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

^ A Town Called Bastard, 1971

Killer Force is on youtube btw

Thanks sic!

Public service announcement, this is on Talking Pictures TV tonight.

70s comedy farce NO SEX PLEASE - WE'RE BRITISH (1973) 10pm #RonnieCorbett #BerylReid #ArthurLowe #SusanPenhaligon pic.twitter.com/sf42GMVJhY

— Talking Pictures TV (@TalkingPicsTV) September 29, 2020

‘No sex please, we’re British’

that absence of sex in full:

http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/(JamieF-DE)__NoSexPleaseWereBritish(2).jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TUMZiKd.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTc1M2JiYmUtMWM5NC00NjExLWEwMTQtOGIxOWE0NjZiZTQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjMwMjk0MTQ@._V1_UX580_.jpg

You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjNhNTljMTYtMTI2My00OWY3LWE1YzYtNjZiZjA2MWNhMTkwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_UX500_.jpg

Surf II (1983)

Helluva soundtrack, whatever the hell that is.

Helluva soundtrack, whatever the hell that is.

I hope Thomas Dolby and the Beach Boys were on the same song.

do we need a thread for awesome movie taglines (that are real)

Yes. Yes we do.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k492IJdtXa8/T9fAZRrGNfI/AAAAAAAAKl4/yhySVdSUibQ/s1600/bury-me-an-angel_biker-movie_poster.jpg

And surely the same artist...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-73EMUSY_F_I/T9fAYRZ2TlI/AAAAAAAAKlo/qtX0FRc3Xg4/s1600/angels-die-hard_biker-movie_poster.jpg

Also pretty good taglines actually...

One more biker movie. This one has the most bikers.

https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F6%2F2015%2F08%2Fdevil-rider.jpg

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/6bbfcafe-e0b2-4f80-af1e-6a44d1ba8d44_1.512cec4be2f9f764b0c36dd90f28cf5d.jpeg?odnHeight=450&odnWidth=450&odnBg=FFFFFF

Born Again (1978)

https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/19869.jpg

Finders Keepers (1984)

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f8/3f/7b/f83f7b18be7beebd522c24ee535d5074--cuba-film-richard-lester.jpg

Cuba (1979)

By his usual standards, Finders Keepers looks like Davis drew it while running for a train.

now i'm wondering if it's been posted before. i swear i control-F'ed first, but those roller derby women look familiar.

zillions of posters unsearchable itt because they're not captioned, and loads of those have linkrotted anyway

I keep thinking that last post is the title of a Tortoise record.

zillions of posters unsearchable because they're not captioned (linkrotted remix by bundy k brown)

lol

they should have done one of these for Knives Out

oh for sure. maybe in the "california suite" style that really brings out the facial mugging.

https://i.ibb.co/HpQYt9c/s-l1600.jpg

The Under Achievers (1987)

https://i.imgur.com/GRIV78H.jpg

Whenever I show someone the movie They All Laughed, I always paraphrase one of Morbs' posts about it: "Watched the first 20 minutes of They All Laughed. I didn't."

― flappy bird, Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:23 PM (three minutes ago)

They All Laughed (1981). RIP Dr Morbius

Ha! (I really enjoyed this movie)

https://i.imgur.com/7h2Ie1O.jpg

The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer (1969, released a year after completion)

i love that one!!!!

Ronnie Corbett has something of a headstart on the others for recognisability in chibi form

it's that man again

https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/50488.jpg

Inspector Clouseau (1968)

woah - i knew they went so far as to stitch together a Clouseau film from old Sellers footage after he died, but somehow never knew they'd attempted to crank one out without him while he was busy filming something else. explains why the next one had the otherwise nonsensical title The Return of the Pink Panther, with the PP label sticking to the remaining films.

here's a few i've saved up on my phone recently...

https://posteritati.com/posters/000/000/020/525/the-secret-invasion-md-web.jpg

The Secret Invasion (1964)

