Movie Posters - The good, the bad & the awful

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

Vagabundo posted:

More Olympus Has Fallen. Morgan Freeman will stare you down until you watch this movie.

Was really disappointed that this had nothing to do with Greek Mythology, then again seeing what Hollywood has done to adapting Greek Mythology, which imo should be relatively easy, I should be glad.

DNS posted:

I'm not a fan (CD's own Fag Boy Jim is a die-hard NASCAR fan, perhaps he can chime in), but it's mainly a personality driven sport in terms of fan appeal. If you're a Dale Jr. die-hard, you're tuning in to see him compete; or tuning in to root against Kurt Busch. Aside from that, it's just a part of the fabric of life in rural America - and part of the heritage of the rural south. You grow up steeped in the lore, and everyone in your family has an opinion on this rivalry or that one - the rivalries themselves, between teams and between drivers, are often tangled in a familial way.

Just like the Romans and their Chariot races where people would really get into cheering their favorite color-coded chariot teams.

Meltathon posted:

But I love baseball, and I love baseball movies, so maybe it's just me.

I used to love baseball, but when I was 10 I realized that the Pirates had not won a season since I was barely a year old. :negative:

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edogawa rando: Mar 20, 2007

kiimo posted:

And Victory. Motherfuckin Pel�.

I like how Michael Caine and Pele are a pair of freaky-armed mutants on that poster.

# ? Feb 8, 2013 22:31

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

achillesforever6 posted:

Just like the Romans and their Chariot races where people would really get into cheering their favorite color-coded chariot teams.

I hate this analogy. It's such a :smug:

reply to car racing. Chariot racing fans burned down half of Constantinople because their team lost. That poo poo doesn't happen in NASCAR racing, it happens after hockey games.

edit: And Baseball, and Soccer, and Football

# ? Feb 8, 2013 22:37

I, Butthole: Jun 30, 2007; Begin the operations of the gas chambers, gas schools, gas universities, gas libraries, gas museums, gas dance halls, and gas threads, etcetera.
I DEMAND IT

kiimo posted:

And Victory. Motherfuckin Pel�.

I don't see a sun god

# ? Feb 8, 2013 22:53

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

kiimo posted:

Everybody forgets Vision Quest.

It looks like someone took a young Tim Robbins and Nathan Fillion and microwaved them together behind a soft filter.

# ? Feb 8, 2013 23:05

kiimo: Jul 24, 2003

I, Butthole posted:

I don't see a sun god

I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erQdTUdeABI

# ? Feb 8, 2013 23:11

Slim Killington: Nov 16, 2007; I SAID GOOD DAY SIR

Dick Trauma posted:

Mierenneuker posted:

# ? Feb 8, 2013 23:36

funktopus: Jan 11, 2009

mind the walrus posted:

It looks like someone took a young Tim Robbins and Nathan Fillion and microwaved them together behind a soft filter.

I'm seeing a young Aaron Eckhart, before his chin started undergoing mitosis.

# ? Feb 8, 2013 23:57

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

I'm old so I remember all these movies! :corsair:

Rollerball was fantastic and had a great poster. Anti-hero, dystopia, wacky european office buildings and a bit of the old ultra-violence. All the necessary ingredients.

EDIT: If you haven't seen Rollerball they used BMW's headquarters which looked pretty drat cool for 1975.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 00:00

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Slim Killington posted:

Ice-T - now available in white!

# ? Feb 9, 2013 00:10

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

Jedit posted:

Ice-T - now available in white!

Unless this is a "Ice-T as Gary Busey" joke you are really bad at this.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 00:55

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

Peanut President posted:

I hate this analogy. It's such a reply to car racing. Chariot racing fans burned down half of Constantinople because their team lost. That poo poo doesn't happen in NASCAR racing, it happens after hockey games.

edit: And Baseball, and Soccer, and Football

I didn't mean to be smug that's just the thing that popped up in my head :shrug:

# ? Feb 9, 2013 01:09

Lance Streetman: Feb 20, 2011; A parfait is a dessert, but it is also the French word for perfect.

Dick Trauma posted:

I'm old so I remember all these movies!

Rollerball was fantastic and had a great poster. Anti-hero, dystopia, wacky european office buildings and a bit of the old ultra-violence. All the necessary ingredients.

EDIT: If you haven't seen Rollerball they used BMW's headquarters which looked pretty drat cool for 1975.

I still need to watch that film. All I know about it is that motorball arc in Battle Angel Alita was based on it.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 01:32

Suzuki Method: Mar 12, 2012

achillesforever6 posted:

I didn't mean to be smug that's just the thing that popped up in my head

I found his reaction to your post hilarious because your name and entire post just scream to me that you're a Green/Roman history buff and you're just throwing out examples out of the stuff you sperg about. :shobon:

Hockey has a weird thing going on in Canadian culture too. It's either one of two things, the typical boy-follows-his-dreams story or it's violent as all hell, and that's a really weird combination if you ask me. People inspiring their kids to get into hockey and make it big while it's known for its aggressiveness and fights.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 02:13

Macaluso: Sep 23, 2005; I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

That list is missing the best sports film, Space Jam.

Space Jam had the funniest joke that I did not get as a kid. Bill Murray coming out and then the alien boss going "Whoa whoa whoa! I didn't know Dan Akroyd was in this picture!"

# ? Feb 9, 2013 02:45

beanieson: Sep 25, 2008; I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av

Vagabundo posted:

More Olympus Has Fallen. Morgan Freeman will stare you down until you watch this movie.

Morgan Freeman doesn't have wrinkles anymore :monocle:

# ? Feb 9, 2013 03:10

Captain Capacitor: Jan 21, 2008; The code you say?

