bert convy was in all of these wasn't he
― Like A Turrican (stevie), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
Lol
― If I were a POLL I’d be Zinging (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
RIP Torn
http://i65.tinypic.com/117qzhj.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 14 July 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1416/8662/products/Smokey_Bites_the_Dust_original_film_art_spo_2000x.jpg?v=1551802924
Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Man, that movie looks cool! I bet there's a bunch of car chases, explosions, ramp-jumpin'... who knows, maybe a little sex and wait, SWORDS? Oh yeah! I am definitely –
― pplains, Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Wait, wha?
https://i.imgur.com/oGmhiPT.jpg
haahhaaha
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
Sixpack Anniehttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzNmYmE1YjAtYTlmNi00NjA0LTk0YWQtNmZkZTEwNzM1MDc2L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_SY1000_SX658_AL_.jpg
gave this one a shot and goddam it was depressing. couldn't continue.
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 August 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
wait...Six Pack-Annie? wtf
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 August 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
if you can stomach it, here's the opening theme song. the yt description says: "The opening scene from Sixpack Annie features a great song by Minette Allton and Melissa Wilson, performed by Tim Hayfield. The moment Annie lovably bellows "Oh... who says we're wearing any pants!" I knew I was going to like this film." to me it sounds like they sent in some lyrics to MSR to have rodd keith have a go at it. just total garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92-sLnM9mo
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 August 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Doodles Weaver is a name I know only through MST3K.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Sixpack Annie three or four years ahead of the Dukes of Hazzard with that font..
― pplains, Friday, 2 August 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
dying to see this tbhhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Pandemonium_FilmPoster.jpeg
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 August 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
Paul Reubens, Tom Smothers and Tab Hunter, together at last!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
BOOBdemonium
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 August 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
bigger version here: post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s
Tanya's Island is a marvel, Pandemonium would struggle to live up to it
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 5 August 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
ah sorry, it's hard to keep track of what's already been posted!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 August 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
Ahem.
https://letterboxd.com/jer_fairall/list/movie-posters-done-in-a-busy-claustrophobic/
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 August 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
yeah w/o ppl posting the titles it’s impossible to ctrl-f! somehow I remembered the Paul Reubens citation 2 yrs later
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 5 August 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
oh crypto is that your letterboxd account??
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Yup!
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
it's a great list! bravo for assembling. at one point i started making a google sheet for the thread with the idea of getting very precise about the genre's peak years, but got horribly bogged down by my early, foolish notion of also transcribing the taglines.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
https://images2.static-bluray.com/products/20/43099_1_front.jpg
Kiss My Grits, 1982
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Good one! This thread was made for movies with titles like Kiss My Grits.
I posted something about this in the Podcasts thread, but since I discovered the podcast in question here (thanks Doctor Casino!), I should mention here was really sad to learn that the 80s All Over guys were unable to see that project through to the end. A nostalgic and informative listen for 80s kids like me, and a great source for material for this thread.
https://www.80sallover.com/podcast/2019/7/1/psn7ptm90dfxaieh9a8qz9dnsnioky
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
I wonder how many people went to that movie and we're disappointed that it wasn't about Flo.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/179/MPW-89808
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, 1968 (Frank Tashlin's final film)
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
perfect encapsulation of the 60s "type," nice.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
There's elements of this style on Bob Hope posters going back to the '40s!
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjg1YzRmY2ItMmI4Yi00ZWE0LThhMGEtOWMzNWUyN2I3YTAzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTY4NjI2OTA@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,660,1000_AL_.jpg
Let's Face It, 1943
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTU5MjA5YTMtYzMzMi00ZDQxLWE0YjItNjk2MGMwNzQ0MjQyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE5MjUyOTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg
The Iron Petticoat, 1956
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5MXM0/where-theres-life-us-poster-bob-hope-signe-hasso-1947-E5MXM0.jpg
Where There's Life, 1947
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
Oddly enough, it wasn't until The Road to Hong Kong (the last Road To... movie, from 1962), that this style was tentatively embraced...
https://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/victorian-shed-movie-posters-2/ROADTOHONGKONG1SHHRws.jpg
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
ALSO: Racist Stereotypes!
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
Related: A number of John Schlesinger films are going up on the Criterion Channel in September, including HONKY TONK FREEWAY.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
Bless This Househttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjVlMGZkNjctZWEwZS00NDgzLTg0MmItZGY4MDNkODkxOWI0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_.jpg
― andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
George and Mildredhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmM4ZTgzNjctZGU0Mi00YmZiLTllN2QtYTBhZmUyOGZmYzE5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg
― andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
...and a new personal fave
Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Widthhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTcwNjNiZDgtOWNlNS00YWQwLWJjZmUtOTIzZjBmNmIxZWNiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg
― andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Wtf at that title? 😅
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 September 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Sex Pistols
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 September 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
in the george and mildred, i'm sure they meant for the officer (?) to look like he's crashing his bike, but it looks more like he's pulling some badass freestyle move.
― andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
nb to most of the world: andrew's three excellent contributions are all big-screen spinoffs of 1970s UK TV sitcoms
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
hahaha, on George & Mildred:
Released [weeks] after the death of star Yootha Joyce, the film was neither a commercial nor a critical success. One critic has described the film as "one of the worst films ever made in Britain . . . so strikingly bad, it seems to have been assembled with a genuine contempt for its audience." A writer for The Guardian stated that the film's failure marked "the death knell" for the 1970s British practice of producing motion picture spinoffs based on sitcoms. The film aired on television on Christmas Day 1980, only a couple of months after its theatrical release.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Are_you_being_served_320x240.jpg
Are You Being Served: The Movie, 1977
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
what does NRC stand for? Not Recommended Cinema?!
― andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
Not Recommended for Children. Replaced with PGR in the early '80s, later shortened to PG.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
love how every name on that poster is presumably a household name in britain but to american eyes appears to be the work of a hack comic generating fake british names
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
they were sort-of household names from appearing in the popular sitcom of the same name, which has probably been rescreened 923x more often in the US than the UK over the last 45 years
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Are You Being Served ran on Houston PBS regularly for like 20 years. For awhile in the '90s it was on five nights a week!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
apologies to sugden & bannister, LLC
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 September 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
Sugden Bannister & English
― pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
I was just trying to think of what someone in the states would know them from aside from AYBS, and...
All I got is Nicholas Smith voicing the vicar in the Wallace & Gromit movie, and Frank Thornton is in Richard Lester's It's Trad, Dad for about 30 seconds...which reminds me that Wendy Richard got cut out of Help!
Writer Jeremy Lloyd was on Laugh-In.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link