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

My guess from the poster was that she would be an aspiring pop star, but this HBO lead-in from 1982 insists she's a "TV news lady." So I guess she's...interviewing him?

Yeah, it's only in recent years that I've pieced together that Gould/Segal were big, big names in the 70s, Gould especially. I'm 33 and they were basically non-entities in the 80s. Probably didn't help that the majority of their output was aimed at adults with nothing that might really seduce you in the video store or reruns, like an action or fantasy joint or something. It'd be like someone born in 2000 not knowing who, like, Harrison Ford was or something. Not the exact right comparison but, y'know?

I believe Segal also had a hard career crash after asking too much money for things or something, but others would know better.

(ford obviously in tons of teen-friendly fare that has remained very popular - just meaning super big all through a decade and then basically irrelevant immediately afterwards)

yeah I don't think that applies to Harrison Ford

(currently in the process of designing an Elliott Gould t-shirt at the request of my wife btw)

Busy without being busy with people; Carbon Copy (1981)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGC7KpaH7G0/TScHvAO-PmI/AAAAAAAAAsA/E777ADf6_ug/s1600/carbon-copy-movie-poster-1020378095.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sKbo9kU.jpg

Hoo boy, and now I catch that they're eating fried chicken in the first one.

Wait a minute. Is the English title "Carbon Copy" and the Italian title is something about chicken?

"The Chicken You Eat WIth Your Hands" ...

Omg i seriously thought abt posting that italian carbon copy poster TONIGHT.

I'm not sure who that is on the Italian poster but it's not Denzel Washington.

'Any resemblance between Father and Son is purely hysterical' seems a good example of the overly-optimistic taglines a lot of these posters feature

p sure that's roast chicken, you don't usually fry a whole chicken afaik

Stop Exchange (1970)

https://samusicheritage.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/stop-exchange_image-6.jpg

that one looks made up or british or both

South African with some Britishers guest starring as far as I can tell

http://i1.wp.com/laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Drunk_Stoned_Brilliant_Dead_Poster.jpg

i really want to see that

have you read the book?

The big coffee-table-sized book? Yep, it's great.

trailer for this looks great too

great poster.

Recent ones from Every70sMovie:

http://cdn1.buuteeq.com/upload/9567/hooch.jpg

Hooch (1977)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/116/MPW-58066

Swap Meet (1979)

Cheryl Rixon as "Annie" has me thinking that Swap Meet contains some Crying Game-style twist.

search Debi Richter brought up this image, which I'm pretty sure is from some softcore booby movie I saw on premium cable in my adolescence. Anyone know what the movie is?

http://img6.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/d/u/duerj2gn9iue2jnu.jpg?kj8as6ye

starring gil gerard

http://www.thebestlittlefilmhouse.com/ekmps/shops/tblfh01/images/istopher-lee-anthony-quinn-james-mason--4117-p.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510-53rnjnL._SY445_.jpg

http://img.soundtrackcollector.com/movie/large/Passage_(1979).jpg

https://amboceptor.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/she-poster-1979.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38856

http://images.moviepostershop.com/moving-violation-movie-poster-1976-1020367133.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/store-11/DOINTIMEHR.jpg

wow does that ever look bad

Not quite up to the busy/claustrophobic standards of this thread, but too great not to be posted here

http://boutique.cinema-passion.com/1658-thickbox_default/vasectomy-a-delicat-matter-22-x-30-canadian-poster.jpg

mort drucker, sam viviano, jack davis are the kings of this shit

this is one of those threads that just keeps on giving, no matter how much you convince yourself there just aren't any godawful forgotten 70s/80s comedies left.

last one is all-time ghastly.

if anything this thread is a reminder of just how *many* fucking movies get made, and how many fall into complete and total oblivion, never to be seen again

Seeing these things makes me long for an Easy Riders-esque book about them. I mean, we've heard enough about The Godfather and Star Wars already--How the fuck did Vasectomy:A Delicate Matter happen?

no one knows. everyone involved died mysteriously

...and no heirs, because vasectomies.

Moving Violation & Doin Time = Boring movie titles like I've got my own movie to do done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

yeah you think you've got some grasp on how much crap hollywood made (it doesn't produce nearly as many movies anymore is my guess, at least not to theaters), and then you find out someone made a comedy about paul sorvino getting a vasectomy

special guest appearance by lorne green btw

^^His final film, according to imdb!

Whoa, that movie was from 1986?

peak-period Sorvino

it's helpful to be reminded just how many awful movies were made in pretty much any given decade.

https://scopophiliamovieblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/bad-manners-2.png

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F06eMU90L.jpg

http://www.westernposterpage.com/waterhole3.jpg

Great batch.