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

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/fuckyeahmovieposters/1524938401/1/tumblr_lbkm7zMS1y1qzdgla

sorry for huge

http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/happy_birthday_gemini.jpg

http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1334628848.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/gods_must_be_crazy.jpg

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

http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/midnight-madness-1980.jpg

http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/hollywood-knights-1980.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/48580.1020.A.jpg

http://the1980movieproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/american_success_company.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/scavenger-hunt-movie-poster-1979-1020231488.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/summer-camp-movie-poster-1979-1020248614.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/more-american-graffiti-movie-poster-1979-1020193098.jpg

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.

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?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Seems_like_old_times_movie_poster.jpg

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

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/73/MPW-36717.jpg

also, how much does a poster image matter to movie promotion nowadays compared to back then.

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/last_american_virgin.jpg

I mean...

http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/movie/00/48/90/the-last-american-virgin-698551l.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3474.jpg

http://sp3.imgs.sapo.pt/0009/60/79/5a/60795ac406eb3ef756bf021dc226b3e2.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jq_EW2EYrOw/UZUG0GFD_AI/AAAAAAAAFQ0/-20pyjE3RXk/s1600/High-Ballin

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qyf3yv2AGKA/UfAOP2BRB8I/AAAAAAAAFiY/rOsMkkyq16o/s1600/Checkered+Flag+or+Crash.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ihqTjoYfh_8/TX-tNvDb5dI/AAAAAAAAAM4/98ylt-hSNWY/s1600/Great+Smokey+Roadblock.jpg

on golden pond has a lack of busy and caricature style.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzMTM3NDMyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODUyODAyMQ@@._V1_.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/rafferty-and-the-gold-dust-twins-movie-poster-1975-1020234909.jpg

http://www.stargatecinema.com/images/magictoolbox_cache/3bf842518f40ca6b8a10b619b8e02daf/2/3/23044/thumb400x400/2808-04.jpg

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?

Not sure, but coincidentally http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-hal-needham/

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.

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.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/93/MPW-46753

^^Also note that Animal House was a phenomena similar to that of S&TB.

http://www.emovieposter.com/images/moviestars/AA130709/550/6sh_fitzwilly_JC07899_L.jpg

http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/187/717/026/dick-van-dyke-and-bob-newhart-in-cold-turkey-b79dc.jpg

was there ever a less-loved sequel to a hugely successful film than More American Graffiti?

Good question. Grease 2 would be a contender. Or The Exorcist II: The Heretic.

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

^exactly my reaction. Also: would totally put these posters up in my house.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Montecarlo.jpeg

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...

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

http://i2.listal.com/image/136185/600full-high-anxiety-poster.jpg

(couldn't find linkable English one at legible size but you get the idea)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/slap-shot-movie-poster-1977-1020465938.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38850

^^^ this is worth watching as an illuminating period piece, ime