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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That is beyond the nail on the head. There's a difference between casually introducing all of these outlandish concepts (the Marvel stuff, for all it's faults, has resurrected all of these characters nobody gives a flying gently caress about) and pretending you already care. The flippant attitude about it just makes it funnier, like you're uncool for not knowing who the Green Lantern's lameass villains are. Oh, you never heard of Hector Hammond? I bet you've gotten laid before too, chump.
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Just saw the The Master bluray cover. Not a fan. Maybe if they really looked like emerging from an ink blot test, but that'd still be cheesy. I'd have rather they just used that weird blue kaleidoscope theatrical poster. It's no  at least.
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Just finished Paris, Texas, and I really like the cover of the criterion collection: Doesn't say a whole lot about the film, but I like it better that way. I also just have a weakness for simple landscape shots as posters.
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Feb 17, 2013 19:41
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just saw the The Master bluray cover. Not a fan. On that note, his teaser poster recalls the one for "The Prestige": 
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just saw the The Master bluray cover. Not a fan. From what I've read, the cover is actually reversible; I can't find the reverse from my googling on my phone, but I remember people saying the back was better.
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ClydeUmney posted:From what I've read, the cover is actually reversible; I can't find the reverse from my googling on my phone, but I remember people saying the back was better.  That's it. Here's an idiotic unboxing, just mute it and go through the video and you can see it comes with a Postcard also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UWbi-gEpqU
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Feb 18, 2013 03:20
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In the never-ending category of "lazy minimalist": Seriously, they go with the chess metaphor and don't bother to think to make all the pawns on the other side black, and then have the "camera" above a line of white pawns and one bishop? For loving shame.
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Feb 18, 2013 09:00
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mind the walrus posted:In the never-ending category of "lazy minimalist":
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Hedenius posted:That's a queen. Yeah? So? Why is it surrounded by white pawns? Why not have it surrounded by black pawns, facing white pawns and a bishop on the other side? Because Bishop was the name of a character. This idea is just as bad.
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Feb 18, 2013 12:07
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The colonial marines wore lighter fatigues (white pawns, which also invokes the traditional military metaphor of pawns), and the black queen is... well, the queen. It's a bad poster, and your idea would be a more robust image, but you're digging for things to be mad about.
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Feb 18, 2013 12:40
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They're right though, they should all be black if you're even pretending to do a chess metaphor. But it's still crap...  (Added another filter for good measure, did you know there's a "posterize" filter? How great is that!)
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Feb 18, 2013 12:58
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Of course the alien queen is black, you racist poster maker. Training Day would be a better movie for a chess poster anyway.
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Feb 18, 2013 13:31
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 This is just glorious. e: No poo poo? V V V V FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 14:18
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That's.. a turd.
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Feb 18, 2013 14:22
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Vegetable posted:That's.. a turd. Who would dare put a turd on a poster? Who would dare?! Now we must out-filth the rear end in a top hat or assholes that made this poster, and then they must die!
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Feb 18, 2013 14:35
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GonSmithe posted:
That's okay. Wonder why the PSH photo is made to look like civil war photography old. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 14:39
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We watched a movie last night that put me down a weird movie poster hole. The movie was Pontypool, which is a kinda-zombie movie with a twist. The poster on Netflix looked like this:  Which I think is at least eye-catching, though not terribly representative of the movie. IMDB had this one, which just looks funny:  That face makes another (flipped) appearance for this one, which is especially notable since there are literally no guns in this movie. Nobody gets shot, at least not on camera, not by a handgun, and not by any of the main characters. Spoilers for the movie: At the end the military comes and blows everyone away, but they do it off camera from their helicopters with great big anti personnel weapons.  Here are a few more:    edit - I took out my plot description, as its too spoilery. The movie is good - watch it. ChetReckless fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Feb 19, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 15:53
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Maybe it's a good "hook" for people who might otherwise overlook the movie, but spelling out on the posters the central premise of the film kind of ruins the surprise. We don't even find out what the "virus" is until like 3/4 of the way through the film, and it's better that way.
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Feb 18, 2013 16:12
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Tewratomeh posted:Maybe it's a good "hook" for people who might otherwise overlook the movie, but spelling out on the posters the central premise of the film kind of ruins the surprise. We don't even find out what the "virus" is until like 3/4 of the way through the film, and it's better that way. Yeah, Pontypool is an excellent movie but it's probably hard to advertise it without spoiling the plot or making it look like a generic zombie movie.
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Feb 18, 2013 16:37
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effectual posted:
Or, you know, a picture of Eva Mendes in the nude.
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Feb 18, 2013 16:48
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effectual posted:Training Day would be a better movie for a chess poster anyway. Actually, Fresh would be better for a chess poster. For an Aliens poster, I'd like to see a bank of monitors with what looks like FPS being played on them, but is in reality, the Marines helmet cams recording their first contact with the xenomorphs.
