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Vargo posted:Thanks to Sheldrake and the CineD Secret Santa, I now have a framed copy of this hanging in my house. Now is the mission to get all the principals to sign that copy. I think Grodin still alive.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Maybe not the most obvious example of a terrible poster, but I come across this one almost daily and it's absolutely godawful. This is pretty awful. It looks very much like the mainstream DVD cover version, since I doubt audiences would have got the gestalt reference of the initial poster...  See how the Freud and Jung are merging together, almost to become some sort of third being with Keira Knightly. The desaturation also gives a supernatural quality to the poster, but it works within the context of the film. Also, I'm pretty sure this is a reference to an earlier Cronenberg film... 
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Jan 22, 2012 17:08
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Dissapointed Owl posted:See, even though I'm not a fan of this one either, at least it's trying to say something. It's implying something. Bringing something to the table. Yeah, it could be a lot better, but it seems far more cerebral than the other one. Also, I'm not even sure if you could imply "period piece" from the first poster posted, because of Knightly's up do and lack of identifiable clothing. She looks more like classy call girl and Mortensen and Fassbinder are her johns.
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Jan 22, 2012 18:33
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Professor Clumsy posted:Oh my! I gotta ask what is this really. I know what it's supposed to look like, it looks like it could be close-up of a drawn face or a printed page that, out of context, is being made to look like the abdomen of a naked woman.
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Jan 23, 2012 01:50
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Desperado Bones posted:And finally: Isn't it just Panem watching the Games? That's hardly the world. Also, I can't help but see the red olive branches of the Battle Royale logo on the ground in front of her.
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Jan 23, 2012 19:44
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fenix down posted:Here we go again! :P I know, but if they don't want people to make that connection, then they need to stop putting in stuff that does. Olive branches have been around forever, but they could have used some other color other than red.
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Jan 23, 2012 20:42
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Mister Chief posted:Here is a good poster for a film about kids killing each other. I don't know why you used the Chinese poster, but it sums up the point well, with Kitano in the center of everything and the student marked out and "41 to go" above them. I believe the original Japanese poster did that, but I couldn't find one, just re-releases. BTW, the Anchor Bay Blu-Ray that's coming out has this cover... 
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Jan 24, 2012 17:16
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Mister Chief posted:Is that not the Japanese poster? I would have thought the film would be banned in China. It's a common mistake, as Japanese uses a lot of Chinese characters in their Kanji alphabet. However, the Japanese used the Katakana alphabet for the title work for Battle Royale, which they tend to use for foreign words and abbreviations and the like, so that's how I knew it was Chinese. This is the closest I've found to the Japanese poster and it's really for the VHS and DVD release.  \/\/\/ That's my guess as well, although I'd say more likely HK.
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Jan 24, 2012 17:31
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Supreme Allah posted:Why the gently caress is Unforgiven lumped in there. Doesn't it pre-date all the rest by at least a decade? It's likely the trendsetter for this technique and, like an old trope that has been used far too often and for far too long, still needs to be recognized. It's differs from Eastwood's previous posters: he's not jamming a .44 Magnum into your face, daring you on as Dirty Harry, or howling like a madman, emptying his revolvers as the Outlaw Josey Wales. The turned-back, away from the camera, gives a somber introspectiveness, giving a seriousness to his cowboy killer. It's the same thing that all those other posters or video-game covers try to ape, that message that "this isn't like all those other movies or games, this one is serious". It's a literal example of pretension.
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Jan 25, 2012 04:49
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kiimo posted:Wasn't the ME262A the first jet if I remember correctly? Are we to believe he is chasing down a jet with a prop plane? I don't really know planes but that seems silly. Yes, but they weren't superweapons that most people think they were and the Tuskegee airmen did down a couple in aerial combat. They'd wait until they overshot and lead them. However, most of the 262s were destroyed on the ground.
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Jan 25, 2012 22:32
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Desperado Bones posted:Shame on you Dave Gibbons! Shame on you! Does this mean we have to update that Achewood comic to now feature Dave Gibbons?
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Jan 27, 2012 23:23
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Rough Lobster posted:What is a Mexican bandito doing in Alaska? I had to look it up because of Roy Kinnear's name, but apparently, it's movie within a movie (directed by loving Martin "Edge of Darkness" Campbell,  ) about a sleazy porno-film producer hiring a writer, director, and a producer to make a film about the Ballad of Eskimo Nell, a dirty poem. What happens is the porno-film mogul leaves with the money, forcing the three to produce four adaptations - "a gay Western, a hardcore porno, a family version and a Kung Fu-style production" - in order to keep their backers happy.
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Feb 1, 2012 05:08
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Black Lighter posted:Yeah, I think The Stunt Man's a good movie, but it's definitely not the one advertised by that poster. Are you sure? Because that naked devil behind the camera sure looks like Peter O'Toole. The quote comes from him, too. I think it's a good abstraction of what goes on in that film. The MSJ posted:Found this on imgur. Pretty clever. I wonder if the ads are real, though. I like this much better than the "semen on the woman's back" one. God, that was gross. I'm curious, though, about the reflective one mentioned in Mr. Squishy's post. westborn posted:"Latawnya, NOOO!"
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Feb 3, 2012 01:48
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Cage posted:Found this regarding the reflective shame poster: That's pretty cool. BTW, I didn't notice it before but is that Futura as the font?
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Feb 3, 2012 02:41
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AndyP posted:There's a Stephen King quote on pretty much every mainstream horror novel. I think it would be funnier if it was his Bachman books, like he forgot that's he's Richard Bachman.
