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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.hitfix.com/assets/8961/WHAS_Keyart_Vertical_US.jpg

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

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.

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

(Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987)

chris matthews screengrab is killin me

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.filmonpaper.com/site/media/2011/05/StrangeBrew_onesheet-1-500x753.jpg

http://www.timelessmoviemagic.co.uk/ekmps/shops/fozzy/images/going-berserk-insert-movie-poster-john-candy-eugene-levy-great-art-83-844-p.jpg

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

https://knoji.com/images/user/billyjackinternational.jpg

Wow, "Strange Brew" and "Going Berserk" are both great ones. Just when I think the thread might be drying up.

The Strange Brew one just reminded me of how I saw that film a few years before I ever saw Star Wars, and how I didn't get until just now that the hockey teams in SB were a SW spoof!

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2480

Fire Sale (1977)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/75/MPW-37613

Improper Channels (1981)

(the later is kinda shitty and not that on-topic but i feel connoisseurs of this thread would find it of interest)

what a weird movie title/tagline

i'm hoping the whole movie is alan arkin sitting at a terminal typing "TAKE SCIMITAR" "I DON'T SEE A 'SCIMITAR' HERE" "TAKE BLADE" "I DON'T SEE A 'BLADE' HERE"

WTF? Plot summary for Improper Channels:

A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child abuse. Child welfare agencies commit grossly unfair over-reactions to remove the child forcibly from the Father (Arkin), who must brave the arcane system to reclaim his daughter.

...with hilarious consequences!

hahaha what the fuck? really did not get that from the poster.

whole thread btw really gives the lie to the "golden age" of 70s film, obviously tons of amazing classics getting made with big studio backing but my sense is that 95% of the time if you went to the movies you probably were going to encounter this kind of thing, correct me if i'm wrong

couple more, this time courtesy of "every 70s movie":

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Poster_of_the_movie_%22The_Fish_That_Saved_Pittsburgh%22.jpg

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/racquet-movie-poster-1979-1020248649.jpg

Racquet (1979)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/billion-dollar-hobo-movie-poster-1980-1020203421.jpg

with most of these the poster almost makes me want to see the film, even though I know it'd probably be awful. but no poster could convince me that I want to watch a film called 'The Billion Dollar Hobo' that stars Tim Conway.

what part of 100 laffs a minute doesn't sound appealing to you?

I am kind of interested in learning more about Bo, the world's cleverest canine. all my google searches are just coming up with stuff about Obama's dog, though. Thanks Obama!

Hah these all look like random saturday matinee movies they would show on over the air TV in the 80s.

http://www.worthpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ShaggyDA.jpg

billion dollar hobo is cracking me up. conway's expresion! not exactly conveying the promised laff-a-minute rate, is he?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/First_Family_%28Film%29.jpg

First Family

(another one for the "you're not really convincing me this is a comedy here, guys" file)

https://youtu.be/2rLim9U2q2E

going by the trailer, that is a pretty impressive cast they've assembled for completely terrible looking film. I do like the Kraftwerk-esque Bob Newhart dummy, though.

"senator from rhode island" jokes have always been with us, huh.

Where did most of the movies featured in this thread go? I pretty much lived in video stores when I was a kid during the 80s and while these all seem like the kind of things that would have littered the video store shelves of that era, I recognize very few of these.

i'm guessing some of them were just never even sent to vhs let alone dvd?

First Family was the movie which was supposed to launch Gilda Radner as a movie star, so double sad.

The impressive cast is almost certainly due to the fact that this was Buck Henry's follow-up to "Heaven Can Wait," which was Oscar-nominated and a big hit.

i'm guessing some of them were just never even sent to vhs let alone dvd?

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, September 28, 2015 7:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is likely otm, I think a lot less made it to VHS than people assume, and even less of that made it to DVD.

First Family was my first "worst movie I've ever seen." Age 10.

there isn't a remotely likable moment even in the trailer, which says a lot