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Feb 18, 2013 16:59
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Young Freud posted:Actually, Fresh would be better for a chess poster. Or how about a musical called Chess?  Hey look, Bobby Fisher's story got a chess themed poster (and its a pretty great poster in its own right).  So let's crop it out on the international poster. 
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Feb 18, 2013 19:03
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Another chess-themed poster for a chess-themed movie:
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Feb 18, 2013 20:05
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Jedit posted:Another chess-themed poster for a chess-themed movie: I hope this plays during the credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRFWQoXq4c
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Feb 18, 2013 20:44
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Jedit posted:Another chess-themed poster for a chess-themed movie: Thought that was Zachary Quinto at first.
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Feb 18, 2013 20:47
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Beyond sane knolls posted:I hope this plays during the credits: I also found the video game tie in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Move
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Some more failures found on reddit: I actually like the intent and think that on its own it's a nice image, but once again it's grossly unrepresentative. I'd expect a movie closer to Straw Dogs or even The Grey with a poster like this. The candy-colored mouths ruin what is otherwise a perfectly serviceable cover to another edition of Jack London's "Call of the Wild" or "White Fang."  The format is tired (I recall it being used for multiple GBS photoshop threads as far back as  ), but I think it's at least tonally consistent with the movie's aesthetic and at least features something from the drat movie.
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Speaking of, does anyone have the link to the GBS Grindhouse poster thread? e: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/grindhouse-movies.php Probably should have used google "something awful Grindhouse" instead of searching the forums. The Anime Liker fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 22:02
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I really like this poster. Makes me feel uncomfortable.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Speaking of, does anyone have the link to the GBS Grindhouse poster thread? The robocop one is just so flawless.
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mind the walrus posted:I actually like the intent and think that on its own it's a nice image, but once again it's grossly unrepresentative. I'd expect a movie closer to Straw Dogs or even The Grey with a poster like this. The candy-colored mouths ruin what is otherwise a perfectly serviceable cover to another edition of Jack London's "Call of the Wild" or "White Fang." Yeah, I see what the artist is going for but it doesn't give a good idea of the movie. Also, the coloured teeth, while relevant (barely) to the film, are just silly.
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Ez posted:Yeah, Pontypool is an excellent movie but it's probably hard to advertise it without spoiling the plot or making it look like a generic zombie movie. It is: up until this moment I was under the impression that Pontypool was a generic zombie movie, albeit one made in the UK and with a low budget. And I might have heard something about zombie sheep (spoilered just in case this is actually a big thing in the movie)? Now I'm more interested in seeing it but also kind of bummed that I know the big twist.
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You must have Pontypool mixed up with another movie. It's Canadian and there aren't zombie sheep as far as I remember. Go see Pontypool while you have no idea what it is  edit: "Black Sheep" from New Zealand is the zombie sheep movie. It's pretty fun too. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Feb 19, 2013 |
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Feb 19, 2013 13:23
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Yeah looks like it was even harder to advertise than I thought, at least to morons like me 
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Pontypool is verrry Canadian. Stephen McHattie is pretty great in it, though, at least we thought so. Even if you know the gist of the plot I think its still worth seeing how much a movie can do in the genre using only one building (one room, mostly). It's very tell-don't-show, but in a way that I thought maintained tension. edit - I also took out my plot description from the poster post, in the hopes that I didn't ruin too much for anyone. ChetReckless fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Feb 19, 2013 |
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ChetReckless posted:Pontypool is verrry Canadian. Stephen McHattie is pretty great in it, though, at least we thought so. Even if you know the gist of the plot I think its still worth seeing how much a movie can do in the genre using only one building (one room, mostly). It's very tell-don't-show, but in a way that I thought maintained tension. For ages I thought Pontypool was set in Wales. I was really disappointed when I found out otherwise. I guess I was confusing it with the town on Pontypridd.
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The Canadian setting is important to the movie, since the plot relies on (dunno why I'm spoilering at this point...) the multilingualism of the Canadian territory where it's set.
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Tears In A Vial posted:For ages I thought Pontypool was set in Wales. I was really disappointed when I found out otherwise. I guess I was confusing it with the town on Pontypridd. No there's a Pontypool here in Wales too. I had a similar reaction when I first heard the title and thought what a lovely place to set a film.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just saw the The Master bluray cover. Not a fan. Is that the real cover? I was hoping it was a placeholder when it showed up on Amazon.  When I pre-ordered Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy there, they had this ridiculous image with Colin Firth's huge head taking up 4/5ths of it and I was not looking forward to it. But then when it shipped, it was the normal cover.
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I was in Hollywood this morning and noticed this poster. The movie is from 1933 so it's not surprising that Dr. Yen is played by a Dane named Nils Asther but I was surprised that Barbara Stanwyck is drawn in a see through gown and yes, you can see her nipples.
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