Though I would argue that the basic aesthetic is still alive in "zany" comedy posters, it's just that the Jack Davis style caricatures have been replaced with digitally manipulated photos:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TKzvfeV488A/UXSZCBzI_yI/AAAAAAAABXg/_Ok1WdDB3Nw/s1600/Rat%2BRace%2Bposter.jpg
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/scary-movie-5-poster01.jpg
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:44 (ten years ago) link
that rat race poster is hideous
― He's clearly intelligent; he's a major Smiths fan, for God's sake (soref), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:51 (ten years ago) link
http://vol11.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol11/521/521153/2353810-big/Les-Aventures-De-Rabbi-Jacob-cover.jpg
― He's clearly intelligent; he's a major Smiths fan, for God's sake (soref), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 10:52 (ten years ago) link
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/374573LESRIPOUX1.jpg
― He's clearly intelligent; he's a major Smiths fan, for God's sake (soref), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:09 (ten years ago) link
Now I'm curious: was there actually an elephant in Madhouse?
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
"Rat Race" is awful but at least they were trying to do one of "these." "Madhouse" and "Going Under" really show you the gig is up - they're slightly cartooned, barely caricatured airbrush art, and the only reason to do them that way is that it'd be tough to get all the actors in the right position (and to make the door bulge like that in "Madhouse"). Once computers and stuff make that easier...ehh. I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.
Another awkward transition (sorry for huge):
http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/brain-donors-movie-poster.jpg%3Fw%3D580
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Did I miss a scene from this movie? Because I don't remember anything resembling this:
http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/used-cars-movie-poste-style-b.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.
i'm guessing it's more that the detail in these kind of images gets lost on video/dvd covers and (nowadays) onscreen thumbnails.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Madhouse is a film I will always remember for this:
Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta," "Caramel," or "Treblinka"Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.Claudia: You moron!Bernice: I hope my water breaks all over your fur coat!
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
In the category of homages/revivals, poster artist The Dude Designs strives "to paint, illustrate and hand assemble images which have personality, that invoke those memories and emotions you used to get when you held a video box in your hand or stared with amazement and curiosity at an illustrated movie poster." The blog gets into some detail on each poster, which is pretty sweet. He works in some different styles, and is mainly a horror guy, but a few are totally tapping into this vein. The one thing is that there's not much in the way of caricature - all the actors look pretty closely keyed off reference photos. This and the amount of modeling through shade (aibrush?) makes it look much more 80s than 70s... But still! Wish I'd seen his Heat poster everywhere instead of the shitty photo of the two leads on a pink background.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HBxx__w7rY0/UciL2XPX1PI/AAAAAAAA5gE/9F0_mgHkWMc/s1600/pdc_theheatposter4.jpg
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQxMTIyMzYzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM0MTI2OQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg
http://nebula.wsimg.com/4151447b805ae0b771db4d32e3870d0a?AccessKeyId=71DC53FC6978419123ED&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 February 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
thread delivers!
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
I hope dude starts getting lots of work soon
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Seems like he's doing okay - Heat was a pretty big movie even if they hardly used the poster - but agreed!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1621694_10152250443126563_939017797_n.jpg
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone started making fanart of these for new movies?
I mean, I'm not crazy about stuff like this example, but I would be curious to see what someone else could come up with:
http://thisisnotadvertising.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-matrix.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/139/MPW-69614
borderline with "just any old illustration" but I think the explosions crammed into the still life at bottom left put it over. Wondering based on this one: was there a wave of The Sting ripoffs equivalent to the Smokey & the Bandit influence discussed above?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 2 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/every-which-way-but-loose-movie-poster-1978-1020199611.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 March 2014 01:41 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/akJlaQD.png
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Sunday, 23 March 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
old to semi-old caricatures you would travel back in time to, etc
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 March 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/85/MPW-42736
Not quite selling the madcap sexy humor, probably because it looks like Kate Jackson is about to stab Elliott Gould in the ear.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 March 2014 03:55 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/can-i-do-it-til-i-need-glasses-movie-poster-1977-1020193197.jpg
http://images.moviepostershop.com/bugsy-malone-movie-poster-1976-1020197146.jpg
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/49/MPW-24668
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 March 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
Bugsy Malone is kinda too nice / ordered for the thread, but I'm glad it's here
― Charles, hatless (sic), Sunday, 23 March 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's definitely not 'the style,' but god is it just *packed*.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 March 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Inside_Moves_FilmPoster.jpeg
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 28 March 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Could be busier or more caricatured, but bonus points for being totally fucking unappealing and giving you no idea what the movie will be about (note, i also thought it said "Inside Mars" at first, which REALLY through me off).
