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Sirotan posted:Apparently Alamo Drafthouse is doing so bad financially that the CEO is selling off his/their entire collection of Mondo posters, some ~2300 in all. Alamo owns Mondo so I can only assume this is one of almost everything Mondo has ever released. Holy poo poo what is with some of those prices? I mean I know Mondo and all... but those are way above market value. Is it because it's a charity thing?
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BonoMan posted:Holy poo poo what is with some of those prices? I mean I know Mondo and all... but those are way above market value. Is it because it's a charity thing? There's a bunch I saw that seem pretty consistent with prices I've seen over the years (Olly Moss' Star Wars, Tyler Stout's Kill Bill, Drew Struzan's The Thing). A bunch of them are really low number versions and they are coming right from Tim League's collection. Seems cheaper than most ebay auctions to me. edit: Related: been unpacking some art that has been in boxes since my move and hung this up in my office last night. I know it's probably not close enough to the ceiling for some folks, but I absolutely love it. 
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Dec 9, 2020 19:20
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Sirotan posted:There's a bunch I saw that seem pretty consistent with prices I've seen over the years (Olly Moss' Star Wars, Tyler Stout's Kill Bill, Drew Struzan's The Thing). A bunch of them are really low number versions and they are coming right from Tim League's collection. Seems cheaper than most ebay auctions to me. I guess so - also I thought that Laurent Durieux Jaws was newer than 2013. Nevermind I guess. Shame my signed Laurent Durieux BTFII Mondo isn't worth that much ha. Also I'm about to get rid of my entire Mondo and BNG collection (well except for a few rarities I have actually hung up).
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Dec 9, 2020 19:31
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My interest in Mondo tanked almost immediately once it became impossible to actually buy a print from them directly and you had to hit ebay 5min after they sold out because everyone was using bots to rush their site. Kinda seemed like the artist quality also really dwindled in the last 5-7 years.
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Dec 9, 2020 19:39
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Sirotan posted:My interest in Mondo tanked almost immediately once it became impossible to actually buy a print from them directly and you had to hit ebay 5min after they sold out because everyone was using bots to rush their site. Kinda seemed like the artist quality also really dwindled in the last 5-7 years. Yeah I had a really bad customer support sitch with them and that soured me on them. Then I moved over to Bottleneck Galleries who are loads better. Or they were.... Just today there was a Gabz LOTR triptych going on sale. I wanted to get the foil variant. And, it should be noted that, when I'm ready, I've been 100% able to get what I wanted from BNG. They actively cancel bot orders and aren't as in-demand as Mondo. But today - as I was hittin' F5 - the *second* the Foil Variant popped up it was sold out. Ugh. Of course people on twitter are all "uh.... wtf BNG?" and they haven't responded. That combined with the subject matter just being the same over and over and over again... I'm done with the poster game for a while. I don't even hang most of them. It's a dumb obsession!
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Dec 9, 2020 19:51
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BonoMan posted:Yeah I had a really bad customer support sitch with them and that soured me on them. Then I moved over to Bottleneck Galleries who are loads better. Or they were.... Had never even heard of Bottleneck Galleries before, guess I'll keep an eye on them. Though, I am not really in the movie poster collecting game anymore, it really is just the same properties over and over. Do you happen to know of any good sites for discussion and resale for a lot of these things? Not just gig and movie posters but artist print editions. I'm aware of Expresso Beans, which is an ugly website filled with lovely people with a pretty robust resale area and release discussion community, but I don't know of anything else (Reddit either sucks for this or I suck at searching). Trying to discover new artists and art to collect but I only ever seem to hear about things after editions are sold out.
