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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. 
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tliil posted:People who have seen the movie, love the movie, and want nothing to do with the typically awesome official posters! What the poo poo is this?
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Jan 17, 2013 06:34
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Jaws Greek Bathhouse-style.
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Jan 17, 2013 06:40
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Did they splice Jaws with a hammerhead? Edit: Consulting the original poster, it seems that bath-house one just did a really poo poo job rendering the shark.  I'm guessing the bath-house poster is some graphic design student's weak as hell project. C+, the textures are good and I like the title font. scary ghost dog fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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For gently caress's sake. This proves it: people cannot be trusted to just do whatever they want with movie posters. It's official: From now on, third-party posters should only be produced as Frank Frazetta style posters, regardless of the content of the film. Anything else is just frustrating.  This. Forever. For everything. Because apparently limitations need to be imposed.
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I quite like both of those new Mondo posters. Jaws is fun to look at, and ET just says ET all over. Basically: gently caress the Mondo Haters.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I quite like both of those new Mondo posters. Jaws is fun to look at, and ET just says ET all over. First of all, gently caress you too, second of all, quote:and ET just says ET all over.  Gee, I loving wonder why?!
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beanieson posted:It was pushed back a couple of times for a January release, and was not screened for reviewers so.... Bad sign I guess Yo what the hell is this poo poo? There's one that's tonally opposed to the film and one that's just a copy of the real poster with different colors and more junk on the sides. People pay hundreds of dollars for this poo poo. What the gently caress?
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Why did Mondo make one so different than the original?!!! One did Mondo make one so similar to the original?!!!
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Jan 17, 2013 07:16
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You know, if I'd been making that particular Jaws poster, I'd have had a second poster continuing the scene to be positioned to the right of it that was just the simple flat plain ocean with the shadow of a shark under the water. The combination of the two could have worked pretty well.
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MikeJF posted:You know, if I'd been making that particular Jaws poster, I'd have had a second poster to be positioned to the right of it that was just the simple flat plain ocean with the shadow of a shark under the water. That's not a bad idea, at all. There's nothing wrong with the artwork, it's just... not a JAWS poster.
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Jan 17, 2013 07:21
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Jefferoo posted:First of all, gently caress you too, second of all, No I get it, but it's well done, and I like the sepia tone. Now, I wouldn't buy them because I don't care to hang either on my wall, but I think they are well done pieces. The guy who did the Jaws one is a talented motherfucker. Got his Mummy poster on my wall.
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Mustached5thGrader posted:Why did Mondo make one so different than the original?!!! This man made of straw is so much fun to punch!!! I don't hate the Jaws poster with the beach, but it is pretty much a "you need to know the movie to understand it" posters, for better or for worse. Agreed with Lizard Combatant that putting in more of the ocean to showcase something about the shark would be better. The E.T. poster is way too much a ripoff of the original. Nice colors, nice composition, total ripoff of the original and not in a good way.
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Jan 17, 2013 07:24
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Mondo actually already has a better Jaws poster, from 2006: Other really good posters from Mondo, since everyone has a hate boner for them:      
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^^^HOLY poo poo, that Hedwig and the Angry Inch poster. I'm not worthy! Cinnamon Bastard posted:From now on, third-party posters should only be produced as Frank Frazetta style posters, regardless of the content of the film. Anything else is just frustrating. As the 80's rebirth winds down to its final death throes, it grieves me deeply that the painted poster, this style in particular, never had its resurgence. Goodnight skimpy babes clutching the shins of sexy men with awesome chiseled bods. You were too beautiful for this world. 
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:As the 80's rebirth winds down to its final death throes, it grieves me deeply that the painted poster, this style in particular, never had its resurgence. 
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This works better as a travel poster. Change the black stripe back to orange and change the text to info about Amity Island.
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I'm aware, and I love it. I really want a copy after I buy the real ones. But, that too, is parody (even if it is by Boris .........). I meant a real rebirth. Like DOZENS of movies used it.
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scary ghost dog posted:Mondo actually already has a better Jaws poster, from 2006: This is kind of cool. I certainly don't have a hate boner for Mondo, their My Neighbour Totoro is really excellent. They just have the cover song problem, any derivative work is going to be subject to more criticism. e: \/\/\/ lol Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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Mustached5thGrader posted:Why did Mondo make one so different than the original?!!! Or more like why did Mondo make one that has nothing to do with the film and also one that's a big ripoff of the regular one, you beep-boop robot jackass. Hmm they made two things that are bad in two different ways, does not compute, GUESS ONE MUST ACTUALLY BE GOOD. penismightier fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Jan 17, 2013 |
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penismightier posted:Or more like why did Mondo make one that has nothing to do with the film and also one that's a big ripoff of the regular one, you beep-boop robot jackass. The Jaws one has lots to do with the film, just nothing to do with the shark. Jaws is as much about Amity Island as it is the Great White who terrorizes it.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:The Jaws one has lots to do with the film, just nothing to do with the shark. Jaws is as much about Amity Island as it is the Great White who terrorizes it. I'd argue it has more to do with Amity than the shark.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:The Jaws one has lots to do with the film, just nothing to do with the shark. Jaws is as much about Amity Island as it is the Great White who terrorizes it. Sure but that doesn't capture the spirit of Amity at all. It's got some of the visuals, sure, but the umbrella tilted like that, the Great Gatsby-ish font, all the heads down, and that leg, it's coy and sort of jazz age-ish. It doesn't capture the era, the feel, or the emotional undercurrent of the town in the film. It's just loving fancy clipart. It's a better poster for the Redford Gatsby film than for Jaws.
