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)
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3474.jpg
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:53 (twelve years ago)
http://sp3.imgs.sapo.pt/0009/60/79/5a/60795ac406eb3ef756bf021dc226b3e2.jpg
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:56 (twelve years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jq_EW2EYrOw/UZUG0GFD_AI/AAAAAAAAFQ0/-20pyjE3RXk/s1600/High-Ballin
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:57 (twelve years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qyf3yv2AGKA/UfAOP2BRB8I/AAAAAAAAFiY/rOsMkkyq16o/s1600/Checkered+Flag+or+Crash.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 04:59 (twelve years ago)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ihqTjoYfh_8/TX-tNvDb5dI/AAAAAAAAAM4/98ylt-hSNWY/s1600/Great+Smokey+Roadblock.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:01 (twelve years ago)
on golden pond has a lack of busy and caricature style.
― fit and working again, Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:05 (twelve years ago)
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzMTM3NDMyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODUyODAyMQ@@._V1_.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:07 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/rafferty-and-the-gold-dust-twins-movie-poster-1975-1020234909.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:08 (twelve years ago)
http://www.stargatecinema.com/images/magictoolbox_cache/3bf842518f40ca6b8a10b619b8e02daf/2/3/23044/thumb400x400/2808-04.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:11 (twelve years ago)
It still amazes me what a huge fucking deal Smokey and the Bandit was. Like, of all the movies to reverberate all through american culture, why that one?
― Dan I., Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:19 (twelve years ago)
Not sure, but coincidentally http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-hal-needham/
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:22 (twelve years ago)
Dude, have you ever seen Smokey & The Bandit?
Sure there was the space movie in 1977, but nothing says Welcome to Carter Country like S&TB.
Also Jackie Gleason.
― pplains, Saturday, 26 October 2013 05:29 (twelve years ago)
S&TB knock-offs were also easier to make on the cheap. All the fx were live things with cars & trucks, and usually the whole film would wrap in in less than 40 days. The commentary on The Cannonball Run dvd reveals just how easy it was to make a film like that.
Unrelated: Sorry about the two Rafferty posters...the first one wasn't showing up after I posted it.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:29 (twelve years ago)
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/93/MPW-46753
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:31 (twelve years ago)
^^Also note that Animal House was a phenomena similar to that of S&TB.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 06:32 (twelve years ago)
http://www.emovieposter.com/images/moviestars/AA130709/550/6sh_fitzwilly_JC07899_L.jpg
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 07:24 (twelve years ago)
http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/187/717/026/dick-van-dyke-and-bob-newhart-in-cold-turkey-b79dc.jpg
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quitch (soref), Saturday, 26 October 2013 07:27 (twelve years ago)
was there ever a less-loved sequel to a hugely successful film than More American Graffiti?
― piscesx, Saturday, 26 October 2013 08:26 (twelve years ago)
Good question. Grease 2 would be a contender. Or The Exorcist II: The Heretic.
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 08:52 (twelve years ago)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/Goodbye-Pork-Pie_zps50079b4f.jpg
i wanna watch all of these movies btw, including ones like this that i know i've watched even tho i can't remember a thing about it
― increasingly desperate demand for high (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 October 2013 09:34 (twelve years ago)
^exactly my reaction. Also: would totally put these posters up in my house.
― Jesus (wins), Saturday, 26 October 2013 10:19 (twelve years ago)
Yeah, no matter how disappointing it'd probably be, there's something about these posters that just makes you wanna give it a go. I wonder how many of these I've seen as five-to-twenty-minute blips when I was just channel surfing as a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I bet they made for good USA filler.
http://garywarnett.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/fraternityrow.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:44 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Montecarlo.jpeg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:45 (twelve years ago)
I wonder if you did a breakdown of these, how many would be fraternity movies, versus mixed-up romances with a dumb theme, versus "great race" scenarios...
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-az5xP5vQYww/UV9nMKeSziI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/yxcDdLiqSBc/s1600/bnb.png
http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106793.1020.A.jpg
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/23/A70-11854
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:55 (twelve years ago)