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Dec 9, 2020 20:06
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Sirotan posted:Had never even heard of Bottleneck Galleries before, guess I'll keep an eye on them. Though, I am not really in the movie poster collecting game anymore, it really is just the same properties over and over. Yeah BNG is basically like a Mondo alternative (with a few crossover artists). Just not as lovely as Mondo. Other than the Gabz attempt today I'm pretty much out of poster game too. Occasionally I popped off to get an artist print from Daniel Danger or other folks, but that waned away too. I don't really go anywhere to discuss them. Just here back in the day. I've been in several artist centric groups on FB from time to time. But ultimately I've just discovered that these sort of "drop" communities are just almost always toxic. It's very rarely people collecting to get the product, but people just hell bent on reselling it on eBay instead. That's part of what drove me off collecting them as well.
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Sirotan posted:Apparently Alamo Drafthouse is doing so bad financially that the CEO is selling off his/their entire collection of Mondo posters, some ~2300 in all. Alamo owns Mondo so I can only assume this is one of almost everything Mondo has ever released. That textless version of The Thing is great but you can find hirez versions of it online and order a print for like $30 at most, lmao.
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Dec 9, 2020 21:46
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Inzombiac posted:That textless version of The Thing is great but you can find hirez versions of it online and order a print for like $30 at most, lmao. I mean, sure, but it won't be a screenprint that is signed by Drew Struzan. They also did a glow in the dark variant that I still kick myself for not picking up when it wasn't absurdly expensive.
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Dec 9, 2020 21:50
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Sirotan posted:I mean, sure, but it won't be a screenprint that is signed by Drew Struzan. They also did a glow in the dark variant that I still kick myself for not picking up when it wasn't absurdly expensive. Speakin' of I have the Blade Runner textless (aka "art print") signed by Struzan up in my office at the moment. One of my prized possessions but he signed them with dark purple pastel on a black background. You can barely see it. When I point out it's signed people point to the OG signature that's part of the print and are like "oh yeah!" and I'm like "no not that one...." and then people squint and say "ah... ok ... yeah?" lol
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Dec 9, 2020 21:52
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BonoMan posted:Speakin' of I have the Blade Runner textless (aka "art print") signed by Struzan up in my office at the moment. One of my prized possessions but he signed them with dark purple pastel on a black background. You can barely see it. When I point out it's signed people point to the OG signature that's part of the print and are like "oh yeah!" and I'm like "no not that one...." and then people squint and say "ah... ok ... yeah?" lol Lol I have the titled version of this signed print, and yep.
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Dec 9, 2020 21:56
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Sirotan posted:Apparently Alamo Drafthouse is doing so bad financially that the CEO is selling off his/their entire collection of Mondo posters, some ~2300 in all. Alamo owns Mondo so I can only assume this is one of almost everything Mondo has ever released. If he's the CEO of Alamo, and Alamo owns Mondo, then couldn't he replace all of these just by having Mondo print more for him? It's the perfect crime
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Dec 9, 2020 22:09
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There's also a coffee table book The Art of Mondo if you want to look at them all without paying top dollar.
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Dec 9, 2020 22:16
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I haven't bought any screen prints in a good few years, I loved them but it's such an expensive game to be in. Also still remembering the time I cut my finger open on the edge of a tube my first ever order came in and got blood on the canvas, d'oh. Luckily the frame hides that bit. Alas, all my stuff whether in frames or in poster tubes is several thousand miles away from me right now. Severe lack of wall space in my current house means that probably won't change for a while either 
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Dec 9, 2020 22:28
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I got Tyler Stout’s Robocop from his site back in the day. Again, hanging on a wall in another country. I think maybe it’s actually sitting in a closest now since it was my bedroom but now it’s a guest room.
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Dec 10, 2020 01:09
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Man, now I really want to get that BNG Lord of the Rings poster thanks to this thread....
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Man, now I really want to get that BNG Lord of the Rings poster thanks to this thread.... The Gabz stuff is fun (I have his Star Wars triptych rolled up in my closet) but ultimately it's just too busy for me to hang. I like his subtler singles (I have this Indy hanging in my home office: https://bottleneckgallery.com/products/gabz-indy). The amount of posters stacked in tubes in my work office (not home) and in my closets at home is embarrassing. It's part of why I had to stop. Like... 80% of my stuff will never be hung.