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Jan 17, 2013 07:52
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 It's needlessly riffling off French Art Deco travel posters.  I get the "danger in paradise" thing but the fear factor of Jaws was that it was your everyday people being menaced by a shark who didn't care who you were. The whole 1920's travel poster woefully misfires as it's implying a gilded, sophisticated tone that is so far removed from anything within the film's subject. It literally implies "well to do people get menaced by a shark".
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The Jaws poster is pretty, it looks like a travel poster for Amity Island, but putting in the shark fin and then having "JAWS" written at the bottom just looks dumb. They're going for the "trouble in paradise" thing, but if you're going to do that then do a fancy travel poster and in the background have a sharkfin in the water and maybe an upturned boat (though I think that's Jaws 2 or 3).
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WebDog posted:The whole 1920's travel poster woefully misfires as it's implying a gilded, sophisticated tone that is so far removed from anything within the film's subject. Yessss thank you, that is surprisingly hard to phrase.
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Peanut President posted:The Jaws poster is pretty, it looks like a travel poster for Amity Island, The big problem for me is that yeah it may look like a travel poster... but it looks nothing like a 70s travel poster. It might work better if the artist had tried to replicate 70s design trends but I expect that doesn't look as lovely to them, so they went purely for aesthetics and the result is just some art deco pastiche that might as well not even be a Jaws poster.
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Besides the perceptive observations already made, the other worst thing is that it's overlaid with a secret minimalist poster. In this case, a black triangle. It's like if a Psycho poster were to depict a plain city skyline, but one of the buildings is brightly lit to look like an abstract shower curtain.
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Noxville posted:The big problem for me is that yeah it may look like a travel poster... but it looks nothing like a 70s travel poster. It might work better if the artist had tried to replicate 70s design trends but I expect that doesn't look as lovely to them, so they went purely for aesthetics and the result is just some art deco pastiche that might as well not even be a Jaws poster. You are right, of course. It's pretty but it's a bad poster.
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Mondo seems like such a good idea, until you find out they're in arbitrarily very limited runs, cost hundreds of dollars and can sometimes be incredibly awful despite all that. I mean, taste is subjective, but it would be nice if they weren't elevated to such a rare commodity. What's the fan-poster site that's cheaper and has tons of varied submissions, and is therefore immediately a million times better? My walls are bare.
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Jan 17, 2013 14:39
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Mondo posters have never cost hundreds of dollars new. That ET poster is $45 and the Jaws poster is $60.
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Mister Chief posted:Mondo posters have never cost hundreds of dollars new. That ET poster is $45 and the Jaws poster is $60. I might be thinking of the eBay resales and so on which seem to get pretty expensive, my apologies. Even at sixty bucks though, that's still expensive for a movie poster, at least to a cheapskate like me. I know it's probably really difficult and expensive getting an official license to print these posters, but come on. A couple of their posters seem really nice, but never seem to be worth the money. That is, the money they would have costed if they were still even available. It would be nice to be able to buy a poster I saw and liked without having had to happen to know when it was scheduled to come out in advance, and then sit refreshing a page over and over, which is how the process sounds from reading the reports people have mentioned in this thread. Sometimes you don't even get to choose which poster you're going to buy. I don't know why I'm making such a big deal of it, it's really not. I guess I'm just tormented by the fact I don't have one of their House posters on my wall right this second.
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Mister Chief posted:Mondo posters have never cost hundreds of dollars new. That ET poster is $45 and the Jaws poster is $60. They essentially do cost that much, since you have a window of about 30 seconds tops to buy them "retail" prices before they're only available from flippers.
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Apart from the "I redrew the original poster!  " aspect of that E.T. one I really don't like how stiff the whole thing is. Compare how dynamic Elliot and E.T. are in the original to the stiff, mannequin like, posture in the Mondo one.
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This is loving Awesome and I want one so bad. ...try and tear me down!
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Cinnamon Bastard posted:
Getting back to discussion of actual movie posters, does anyone know who painted this one? It doesn't look like Greg and Tim Hildebrandt and I don't think it's Struzan either.
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This page needs more awful... this should do it.
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Sgt_Grumbles posted:This page needs more awful... this should do it. I should just stop coming to this thread.
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Sgt_Grumbles posted:This page needs more awful... this should do it. "Revenge never gets old. Not if it steals and wears the skin of the living."
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