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Feb 3, 2012 04:53
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The Triumphant posted:I think it's because the first three, especially taken together, paint the guy as a creep and the last one makes him look cool and charming. After translating the comment at top, they're pretty much double entendres ("I gotta go, I'm going into a tunnel", "I going to a meeting") that illustrate that he views sex as something to pass the time.
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Feb 4, 2012 20:54
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Johnny Digital posted:Original poster: Why even bother with showing both guns on the billboard if they're going to do that. They should have just cropped out her right hand.
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Desperado Bones posted:Goddammit! I do love the accusatory tone of the tagline. It's like it's saying "You wouldn't be any better, would you?"
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Feb 9, 2012 09:46
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Dissapointed Owl posted:But this is just awful. Screencap and unnecessary name change included.: They're aping Old Boy. I think a lot of Korean films that are being brought over here are getting Old Boy rip-off covers.
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Feb 9, 2012 20:08
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Mister Chief posted:Photoshop.jpg Holy poo poo, looking at the cast and production credits, you think they could have hired someone with a bit more interest in the film. I'm not expecting Saul Bass, Drew Struzan or Olly Moss level work, but something a lot more eye-catching than five minutes in Photoshop.
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Feb 15, 2012 01:37
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General Ironicus posted:He'd wonder why he isn't in the movie that his art is selling. Casting director: "Sorry, kid, we got no roles for people missing an ear. Go check that Tarantino film that's casting a couple doors down."
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Feb 16, 2012 21:19
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Pigeon Shamus posted:How is he even holding that gun? It looks like he's shooting through his gas tube and not the barrel.
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Feb 17, 2012 00:31
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Eh! Frank posted:Last two years, actually (although he dies in the first five minutes in one of them). Plus, he shows up in The Road.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Is this a ripoff of OSS 117?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Here's a DVD cover I really don't like: Now, I want to see a movie where George C. Scott is a fly pimp and having sex with promiscuous and busty hookers.
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Feb 17, 2012 21:01
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Mister Chief posted:I want to know what the two films next to it are. They both look just as bad. I'm already beaten on this but it's called Flypaper. I'm posting this anyway because it's cover demanded to be in this thread... 
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Feb 18, 2012 09:57
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:The new "facebook.com/(moviename)" Honestly, that just tells me that the studio cared so little for the movie that they couldn't shell out the money for an actual website.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I really like this alternate cover for that lovely movie: That looks like a Bernie Wrightson illustration. Or maybe Drew Struzan imitating Bernie Wrightson.
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Don't know why I thought of Struzan, but it was likely looking at that pebbly short strokes that his brush work has. The Bernie Wrightson comparison had a lot to do with his previous relationship with Stephen King, but there's still a lot of overwrought, stretched flesh in the hands and face that it's likely Struzan being inspired by his work.
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I see the similar layout for the Pirate Radio poster with Cohabitation And Fashion, but the one for CaF looks more like they're walking on the side of a building instead of walking a plank. I don't see really anything wrong with that, not like the Sherlock Holmes one or the Love Actually rip-off. Also, Addicted To Love looks so way too generic that I'm pretty sure that's a template. And that goes double for it's supposed rip-off.
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I really want to ask that guy what he uses as his sources. Is it just GIS while playing around with existing posters and stills (the shot of the Rock there I believe is from Fast 5), stock images, or does he actually shoot photos of sets and bodies then edit faces on? I ask because that "Walt" poster is really too good and can't tell if that's from a stock image, a still from a Gosling movie, etc. Also, now that I think about it, is Craig's gun hand from A History of Violence?
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Jedit posted:When I heard they were making a Die Hard 3, I wondered if it was going to be called "Die Even Harder". Ditto the third Alien movie, which ought to have been "More Friggin' Aliens Than You Can Shake A Stick At". To be honest, it was called Alien3, which could be read as Alien Cubed or Alien To The Third Power. Then again, since there was one alien in Alien, one to the third power is still one.
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The Triumphant posted:It's basically a modern Ulysses-- one guy with too much money having an insane and self-destructive odyssey through Manhattan to get a haircut. gently caress. I definitely feel an American Psycho vibe looking at that poster. Also, I love that the text is essentially all you need to hear. "Pattinson Cronenberg Cosmopolis", all in slick and sharp Futura. Also, didn't realize Kevin Durand is going to be in this. I might need to catch this on the first day.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Uhh, yeah, I'm now 110% sure I need to see this. Yeah, it's like old Cronenberg too. Oh, how I missed you skullfucker. I loved History of Violence and Eastern Promises, but they seemed like they came from a different man. Long live the new flesh!
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Gaseous Snake posted:Reminds me of This is really a brilliant troll. I remember that when I worked in refurbishment, we would find a lot of those DVDs and, since our policy was destroying pirated media, we would destroy those DVDs until I point out that's a gimmick. The brand is fictional and the "marker" is printed on.
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Robert Denby posted:
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Vagabundo posted:Also, you'll never guess which movie this is: The only way you could tell is if you've seen the movie and recognized Zombie Baby. Also, it looks like it's a Hajime Sorayama painting.
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Desperado Bones posted:Tyle Perry did it better. Not so surprising because the posters for his movies are usually well done: Having seen the Warhol work like the Marilyn screenprint up close when my printmaking class toured an exhibit of his work, not only is the effect is ridiculously easy to replicate in Photoshop, but replicating Warhol's technique in actuality isn't that hard to do. Warhol's big "secret" was that painted the colors on canvas before hand, then silkscreened the photo image on top of it. The fact that, like Big Budget Sequel or Jay Dub said, the marketers wanted a Warhol-esque work without actually referencing one is pretty atrocious to me. I mean, that's basic art school poo poo.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:If you haven't visited http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/ before, you should...  Ernie Hudson and Mister T?!
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