Movie Posters - The good, the bad & the awful

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Open Marriage Night: Sep 18, 2009; "Do you want to talk to a spider, Peter?"

feedmyleg posted:

100% agreed.

Just the sight of that made me irrationally angry for a moment. I guess some things are sacred.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 21:17

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achillesforever6: Apr 23, 2012; psst you wanna do a communism?

TheJoker138 posted:

I really, really wanted to like the Hobbit movies. I actually do enjoy the first. But the 2nd one was so loving soulless. It was drab, nearly joyless, and just so god drat boring for most of it. It was like someone who hated the Lord of the Rings movies trying to make a Lord of the Rings movie, and only capturing the things that they disliked about them, amplified by an order of magnitude. The Hobbit movies make me sad that they exist.

The Hobbit movies are terrible because I have to watch/listen to them anytime I have to go with the roadtrip to Omaha from Pittsburgh because my sister obsesses over those dumb movies; No one ever wants to listen to MST3K or my Faith No More albums :smith:

# ? Oct 16, 2014 21:18

Vegetable: Oct 22, 2010

The t-rex needs to be simplified. No Web 2.0 logo is that intricate.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 21:22

kiimo: Jul 24, 2003

achillesforever6 posted:

MST3K or my Faith No More albums

I like you.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 21:33

Doctor Bishop: Oct 22, 2013; To understand what happened at the diner, we use Mr. Papaya. This is upsetting because he is the friendliest of fruits.

feedmyleg posted:

I figured the tone-deaf use of an older style would imply a feeling of disunity and tension. But mostly because he said web 2.0 and web 2.0 is mid 00s.

And here I thought web 2.0 was simply a term for the era of the Internet that started with the advent of sites like YouTube and Facebook.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 21:38

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

Doctor Bishop posted:

And here I thought web 2.0 was simply a term for the era of the Internet that started with the advent of sites like YouTube and Facebook.

In graphic design terms it refers to a very specific style. Flat design is post-2.0.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 22:26

edogawa rando: Mar 20, 2007

So apparently there's going to be a movie about the whaleship Essex that got sunk by an angry sperm whale in 1820. Could be good, and Ron Howard's got some good movies on his CV.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 22:37

spanky the dolphin: Sep 3, 2006

spanky the dolphin fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Feb 14, 2018

# ? Oct 16, 2014 23:17

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

feedmyleg posted:

100% agreed.

loving Christ, that looks like the poster for the original had sex with the poster for The Internship.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 23:35

Kaiju Cage Match: Nov 5, 2012

corn in the bible posted:

Amazing(ly bad).

# ? Oct 17, 2014 00:12

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

feedmyleg posted:

100% agreed.

Perfect.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 00:48

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

Mantis42 posted:

So I bought a thing.

Fitting for October I guess.

Nice Dirty Dozen poster too!

# ? Oct 17, 2014 01:48

Rough Lobster: May 27, 2009; Don't be such a squid, bro

That Dirty Dozen poster has one of my favorite taglines of all time.

Train them! Excite them! Arm them!
Then turn them loose on the Nazis!

# ? Oct 17, 2014 02:19

Lizard Combatant: Sep 29, 2010; I have some notes.

Shameless opportunity to repost '80s Jurassic Park from a while back.

Lizard Combatant posted:

NOT '80s ENOUGH!

I will be selling 27x40 prints of this if you'd like to pledge to my kickstarter.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 03:07

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Vagabundo posted:

So apparently there's going to be a movie about the whaleship Essex that got sunk by an angry sperm whale in 1820. Could be good, and Ron Howard's got some good movies on his CV.

Dang, that's pretty awesome.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 03:37

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

That poster should be amazing but the scale is so exaggerated that I just can't take it seriously.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 04:06

Rough Lobster: May 27, 2009; Don't be such a squid, bro

Yeah it reminds me of that scene in Godzilla where we swims under that aircraft carrier and just dwarfs it. Although if they go full balls to the wall insane with it and that's it's actual size, I am down.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 04:35

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

MikeJF posted:

That poster should be amazing but the scale is so exaggerated that I just can't take it seriously.

I don't think a more literal poster would work as well.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 04:37

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

Rough Lobster posted:

Although if they go full balls to the wall insane with it and that's it's actual size, I am down.

This is pretty much the only way I'd be interested in the movie.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 04:47

MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

For reference, the Essex was 27 metres long, so the whale in that poster would be... about a kilometre, at a rough guess, maybe slightly less.

I'm definitely seeing that movie.

