post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

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not a movie poster but this thread gave me massive flashbacks to this record my dad had when I was a kid, it terrified and fascinated me and the image of Rod Stewart probably contributed to my life long hatred of him:

http://eil.com/images/main/Various-70s-80s--Beyond-The-Music-For-Uni-556345.jpg

joygoat, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link

Couldn't have been easy working out how to get all of EWF back there.

pplains, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link

yikes

I must be remembering the artist from poring through a cache of '60s playboys when I was in my early teens

http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2012/01/bill-utterback-in-vip-magazine.html

los blue jeans, Saturday, 13 June 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link

not a movie poster but amazing exemplar of the form

back once again with the panel behaviour (sic), Saturday, 13 June 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link

coachella should go with that look for next year's poster

gr8080, Saturday, 13 June 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link

great link, thanks LBJ.

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 June 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link

Someone really missed the boat by not using that Outrageous Fortune image for a Thelma and Louise poster.

ed.b, Saturday, 13 June 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link

To link in with current ILM thread:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008G2748.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

mahb, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 08:34 (nine years ago) link

Robert Morsey and Don Ameke

tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link

https://scenesfromthemorgue.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/100_7089.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wTZ_dPKCFCM/maxresdefault.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link

I'm intrigued by any film "featuring Earth Wind and Fire as The Group."

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 22 June 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link

The Busy Body is top-notch. Taking so much attention for granted! I wish subway ads gave you as much to look at.

here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 June 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

https://hiddenfilms.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/133737-1020-a.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link

http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/square/54046.jpg

this is kind of different, but it is busy (this is by Alan Aldridge, surely? or otherwise someone doing a good impression of his style)

soref, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link

gr8080 posted hot dog in like the first few posts, smh @ me

lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link

WONDER WHERE I GOT THE IDEA?!

lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link

wowwww

here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 June 2015 12:26 (nine years ago) link

attn: WGW (nsfw): http://threeframes.tumblr.com/search/hot+dog

gr8080, Friday, 26 June 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link

ironically "andy" probably didn't have much to do with that movie

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link

re: outrageous fortune - the laser disc had two covers also
http://i.imgur.com/rZ4Wk4L.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/8FwyOTw.jpg?2

los blue jeans, Sunday, 28 June 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link

Imagine if there was Twitter back then: #TeamBette vs. #TeamShelley

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 June 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link

was Shelley like the 80s version of David Caruso? Quitting a successful tv show for imagined movie stardom and then finding only obscurity?

anyway, i love bette but Cheers is the best show ever so I would totes have been team shelley

you throw darts like a lesser man and owe me cash (stevie), Monday, 29 June 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link

her film career was basically successful tho, right? not superstardom but several movies that did pretty well, on into the 90s with the brady bunch. funnily enough I think night shift was just as 'cheers' was starting up and winkler was still doing 'happy days.'

here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 June 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link

I remember Long's post-Cheers film career being a source of much comic derision at the time, with jokes about it on The Golden Girls and even Cheers itself, though now I wonder if this was just NBC holding a grudge. Hello Again was a fairly high profile flop, which certainly gave her critics plenty of ammo, but The Money Pit and Outrageous Fortune did fairly well, according to the box office figures on Wiki ($54 million and $65 million, respectively). I was a bit surprised just now to read that Troop Beverly Hills tanked at the box office so bad ($8 million, with an $18 mil budget), as a lot of people of my generation seem to remember it somewhat fondly (I'm guessing most of its fans saw it on cable). And yeah, after the 80s she would go on to do those Brady Bunch movies and work with Altman, so I would say she's been considerably more successful than Caruso, whose only film role I can recall right now was in that remake of Kiss of Death.

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 June 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link

I'm surprised about Troop Beverly Hills too! Yes, endless cable plays and a good "rental movie" I think.

here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 June 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

This image kind of reminded me of that poster style. Would love to see it illustrated that way:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11057725_10155891845860072_1080469104974416370_o.jpg

five six and (man alive), Friday, 7 August 2015 03:41 (eight years ago) link

haha totally

somehow missed that Wet Hot American Summer one just above. that's pretty good! maybe just a LITTLE too much of the photo-reference still present - much more photoshop filter than pen and ink caricature. but the composition is spot on.

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link

Dunno if this has been posted, but we just got a copy of this on VHS and I have high hopes:

http://cdn26.us2.fansshare.com/photo/amazonwomenonthemoon/full-amazon-women-on-the-moon-poster-1624106162.jpg

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link

(Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987)

Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link

chris matthews screengrab is killin me

gr8080, Friday, 7 August 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link

maybe this is my re-entry in to pen+paper drawing 20 years after my exit

gr8080, Friday, 7 August 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link

The Invisible Man spoof in Amazon Women on the Moon is hilarious.

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link

I saw Amazon Women a long time ago, remember it being pretty funny

five six and (man alive), Friday, 7 August 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link

I haven't seen it in like 20 years but i LOVED it as a kid

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Friday, 7 August 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link

Griffin Dunne as an obstetrician trying to pass off a Mr Potatohead as a newborn baby to Michelle Pfeiffer and the hippy from 30Something, what's not to love

Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Friday, 7 August 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link

three weeks pass...

1941 was absolutely the first thing that came to mind; surprised it didn't show up earlier
http://www.tomheroes.com/images8/COMICAD_1941.jpg

Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 August 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link


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