous even by the standards of internet minimalists since most of the logos were already minimalist in the first place. And the ones that weren't, like Bentley and Cadillac, look like poo poo compared to the originals. The Porsche and Cadillac ones are also virtually identical. Jesus I didn't know Saul Bass did all of those. They're incredible. Sometimes I wonder why logos in the 70s were so great and it turns out it's because Saul Bass literally did all of them.
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BTW, I made the mistake of playing internet detective and trying to find the original post for those Oldboy posters but I ran into an article on Rope Of Silicon from June 8th, where they talk about the Juan Luis Garcia "art explorations" and the chosen poster. Edit: the agency that asked for the "explorations" was likely Spike Lee's own agency, Spike DDB. Edit: DNS posted:Jesus I didn't know Saul Bass did all of those. They're incredible. Sometimes I wonder why logos in the 70s were so great and it turns out it's because Saul Bass literally did all of them. Before Saul Bass designed the '70s, you had Raymond Loewy, who practically designed the '50s to '60s. Everything from the Lincoln Continental to the Coke bottle to the livery for Air Force One to Skylab. His actual logo design includes Exxon, Shell, the SPAR retail chain, USPS, and the Coast Guard "racing" stripe Young Freud fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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Juan Luis posted:Hi *kiimo* thank you for the email and for sharing my story. The support has been overwhelming to say the least but I'm stunned at the amount of people who have reached out with similar stories. I also got several emails with people suspecting we worked for the same agency. Of course I do not wish this upon anybody else so I will keep everyone updated on my website when the time is appropriate. He wouldn't tell me who it was, but I'm suspecting a particular person at a particular (newish) print agency run by a giant douchebag who was already blacklisted by my company for being a crazy shady weirdo.
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The Saul Bass post above led me to a random reading of his Wiki page, which turned up this amusing coincidence:quote:He received an unintentionally backhanded tribute in 1995, when Spike Lee's film Clockers was promoted by a poster that was strikingly similar to Bass's 1959 work for Preminger's film Anatomy of a Murder. Designer Art Sims claimed that it was made as an homage, but Bass regarded it as theft.  
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My god, we've come full circle! As for Spike Lee, his attitude has always been the same. He deserves better, but others don't deserve anything back from him.
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Young Freud posted:It's probably more that Lee has forgotten his roots. He's been separated from nearly 25 years from the last time he's really struggled to make something. Lee just Kickstarted a project that he wanted to make but couldn't get a studio to pony up for. He's a poo poo.
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This movie is not great and is directed by a person that literally no one knows because he wears a mask and spouts a lot of pretentious nonsense on Twitter and elsewhere, but I kind of like the second one which kind of makes it look like a remake of Newsies gone hilariously wrong. I still love the backhanded compliment they put on the theatrical poster though (IIRC, Knowles posted that on Day 2 or 3 of a ten-day film festival). 
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Is it a remake of Children At Play or a remake of that British PSA where all the kids die horribly on a farm?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Is it a remake of Children At Play or a remake of that British PSA where all the kids die horribly on a farm? No, it's a remake of Who Can Kill A Child which is pretty good actually.
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Jedit posted:Lee just Kickstarted a project that he wanted to make but couldn't get a studio to pony up for. He's a poo poo. Yeah, that's what takes this to the next level for me. You don't go to the public, hat in hand, asking them to donate money sight-unseen in the name of supporting independent artists who are screwed over by the studio system and then screw over someone even lower on the totem pole. Especially when so many people attacked him for going to Kickstarter and called it a scam and a waste of money and crowd-funding itself is coming under fire after several high-profile flops, you know those same people are going to look for any excuse to pounce. 
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"Harrison Harrison"?
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Kurtofan posted:Nic Cage is a fundie? Nic Cage doesn't turn down any role, kinda like Christopher Walken.
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Also apparently this new movie upsets the original authors It might end up like Noah
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flashy_mcflash posted:This movie is not great and is directed by a person that literally no one knows because he wears a mask and spouts a lot of pretentious nonsense on Twitter and elsewhere, but I kind of like the second one which kind of makes it look like a remake of Newsies gone hilariously wrong. I still love the backhanded compliment they put on the theatrical poster though (IIRC, Knowles posted that on Day 2 or 3 of a ten-day film festival). That movie was poo poo. In other news, I might have been hired to do the cover of a blu-ray release. I expect to see my work on here shortly.
