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

nice.

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/le2gMaULcNXh4sMbm3EWNpG7ntx.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/O/OUTRAGEOUSFORTUNEWS.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/U/URGH.jpg

I remember what a big deal it was to keep switching Long & Midler's names around to share equal credit.

Hadn't seen that second Outrageous Fortune cover before. Our VHS copy is the first one and it looks like hell. Perspective/anatomy is funky in this Rob Liefeld way I think, and just the general style of the drawing is another one of those ones that shows the sad step down in poster cartoonery since the heyday. BTW is that movie any good? I've waffled on popping it in many a time.

I saw it in the theater with my dad and step-mother. Somewhere in the middle, Bette Midler starts yelling about a corpse that he has a NEEDLE DICK! A NEEDLE DICK! My dad's very animated embarrassment causing other patrons to shush him forced me to go out to the lobby and notice that there were two versions of the poster for the same movie.

http://i.imgur.com/dD0p6za.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RJnuUYX.jpg

awesome.

http://www.onthebusesfanclub.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/MUTINYPOSTER2.jpg https://burningambulance.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/onthecorner.jpg
anyone else seeing a similarity here?

arf

not a movie poster but this thread gave me massive flashbacks to this record my dad had when I was a kid, it terrified and fascinated me and the image of Rod Stewart probably contributed to my life long hatred of him:

http://eil.com/images/main/Various-70s-80s--Beyond-The-Music-For-Uni-556345.jpg

Couldn't have been easy working out how to get all of EWF back there.

yikes

I must be remembering the artist from poring through a cache of '60s playboys when I was in my early teens

http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2012/01/bill-utterback-in-vip-magazine.html

not a movie poster but amazing exemplar of the form

coachella should go with that look for next year's poster

great link, thanks LBJ.

Someone really missed the boat by not using that Outrageous Fortune image for a Thelma and Louise poster.

http://www.leninimports.com/tanya_roberts_racquet_movie_poster_2a.jpg

http://www.ivid.it/fotogallery/imagesearch/images/boatnik_i_marinai_della_domenica_robert_morse_norman_tokar_001_jpg_cvuy.jpg

To link in with current ILM thread:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008G2748.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Robert Morsey and Don Ameke

https://scenesfromthemorgue.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/100_7089.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wTZ_dPKCFCM/maxresdefault.jpg

http://fffmp.fffmoviepostersc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2294.jpg

http://www.funkyparts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/4302821368_489853fd09_b.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/320/337/3/S3203373/slug/l/crack-in-the-world-ver2-poster-1.jpg

I'm intrigued by any film "featuring Earth Wind and Fire as The Group."

The Busy Body is top-notch. Taking so much attention for granted! I wish subway ads gave you as much to look at.

https://hiddenfilms.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/133737-1020-a.jpg

http://pics.filmaffinity.com/Botas_duras_medias_de_seda-673344102-large.jpg

http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/square/54046.jpg

this is kind of different, but it is busy (this is by Alan Aldridge, surely? or otherwise someone doing a good impression of his style)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/can-i-do-it-til-i-need-glasses-movie-poster-1977-1020193197.jpg

http://i.jeded.com/i/hot-dog-the-movie.30957.jpg

gr8080 posted hot dog in like the first few posts, smh @ me

WONDER WHERE I GOT THE IDEA?!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oJsnE7OmsSA/T_lMSsWQ9QI/AAAAAAAEqgw/XkyLrCdF_mk/s1600/andy_warhols_dracula_ver2_xlg.jpg

wowwww

attn: WGW (nsfw): http://threeframes.tumblr.com/search/hot+dog

ironically "andy" probably didn't have much to do with that movie

re: outrageous fortune - the laser disc had two covers also
http://i.imgur.com/rZ4Wk4L.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/8FwyOTw.jpg?2

Imagine if there was Twitter back then: #TeamBette vs. #TeamShelley

was Shelley like the 80s version of David Caruso? Quitting a successful tv show for imagined movie stardom and then finding only obscurity?

anyway, i love bette but Cheers is the best show ever so I would totes have been team shelley

her film career was basically successful tho, right? not superstardom but several movies that did pretty well, on into the 90s with the brady bunch. funnily enough I think night shift was just as 'cheers' was starting up and winkler was still doing 'happy days.'

I remember Long's post-Cheers film career being a source of much comic derision at the time, with jokes about it on The Golden Girls and even Cheers itself, though now I wonder if this was just NBC holding a grudge. Hello Again was a fairly high profile flop, which certainly gave her critics plenty of ammo, but The Money Pit and Outrageous Fortune did fairly well, according to the box office figures on Wiki ($54 million and $65 million, respectively). I was a bit surprised just now to read that Troop Beverly Hills tanked at the box office so bad ($8 million, with an $18 mil budget), as a lot of people of my generation seem to remember it somewhat fondly (I'm guessing most of its fans saw it on cable). And yeah, after the 80s she would go on to do those Brady Bunch movies and work with Altman, so I would say she's been considerably more successful than Caruso, whose only film role I can recall right now was in that remake of Kiss of Death.

I'm surprised about Troop Beverly Hills too! Yes, endless cable plays and a good "rental movie" I think.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.hitfix.com/assets/8961/WHAS_Keyart_Vertical_US.jpg

This image kind of reminded me of that poster style. Would love to see it illustrated that way:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11057725_10155891845860072_1080469104974416370_o.jpg

haha totally

somehow missed that Wet Hot American Summer one just above. that's pretty good! maybe just a LITTLE too much of the photo-reference still present - much more photoshop filter than pen and ink caricature. but the composition is spot on.

Dunno if this has been posted, but we just got a copy of this on VHS and I have high hopes:

http://cdn26.us2.fansshare.com/photo/amazonwomenonthemoon/full-amazon-women-on-the-moon-poster-1624106162.jpg