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Salem's Lot 1979 and Salem's Lot 2024
Happy Halloween everybody! Julie's working late and the boy doesn't have school tomorrow so he's heading to one of those crazy f...
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(2007) * First of all let me say that as far as I could tell there are absolutely no dead teenagers in this entire film. Every year just ...
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That's the first version of Apocalypse Now (before they ruined it by superimposing Brando's face); the Reds and the The Insider teaser posters; and the famous "retro" Star Wars poster I mentioned below (the one that Lucas has the original painting of). Teaser posters tend to be better since the designer can be more bold and direct and doesn't have to spell out exactly what the movie is or provide all the credits and information.
I had that Reds poster on my dorm room wall freshman year of college. It still gives me goosebumps.
No 2001 poster, Jordan?
No, because, ironically, there is no good 2001 poster. They all use this (in my opinion) ridiculous 1960s-style painting of the Orion space clipper emerging from the space station (complete with a "trail of dust" or whatever), and they all use the wrong font.
There were some semi-cool 2001 posters on the occasion of the 1972 re-release, which all use the tagline "The Ultimate Trip" (pretty much dating the thing to the "Hair"/"Godspell" era) and show images from the movie rather than that dreadful painting. But those aren't so great either, and I'm philosophically opposed to regarding "re-release" posters as legit poster art. (No offense to your use of the re-release Raiders poster yesterday.)
The Ghostbusters logo was designed by Michael Gross, National Lampoon art director extraordinaire, whose innovative work served to re-orient the ideas of comedic design away from a "goofy" Mad-magazine template and towards a far-more-effective pseudo-"serious" vibe. (There are many National Lampoon/"Saturday Nignt Live" crossover personnel and ideas from that era.) The Jurassic Park logo re-uses the R. D. Sculleri hardcover book design, which introduced that streamlined skull-silhouette motif, juxtaposed with the font from the movie, which does this great trick in the opening titles: the gold letter outlines fade out and the red inlines linger on the screen, symbolizing the dinosaur blood trapped in the Jurassic amber remnants. (I'll bet you never noticed that metaphor!)
Also, check out Angelina's tits.
The problem with the Angelina poster is that she has gone on record to say that she wore a lot of padding to achieve that look!
Love that Star Wars poster. I've never seen that before.
...Which shoudn't bother anyone who appreciated "naked Angelina" in Beowulf or the Beowulf posters. Her chest is more "real" in Tomb Raider than in Beowulf, I argue (but it's getting a bit philosophical; as philosophical as you can get while remaining on the topic of Angelina's rack).
But I want to talk about the posters! How about those posters, anyway? The USAF Bell Helicopters against the Vietnam sunset! John Reed! The brilliant "Surgeon General's Warning"-inspired Insider poster!
Johnny, that's famous. Lucas loved it (loved the underlying idea) and has the original painting in his home as I've said.
here's a larger view. Notice how it's actually a "poster within a poster"; rather than trying to fit the necessary 1970s full movie information into the retro poster itself, he just added another "piece of paper" below it with room for that. Notice also that Obi-Wan is represented in "another" poster on the same wall (presumably from another ad campaign for the same movie). It's really very clever, and executed beautifully. Lucas just loved it, as I've said. He felt that the artist had "gotten the idea' of the movie perfectly.
You can see why I hate those new posters.
That poster is sweet. Shame on you, JPX for posting that new crap.
I like the version of the logo although it's suspiciously similar to Star Trek.
I wonder how much that Citizen Kane poster fetches these days.
I think all of those posters are awesome although I don't see the appeal of the Insider one. Also, is Reds as morbidly depressing as the poster suggests?
Yeah that Star Wars poster is just terrific! I like the other posters you list as well. I wonder what an original Citizen Kane goes for?
The Insider is a triumph of high-class minimalism, which you usually don't see in big-budget movie posters. Plus the pensive shot of Pacino (actual frame from the movie) shows you the decisive moment in the story without any way you can know it. But the main cleverness is that a movie about cigarettes (I mean, about a titanic struggle against the forces of big tobacco) uses the "Surgeon General's Warning" graphics from cigarette packs as its motif.
Reds (1981) is a soaring, three hour historical biopic about a nearly-forgotten American near-hero: John Reed, the American socialist and journalist who covered the Russian Revolution directly from Moscow. The movie stars Warren Beatty as John Reed, Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant (his wife, the well-known writer) and, most memorably, Jack Nicholson as playwright Eugene O'Neill, who was secetly in love with Bryant for decades. Lots of famous 1920s historical figures are in the movie, as cameos by lots of movie stars. Maureen Stapleton won an oscar playing legendary American Communist Emma Goldman. Beatty won an Oscar for directing.
In the third hour of the movie Reed and Bryant are imprisoned and separated in newly-soviet Russia. Then therethey find each other while he escapes from a train that's blowing up; incredible sequence where they run towards each other while explosions surround them (after being separated for like 18 months) and finally come together and grab each other...and that's the poster.
Sold! Both the Insider and Reds.
The Insider is Michael Mann at his best. One of the best movies I've ever seen. The true story of the headline-making battle between 60 Minutes and Brown & Williamson (tobacco company). Academy Award nomination for Russell Crowe. Gina Gershon plays a CBS executive (small part), and Christopher Plummer perfectly impersonates Mike Wallace. A masterpiece.
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