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

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http://www.americanartarchives.com/davis,j_mad_world1963.jpg

wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link

sorry, I missed the '70s/'80s part

wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link

The Long Goodbye one is in the tradition of this, I guess, or of Mad magazine: (x-post, speaking of!)

http://images.wikia.com/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad/images/1/1f/It

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link

Double x-post, yikes!

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link

machete kills has a poster like this.

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link

(in this tradition, that is)

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

detroit rock city?

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link

xp no caricatures though nm

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link

detroit rock city?

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!!! yes

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link

and Mallrats!

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link

FYI this movie owns:

http://i.imgur.com/DXdVv3Q.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link

woah japanese take on this style:

http://i.imgur.com/yW1UCNL.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/XacS5Ol.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link

pretty much half of all 70's movie posters.

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/3lIx48u.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:59 (ten years ago) link

I've never seen that Nashville poster upthread before! Altman's preferred poster artwork ended up on the soundtrack instead:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/files/2009/08/04/img-nashville_105700420061.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link

Every Bond movie of that period to thread...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Live_and_Let_Die-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/california_suite.jpg

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg
Wikipedia's alt text:
A man in a dinner jacket holding a pistol is in the centre of the picture. Various scenes and images surround him, including two women in bikinis, a midget with a pistol, a car stunt and explosions. At the bottom right, oversized and pointing towards the man in the dinner jacket, is a golden gun, with a hand holding a bullet, about to load the gun. The top of the picture has the words "ROGER MOORE as JAMES BOND 007". At the bottom are the words "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lschmxxO8P1r13zreo1_400.jpg

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link

Charltonem Hestonem

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/MPW-5611

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link

the same director did a film called 'My Demon Lover' (imdb synopsis "A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused") which would have totally had one of these posters if came out a few years earlier, but sadly it was released in 1987 so the poster looked like this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmZhNDVjYjMtYWNiOC00YTIxLTgxM2UtNWFmNmQyYjZhMzRkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg

soref, Monday, 11 September 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link

the German poster is a little more like it, but it's still clear that the golden age was over

https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/500x/wukfkq0u/my-demon-lover-german-movie-poster.jpg?v=1482480318

soref, Monday, 11 September 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link

Good one, classic homage to the aesthetic. I hadn't realized Christopher Lloyd was still working, and then I looked at his wikipedia and holy shit he works a lot! 9 movies just in the last 3 years, though I will not be investigating their quality

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 14:58 (eleven months ago) link

three months pass...

The Comic Art of Jack Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQIfUig_6o

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 04:01 (eight months ago) link

The best Boston movie pic.twitter.com/Ydut30342R

— Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso) January 2, 2024

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 06:42 (eight months ago) link

aha, yes - it's here: post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

― (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:06 PM (four years ago)

bae (sic), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 08:27 (eight months ago) link

Between The Lines is a great movie, and that is a wonderful poster

impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 09:35 (eight months ago) link

And I just bought the poster.

impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 4 January 2024 12:15 (eight months ago) link

two weeks pass...
three weeks pass...

New poster for ‘GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE’

In theaters on March 22. pic.twitter.com/pUnSeHWk6A

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 22, 2024

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:01 (six months ago) link

does Josh Gad provide Slimer's grunts and squeals?

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:06 (six months ago) link

three weeks pass...
two weeks pass...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12818328/mediaviewer/rm406400513

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:21 (five months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Broken image link on my end!

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 20:17 (four months ago) link

That's OK, I was trying to post Hundreds of Beavers without having scrolled up an inch to see it was already posted.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:20 (four months ago) link

everywhere i go i keep running into hundreds of beavers

i don't even live in beaverton anymore!

i do admittedly still live in the pnw, serves me right

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:58 (four months ago) link

two weeks pass...

not all that busy/claustrophobic, but it has the caricatures and it sounds like the right kind of film: Car Trouble (1986)

https://www.originalposter.co.uk/uploads/252559840679169_mainphotos.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Car-trouble-movie-poster-1985-1020300283.jpg

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 25 May 2024 17:42 (three months ago) link

In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a 1965 Jaguar E-Type[2] sports car and it immediately becomes his new love. What he does not know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car. The wife and lover experience penis captivus in the car after a reckless accident.

larger version of the second poster

https://film-authority.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/car-trouble.jpg

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 25 May 2024 17:44 (three months ago) link

one month passes...

Saturday Night (2024) just got a great one of these. Only seeing it on FB rn tho...

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 21:32 (four weeks ago) link

Thank You!

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 22:44 (four weeks ago) link

Wow, that's well done. The best of the contemporary tributes to the style?

the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 01:43 (four weeks ago) link

Hundreds Of Beavers is much better in design and in craft (both are hobbled if caricature is your focus)

bae (sic), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 03:07 (four weeks ago) link

Odd connection upstream. The guy who composed the music for Hot Potato (1978) was my high school music teacher.

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 08:19 (four weeks ago) link

Just clocked that the Saturday Night poster riffs on the Atlas sculpture outside 30 Rock, which is a nice touch.

jaymc, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 13:19 (four weeks ago) link

The Atlas sculpture is a riff on Davis' Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World poster.

bae (sic), Wednesday, 14 August 2024 19:01 (four weeks ago) link

Why not both things?

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/32/74/32/327432efb21485ee0a1be603cb61a467.jpg

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2024 23:06 (three weeks ago) link

Did we do Kentucky Fried Movie ITT?

https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Ewbank/80/775980/H0472-L379211049.jpg

I feel like a lot of Zucker-adjacent movies had this style.

tempted by the food of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 23:29 (two weeks ago) link

(Duh, after loading all posts, I see that I posted it 5 years ago)

tempted by the food of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 August 2024 23:31 (two weeks ago) link

xp lol
Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, April 26, 2019

visiting, Wednesday, 28 August 2024 23:35 (two weeks ago) link

More straight illustration than caricature but busy enough:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZDJmMTFkNGItNDk2MS00YTM4LWEwNjEtNjU0Yzk2Y2MyYTI5L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_.jpg

The Optimists of Nine Elms AKA The Optimists (1973)

visiting, Friday, 6 September 2024 19:54 (six days ago) link

Has this not been posted before? Jack Davis!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNDRhMzhjZmUtNTEzMy00MjRjLThhMjYtZmQ2MjAyOGI1N2Q4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDk3NzU2MTQ@._V1_.jpg

The Party (1968)

visiting, Friday, 6 September 2024 20:01 (six days ago) link

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTBhZTk3MDQtZmIxOC00MGFmLWJlMTItMzU1MmUzNjg0MjEzL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1982)

Flenniken states that a test screening of the film in Rhode Island was met with extremely negative response, and that audience members tore up the seats in the theater to express their dislike of the film.[1]

visiting, Wednesday, 11 September 2024 17:27 (yesterday) link

Orson Welles, who was the mentor of Henry Jaglom, convinced him to accept the directing job on this film.

visiting, Wednesday, 11 September 2024 17:30 (yesterday) link


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