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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

UnknownMercenary posted:

What movie is that picture from?

The Double Dragon movie.

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Dissapointed Owl
Jan 30, 2008

You wrote me a letter,
and this is how it went:

ShufflerZero posted:

Al Leong! Sadly for someone who racked up 59 acting credits between 1983 and 2005 I couldn't find single film with him on the poster.

I was incredibly certain he was in fact on a poster with a title that ripped off the Predator font but now I can't find it so ignore me.

Free Drinks
Dec 16, 2006

Oh, my God; I care so little, I almost passed out.

ShufflerZero posted:

Al Leong! Sadly for someone who racked up 59 acting credits between 1983 and 2005 I couldn't find single film with him on the poster.

Here he is! It's even a well known movie!



He was always my favorite henchmen in Die Hard.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Young Freud posted:

They need to get that dude that plays "Mad Dog" in The Raid: Redemption to play him during dramatizations and reenactments.

His name is Yayan Ruhian, and you'll be pleased to hear that he's in The Raid 2: Berendal as well.

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

UnknownMercenary posted:

What movie is that picture from?

Live action venture bros.

Darthemed
Oct 28, 2007

"A data unit?
For me?
"




College Slice
Yo ShufflerZero, in what category would you put this poster?

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
That is perfect.

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
Thou shalt not crosse thyne eyese.

lllllllllllllllllll
Feb 28, 2010

Now the scene's lighting is perfect!
"I will shield you with my ear."

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005



DACK RAMBO doesn't seem to understand how rifles work.

Swabbleflange
Apr 18, 2008

I get the feeling they were wielding swords in the original painting, somehow.

All these DTV fantasy movies returning to the Vallejo well time and again.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

So after reading the recent Awful Movie Review article on Abelar: Tales of the Ancient Empire, I went looking for information on the supposed prequel The Sword and the Sorcerer, because I remembered it dimly seeing it as a kid on HBO or something. While I was doing that, image search brought up this poster...



e:

marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Apr 15, 2014

Hewlett
Mar 4, 2005

"DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!"

Also, drink
and watch movies.
That's fun too.

An age of mystery and magic. Of swords and sorcery. Of chicks with four boobs.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


A land of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Gone Girl teaser poster.

Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!
October 3rd, the national day of Knowing What You Have.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Lotish posted:

So after reading the recent Awful Movie Review article on Abelar: Tales of the Ancient Empire, I went looking for information on the supposed prequel The Sword and the Sorcerer, because I remembered it dimly seeing it as a kid on HBO or something. While I was doing that, image search brought up this poster...



e:

Would you believe that this was an adaptation of Yojimbo?

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Lady Naga posted:

October 3rd, the national day of Knowing What You Have.

Must be inventory day.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

Lotish posted:

So after reading the recent Awful Movie Review article on Abelar: Tales of the Ancient Empire, I went looking for information on the supposed prequel The Sword and the Sorcerer, because I remembered it dimly seeing it as a kid on HBO or something. While I was doing that, image search brought up this poster...



e:

Jesus that tagline is 99% ripped off from Conan.

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

Waffleman_ posted:

Would you believe that this was an adaptation of Yojimbo?

I would

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

Mister Chief posted:

Gone Girl teaser poster.


David Fincher really wants to keep that Social Network design alive, huh?

Fat Lou
Jan 21, 2008

Desert Heat? I thought it was Dessert Heat. No wonder it tastes so bad.


Haha, how long has it been since that thread? Like four or five years? drat time goes fast.

Class Warcraft
Apr 27, 2006



Luke Askew & Anthony DeLongis totally sound like pornstar names.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

muscles like this? posted:


DACK RAMBO doesn't seem to understand how rifles work.

When you run out of ammo that's exactly how they work.

SomeJazzyRat
Nov 2, 2012

Hmmm...

Mister Chief posted:

Gone Girl teaser poster.



The problem with this is that as someone who has never read the novel and has little to no idea what gone girl is, aside from the fact that it's a book that 'moms' read, I have no idea what it is for, little what it's about, and no reason to care.

So fox's advertising partners, let me show you how it's done.

Ariza
Feb 8, 2006

Lotish posted:

So after reading the recent Awful Movie Review article on Abelar: Tales of the Ancient Empire, I went looking for information on the supposed prequel The Sword and the Sorcerer, because I remembered it dimly seeing it as a kid on HBO or something. While I was doing that, image search brought up this poster...



e:

This is still the only fantasy book that I have ever read. My uncle gave it to me when I was 9 or 10 and before the internet you took what you could get. It was full of questionable sexual encounters with clever names for dicks and boobs. Did they do that in the movie too?

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?
If it was a Gor book then YES, and it was AWFUL/AMAZING

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

SomeJazzyRat posted:

The problem with this is that as someone who has never read the novel and has little to no idea what gone girl is, aside from the fact that it's a book that 'moms' read, I have no idea what it is for, little what it's about, and no reason to care.

