Modern Art: Movie Posters

[Flumm]

I find that I keep coming back to this thread just to look at the purty pictures... surely I can't be the only one, mmm? This thread is to interesting to die off just yet. Cmon folks...

To get things moving again, here's a little Nicholson one two punch for ya...

[colonel_lugz]

Is there a version of The Postman Always Rings Twice poster with Jacky boy rubbing Jessica Langes' pussy extremely hard???

[thomasgaffney]

Is there a version of The Postman Always Rings Twice poster with Jacky boy rubbing Jessica Langes' pussy extremely hard???

The only thing I could find is this poster wher Jessica is spread eagle for Jack:

[colonel_lugz]

Its a good start

[havocSchultz]

sorry bout the quality of the pic... i used to have this on my wall - it was probably almost a good 5 feet high or so...
the red lettering at the top says: The Ultimate Jawbreaker



it got damaged in a move once (or twice) and i had to scrap it... alas...
cost me a good $50 or so back in the day though...

[Flumm]

There's another couple that photo based that are quite steamy, including one where Lange's under pants are front and square, but I'm too much of a gentlemen to post it.


I think this is the best that I can find out of the photobased posters...



Ok it's steamy, but it's great poster too I think.

Anyways, it's interesting as you look about, how many different versions there are of even teh classic versions of posters. It would be easy to have several of each film in some cases.

I think if I had any serious money, this is something I would really have to fight myself from falling into.

[havocSchultz]

i always loved this poster - for a really bad/cheesy 80's monster movie starring linnea quigley... i actually know the director and have hung out with him... the poster totally sells the movie as something much cooler than it is... even though the movie is "cool" in it's own way - but it just doesn't compare to this:

[Zombie Slayer]

Damn! somebody already posted metropolis! good choice

[Flumm]

For your viewing pleasure, a tripple bill extravanganza...

Mayhem!
Madness!
Murder!


Mitchum...

[RogueScribner]

I don't know if this was a rerelease poster or what. I've never seen it before. But it sure looks cool.

[Fried Gold]

I've got these three. The middle one is a pic of a Japanese Return of the Jedi poster I picked up in Las Vegas.

[Ribbons]

[RogueScribner]

Ribbons, sweet poster. I forgot about that one. Cool movie, too. 8)

[Ribbons]

Yeah. I like the tagline "the secret lies within" as well. The one on the top is a little... senseless, but the rest of the poster is rather cool.

[Brocktune]

I consider being in the same catorgory as Brock for anything, an honour indeed.

ah, flumm.
did i ever tell you i love you?
thats one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about my online doppleganger. thanks, buddy. y'know its a good thing we have this internet thing separating us, so you cant be horribly disappointed by me in person.

[Keepcoolbutcare]

sorry 'bout Kong stretchin' the page, but I fuckin' love it!

had the Akira and the Malkovich posters for a spell...

[RogueScribner]

i always loved this poster - for a really bad/cheesy 80's monster movie starring linnea quigley... i actually know the director and have hung out with him... the poster totally sells the movie as something much cooler than it is... even though the movie is "cool" in it's own way - but it just doesn't compare to this:

Man, they just don't make posters like that anymore, do they?

[Flumm]

I don't know, am I perhaps seeing potential in this thread, when there isn't any? A thread that has an organicly derrived, self contained history of the most interesting movie posters, pooled here for our casual perusal seems like a beautiful thing to me. I was thinking that it might be be cool to have a compendium of sorts, that people could just come in and look at, from the classic, to the offbeat, to the little known. It doesn't just have to be our favourites. Searching through the ether of the interweb I'm discovering many, that in all my n00bish ways, I hadn't ever seen before...

Ah, but perhaps it's just a foolish dream, can't force these things I suppose.



Anyways in the meanwhile, feast your eyes on these...







This Bette Davis one was actually fairly difficult to find. After spotting it as a thumbnail, I think I hunted out the only reasonably sized version currently out there...

[RogueScribner]

I don't know, am I perhaps seeing potential in this thread, when there isn't any? A thread that has an organicly derrived, self contained history of the most interesting movie posters, pooled here for our casual perusal seems like a beautiful thing to me. I was thinking that it might be be cool to have a compendium of sorts, that people could just come in and look at, from the classic, to the offbeat, to the little known. It doesn't just have to be our favourites. Searching through the ether of the interweb I'm discovering many, that in all my n00bish ways, I hadn't ever seen before...

