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

https://i.imgur.com/17BtbhG.jpg

That's The Way Of The World (1975)

also available in busier but less caricaturey flavour:

https://i.imgur.com/S7fNHJj.jpg

woah, hadn't seen the second version of that before. makes it look like a very different (and older) movie.

btw that movie sucks, EWF are *barely* in it. only part i really enjoyed was the long montage of record producer Keitel in the studio, gradually gussying up the Carpenters analog act's dinky, cloying little tune into an overproduced slab of easy listening cheese.

Man, Harvey Keitel has been making movies for like fifty years.

54!

Co-sign on the greatness of that recording studio sequence in TTWOTW, although I will say the film's cynically silly view of the music business is a wonder to behold.

For a movie about the group played by EWF being screwed and marginalised by idiot white executives in favour of anodyne whitebread pap, it sure goes out of its way to make that point.

The recording studio scene is great, the EWF opening is great, the roller disco scene is great, the NYC street cinematography is great, and nearly every scene is well-drawn, and making a relevant narrative point. It's just that none of it coheres - you wonder if the script was more focused, and the first-time producer-turned-director fumbled it. Some top-notch shirts on Keitel and others, though.

the way it settles on Keitel's relationship with the singer in the group as the main narrative thread, and the mean-spirited way it resolves that, is soooooo half-assed and clumsy, really doesn't feel at all set up by what came before. like they had a whole other movie planned and something fell through.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzgzNjAzMjctMGY5NC00NWM2LTg0MzMtMTliODExZTIyZmY4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg
White House Madness, 1975

Keitel's character consistently abandons his interests, principles, and motivations from one scene to the next, but is never written as doing so. He just shows up going along with whatever situation he was opposed to before. until that last-30-seconds double cross

looks like the poster's Nixon is more convincing than the film's on White House Madness

why is that so terrifying?

https://i.imgur.com/enA4JgG.jpg

Booksmart (2019)

man, some of these retro ones get *so* close in important ways...

yeah, that booksmart one is right on the line

RIP George Segal

https://i.imgur.com/p8QJuna.jpg

The Black Bird (1975)

https://i.imgur.com/Fdmcz4o.jpg

California Split (1974)

(Split was posted unlabelled and way smaller/murkier by Grisso seven years ago. Turns out Drive-In was also driven in by gr80 seven years ago.)

Both of these can be seen hueg in https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-the-70s-comedies-of-george-segal

lol at the Yawnsomely Literal-ness of the Black Bird art and tagline.

I think "after his bird" is meant to imply "wants his dick," but then turn out to be a trick single entendre. Unexpectedly Literal.

https://i.imgur.com/MaBeK7R.jpg

Strange Brew (1983)

(large / hueg)

woah, never seen that version. very nice.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU5OTg0YmYtNWVkMy00MGZhLTg1YzItZDc1ZGI0MWU4MmM5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UY842_.jpg

The Billion Dollar Hobo (1977)

Bo and Hobo? In this economy?

Grand Theft Auto, 1977

― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Monday, August 17, 2020 1:29 PM (seven months ago)

Corman traded Ron Howard the permission to write and direct this for his acting in

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

Eat My Dust! (1976)

used in various tinted versions for daybills and trade mags

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

https://i.imgur.com/Oj8JdOV.jpg

bring back lobby cards and ban trailers imo

aka

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

Gib Gas

et

https://i.imgur.com/Ht6oVS5.jpg

Mords Ma Poussière / Vreet Mijn Stof

(en gros)

and just because it's cool, here's GTA's appearance on that distributor's trade mag:

https://i.imgur.com/2b96Gvs.jpg

(sorry, juggling too many BBcodes: "Gib Gas... und laßt euch nicht erwischen" is Grand Theft Auto, obv)

6400 in corpus christi you say, sign me up

in three days from two theatres with rooves!

"A Very Funny Car"

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Car

presumably the top-billed ex-Bond players all do a single day's work in one room each, like modern DTV Bruce Willis and Steven Seagal

― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, September 14, 2020 7:19 AM (six months ago)

BTW here's a fantastic deep dive into how these films are the brainchild of the IRL Turtle from Entourage, Mark Wahlberg's former assistant who apparently stays barely ahead of various quantities of Russian drug money he's laundering, by giving out bit parts when his body parts come under threat.

I never knew that's where the MST3K frequent line "...pops the clutch and tells the world to eat his dust!" was from...

Elaine May's A New Leaf had two excellent posters.

The German poster is also pretty good.

The German VHS label knew that a movie is not funny unless it has a busy / caricature image on the front.

("No-one murders as badly as I!")

such a wonderful and weird film. was listening to the Blank Check ep on it this week and daydreaming about the original 3-hour cut being someday found and released, and who i would try to cajole into going with me.

and all great posters. the one that's claustrophobic with words was, iirc, also basically the script for one of the trailers....which consequently had basically no room to say or show anything of the movie they were actually promoting.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzg0MWNlYWQtNzFlOS00NmIyLThkNTMtNDE5OTBkMTA3ZDM0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzQwNDk2ODM@._V1_UY1200_CR80,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
Viva Max!

"Rated 'G' For 'G'reat Entertainment"

big clear version

We could just audit the thread thoroughly for any Jack Davis posters not already covered, but it's too much fun to have them still turn up, often on completely-forgotten-to-history movies, several times a year.

...then again we can forget them easily enough even when they have been posted

Viva Max!(1969

― Bernie Sanders Give You So Much Bro (Doctor Casino), Saturday, March 5, 2016 6:15 AM (five years ago)

great find. and very design-y for Davis! wonder if it was from some art director's concept.

― glandular lansbury (sic), Saturday, March 5, 2016 3:02 PM (five years ago)

I guess I was reacting to the symmetry?

and on Finders Keepers:

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

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, October 10, 2020 8:30 AM (five months ago)

and

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, May 20, 2016 3:40 PM (four years ago)

ok lol at the telltale detail of the roller derby representation

also behold the sad history of my display-name game

sorry about the viva max! repost. i usually take a few moments to scroll through the hidden past before i post these!

no worries, I meant to note it's linkrotted from back then!

That eat my dust poster used to hang in my local breakfast joint!

The Villain, a Hal Needham live-action version of Wile E. Coyote, was very poorly reviewed in 1979.

https://i.imgur.com/f520LOw.jpg

This may or may not be why it was rebranded as Cactus Jack and given a Jack Davis poster for Australian release.

https://i.imgur.com/ATVwx9u.jpg

(the latter has linkrotted from three years ago. as they say, hueg villain, [url=https://i.imgur.com/A15blSt.jpg]hueg cactus.)

cactus jack Davis poster is an amazing relic of a thankfully lost age, dang davis was good at that stuff

you can't fault his attention to detail: he even got freckles in Ann-Margret's cleavage.

somehow made schwarzenegger entirely recognizable in a cowboy costume without overdoing any element of his signature look

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervan_(film)#/media/File:Supervan-film-poster.jpg

Grisso posted a Hannibal Brooks poster a while ago, but the Winner/Reed/Clement/LaFrenais joint had multiple variations and foreign alts. This is the best one, imo, and tragically this seems to be the largest version on the internet:

https://i.imgur.com/JUaClSO.jpeg

larger version found on ebay

there are loads of that SUPERSOLDIER IN THE SUPER ADVENTURE! variation :) there's a vertical left-justified of the "I'm the hero" one that doesn't work as well, plus this one, which is a good-but-not-as-good take on the joke and cuts off more of the image.

Loved that movie as a kid. I'm guessing it's not good.