Slim Killington posted:

# ? Feb 9, 2013 03:54

Jefferoo: Jun 24, 2008; by Lowtax

Captain Capacitor posted:

Close the thread. Kiimo will never top this.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 04:00

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

achillesforever6 posted:

I didn't mean to be smug that's just the thing that popped up in my head

Sorry, I've just seen so many people comparing roman decadence and american decadence via NASCAR and MMA that it's just automatic.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 04:11

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

This is what I thought when seeing the Jackie Robinson poster.

Bond doesn't like it when you try to steal the same base as him.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 07:56

Carly Gay Dead Son: Aug 27, 2007; Bonus.

Lobok posted:

This is what I thought when seeing the Jackie Robinson poster.

Bond doesn't like it when you try to steal the same base as him.

Both in front of numbers. And 42 is totally divisible by 7. The color scheme even matches :aaaaa:

# ? Feb 9, 2013 08:22

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

Daniel Craig's about to shoot his dick off

# ? Feb 9, 2013 08:24

LARGE THE HEAD: Sep 1, 2009; "Competitive greatness is when you play your best against the best."

"Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow."

--John Wooden

I like to play the game where you watch a Morgan Freeman movie and look for the ways the director disguises Freeman's crippled left hand.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 08:36

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

Mister Chief posted:

Geez, you really wouldn't like Django Unchained then.

I thought the Django trailer just had James Brown, the hardest working man in show business?

You guys also forgot the Red Tails trailer. If trailers are going to keep using rap to attract teens, use somethin good, like Biggie.

Edit: /\ Oh gently caress, is that true? Now I'm always going to be looking at his hands

# ? Feb 9, 2013 11:52

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

effectual posted:

I thought the Django trailer just had James Brown, the hardest working man in show business?

You guys also forgot the Red Tails trailer. If trailers are going to keep using rap to attract teens, use somethin good, like Biggie.

One of the trailer featured a song by Rick Ross: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5sks1-EGfw

# ? Feb 9, 2013 11:56

Mr Wind Up Bird: Jan 23, 2004; i'm a goddamn coward
but then again so are you

I'd probably buy this Bryan Lee O'Malley Battle Royale poster

If you want it you just have to pre-sell enough tickets and then hope that Tugg comes to your city and has enough posters!

# ? Feb 9, 2013 12:01

Lance Streetman: Feb 20, 2011; A parfait is a dessert, but it is also the French word for perfect.

Mr Wind Up Bird posted:

I'd probably buy this Bryan Lee O'Malley Battle Royale poster

If you want it you just have to pre-sell enough tickets and then hope that Tugg comes to your city and has enough posters!

There are so many things I like about that poster, I really can't decide my favorite part. I want that poster so much.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 12:12

Mister Chief: Jun 6, 2011

There is also a varaint with Japanese text which will only be sold at the first screening in Austin.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 13:12

King Vidiot: Feb 17, 2007; You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

Mr Wind Up Bird posted:

I'd probably buy this Bryan Lee O'Malley Battle Royale poster

If you want it you just have to pre-sell enough tickets and then hope that Tugg comes to your city and has enough posters!

I like it even though it pretty much gives away every single thing in the movie all at the same time.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 16:33

Robert Denby: Sep 9, 2007; Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, huh? Nah, get fucked mate.

Whadya know... a good fan poster. Plus, it makes sense in the context of the movie with Takeshi Kitano's painting being unveiled at the end.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 17:37

a kitten: Aug 5, 2006

Mr Wind Up Bird posted:

I'd probably buy this Bryan Lee O'Malley Battle Royale poster

If you want it you just have to pre-sell enough tickets and then hope that Tugg comes to your city and has enough posters!

Wow, I love that. I like the novel way more than I like the movie though...maybe I could turn a copy of it into a dusk jacket

# ? Feb 9, 2013 18:33

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

Haven't even seen the movie and I want that poster.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 23:02

Lance Streetman: Feb 20, 2011; A parfait is a dessert, but it is also the French word for perfect.

Lobok posted:

Haven't even seen the movie and I want that poster.

You need to remedy that. It's a fantastic movie.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 23:13

Mister Chief: Jun 6, 2011

a kitten posted:

Wow, I love that. I like the novel way more than I like the movie though...maybe I could turn a copy of it into a dusk jacket

You'd need to add a mullet to Takeshi Kitano.

# ? Feb 9, 2013 23:18

G-III: Mar 4, 2001

Dick Trauma posted:

Here's the only sports movie you need:

If you ever wanted to see a movie in which Joan Chen bites a man's ear off, then this is the movie for you!

# ? Feb 9, 2013 23:28

FirstAidKite: Nov 8, 2009

I have no clue what to think about this poster.

I swear there's something wrong with that cat (besides the fact that the cat in the film doesn't look like that as far as I can tell).

# ? Feb 10, 2013 00:01

no mom very hungry: Oct 5, 2004; You are getting sleepy...

My first thought was that he looked like Eric Roberts. :staredog:

# ? Feb 10, 2013 01:09

Yodzilla: Apr 29, 2005; Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch

What is going on in those credits? Did they just use the titles of other random things as placeholder copy or what?

# ? Feb 10, 2013 01:17

no mom very hungry: Oct 5, 2004; You are getting sleepy...

"Hey, remember these guys from these shows/films? They're still getting work!"

# ? Feb 10, 2013 01:29

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 10:22

DNS: Mar 11, 2009; by Smythe

The trailer has to be seen to be believed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX76Y8bP8u0

# ? Feb 10, 2013 01:49

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