(Sperm whales cap out at about 20 metres, so including movie making and artistic licence, I'm guessing the whale'll probably end up about the same size as the Essex in the film, maybe a bit bigger)

(I just noticed that they only have three of their four whaling boats in that poster, which is a neat little attention to detail, given that the ship lost its fourth to a grumpy whale a few days before the ship was smashed)

MikeJF fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Oct 17, 2014

# ? Oct 17, 2014 11:49

Stare-Out: Mar 11, 2010

Judging from the trailer the whale is nowhere near the size it is in the poster but somehow the exaggeration works for me. That's a cool poster.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 14:28

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I would be okay with it except that when you're presenting a "true story" I'd rather it be, you know... true.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 14:36

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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Dick Trauma posted:

I would be okay with it except that when you're presenting a "true story" I'd rather it be, you know... true.

It's just a poster. It's supposed to be evocative. I really doubt the whale in the movie will be half a mile long.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 14:59

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

Make the whale a mile long, but also make the ship a spaceship and the whale a space sea serpent. Name the spaceship Moby and the space serpent Solarius. I don't know where I'm going with this.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 15:36

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Baron von Eevl posted:

It's just a poster. It's supposed to be evocative. I really doubt the whale in the movie will be half a mile long.

And it's a neat poster. But I think it's wrong for this sort of movie. It would be like a poster for Apollo 13 showing the astronauts getting blown out of a hole into space because it's more dramatic.

Speaking of which... space is a very dangerous place.

The 3D eye spooge reminds me of this:

And it's not a movie but goddamn look at that alien.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 18:19

Doctor Bishop: Oct 22, 2013; To understand what happened at the diner, we use Mr. Papaya. This is upsetting because he is the friendliest of fruits.

Dick Trauma posted:

And it's not a movie but goddamn look at that alien.

That literally looks like a slightly dramaticized drawing of a creature made in Spore.

# ? Oct 17, 2014 20:05

edogawa rando: Mar 20, 2007

Dick Trauma posted:

I would be okay with it except that when you're presenting a "true story" I'd rather it be, you know... true.

Do you honestly think a movie about the sinking of the Essex will actually feature a mutant whale? It's the poo poo that happens after the sinking that would make a compelling story, and I'd wager the film will focus on that.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 03:48

Erebus: Jul 13, 2001; Okay... Keep your head, Steve boy...

One of the better Mondo posters I've seen recently. The title's maybe a little too small, though.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 05:48

Rageaholic: May 31, 2005; Old Town Road to EGOT

Erebus posted:

One of the better Mondo posters I've seen recently. The title's maybe a little too small, though.

I kinda knew what it was just by looking at it but I had to get up close to my monitor to read the title to make sure I was right. That is indeed way too small.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 05:56

boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

The tiny text undercuts the idea of the poster, showing a tiny little Bruce Wayne going towards a giant bat shaped future. Wayne should be the smallest thing on the poster. But when you see Wayne you see the text and it pulls your focus.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 06:20

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

It's a poster. It won't be too small in real life.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 06:37

Kramjacks: Jul 5, 2007

maybe its a poster for ants???

# ? Oct 18, 2014 07:05

The MSJ: May 17, 2010

# ? Oct 18, 2014 07:19

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Vagabundo posted:

Do you honestly think a movie about the sinking of the Essex will actually feature a mutant whale? It's the poo poo that happens after the sinking that would make a compelling story, and I'd wager the film will focus on that.

Dick Trauma posted:

And it's a neat poster. But I think it's wrong for this sort of movie. It would be like a poster for Apollo 13 showing the astronauts getting blown out of a hole into space because it's more dramatic.

I've been talking about the poster. I don't have particularly strong feelings about it either way, it just seems like it belongs to a different sort of movie.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 08:19

Dissapointed Owl: Jan 30, 2008; You wrote me a letter,
and this is how it went:

The MSJ posted:

This is... a drat effective poster.

Catchy title, evocative imagery, a surprise hit of 'Tim Burton might be stepping out of his comfort zone again?', two actors I'm interested in seeing and a tagline that immediately lays out the basic plot.

I didn't know about this movie until now. I want to see this.

# ? Oct 18, 2014 15:28

BonoMan: Feb 20, 2002; Jade Ear Joe

Dissapointed Owl posted:

This is... a drat effective poster.

Catchy title, evocative imagery, a surprise hit of 'Tim Burton might be stepping out of his comfort zone again?', two actors I'm interested in seeing and a tagline that immediately lays out the basic plot.

I didn't know about this movie until now. I want to see this.

Go watch the trailer, it looks great!

# ? Oct 18, 2014 15:59