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Coffee And Pie posted:edit: I'm just noticing it now because it's thumbnailed, but is it just me or is his head juust ever-so-slightly too big for his body? The other way around, I'd say - he's been giraffe-necked.
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veonenergee posted:While it's been argued among me and my designer friends that this (and other Struzan posters) does fall victim to floating heads syndrome... the general composition, Struzan's signature style, and sweet use of color makes this look more iconic when compared to poster comps hastily created with rendered out photos in Photoshop. Struzan posters never fell victim to Floating Head Syndrome. The problem is poster makers now try to do with Photoshop what Struzan did with a paintbrush, and then it inevitably looks like a dog's breakfast because composited pictures of real heads don't meld together like a single continuous drawing. Unfortunately, we're at the point where people automatically think "Oh, another case of FHS" whenever they see any poster done in the style.
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Jan 22, 2012 01:18
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slinkimalinki posted:There's pretty much no way to interpret this other than Ryan Gosling planning to whack himself in the face with a hammer. Or that he's going after someone with the claw end. Given the movie in question, that's not implausible.
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Jan 22, 2012 23:40
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fenix down posted:I like the "poster within a poster" part, but the weapon behind the back is pretty overused. Would you mind telling me where you think a quiver should be carried or a bow held when not in use?
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Jan 23, 2012 20:22
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Payndz posted:Kind of funny that Drucker would draw the poster for a George Lucas movie, then a few years later do the MAD parodies of some other George Lucas movies. Hey, maybe he'll draw 'Red Fails'! My God, Drucker's still alive and drawing? I thought he was long gone.
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Jan 26, 2012 00:17
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mousku posted:While we're on the topic of fonts... In case you didn't know, Sin City is a comic book and the whole movie was designed to look like it was a comic. For it to use Comic Sans in boxouts is not only acceptable, it's the best possible representation of the movie. And you won't hear that said again about Comic Sans, I imagine.
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Jan 27, 2012 21:22
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GonSmithe posted:the artist of Watchmen whose name is escaping me Dave Gibbons. A sound bloke, and one whose legacy should not be marred by Comic Sans.
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Jan 27, 2012 22:11
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jojoinnit posted:If Jump Street turns out to be good Jonah Hill will be on an amazing roll. If a movie starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum turns out to be good, it will be a bloody miracle. There are some actors whose presence makes it likely that a movie sucks. While neither Hill nor Tatum are on the level of a Rogen or an Arterton, either of whose presence basically ensures the movie is awful (honourable exception: Donnie Darko), both of them being in the same movie shrinks the odds.
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Jan 31, 2012 09:19
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The MSJ posted:I love the look on Dick and Pete's face. It's like they haven't seen a woman for months, unsurprising given their location, and this just broke their brains. If that's meant to be Katy Manning as Nell, then your brain would break too. In 1975 she was best known for playing the Third Doctor's companion Jo Grant in Doctor Who.
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Feb 1, 2012 09:37
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Slasherfan posted:Also I know it's lame to nit pick a poster but there is no way the two girls wouldn't be able to see the sharks. Even lamer to nitpick a nitpick, but there's only one shark. As you might have guessed from the title, it has two heads. Anyway, this is an Asylum movie, which means two things: 1) It's plagiarised. 2) It's poo poo.
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Feb 1, 2012 23:24
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Discount Viscount posted:I want to see someone make a movie poster entirely using clip art now. Actually, that could be a Photoshop thread... Not a movie, but the UK cover of Charlie Stross's Halting State does something similar. I'd link it, but I don't have time to put it on imgur and I'm not sure if a direct link would contravene the image leeching rules. A quick Google Images search will find it easily enough, though.
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Feb 2, 2012 09:30
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Critters 4: The one I didn't see; thank god Critters 4 is much better than Critters 3 - though admittedly you could say the same about 93% of all movies ever made. Search as I might I was unable to find anything on Special Cops, sorry.
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Feb 19, 2012 00:12
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Me too. I thought Thor was a ridiculously bad movie. Captain America wasn't great or anything, but it was certainly better than Thor. Pretty much. Speaking as a Brit I enjoyed The First Avenger, and I felt it was at least as good a movie as Thor (which was not bad, whatever you say), but Cap is too "America-centric" a character to do well abroad.
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Feb 28, 2012 20:45
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Armyman25 posted:And Ang Lee's Hulk is the one people still talk about. Yeah, but people didn't like Hulk when it was Ang Lee. 
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Feb 29, 2012 22:57
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Mister Chief posted:Sharlto Copley starring in My Left Foot. More like "Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley starring in Whose Left Foot?"
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Mar 7, 2012 09:23
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Dillbag posted:Continuing with the terribly photoshopped Liam Neeson phenomena: ... that looks like Tommy Lee Jones.
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Mar 7, 2012 22:25
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Desperado Bones posted:I love this one. I adore it. And I lost the chance to buy it. It's a good poster. It was re-used as the box art for the 1980's computer game based on the movie, so I know the art well. What I didn't realise was that Bruno "Hitler" Ganz and Isabelle Adjani were in it. I don't normally bother with Kinski movies, but I may have to check this one out.
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Mar 11, 2012 23:40
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Dissapointed Owl posted:How come? Because he was a friggin' lunatic and I don't like watching people go insane on camera. The Triumphant: there was indeed a licensed tie-in game for Herzog's remake. It was an isometric adventure game by Piranha Software, who released it on Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1986. 
