not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration
A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.
― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:17 (twelve years ago)
re: these posters in video rental places, always musty-smelling and discolored by years of sunlight through the front windows.
― stylings (Matt P), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:18 (twelve years ago)
I think Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould's faces were made specifically to be caricatured this way
― wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:21 (twelve years ago)
more jack davis.
http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/bank_shot_xlg.jpg
― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:32 (twelve years ago)
http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/impossibledavisOSreduced.jpg
― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:34 (twelve years ago)
and will elder
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/87/MPW-43732
― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:38 (twelve years ago)
frank frazetta
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEFHoNt9z-Q/TwhnQG3Y0LI/AAAAAAAABvE/HDVIyDGZw-Q/s1600/hotel_paradiso.jpg
― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:43 (twelve years ago)
Little Annie Fanny All-Stars
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:57 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/first-family-movie-poster-1980-1020232871.jpg
― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:58 (twelve years ago)
Great thread! I used to hate these, but now that there's more historical distance I love them. Although I do have some nostalgia for the context that I used to seem them in, as the covers of 15 year old VHS tapes in tiny rural gas station video rental sections.
― Dan I., Friday, 25 October 2013 22:58 (twelve years ago)
Jesus, Mad Magazine all up in this thread.
My contrib:
http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/black_dynamite_ver3.jpg
Not quite caricature, I guess.
http://www.reggiesworld.com/media/bakery/images/item308/dolemite-poster.jpg
http://ygrael.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/human_tornado_poster_01.jpg
http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/BLACK-SAMURAI.jpg
I forgot the Agent for DRAGON part
http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/120/1200180/6invasion_of_bee_girls_1318804567.jpg
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Friday, 25 October 2013 23:09 (twelve years ago)
Anybody else notice that the Choose Your Own Adventure books kept up this motif long after movie posters had discarded it?
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Friday, 25 October 2013 23:10 (twelve years ago)
1968, but noteworthy:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YyFxKgm8npo/T6976b2X5jI/AAAAAAAABMc/ZeWGrhzS9AA/s1600/theparty_poster.jpg
― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 23:18 (twelve years ago)
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/69/MPW-34757
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)
http://cdn.chud.com/6/6a/350x517px-6abdfbb8_cold-turkey-movie-poster-1971-1020228329.jpeg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:05 (twelve years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QmmW1rm_QrQ/TmpVPsvgCLI/AAAAAAAAAag/AVoOAG-8E2c/s1600/Superdad.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:06 (twelve years ago)
http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/ranchodeluxeOS.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DPYUVscSG9I/UZZ1LoGM7wI/AAAAAAAAVfA/LqtnTygzEFs/s1600/Rancho+Deluxe.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:23 (twelve years ago)
http://jackdavisfoundation.org/gallery/movie-posters
― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:42 (twelve years ago)
dunno what the hell some of them are looking at here but whatever it is.. isn't there!
http://www.cedmagic.com/v-title-database/chor/california-suite-1.jpg
great thread!
― piscesx, Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:58 (twelve years ago)
http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/crime_busters.jpg
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 02:56 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Gumball_rally_movie_poster.jpg
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:09 (twelve years ago)
http://www.sci-fimovieposters.co.uk/images/posters-s/S-0096_Soylent_Green_quad_movie_poster_l.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:14 (twelve years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/fibbJof.jpg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:16 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-super-cops-movie-poster-1974-1020232706.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:18 (twelve years ago)
Wow, Soylent Green looks like a madcap comedy!
http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Amazing-Grace-1974.jpg
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:20 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/sleeper-movie-poster-1974-1010711763.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:20 (twelve years ago)
For some reason, I was convinced Meatballs had one of these, but, apparently not. Also, man...lotta lotta movies I never heard of. The amazing thing about this art style (for the ones that are actually in the thread-specified style) is how, the more the poster screams wacky screwball hijinks flying every which way, the more you know the movie's going to be a sluggish, hokey affair with a lot of bland mugging in front of a stock-still camera in mildly offbeat locations, etc.
Not a movie poster, but in-genre:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Weird_Al_Yankovic_-_Weird_Al_Yankovic.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:26 (twelve years ago)
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/fuckyeahmovieposters/1524938401/1/tumblr_lbkm7zMS1y1qzdgla
sorry for huge
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:37 (twelve years ago)
http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/happy_birthday_gemini.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:42 (twelve years ago)
http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1334628848.jpg
― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:43 (twelve years ago)
http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/gods_must_be_crazy.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:43 (twelve years ago)
ugh, are those not working?
http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106605.1020.A.jpg
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_10/1980/0081159/l_141055_0081159_96279668.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Poster_sunday_lovers.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:51 (twelve years ago)
http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/midnight-madness-1980.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:52 (twelve years ago)
http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/hollywood-knights-1980.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:53 (twelve years ago)
http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/48580.1020.A.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:55 (twelve years ago)
http://the1980movieproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/american_success_company.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:57 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/scavenger-hunt-movie-poster-1979-1020231488.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:08 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/summer-camp-movie-poster-1979-1020248614.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:09 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/more-american-graffiti-movie-poster-1979-1020193098.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:10 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Seems_like_old_times_movie_poster.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:18 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/73/MPW-36717.jpg
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:41 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)