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csidle posted:Could you at least fix it, then? I, too, was only saved by the other poster pointing out your gently caress-up. Done.
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Apr 13, 2012 11:15
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Vagabundo posted:This poster tells us a lot about Travis Bickle - he has his back turned to society, which according to this poster is urban decay and pornography. He's solitary, with his shoulders hunched as if to protect himself from a harsh, cruel world that is full of filth and scum that needs to be washed away and nothing really stands out about him. You'd probably lose him in the crowd, if he wasn't standing alone. I also wonder how many people got tricked by that tagline. It sounds like it would be perfectly at home on a poster for a movie like Fame or A Star Is Born. That's a great tagline-- it (and the poster in general) is the way Travis would describe his own story, which is perfect for the film. So much of that film's brilliance is the way it puts you in that character and the poster's absolutely perfect. It feels like the poster for the film Travis is imagining them making about him.
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Vagabundo posted:Let's talk about posters. Whoa whoa whoa, hold up, there are people that don't like Hard Candy?
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Tardcore posted:Whoa whoa whoa, hold up, there are people that don't like Hard Candy? I've never been fond of the super smart kid who knows everything character, so Hard Candy was infuriating to me. Ellen Paige was incredible though in her ability to play that character.
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I've never been fond of the super smart kid who knows everything character, so Hard Candy was infuriating to me. Ellen Paige was incredible though in her ability to play that character. 'Infuriating' is the exact word I would use to describe that movie. Well acted, shot and all that, but I really really dislike that movie.
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Apr 13, 2012 20:00
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Pretty much. I don't agree she gave a good performance either, it was completely unbelievable, didn't sell it for a second. "Super smart kid who knows everything" is the best way to describe it.
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Apr 13, 2012 20:03
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I've never been fond of the super smart kid who knows everything character, so Hard Candy was infuriating to me. Ellen Paige was incredible though in her ability to play that character. Yeah, I try to go along with wherever a movie wants to take me with its characters, but there's a handful of types I cannot take and the "super precocious, hyper competent teen" is one of them. It's right next to "genius serial killer" terms of lovely character types that keep getting reused thoughtlessly.
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Apr 13, 2012 20:04
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She's the grim reaper in the movie, though. Why wouldn't she know everything/be hyper competent?
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:I've never been fond of the super smart kid who knows everything character, so Hard Candy was infuriating to me. Ellen Paige was incredible though in her ability to play that character. Someone on this forum had an interpretation that she was a supernatural spirit of vengeance rather than an actual human, which makes her behavior in the movie much easier to swallow. Granted, that doesn't change it being squicky torture porn of a socially-acceptable victim.
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Apr 13, 2012 20:08
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I'll concede that when I saw it I didn't have much grasp of characters as thematic functions like that, but I don't see that aspect as excusing it. It feels to me like poor, unsubtle writing. It is also not very engaging. It would have been much more thrilling to see an actual teenage girl take recourse against a pedophile. e: Also, for all the praise that Paige got for that film, I felt like the male (Patrick something?) was really, really good.
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Apr 13, 2012 20:09
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Did that discussion really take place? That is laughable.
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Tardcore posted:Whoa whoa whoa, hold up, there are people that don't like Hard Candy? Yeah its awful. Infuriating is a great way to describe it, and the one-two punch of this and Juno made me really dislike Ellen Paige forever.
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csidle posted:e: Also, for all the praise that Paige got for that film, I felt like the male (Patrick something?) was really, really good. Patrick Wilson. Better known now for playing Nite Owl in Watchmen, and he'll be in Prometheus this summer. On which subject and to get back on topic, do we have any Prometheus posters to look at yet?
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Only this one, apparently.
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These are the only ones I could find, I don't know if they're fan made or what...but I'm not excited about them: Edit: The trailer was spectacular but the posters aren't? They better show something mind blowing before June.   
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Those first 2 are definitely fake, the first one has the wrong date on it for a start. Also, the replication of the Alien tagline would be out of place given how much Scott has played down the connection to the earlier film.
