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)
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
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:08 (twelve years ago)
oops, gr8080 already got that one, sorry
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:09 (twelve years ago)
Alternate version of The Big Bus. They seem to have re-done these with the bus tilting at various angles to fit different formats.
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/05_06/1976/0074205/l_19782_0074205_fb8369e7.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:11 (twelve years ago)
http://www.scifi-movies.com/images/data/0004156/affiche-le-bus-en-folie-the-big-bus-1976-1.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:12 (twelve years ago)
ugh, nevermind
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5794
and then, an awkward transitional phase:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/National_Lampoons_Class_Reunion_movie_poster.jpg/404px-National_Lampoons_Class_Reunion_movie_poster.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/meatballs-2-movie-poster-1984-1020248531.jpg
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Saturday, 26 October 2013 14:41 (twelve years ago)
I KNEW there was a Meatballs one! Well done.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 14:46 (twelve years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/sk8ZdVN.png
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 26 October 2013 15:06 (twelve years ago)
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/117/MPW-58968
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:45 (twelve years ago)
Don Knotts must hold the record for appearing in this type of poster.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 16:49 (twelve years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/200-motels-movie-poster-1971-1020144185.jpg
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 October 2013 11:43 (twelve years ago)
if i was a skilled illustrator and a few thousand tumblr followers, i'd do a series of posters in this style for movies from the period that never had one.
just imagining:
apocalypse nowthe shiningdunecocoonclose encounters blue velvetcaligula
lol
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:12 (twelve years ago)
It is sort of amazing that Caligula didn't have one of these.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:24 (twelve years ago)
hahaa, i was thinking of the same idea, how great these would be applied to the 'wrong' movies - but unfortunately it requires a lot more talent and time than wacky photoshoppery...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:25 (twelve years ago)
Close Encounters a great pick because it's in some sense a "road" movie so the S-shaped line of cartoon people chasing their way down the poster would work out great. Anything with a big cast basically works.
Also funny how the bodies get bigger and the style more realistic based on how many of the stars are considered sex symbols. The all-male middle-aged comedian revues seem to be populated entirely by grinning gnomes, but Goldie Hawn is always legible.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:27 (twelve years ago)
I'm picturing a tiny animation of Malcolm McDowell fisting some poor soldier in a corner of the poster.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:27 (twelve years ago)
There must be people on tumblr who do commissions, right? I don't think I die happy without seeing that Blue Velvet poster now I've heard the idea.
― this is how a punch sounds, like ditch, like quich (soref), Sunday, 27 October 2013 18:28 (twelve years ago)