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MikeJF posted:Thinking about it, I have no idea how you'd do a good poster for that film. John Wick style where it’s a wall of white hands pointing guns at the pregnant woman of color.
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This is so extra. I love it.
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flashy_mcflash posted:This is so extra. I love it. I'm excited for the Greta Thunberg cinematic universe.
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Dec 13, 2020 07:23
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flashy_mcflash posted:This is so extra. I love it. im so hyped for this
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Browsing the Mondo auction and I think I've fallen in love with the tall blue 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea poster but I could never justify spending $500+ on it
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Dec 13, 2020 09:46
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In terms of good movies that got lovely posters, it's hard to top Existenz    Only the Japanese one is decent  Instead of making new posters for movies that already had good posters like The Thing or Star Wars, Mondo should focus on making posters for Existenz
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Dec 13, 2020 16:46
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Gripweed posted:In terms of good movies that got lovely posters, it's hard to top Existenz I mean, I like eXistenZ as much as the next guy, but I think its American marketing pretty much conveys the level of quality you’re in for... as far as 1999 movies go, The Matrix this is not.
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Dec 13, 2020 17:55
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I think Jude Law licking that quasi-yonnic portal of light actually does a decent job of preparing you for a Cronenberg film.
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zenintrude posted:I mean, I like eXistenZ as much as the next guy, but I think its American marketing pretty much conveys the level of quality you’re in for... as far as 1999 movies go, The Matrix this is not. I mean it's better than The Matrix but go on
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean it's better than The Matrix but go on Talking about production quality which I’m not sure is really comparable.
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Dec 13, 2020 21:44
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zenintrude posted:Talking about production quality which I’m not sure is really comparable. eXistenZ has arguably the best prop in movie history
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I know you're talking about the cool rear end bone and teeth gun, but I like the fleshy game pod and dumb little glowing putty phone too.
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Origami Dali posted:I know you're talking about the cool rear end bone and teeth gun, but I like the fleshy game pod and dumb little glowing putty phone too. Dog prosthetic?
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Dec 13, 2020 22:23
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To be fair, those definitely all look like the first thing that would pop into your head as the poster for something called eXistenZ. They look destined to be printed out on the inkjet in the computer lab which is running slightly low on ink.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean it's better than The Matrix but go on you must be joking
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scary ghost dog posted:you must be joking Don't get me wrong, The Matrix is a fine film, but eXistenZ is Cronenberg in top form.
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Dec 14, 2020 09:21
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Are there any other movies which embrace the idea of organic/fleshy tech the way eXistenZ does?
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If those existenz posters didn't have people on them and I already didn't know it was a movie, I'd think it was gas station dick pills.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Are there any other movies which embrace the idea of organic/fleshy tech the way eXistenZ does? Assuming you’re meaning “other movies” to actually read “other movies [besides other Cronenberg films]” because...  
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It' such a shame that James Woods turned out to be a CHUD and a sexual harasser, 'cause Videodrome is such a motherfucker of a movie.
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Vincent posted:It' such a shame that James Woods turned out to be a CHUD and a sexual harasser, 'cause Videodrome is such a motherfucker of a movie. Its really weird that nobody has remade Videodrome because the idea works just as well today as it did 40 years ago. Just substitute "website" for "cable TV."
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muscles like this! posted:Its really weird that nobody has remade Videodrome because the idea works just as well today as it did 40 years ago. Just substitute "website" for "cable TV." Well there's always Computer Hearts https://vimeo.com/340562046
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muscles like this! posted:Its really weird that nobody has remade Videodrome because the idea works just as well today as it did 40 years ago. Just substitute "website" for "cable TV." It's wild that there has been exactly one good piece of fiction about the internet, it came out in 1998, and hasn't aged poorly at all.
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