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Third one's fake too. Looks like the text was added in Paint.
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Vagabundo posted:
This just made me realise that Frances McDormand had never been in a Wes Anderson film until Moonrise Kingdom. That seems so weird, given how perfect McDormand is for his kind of creative voice.
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How is it not evident that those are fake? Studio's simply don't have multiple logos/looks etc for their films.
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PriorMarcus posted:How is it not evident that those are fake? I think logos sometimes have changed? I'm trying to make memory but I swear there are some posters where the fonts,looks and logo changed from the teaser to the main poster. I didn't mention the crappy tagline,a BIG give away -I was lazy to edit/reply- but I was really hoping that at least the fan made/fake ones were better. I don't mean that the original one is bad done, I simply find it boring. Edit: Here,have another fan made poster, this one is freaking me up. 
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Apr 14, 2012 03:07
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A reverse GIS on the first two took me to a Prometheus fan art site, so that's a bit of a giveaway about whether or not they're authentic. Third one looks like someone slapped the title, "June," the Scott Free logo and Fox logo on to some officially released photos so who knows?
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bows1 posted:Yeah its awful. Infuriating is a great way to describe it, and the one-two punch of this and Juno made me really dislike Ellen Paige forever. She's literally so terrible to watch that I started rooting for the pedophile near the end
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Wolfsheim posted:She's literally so terrible to watch that I started rooting for the pedophile near the end Admit it, you were rooting for the pedophile from the beginning, weren't you?
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Admit it, you were rooting for the pedophile from the beginning, weren't you? Patrick Wilson can't not be likable no matter how hard he tries 
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I think that's actually the point of the movie. You typically always want to side with the protagonist. Especially when the antagonist is about to cut his drat balls off!!!! It's just that this time the protagonist happens to be a pedophile/possible murderer. It made the movie challenging, and I liked it.
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  TEAL AND ORANGE  (This one is obviously fan-made too, but it was put up on the official Facebook page along with some terrible fanart)
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Rough Lobster posted:I think that's actually the point of the movie. You typically always want to side with the protagonist. Especially when the antagonist is about to cut his drat balls off!!!! I'm pretty sure we also don't know for sure he's a short-eyes until well past the halfway stage of the movie, but Ellen Page is clearly off whack long before then.
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All I can see is a toilet seat.
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Soonmot posted:All I can see is a toilet seat. The subtext!
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Vagabundo posted:Only this one, apparently. I really dig this poster. There's a really lovely/run down movie theater near my parents' house and they had this poster tacked up with thumbtacks on the wall. I was this close to stealing it.
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Rough Lobster posted:I think that's actually the point of the movie. You typically always want to side with the protagonist. Especially when the antagonist is about to cut his drat balls off!!!! Yeah, I thought that was the point too. It's basically a continuation of the themes of M (1931), with some changes (portraying us, the viewers as a psycho child rather then a bunch of immoral criminals, for one). This is kinda the standard procedure with "gore porn" films though. Critical thought seems to fly out the window as soon as a certain level of gore i achieved. And yes I'm  as gently caress, why do you ask?
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Soonmot posted:All I can see is a toilet seat. You don't get it, we are the toilet seat. VVVVV 
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Apr 14, 2012 21:36
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Dr.Oblivious posted:You don't get it, we are the toilet seat. You don't get it, we are the orange diarrhea water.
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Blue and orange are my favourite colours, so I doubt that I will ever tire of that motif. That poster, though... Once you see the seat it cannot be unseen. 
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For everyone knocking Hard Candy for Ellen Page's character being a "super-smart kid who knows everything," wasn't it strongly implied that she was really a university-level medical student?
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Max22 posted:For everyone knocking Hard Candy for Ellen Page's character being a "super-smart kid who knows everything," wasn't it strongly implied that she was really a university-level medical student? Explain. I don't remember anything of the sort but it sounds really interesting.
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I'm in love with this 1934 poster:
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penismightier posted:I'm in love with this 1934 poster: Her face is amazing. "Oh my!"
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