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.rogerebert.com%2Fuploads%2Fmovie%2Fmovie_poster%2Fthe-st-valentine-s-day-massacre-1967%2Flarge_auPgBhwemenu6x7Hl6XfUoUQgL2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

https://pics.filmaffinity.com/cannonball_carquake-636536120-large.jpg

Cannonball (1976)

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/3/8/9/4/7/138947-zero-to-sixty-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg?k=1da63dd083

Zero to Sixty (1978)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/chomps-movie-poster-1979-1020232849.jpg#CHOMPS

C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)

they'd attempted to crank one out without him while he was busy filming something else

Not only without Sellers, but without the creator/writer/director of the others, and the guy that did the music for the others

All three were otherwise engaged making some racist-ass nonsense elsewhere

https://i.imgur.com/eTbM7uP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qJ1pZGu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4zQEZ2j.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UGlJZYj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vM9dMBI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/J7TB2AI.jpg

Racist-Ass Nonsense (1968)

guessing that Davis was also busy at first, hence the one with the redder elephant, and then became available later in the promo cycle. The red elephant one is a better representation of the film though (and probably exists in a 'widescreen' version, given the door framing)

btw C.H.O.M.P.S was totally something I was aware of in pop culture for a moment - maybe from video box covers or ads for TV screenings - and had completely forgotten about. seeing that it was a Zarkoff/Barbera collab is a pretty spectacular way to be reminded of its existence!

lolol

Barbera recalled that Arkoff's son Louis suggested that rather than a Doberman, the dog would have to be a non-threatening dog in the Benji mold. Barbera attributes this change in focus in the story to the film's lackluster performance at the box office. In his autobiography, Barbera wrote that the film "did okay... but it never made the splash it should have." Because of this, the future film deals between Hanna-Barbera and AIP were canceled.

Also from wikipedia, it was originally released as a PG film in American summer, then edited for dog profanity and reissued as a G at Christmas.

RIP Sue Lyon

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQjvLSKEcpd4W_oBnYjhGM9orlGySsu3ui5XKGplqX8ipvwkYA9

Towing, 1978

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, December 29, 2019 2:11 AM bookmarkflaglink

watched this last week, as there's an iffy transfer on Amazon Prime right now. it's all right actually! you do feel the different touch of a female director, doing a local Chicago based-on-a-true-story caper. the sound mix is sort of staggeringly awful in places and i really wasn't following the plot a lot of the time but there's kind of a nice hangout vibe to it imho. a passable way to spend 85 minutes. Ebert gave it a low star rating but a decent review.

Ronnie Corbett has something of a headstart on the others for recognisability in chibi form

steam-engine time: we managed to have two chibi Corbetts in one month itt

RIP Sean Connery

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BM2YyNTBmZTktMTAyOS00MWZkLWFhZTUtNzY0ZjdkMzczNDZiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjA0MzYwMDY@._V1_.jpg

A Fine Madness, 1965

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzY4OTRhNWYtYzZiZS00NDdiLTg3YzYtNGVlZjgyMGJlYzdjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODA0MDg5NTg@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

La poliziotta a New York / A Policewoman in New York (1981)

Nice, and also obviously trying to riff / cash in on

https://i.imgur.com/dCaa3OC.jpg

(since we're doing non-country-of-origin versions...)

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/2/5/1/1/3/9/251139-keep-it-in-the-family-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg?k=6bc66c2945

Keep It In The Family, 1973

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/mp2GaNONsfYLipXQ4lPpdiclQg0.jpg

You Must Be Joking, 1965

https://img.moviepostershop.com/harrys-war-movie-poster-1981-1020248565.jpg

Harry's War, 1981

HERRMANN SMASH!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mRbtLLnmCww/UufhHqmtWvI/AAAAAAAAGTc/cvyvdqkTZKI/s1600/Malibu+Beach.jpg

Malibu Beach, 1978

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/htpYQeLAKQfBxdp2GcYk1fJOY1f.jpg

Jungle Rats, 1988