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Kurtofan posted:Nic Cage is a fundie? He's pretty much bankrupt so he'll take the role as long as the cheque doesn't bounce.
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Vagabundo posted:He's pretty much bankrupt so he'll take the role as long as the cheque doesn't bounce. And even if it does as long as there's catering.
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Kurtofan posted:Nic Cage is a fundie? Nope. Cage on Knowing having a religious message posted:"Any of my personal beliefs or opinions runs the risk of impinging on your own relationship with the movie. I feel movies are best left enigmatic, left raising more questions than answers. I don't want to ever preach. So [whatever you get] from the movie [is] far more interesting than I could ever offer." In 1996 he said he had no religion in his life despite being raised Catholic. When you consider that with the quote, he has no issue taking bible thump money when not being a bible thumper. Cage is also soon to be starring in this with Hayden Christensen, which I'm actually half excited for due to the fact it's being directed by a former stunt man. I just find that cool: 
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Is Nicolas Cage still millions in debt? I really love him as an actor and with all these roles I'm struggling to understand how he can't pay the bills. But then he did foreclose on a castle or something.
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I'm pretty sure he said that's no longer true in a recent interview or something.
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DNS posted:I'm pretty sure he said that's no longer true in a recent interview or something. Yeah, I think he just really likes acting. Like, he's a reverse Steve Martin.
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computer parts posted:Yeah, I think he just really likes acting. Like, he's a reverse Steve Martin. Thank gently caress Steve Martin no longer acts. Pink Panther was an abomination. And don't get me started on how much I hated Shopgirl.
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kiimo posted:He wouldn't tell me who it was, but I'm suspecting a particular person at a particular (newish) print agency run by a giant douchebag who was already blacklisted by my company for being a crazy shady weirdo. You know, I went to try and read the open letter to Spike Lee, but couldn't find it on his website. I wonder what's up with that.
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Thank gently caress Steve Martin no longer acts. Pink Panther was an abomination. And don't get me started on how much I hated Shopgirl. The Spanish Prisoner  Nobody ever looks at a Japanese tourist.
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Holy poo poo, it took me a second but I've seen this movie.  It's called Severed Ties in America, though. Let me see if I can dig it up on Youtube, it ruuuuuuules and only ever came out on VHS.e: The movie isn't on Youtube in full, but I did somehow manage to find a trailer for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXiL1ngCO2s
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So Cracked tried their hand at the classic classy posters for un-classy movies, and points to them, they actually did manage to do well and not go minimalist for most of it. Granted, most of them are imitations of actually good posters. And I'd also question these people's tastes in 'crappy movies'.   I know the Cool As Ice one is Rosemary's Baby, what are the other two?
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In what world is From Dusk Til Dawn one of the crappiest movies ever? The article was amusing enough and better than I thought it was gonna be but their selection of movies was kind of odd.
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Cleretic posted:So Cracked tried their hand at the classic classy posters for un-classy movies, and points to them, they actually did manage to do well and not go minimalist for most of it. Granted, most of them are imitations of actually good posters. And I'd also question these people's tastes in 'crappy movies'. First one seems like The Game.
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The one for Catholic High School Girls in Trouble is god drat genius.
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Holy poo poo. To contribute: A fine entry in modern-day skellyposters: 
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Oh man that poster is awesome. That's one of the first things you see in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:The one for Catholic High School Girls in Trouble is god drat genius. Oh yeah, that's minimalism and Saul Bass-inspired done right 
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Macaluso posted:Oh man that poster is awesome. That's one of the first things you see in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride That was the reason I was like "Maybe this won't suck." And it worked for two and a half movies.
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Hey, I enjoyed the fourth one. Third can suck one, though.
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Waffleman_ posted:Hey, I enjoyed the fourth one. Third can suck one, though. See, I thought the opposite- it's like they heard the criticisms that the third one was way too convoluted, so instead they made four as straightforward and bland as possible. The mermaid attack scene was cool, though. When 2 and 3 got weird, at least they were interesting-weird.
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On Stranger Tides' priest/mermaid subplot was completely useless on top of being a really bland movie.
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Pirates 2 and 3 are complete trainwrecks that I find really entertaining. Pirates 4 is just boring.
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Stare-Out posted:On Stranger Tides' priest/mermaid subplot was completely useless on top of being a really bland movie. It felt like someone said, "This movie needs a romance because Sparrow is too distant!" and had it tossed in. You can seriously cut every scene and nothing in the plot changes.
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