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Hewlett
Mar 4, 2005

"DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!"

Also, drink
and watch movies.
That's fun too.

Lobok posted:

Dinosaurs and Dana Delany's boobs? Welp, I'm sold.

That's....NOT Dana Delany. :stare:

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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Hewlett posted:

That's....NOT Dana Delany. :stare:

Dana Delany does get topless in Exit To Eden.

oldpainless
Oct 30, 2009

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The girl from that game Night Trap?

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

oldpainless posted:

The girl from that game Night Trap?

No, the girl from the Animaniacs theme song.

TheBigBudgetSequel
Nov 25, 2008

It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

kiimo posted:

If only we could combine these movies









My worst nightmares come to life.

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

Lobok posted:

Dinosaurs and Dana Delany's boobs? Welp, I'm sold.

This is the most glass half-full view on this abominable unholy union that I can imagine.

Strange Matter
Oct 6, 2009

Ask me about Genocide
Rosie O'Donnell lookin mighty fine

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
Wait till you see what she does with her Koosh ball.

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

Zoom... enhance!


Again, what is up with all the misaligned, deformed-looking faces in these posters?

Hewlett
Mar 4, 2005

"DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!"

Also, drink
and watch movies.
That's fun too.

I feel like the "them" in the tagline can also be applied to the graphic designers of that poster.

bobkatt013
Oct 8, 2006

You’re telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

Robert Denby posted:


Zoom... enhance!


Again, what is up with all the misaligned, deformed-looking faces in these posters?

Those are their faces.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Robert Denby posted:

Again, what is up with all the misaligned, deformed-looking faces in these posters?

That's kinda harsh on Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

Crackbone
May 23, 2003

Vlaada is my co-pilot.

That's... kind of a good poster. Those are minimally photoshopped pics of the leads. Making it look like google's webpage immediately evokes what this is going to be about.

SuperMechagodzilla
Jun 9, 2007

NEWT REBORN
I really hoped searching that tagline for real would bring up porn or something. It's all just financial articles. :argh:

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

Crackbone posted:

That's... kind of a good poster. Those are minimally photoshopped pics of the leads. Making it look like google's webpage immediately evokes what this is going to be about.
The concept behind the poster isn't bad, what gets me is the really odd lighting going on with their faces especially. I think I'm reacting because of how clearly that (horrifying) picture from "Exit to Eden" was shot with the actors on a stage, and this just looks like the actors were cut from a publicity still and pasted onto white, which looks off. Still yeah, I'm overreacting.

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

Robert Denby posted:


Zoom... enhance!


Again, what is up with all the misaligned, deformed-looking faces in these posters?

Is this the spiritual sequel to Wedding Crashers?

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

bobkatt013 posted:

Those are their faces.

:thejoke:


Robert Denby posted:

The concept behind the poster isn't bad, what gets me is the really odd lighting going on with their faces especially. I think I'm reacting because of how clearly that (horrifying) picture from "Exit to Eden" was shot with the actors on a stage, and this just looks like the actors were cut from a publicity still and pasted onto white, which looks off. Still yeah, I'm overreacting.

This works because it's obviously a take on the Google "shock-white" 2.0 design. Even them against a white background resembles how the Doodle are displayed on the webpage.

Carly Gay Dead Son
Aug 27, 2007

Bonus.

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Is this the spiritual sequel to Wedding Crashers?

It's Wedding Crashers set in a post-Singularity near-future.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Owen Wilson looks fine, but there's something about that zoomed in shot of Vince Vaughan that doesn't look quite right. Like the features of his face were shrunken (as seen in some GBS Photoshop threads) but also ever-so-slightly skewed to the left. Probably just the lovely grainy texture though.

vorbis vorbilby
Apr 9, 2001

d-beat dad
It looks like Vince's left eye was pasted in with none of the grain.

Robert Denby
Sep 9, 2007
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt, huh? Nah, get fucked mate.
This comes out this week.

Jesus… why is that credit block so big? Let's take a closer look.


:aaa:

That is a mess. Look at how many companies are repeated. Apart from posters for Lars Von Trier films, which have financing from basically all over Europe, I have never seen more production companies listed on a poster before. There are seven listed in that block, and if you look at the rest of the poster there are seventeen producers listed.

Also, what is '1984 Private Defense Contractors'?

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

Robert Denby posted:

Also, what is '1984 Private Defense Contractors'?

Hopefully an anonymous, militaristic shadow government from a dystopian future is financing this film.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Robert Denby posted:

Also, what is '1984 Private Defense Contractors'?



Seriously, it's just a name of a production company run by Adi Shankar, Doug Saylor, and Spencer Silna. They've done the financing on Killing Me Softly, The Grey, Machine Gun Preacher, that Thomas Jane Punisher short, and supposedly the all-female Expendables movie.

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Didn't Broken City come out like two years ago?

