Secondarily, this thread is a great reminder of just how many terrible, forgettable and forgotten films Hollywood has put out during every era.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:39 (ten years ago)
Seriously. I was browsing the Wikipedia page for 1960-something in film and I was like, wtf even are most of these highest grossing movies from 1960-something? Try explaining to your grandchildren what a Fast 5 was.
― Telephone Meatballs (Old Lunch), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:43 (ten years ago)
Wasn't Dick DeBartolo more of a writer than an artist?
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:49 (ten years ago)
yes, Old Lunch is thinking of Angelo Torres maybe?
― soref, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:54 (ten years ago)
Torres is no Drucker or Davis
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 02:37 (ten years ago)
American Graffiti got posted very early in this thread, but this Spanish-language version is a different, equally claustrophobic design:
http://i2.listal.com/image/137254/936full-american-graffiti-poster.jpg
― van damme death warrant (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:00 (ten years ago)
^^With a major spoiler in the lower righthand corner (and also hey hey I went and saw this film projected in 35mm for the first time tonight!)
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 March 2016 04:51 (ten years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com/hog-wild-movie-poster-1980-1020240910.jpg
― new noise, Sunday, 13 March 2016 03:43 (ten years ago)
http://www.outoftheaters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/movie-poster_The-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three.jpg
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 March 2016 07:59 (ten years ago)
wow, nice
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Thursday, 24 March 2016 12:52 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/EdfJljv.jpg
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:49 (ten years ago)
http://images.moviepostershop.com//mother-jugs-and-speed-movie-poster-1020215182.jpg
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2016 01:20 (ten years ago)
time has not been kind to that poster
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2016 01:22 (ten years ago)
http://www.80smovieposters.com/4061/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/finders-keepers-movie-poster-1984-1020340348.jpg
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 May 2016 04:22 (ten years ago)
Oh, that's first-rate! Right down to proudly announcing its very solidly B- and C-list leads at the top. Looks like real Cannonball Run stuff - I have to assume that the cutaways to the two roller-derby girls are particularly tedious.
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Friday, 20 May 2016 05:40 (ten years ago)
http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/bingo_long_traveling_all_stars_and_motor_kings_xlg.jpg
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 May 2016 13:33 (ten years ago)
Woah - just watched that last week.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 26 May 2016 13:38 (ten years ago)
Is it good? Always wanted to see it.
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Thursday, 26 May 2016 14:04 (ten years ago)
I'm on zing, so can't see properly, but if Grisso's last one isn't Davis, it's an excellent imitation
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 26 May 2016 14:13 (ten years ago)
Definitely Davis
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Thursday, 26 May 2016 14:36 (ten years ago)
Bingo Long - which it turns out I posted itt two years ago when I picked up the tape that I just now finally watched! - is okay-ish, maybe even good. Williams and Jones are really convincing. There's a basic difficulty of telling the story of this roadshow team, which was forced to resort to minstrel-esque performances in games against white home teams, as a comedy. It doesn't ignore the indignities suffered by the players, and pays lip service to some of them (particularly Jones as the Du Bois and Marx-quoting veteran player) taking issue with the strategy. But so much screen time is given over to the over-the-top scheming Negro League owner and other plotty bits of business that the movie can't really wrestle with the subject matter. But if you're just looking for a period sports movie with a lot of montages, and some really likable lead performances, it's all right. (I'm also a suburban white guy born in 1981, so I might relate to the film very differently than its original target audience did.) Standard 1970s warnings re: sexism apply.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 26 May 2016 15:17 (ten years ago)
ty, dc
― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Thursday, 26 May 2016 15:35 (ten years ago)
Bingo Long makes a surprising appearance in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: Apparently Spielberg was attached to direct, mainly as a power play to get a film he really wanted to do (Close Encounters, iirc) made.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 May 2016 17:38 (ten years ago)
Oof, I'm glad that didn't happen. I like Spielberg, but 1941 doesn't inspire confidence that he would have handled comedy, or racially charged material, with any deftness early in his career.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 26 May 2016 17:53 (ten years ago)
A NSFW addition for Googlers: the German poster for Up The Creek - Das Turbogeile Gummiboot - is redrawn for the style of this thread.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 May 2016 17:47 (ten years ago)
this one?
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292/adamrsbeales/gummiboot_1.jpg
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Monday, 30 May 2016 19:40 (ten years ago)
oh nice work - i couldn't find a large-size version sans nipples.
― bucyrus ohio, vus cun nus en l’aria (Doctor Casino), Monday, 30 May 2016 19:48 (ten years ago)
RIP Jack Davis :(
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 19:01 (nine years ago)
lol the nipple version of Das Turbogeile Gummiboot is really worth seeing
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 19:13 (nine years ago)
and not for the reason you might think!
RIP
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)
http://bakertoons.tumblr.com/post/94824492069/in-a-way-this-is-a-follow-up-to-mads
Three Cornered Pitney
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 19:46 (nine years ago)
I remember seeing that in MAD as a kid!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 July 2016 07:03 (nine years ago)
That image with the cat in particular was burned in memory.
It looks so annoyed!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 July 2016 07:04 (nine years ago)
http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/10041/p10041_p_v8_aa.jpg
Happy Hour (1987)
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 August 2016 02:12 (nine years ago)
oops
One of the better of the latter-day airbrush school, I think.
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 August 2016 02:16 (nine years ago)
struzan rulez so hard
http://i.imgur.com/7g5fGe1.jpg
― an expired coupon for 50¢ off a moon pie (los blue jeans), Friday, 19 August 2016 03:49 (nine years ago)
truly an all-star cast
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 19 August 2016 04:15 (nine years ago)
Directed By: BERT CONVY
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 August 2016 07:01 (nine years ago)
Lloyd Bridges must've built the last 20 years of his career on playing the befuddled officer/straight man in all these movies
― Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 August 2016 07:07 (nine years ago)
Yeah I was thinking about that, this was after Airplane! and before Hot Shots!
― an expired coupon for 50¢ off a moon pie (los blue jeans), Friday, 19 August 2016 23:42 (nine years ago)
Look how happy Belzer is!
http://i.imgur.com/cVXCOd7.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 28 August 2016 03:24 (nine years ago)
Just saw a Carson rerun on Antenna wherein Tim Conway plugs this film I (rightfully) never heard of...
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5N3RP/the-prize-fighter-from-left-tim-conway-don-knotts-1979-E5N3RP.jpg
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:11 (nine years ago)
From around the same time...
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/51/e5/1b51e5b175dc1269dbc7f1d8f7fcb012.jpg
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:18 (nine years ago)
This came up in the search too...
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/cb41108ca3ea4b7e9e84b79fb0080964/the-shaggy-da-us-poster-suzanne-pleshette-center-rear-tim-conway-striped-e5nn3k.jpg
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:20 (nine years ago)
...and this
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1c/1a/9e/1c1a9e24a609244d3d1cbca985a4ac8c.jpg
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:22 (nine years ago)
No Conway No Cred...
http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/l/h/lhb1qhm7r0z50r5h.jpg?djet1p5k
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:31 (nine years ago)
Tim Conway definitely a contender for the title of actor whose caricature has graced the highest number of busy/claustrophobic movie posters from the 70s and 80s
― soref, Sunday, 28 August 2016 10:52 (nine years ago)