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Mar 12, 2012 01:35
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TheJoker138 posted:I'm doing an entire series of articles on it over at the website I write for as part of a marathon of all Mortal Kombat related tv and films. It's...it's real, real bad. I'm trying to find the positives in every episode, but it's hard to loving do for some of them. If you want to find positives, just try to think how they managed to make a fantasy/martial arts TV show at all when they had no money whatsoever to spend on it. I think they had something like three standing sets and one exterior location (which was a dirt service track in the woods) for all their filming.
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Mar 12, 2012 09:28
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TheJoker138 posted:Yeah, I mention that a few times. The CGI is actually decent for their situation too, but there are times you can tell they blew the entire episodes budget for a 2 second shot of a completely stationary Goro standing on a cliff that has nothing to do with the rest of the episode. Would you mind linking to the site you write for, if that's allowed? Sorry for the derail, but I don't have PMs yet.
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Robert Denby posted:
Is it the Chinese version of Escape From New York?
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Mar 15, 2012 08:44
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Lizard Combatant posted:It is a great poster. I saw it and all I could think of was this: 
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Mar 19, 2012 09:30
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Madkal posted:I am dieing as hard as I can!!!! When I heard they were making a Die Hard 3, I wondered if it was going to be called "Die Even Harder". Ditto the third Alien movie, which ought to have been "More Friggin' Aliens Than You Can Shake A Stick At".
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Mar 20, 2012 21:50
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Bugblatter posted:Eh, she plays the video but no DVD is ever depicted. I guess I assumed it was playing from a drive or off the camera itself, because who the hell burns a disk anymore? A computer security expert who was only raped in the first place because her laptop got broken in the course of a theft, and who wants to make it absolutely clear to her rapist that the footage he is watching is only a copy of an original not in her possession?
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Mar 25, 2012 17:46
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Desperado Bones posted:I like the simplicity of it,and the way the text was placed. I can't see that poster without thinking of the XXX parody, which has the best title one of those has ever had: Intercourse With The Vampire.
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Mar 26, 2012 17:59
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The Triumphant posted:Best porn parody (at least title-wise) is and always will be Herbert Breast: Repenetator. I'd still put that behind Terminator porn parody The Inseminator, which bears the magnificent tagline "He'll come again".
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Mar 27, 2012 18:23
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Why the hell would you go with The Inseminator instead of The Penetrator? It is entirely possible that I misremembered the name of the movie and we're talking about the same one.
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Mar 27, 2012 19:40
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DrVenkman posted:I think he's pretty great in Fright Night actually, he plays up the sexual predator angle of that character quite a bit. So it's a shame the last 3rd of it basically has him playing the Boogeyman. On the other hand, it's great fun watching Farrell attempt to go 90 minutes without swearing. Prior to seeing Fright Night I wouldn't have believed it possible.
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Mar 29, 2012 18:19
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:If you think a straight faced, closeted Southern Baptist in drag doing a fuckin' Straw Dogs parody isn't funny, I don't know what to tell you. How about "I commend you on your excellent taste"?
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Mar 31, 2012 20:30
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Slasherfan posted:I don't get what was so wrong with the original Spiderman DVD artworks. They where fine, why not re use them? The new ones look like a cheap tacky knock off you'd expect to find being released by Asylum when the new one comes out. I would guess that the forthcoming New One is the reason they've changed the covers. Their poster design for ASM probably looks quite a lot like the ones for the Raimi movies. That's not a problem when it's a poster in a cinema because most cinemas don't keep retro posters on the walls, but it's a big problem when you release it for the home as it'll end up sharing shelf space with the originals. People may think the disc for the new movie is the old one that they already own or don't want.
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Apr 4, 2012 14:24
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Alhazred posted:The campaign for Cabin in the Woods was so self aware that it probably at some point went down to the local pub and got pissed: Is there any evidence that those two posters were actually released, and they're not just Photoshop jobs?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:The discussion, no. The actual reasoning, I'd say 'pretty much'. I just saw the UK version of the Safe poster tonight. Not only has it scrubbed any and all references to the Asian girl, but evidently they've taken your criticism to heart and removed the pictograms from the gun as well. It now contains nothing but Statham pointing a gun at the fourth wall.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Statham + Gun is enough to reel in the audience, I guess. Wouldn't want to do anything to potentially alienate anyone (or hint at plot). Still better than the trailer for Cabin in the Woods. "You think you know the story" ... well, yes, I do, since your trailer gives away the big twist in the movie, you loving morons. I hate it when they do that.
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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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Apr 13, 2012 22:38
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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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Apr 14, 2012 15:08
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Slasherfan posted:This is probably the only good movie I've seen starring Danny Dyer. That's because it's about the only good movie with Danny Dyer anywhere on the cast list, apart from Human Traffic, The Football Factory and Adulthood. He appears in God knows how many instantly forgettable DTV movies every year - mostly knocking off early Guy Ritchie - and they're all poo poo.
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Apr 25, 2012 18:35
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Young Freud posted:There's Bravo Two Zero. Andy McNab survived capture by the Iraqis, so Bean survives. That wasn't a movie, though, it was a TV series. If you're including TV then Bean's survived practically a complete adaptation of the Sharpe novels, so it's best we stick to movies.
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Apr 27, 2012 15:23
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:I think Sean Bean's chances of survival are directly proportionate to how skilled, prepared, and safe he is: And then you cite three examples where he gets killed regardless of competence. Sean Bean's chances of surviving a movie are inversely proportionate to how much he is Sean Bean.
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Apr 28, 2012 08:48
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jojoinnit posted:I like how they managed to stick Stieg Larsson's name on there. At least they have a reason. Nesbo's books simply have "The new Stieg Larsson" plastered on the cover.
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Alhazred posted:But Nesbø published his first book eight years before Larsson did. But someone outside Sweden read Larsson's first book eight years before Nesbo's. (Minor exaggeration there, BTW.)
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