WTF Happened to Movie Posters?
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todmichel wrote:You can say virtually the same thing about the current movie trailers. They are even less exciting that some TV commercials for shampoo.Have you noticed they give away everything in...
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It's odd, both the trailer and the poster art forms have really gone belly up. Yet Hollywood advertises more than ever and still makes tons of $$$. The crappy trailers & poster art don't seem to...
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Posters and lobby cards used to invite one to dream about the film you wanted to see. Mirek
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I miss the old style posters from when I was a kid. Too often, the movie posters in Days of Old simply lied -- brazenly so. Some great looking artwork, yeah... But most of the cool stuff depicted on...
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Of course I'll take false but exciting posters over bland. It amazes me how people always try to reduce 'yesterday' because they so desperately want to believe things are 'better'.. or 'just the same'...
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You weren't standing outside a Texas theater as a 10 year old, scowling in disappointment at the poster for NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER, after just watching the movie. I was.
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Omega Man wrote:You weren't standing outside a Texas theater as a 10 year old, scowling in disappointment at the poster for NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER, after just watching the movie. I was. True......
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Some study was done about movie posters and it was found that the posters of someone's face, especially if they're looking at the camera, seemed to have a greater effect on the observer and were...
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Those are beauties, indeed. The real reason for using Photoshop has to be that it's much cheaper than hiring an actual artist, as in painting and drawing. Mirek
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What, no SCREAM poster form the boring 1990s, with depressed kids just staring at us?
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Most of those Reynolds movie posters belong in the Louvre!
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It started when the MPAA decided it would start regulating movie artwork. And everyone just bowed down to it. Then, the Age Of Photoshop came upon us and it was deemed that any monkey with a PC and...
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If there's enough interest this thread could become a catch-all for movie posters (the good, the bad, and the ugly -- no pun intended) or, again, if there is sufficient interest, a whole new thread...
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While not gorgeous I love posters like the two following.They have an amateur (folk art) style that reminds me of being a kid at an exposition and seeing all the Haunted House rides with all the...
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I never cared much for the FRAKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR poster, but I very much like the one for BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE. Mirek
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I love that franky looks like a drooling Hunchback pervert.
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