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av
It was pushed back a couple of times for a January release, and was not screened for reviewers so.... Bad sign I guess


New mondo posters



Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Those can't be real.

EDIT: That is to say I can't believe they would try and improve on two of the best film posters of all time.

Mister Chief fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Jan 17, 2013

Lizard Combatant
Sep 29, 2010

I have some notes.

While a very nice picture, this tells you nothing about the film. At all.

e: is that black section of the parasol supposed to be a shark fin?

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
Yup. I donut like either of those.

beanieson
Sep 25, 2008

I had the opportunity to change literally anything about the world and I used it to get a new av
I guess there's nothing wrong with the E.T. poster, it's just uninspired.

Jaws had a lot of work put into it but is pretty horrible as a movie poster :shrug:

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Maybe the Jaws poster would be better if someone had just made a landscape poster in the art style of the vandalised billboard in the film.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
The Jaws one is the epitome of "lets put stuff in here that only fans would notice". Oh look, it's Mrs. Kintner under the umbrella. And there's here son, hey, there's even Pippet the dog, and of course Chief Brody in the distance.

I think this one could've only been worse if the poster was just an image of a bathing cap with the tagline "Bad Hats Are In This Summer."

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

My reaction to most of these is "Oh. I get it." and that's about it. They take the easy way out by trying to make it a puzzle or cutesy inside reference rather than the bold challenge of trying to do the original poster better. Why not try to make a Jaws poster scarier than the original?

Lizard Combatant
Sep 29, 2010

I have some notes.

Lobok posted:

My reaction to most of these is "Oh. I get it." and that's about it. They take the easy way out by trying to make it a puzzle or cutesy inside reference rather than the bold challenge of trying to do the original poster better. Why not try to make a Jaws poster scarier than the original?

This. Although I don't know why they bother at all with Jaws, Jurassic Park, etc... The originals are perfect and they'd be better off doing films that had poo poo posters.

Two Kings
Nov 1, 2004

Get the scientists working on the tube technology, immediately.
My problem with the E.T. poster is that while it's very pretty it copies that exact same concept as the iconic original poster. There's no attempt at a new take.

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

I'm kinda confused why you guys complain about Mondo posters telling people nothing if they haven't seen the movie. They're created specifically for sale to people who have seen and love the movie.

Lizard Combatant
Sep 29, 2010

I have some notes.

kiimo posted:

I'm kinda confused why you guys complain about Mondo posters telling people nothing if they haven't seen the movie. They're created specifically for sale to people who have seen and love the movie.

Yeah I get this and I have no problem with that at all, but there is a happy balance between in-jokey and "what this film's about". The Jaws one is very pretty, but if it didn't say Jaws I doubt even fans of the film would recognise it without it having to be pointed out to them. If they're just art pieces, why put the title and credits on them? It doesn't piss me off or anything, I'd rather it existed than it didn't.

GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

kiimo posted:

I'm kinda confused why you guys complain about Mondo posters telling people nothing if they haven't seen the movie. They're created specifically for sale to people who have seen and love the movie.

Because if you hang a poster up on your wall in your home and someone who has not seen the movie sees it, they are going to ask what it's about, etc.. I understand where you're coming from, but seriously, if the poster doesn't tell you at least something about the movie, it's usually pretty awful. All the Jaws poster says is that it takes place on a beach and there's an umbrella that someone spraypainted black. It's just horrendously bad.

edit- To clarify, I mean that it's a very nicely made poster. It's really well drawn and whatnot, and if you removed the stupid black part of the umbrella and the tagline and the credits, it would be a nice piece of art. But as a poster for Jaws, it's absolutely poo poo.

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Guessed Jaws before i saw the title. Beach and the big shark fin on the parasol gave it away.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli

oldpainless posted:

"I'm a busy man so make your pitch quick!"

"We take Earl from Dinosaurs and pair him with Whoopi Goldberg in a skin-tight black latex suit."
Even worse it got murky after Woopi verbally agreed to the film then tried to back out later resulting in Richard Gilbert Abramson suing her for $20 million. She managed to wrangle a higher paycheck during the legal proceedings.

I almost want to see some sort of report on the making of as many actors signed up thinking the Dinosaur was CGI and so many crew members left that by the final day of shooting almost none of the original crew were still there.

The result was a film so bad in testing that the studios moved it to direct to video making it one of the more expensive D2V releases.

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BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli

kiimo posted:

I'm kinda confused why you guys complain about Mondo posters telling people nothing if they haven't seen the movie. They're created specifically for sale to people who have seen and love the movie.
They rely a bit too much on aping better established styles that barely fit the film's context, sometimes being so painfully retro that it hurts. It's really well designed kitch. My biggest complaint is many of them force a limited colour palette and really mess up up a nice design as it looses any decent contrast between the shapes.
The Wrath of Khan and the Return of the King are two examples that come to mind. Brilliant detailing but suffers from being so monotone in the colouring that it's becomes flat and boring.

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