http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-super-cops-movie-poster-1974-1020232706.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link
Wow, Soylent Green looks like a madcap comedy!
http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Amazing-Grace-1974.jpg
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/sleeper-movie-poster-1974-1010711763.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
For some reason, I was convinced Meatballs had one of these, but, apparently not. Also, man...lotta lotta movies I never heard of. The amazing thing about this art style (for the ones that are actually in the thread-specified style) is how, the more the poster screams wacky screwball hijinks flying every which way, the more you know the movie's going to be a sluggish, hokey affair with a lot of bland mugging in front of a stock-still camera in mildly offbeat locations, etc.
Not a movie poster, but in-genre:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Weird_Al_Yankovic_-_Weird_Al_Yankovic.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:26 (ten years ago) link
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/fuckyeahmovieposters/1524938401/1/tumblr_lbkm7zMS1y1qzdgla
sorry for huge
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/happy_birthday_gemini.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1334628848.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/gods_must_be_crazy.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
ugh, are those not working?
http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106605.1020.A.jpg
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_10/1980/0081159/l_141055_0081159_96279668.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Poster_sunday_lovers.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/midnight-madness-1980.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/hollywood-knights-1980.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/48580.1020.A.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:55 (ten years ago) link
http://the1980movieproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/american_success_company.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/scavenger-hunt-movie-poster-1979-1020231488.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/summer-camp-movie-poster-1979-1020248614.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/more-american-graffiti-movie-poster-1979-1020193098.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-baltimore-bullet-movie-poster-1980-1020278161.jpg
^^^ I like how by this point nobody really seems to be moving all that fast, compared to It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World... there's been a real loss of madcap will and screwball faith.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-gods-must-be-crazy-movie-poster-1982-1020265381.jpg
And, now that I've spammed the thread to oblivion: Whatever happened to this genre of poster? Had its potential been exhausted? Did audiences no longer respond? Did the kind of movie that supported this kind of poster fade away? Or did it just get too easy and cheap to Photoshop actual photos of people's heads to wacky sizes and call it a day?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Seems_like_old_times_movie_poster.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Whatever happened to this genre of poster? Had its potential been exhausted? Did audiences no longer respond? Did the kind of movie that supported this kind of poster fade away? Or did it just get too easy and cheap to Photoshop actual photos of people's heads to wacky sizes and call it a day?
Bingo. It's more profitable to do just one design on the cheap that will be the poster, dvd/bluray cover etc. What's really striking me about some many of these is how verbose they are re:pitch/loglines instead of rehashing critical quotes.
Anyway, back to regular programming...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Hamburger_The_Motion_Picture_poster.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/73/MPW-36717.jpg
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
also, how much does a poster image matter to movie promotion nowadays compared to back then.
― fit and working again, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/last_american_virgin.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:44 (ten years ago) link
I mean...
http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/movie/00/48/90/the-last-american-virgin-698551l.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3474.jpg
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
http://sp3.imgs.sapo.pt/0009/60/79/5a/60795ac406eb3ef756bf021dc226b3e2.jpg
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:56 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jq_EW2EYrOw/UZUG0GFD_AI/AAAAAAAAFQ0/-20pyjE3RXk/s1600/High-Ballin
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qyf3yv2AGKA/UfAOP2BRB8I/AAAAAAAAFiY/rOsMkkyq16o/s1600/Checkered+Flag+or+Crash.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ihqTjoYfh_8/TX-tNvDb5dI/AAAAAAAAAM4/98ylt-hSNWY/s1600/Great+Smokey+Roadblock.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link
on golden pond has a lack of busy and caricature style.
― fit and working again, Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzMTM3NDMyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODUyODAyMQ@@._V1_.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:07 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/rafferty-and-the-gold-dust-twins-movie-poster-1975-1020234909.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.stargatecinema.com/images/magictoolbox_cache/3bf842518f40ca6b8a10b619b8e02daf/2/3/23044/thumb400x400/2808-04.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:11 (ten years ago) link
It still amazes me what a huge fucking deal Smokey and the Bandit was. Like, of all the movies to reverberate all through american culture, why that one?
― Dan I., Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:19 (ten years ago) link
Not sure, but coincidentally http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-hal-needham/
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:22 (ten years ago) link
Dude, have you ever seen Smokey & The Bandit?
Sure there was the space movie in 1977, but nothing says Welcome to Carter Country like S&TB.
Also Jackie Gleason.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:29 (ten years ago) link
S&TB knock-offs were also easier to make on the cheap. All the fx were live things with cars & trucks, and usually the whole film would wrap in in less than 40 days. The commentary on The Cannonball Run dvd reveals just how easy it was to make a film like that.
Unrelated: Sorry about the two Rafferty posters...the first one wasn't showing up after I posted it.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/93/MPW-46753
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:31 (ten years ago) link
^^Also note that Animal House was a phenomena similar to that of S&TB.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.emovieposter.com/images/moviestars/AA130709/550/6sh_fitzwilly_JC07899_L.jpg
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 07:24 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/187/717/026/dick-van-dyke-and-bob-newhart-in-cold-turkey-b79dc.jpg
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 07:27 (ten years ago) link
was there ever a less-loved sequel to a hugely successful film than More American Graffiti?
― piscesx, Saturday, 26 October 2013 08:26 (ten years ago) link
Good question. Grease 2 would be a contender. Or The Exorcist II: The Heretic.
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 08:52 (ten years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/Goodbye-Pork-Pie_zps50079b4f.jpg
i wanna watch all of these movies btw, including ones like this that i know i've watched even tho i can't remember a thing about it
― increasingly desperate demand for high (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:34 (ten years ago) link
^exactly my reaction. Also: would totally put these posters up in my house.
― Jesus (wins), Saturday, 26 October 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, no matter how disappointing it'd probably be, there's something about these posters that just makes you wanna give it a go. I wonder how many of these I've seen as five-to-twenty-minute blips when I was just channel surfing as a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I bet they made for good USA filler.
http://garywarnett.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/fraternityrow.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Montecarlo.jpeg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:45 (ten years ago) link