I think it tells you a lot more about the movie than an average teaser poster that might have a giant sad Ben Affleck and something like 'This October get #GONE"

Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Apr 15, 2014

Infamous Sphere
Nov 8, 2010
Blargh oh my god yes, I have read fanfiction, in a way it's a guilty pleasure/so bad it's good thing. I can't read trashy romance though. Fanfiction..oh god..some of the anatomical limitations are..well..let's just say these women don't very much und
hey, does anyone remember the whole thing with The Sapphires, and how the movie poster made it so that Chris O'Dowd upstaged all the main characters, who were Indigenous women? Well, to carry on in the fine tradition of "white dudes upstaging Indigenous women", let me present exhibit a.

The hell? That white guy is barely in the movie, and those tiny tiiiiny little figures there? They're the main characters!
I actually couldn't remember who the hell "that white guy' even was, I had to look it up. Kenneth Branagh, apparently. So yes, another example of overseas marketing not trusting moviegoing audiences to give a film a chance unless they know it has a big name actor in it - even if the big name actor isn't even the main character, and the story's actually about some racial minorities.

But at least the Kenneth Branagh poster makes some kind of racist sense. In this next poster, the girls are upstaged by kangaroos. KANGAROOS.

From my memory, there's barely even any appearance of kangaroos in the story, barring a scene where a man gives the girls a kangaroo tail to eat, so not only is this marketing strategy stupid, it's also going to just anger anyone who decides to watch the film primarily for the presence of marsupials.

In case you're wondering what poster we got in Australia, it was more like this.

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Waffleman_ posted:

Would you believe that this was an adaptation of Yojimbo?

What isn't?

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




Infamous Sphere posted:

But at least the Kenneth Branagh poster makes some kind of racist sense. In this next poster, the girls are upstaged by kangaroos. KANGAROOS.

From my memory, there's barely even any appearance of kangaroos in the story, barring a scene where a man gives the girls a kangaroo tail to eat, so not only is this marketing strategy stupid, it's also going to just anger anyone who decides to watch the film primarily for the presence of marsupials.



It's pretty obvious that the Kangaroos were sloppily shoved in later by a different artist to the person that did the rest, so I'm guessing that some studio exec looked at the original artwork for international distribution and said 'We need to make it obvious that this is in Australia! PUT KANGAROOS ON IT!'.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Mister Chief posted:

Gone Girl teaser poster.



I'm probably going to be the first and only person to say that this poster is genius just for the news ticker at the bottom. Whoever said they don't know what's going on the poster is probably illiterate, because taking in the tagline with that ticker just fills me with a sort of dread.

rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009

Emma Watson is what runs trivia teams.

Young Freud posted:

I'm probably going to be the first and only person to say that this poster is genius just for the news ticker at the bottom. Whoever said they don't know what's going on the poster is probably illiterate, because taking in the tagline with that ticker just fills me with a sort of dread.

I personally really like this poster

Mega size:

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

It's true, we never appreciate what we've got until it's some kind of chimpanzee-with-its-head-on-fire-shaped cloud.

Sheldrake
Jul 19, 2006

~pettin in the park~

Lobok posted:

It's true, we never appreciate what we've got until it's some kind of chimpanzee-with-its-head-on-fire-shaped cloud.

Really? I see a mockingjay holding a flaming arrow...

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

It's not a scampering poodle facing to the left?

ThatPazuzu
Sep 8, 2011

I'm so depressed, I can't even blink.

Young Freud posted:

I'm probably going to be the first and only person to say that this poster is genius just for the news ticker at the bottom. Whoever said they don't know what's going on the poster is probably illiterate, because taking in the tagline with that ticker just fills me with a sort of dread.

I agree but "You Never Know What You've Got Until... Oct 3" is keeping me from really enjoying it.

Edit: The cloud is clearly a cow skull

ThatPazuzu fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Apr 15, 2014

monster on a stick
Apr 29, 2013

Infamous Sphere posted:

hey, does anyone remember the whole thing with The Sapphires, and how the movie poster made it so that Chris O'Dowd upstaged all the main characters, who were Indigenous women? Well, to carry on in the fine tradition of "white dudes upstaging Indigenous women", let me present exhibit a.

Recognizable names always get promoted no matter how much they appear in the movie.

ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



ThatPazuzu posted:

I agree but "You Never Know What You've Got Until... Oct 3" is keeping me from really enjoying it.

I'm kind of in the same boat, you can tell what it's supposed to be because of the news ticker, but I can't really say it's very good.

The giant rhinoceros head with its mouth open is cool though.

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Hat Thoughts
Jul 27, 2012
"Amazing Amy" doesn't seem like a person, that's what bothers me about it

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