Movie Posters - The good, the bad & the awful

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The Triumphant posted:

There's a scene where Nic Cage breaks into a nursing home, shaves while interrogating someone, and then points a gun at an old lady's head and threatens to shoot her for spending her grandkids' inheritance money on oxygen

One of the articles in the OP mentions that this scene was going to be the original poster. Alas, the MPAA.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2012 00:04

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 00:27

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Desperado Bones posted:

And this:

But it seems someone decided it needed floating heads and poo poo:

A bird with blood in its stool.

And why does Edgar Allan Poe have a gun? *wiki's the film* Well this film will be awful.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2012 21:02

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The Triumphant posted:

Yeah, guy plays a Marxist revolutionary who thinks that little people will only be free if they cast off their chains through violent uprising. It's pretty great.

You're thinking of Peter Dinklage - who is also great in this.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2012 19:44

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Dissapointed Owl posted:

File Under:

Pasolini's Arabian Nights

I don't see that ending well.

This seems pretty standard fare for Pasolini, though. A good poster.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2012 22:08

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kiimo posted:

Everything in that show was insufferable.

You're actually wrong. It's in fact the best show. And Steve Zahn was surprisingly great in it.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 15:16

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zenintrude posted:

Here's the trailer... it looks really bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ORtLAxueLU

This, like everything Seth MacFarlane does, looks like poo poo.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2014 21:21

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Vagabundo posted:

gently caress your Hobbit, this is my poo poo right here.

I like it, I'll admit, but with the source material available here it could've been much better.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 21:33

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The Woody is a highway one should just be on every cover.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2014 21:51

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Bogmonster posted:

Mondo poster for Four Lions. I quite like this!

It's bad.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 03:42

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Vargo posted:

I'm going to start probating people for auto-making GBS threads on Mondo posters without giving reasons, even "ironically."

Okay, fine. It's ugly. It chose to just work from the title instead of working with the actual contents of the movie. The poster tells you nothing about the movie - like 'whoever made this hasn't actually seen the movie' types of nothing. It's uninspired. There's actually a lot of imagery in the movie which could have been used instead - the costumes during the race, rubber dinghy rapids, the puffin site, the bomb-crow (which they actually did use for the official poster) and the other wacky plots, and so on. Or maybe they could've taken terrorist imagery as a starting point - there's a scene where Waj is recording one of those 'we blew this up here are our reasons for doing so' videos but he has a comically small AK-47 replica in his hands. Maybe do something with those playing cards with terrorist-faces on them the Americans used? Or riff on the media coverage. Or why not the 'here are four normal guys just doing normal guy stuff - but they're also terrorists!' angle? Basically, there are a lot of possibilities here to make this an interesting - and maybe even funny - poster and they missed them all for this lazy piece of poo poo. I don't even mind the calligraphy because as a Mondo poster, it doesn't need to draw instant attention to the title. It's just that everything else about it is bad.

So I repeat: It's bad.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 21:03

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 00:27

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westborn posted:

All of this pretty much boils down to "it's a bad promotional piece". But no matter what you think about Mondo, most of their stuff, like that one, is artwork made for existing fans of movies, not advertising media to promote those movies. They're not trying to sell the movie, they try to sell the poster itself.

I think criticisms like the fact that it's ugly, lazy and uninspired are strikes against it even if it only tries to sell itself. And let's say you're a fan and you want a poster - do you want something that actually reflects something from this film or will you settle for a big red thing? I mean, if you find that aesthetically pleasing ~~you're wrong~~ then that's fine, but even then you can't honestly think that poster is anything more than mediocre, right?

Do you know why I prefer the original poster (even though it's not that great)? Because it represents the essence from the film perfectly - it's a film about idiots who want to do a terrorism and the dumb ideas they have. Like attaching a bomb to a crow. What the film isn't about, however, is what I assume is a prayer mat and four heraldic lions - one with a fuse. Even for a piece of memorabilia, that doesn't really work.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2014 01:40

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