Ah, but perhaps it's just a foolish dream, can't force these things I suppose.

That was pretty much my intent. I mean, I have posters I like to look at for various reasons, but I figured my knowledge of cool posters was rather limited so I wished to petition the fine folks on this board to expand my view a little. And it's worked, IMO. I've seen many nifty posters in this thread I either forgot about or had never seen before. And in my travels, if I come across another interesting poster, I'll be sure to post it here.

And BTW, that Nosferatu poster is schweet. 8)

[Fried Gold]

I put this through the Rastabator and made a giant version.

[Adam Balm]

I like your taste Fried Gold.

[Bob Samonkey]

I put this through the Rastabator and made a giant version.

Its beautiful

[RogueScribner]

Here are some new ones I've come across:














I found all the above posters interesting. But this next one I really find groovy. My favorite summer movie poster so far:

[The Garbage Man]

[RogueScribner]

The creature looks like he's about to take a dump in the water. Heh heh.

[colonel_lugz]

I keep seeing this poster everywhere on the London Underground and I love it!!


But I have no idea what the film is about

Little help?

[RogueScribner]

Luc Besson? I don't care what it's about. I'm there!

[RogueScribner]

[Flumm]

Good call, Rogue.

Easy to get those kind of posters wrong, but they've done a really sweet job with them, I think, the details in the top banner for instance.

(yes I see Christina Ricci, I see her!)

Nice to be reminded of this thread, too.

Anyhows, a couple I've saved recently...

[judderman]

Thought I'd bring in a classic:

[wonkabar]

[Brocktune]

isnt that boris vallejo, or frank frazetta?

awesome.

[wonkabar]

I think it's Boris

[Tuffy]

Thanks, DrBeaver & Brocktune, for drawing my attention to this topic. I just spent the last half-hour going "Oh yeah! I have to go dig up X poster!" Which is fun.

Some faves:








I'm not sure if this was the main poster for Zabriskie Point, but I like it:




I was looking for that one iconic Cabaret poster and I ran across this one. It's so paradigmatically 70s.

[Tuffy]

Hey! That wasn't supposed to happen. Let's try again:

[instant_karma]

[Nachokoolaid]

I'm at work, so I can't really take the time to post a pic, but out of recent films, I really liked THE FOUNTAIN poster.

Anyone else got any faves?

[judderman]

Here it is:



I've always loved this Beauty and the Beast preview poster:

[DaleTremont]

[instant_karma]

British student wall special!

[Lord Voldemoo]

here are a few that I like:

[LaDracul]

I like the ones that were produced in Poland before they were freed of Communist rule...they're wonderfully surreal.


Fear and Loathing in Muppetland, anyone?

[MonkeyM666]

Some of my favourites are...











Also I really loved all of the Matrix promotional posters but here are a couple of my favourites.



And the series for Reloaded was great, with the heads cut off... love eeettt!!

[godzillasushi]

The Matrix ones are all really awesome.

[bastard_robo]

If you've ever seen the pics of my room, and the limited space i have, movie posters take up most of it... Nothing sells me better on a movie than a good poster.

Some of my faves!

[bastard_robo]

I thought that the man who gave us some of the most iconic movie posters and art of all time deserved his own thread of love!

I've already got a small collection of his work


Lets share some love for the man!

[doglips]

Struzan is much lauded and rightly so, the guy is prolific.

Speilberg and Lucas have got him to design posters for almost every iconic film they have made. Del Toro now seems to be picking up on this, he did some promo work for Pan's aswell as Hellboy.

Having Star Wars, Blade Runner, all the Indy films, Back to the Futures, Potters, E.T, Big Trouble in Little China, The Goonies ( the list is endless ) on your C.V. is a real testament to his talent.

I love his Special Edition covers -

[Seppuku]

What with Tuffy's 2500 X 2500 AV and KCBC's lifesize Kong pic, this page is pretty much unviewable.

And some of those posters are so bootiful too.






EDIT: A thousand salaams to the mod who sorted out Tuff's AV!

[doglips]

You needa to thanka the a Admin, eh?

[Seppuku]

You needa to thanka the a Admin, eh?

Yeah, I would if he hadn't have quoted my miserable score on the Movie Quiz thread.






Ah what the hey, good job you damn putz.