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 March 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Marvel commissioned one in this style for the new Captain America movie:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TG40zdMjwqs/Uy2uRIqW6mI/AAAAAAAAUSU/ueJGshkGR6g/s1600/Cap-2-poster-col-paolo-rivera.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
Needs more caricature, or at least, would be awesome if they'd commissioned a poster depicting their serious superhero drama as a vaguely racy patriotic chase across the USA. Also, oh shit, the Falcon is in this movie?!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
Was thinking last night though about the observation that these type of posters size down badly for VHS boxes and soundtrack albums on cassette, which I do think is pretty convincing - but man, with today's super giant size ad campaigns (images the size of a whole building! Two billboards that have to be seen from the right POV to correctly display as one image!) you could really see a revival of these. Fuck, even moderately large posters (like some of the really wide subway platform ones) could do wonders with this style. Right now they look like banner ads printed really big - there's nothing to hold your attention beyond the commanding stare of the star as cult object.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
Redford's likelness on that cap'n america poster is giving me heavy Three Days of the Condor vibes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
That Winter Soldier poster is great - really fits the deliberately 70s-paranoia feeling of the movie (and makes the Three Days of the Condor vibe even more appropriate). Also lol at BATROC ZE LEEPAIR making it to a movie poster in 2014. You finally made it, you crazy French acrobat-assassin!
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 09:20 (ten years ago) link
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m138/dcfloyd/amarcordposter.jpg
― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
Did the Soviets ever go for this? I've seen all those great, trippy art posters for familiar Western blockbusters, would have been awesome if they were also turning our dramas into capers and our bloodbaths into mud wrestling goofs.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/record-city-movie-poster-1977-1020233704.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/bank_shot_xlg.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 22 June 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mgm-assets/assets/Title/1264715234/125/PosterFull-BANKSHOT-poster-001.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iHQWH-8xE60/Tpm9Fi1F4mI/AAAAAAAAAdg/G7v-yhv80nY/s1600/Brinks+Job.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
I feel like a lot of non-Casavettes Peter Falk films could fit here, but surfing Wiki, I only really found this other one. It's not even actually *that* busy, but it still feels cluttered by contemporary standards (plus, caricatures).
http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/murder_by_death.jpg
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 June 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
I can imagine a A Woman Under The Influence poster with characters running amok around the center of a caricatured Gena Rowlands.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 June 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
Broken link, cryptosicko.
Loving Elvis Telecom's. Awww, Peter Falk!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of Falk...
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/42/MPW-21116
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 June 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
oops!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Murder_by_death_movie_poster.jpg
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 June 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
http://coronacomingattractions.com/sites/default/files/news/devil_and_max_devlin_poster.jpg
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 June 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
http://images.moviepostershop.com/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum-movie-poster-1966-1020200587.jpg
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:27 (ten years ago) link
someone needs to get to work on the stuff itt and do it for:
Movie Posters With All References to Movies Removed
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Would decorate my whole house with that.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 June 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Y51yjhy.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 11:32 (ten years ago) link
want to watch that immediately
― boney tassel (sic), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Had to look up whether that was a parody! Sadly, the poster for the sequel gives up.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link
hollyweed
― balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QAvlJfwiG7k/UBw9eFWhViI/AAAAAAAAKwE/EPJrqT9V6kQ/s1600/HAMBURGER+FRONT+copy.jpg
no idea if this is a repeat, searching pics is tedious
― Daphnis Celesta, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link