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
I wonder if you did a breakdown of these, how many would be fraternity movies, versus mixed-up romances with a dumb theme, versus "great race" scenarios...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-az5xP5vQYww/UV9nMKeSziI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/yxcDdLiqSBc/s1600/bnb.png
http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106793.1020.A.jpg
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/23/A70-11854
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
http://i2.listal.com/image/136185/600full-high-anxiety-poster.jpg
(couldn't find linkable English one at legible size but you get the idea)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/slap-shot-movie-poster-1977-1020465938.jpg
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38850
^^^ this is worth watching as an illuminating period piece, ime
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
oops, gr8080 already got that one, sorry
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
Alternate version of The Big Bus. They seem to have re-done these with the bus tilting at various angles to fit different formats.
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/05_06/1976/0074205/l_19782_0074205_fb8369e7.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
http://www.scifi-movies.com/images/data/0004156/affiche-le-bus-en-folie-the-big-bus-1976-1.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
ugh, nevermind
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5794
and then, an awkward transitional phase:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/National_Lampoons_Class_Reunion_movie_poster.jpg/404px-National_Lampoons_Class_Reunion_movie_poster.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/meatballs-2-movie-poster-1984-1020248531.jpg
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Saturday, 26 October 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
I KNEW there was a Meatballs one! Well done.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/sk8ZdVN.png
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 26 October 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/117/MPW-58968
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Don Knotts must hold the record for appearing in this type of poster.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/200-motels-movie-poster-1971-1020144185.jpg
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 October 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
if i was a skilled illustrator and a few thousand tumblr followers, i'd do a series of posters in this style for movies from the period that never had one.
just imagining:
apocalypse nowthe shiningdunecocoonclose encounters blue velvetcaligula
lol
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link