By way of Jeff Wells, here’s the link to Premiere’s 25 greatest movie posters of all time:
Premiere’s 25 greatest movie posters of all time
Some good choices there, but I would add a few:
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By way of Jeff Wells, here’s the link to Premiere’s 25 greatest movie posters of all time:
Premiere’s 25 greatest movie posters of all time
Some good choices there, but I would add a few:
My personal fave is the US poster for The Insider, which as you can see from the link is being sold by MovieGoods for $200. Good thing I got one when I had the chance…
Also, Fargo was pretty solid.
I know it’s extremely tainted now, but viewed in 1998 this poster portents an amazing plot that could have been the greatest origin story of a generation:
Ep 1
Count, I was just thinking of the same one. I’ll choose something else.
It’s too bad that there are some good posters that aren’t because, even though they’re good, and they’re classic, everyone and their brother has had them up on the bedroom wall as teenager/college student/geek, or know someone who does. So excellent posters like this, this and this one aren’t up for election, because they’re so commonplace they’ve become comical.
I generally tend to prefer posters that give hints of the larger story or theme of the film, without barraging you over the head with it. Chinatown’s or Lawrence of Arabia, or this one of the (otherwise boring) Scandal (bad picture of it, to boot), come to mind. The Alien poster is also one. Even if I dig some that are just plain awesome in their spectacle.
Some people have talked about the poster for Lord of War, but tend to forget that The Truman Show did it before and better.
Two recent very good one were this one, and this one.
My absolute favorite (except for perhaps the one from Lawrence of Arabia) has to be the one of Thief of Bagdad.
+ “some posters that aren’t eligible because”
Hmmm, scratch ‘eligible’, take ‘tainted’ instead.
I miss the edit button.
I think the Fargo and Insider posters were the only actual theatrical posters for those films, at least domestically.
Could be wrong, though, as that Matrix psoter Nick pointed out is clearly a US theatrical release poster. I never saw that one, even though I was working at a theater at the time.
I like the Ep. 1 poster, too, but every time I see it now I think not about how crappy the movie was, but about the Simpsons spoof of it, which I can’t find online right now.
Another recent one I really liked – Out of Sight.
The ‘Attack of the 50 foot woman’ poster deserves special mention as it was remade as a TV movie in the 1990s. It’s probably the only ever case of a poster leading to a remake.
That ‘Downhill Skier’ one I hadn’t seen before and its a beauty.
I’m sorry if I’m being in some way sour here, but isn’t the Downhill Skier poster awfully derivative of the Rosemary’s Baby from the year before? Still looks good, but I don’t know about original.
And, I can’t believe I forgot, the greatest movie posters of all time were made by ” REL=”nofollow”>does this count as grindhouse?
Sorry, you have to remove everything after .jpg on the grindhouse link to see it properly.
Or just click this link
http://www.ukquad.com/annie%20hall%20manhattan%20uk%20quad.jpg
Speaking of Grindhouse, I love the poster and trailer for the film(s). I will be in Las Vegas its opening weekend, and that seems an appropriate place to see it. I am so looking forward to it that I’m sure I’ll be let down (I’ve never been much of a Rodriguez fan, to start with).
The Pulp Fiction poster is classic, as is the Fargo poster. It would seem that Veronica Lake increases your odds of appearing on the list, and rightly so.
I will be waiting an extra week for Grindhouse. I promised a friend that I’d go with him, and he’s not free that weekend. It’s going to be quite vexing, because the coworker who occupies the desk next to mine will be seeing it opening night. I don’t know if I can be hardcore and make him refrain from talking about it for a week.
I’ll delete the link. For some reason, I can’t put in hyperlinks. I click on the link button but it doesn’t give me the coding.
From ew.com, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have picked their favorites.
Those are some really cool choices, though. The Eagle’s Nest post is a very cool poster. I remember walking past it as a kid in the videostore and just dreaming away. Mom never let us rent it. Course the film couldn’t compare once I actually saw it, several years later. Grown way too epic in my mind.
Nick, do you know much about Thriller: They Call Her One-Eye, which is described as a “Swedish revenge” flick? It’s available on Netflix, so I’ve added it to my queue.
It’s an exploitation film, pure and simple. Only the exploitation here is done by and to Swedes. Or, more specifically, by men towards women, one woman in particular.
The director, whose last film hadn’t made enough money, went out with the explicit purpose of making the most outrageous exploitation-action-porno he could, in order to make as much money as possible.
I mean, if you’re expecting a very good film, don’t. But it’s actually got some stuff going for it. It is exploitation, but it is of the highest order, going really balls out, but with a sense of what it’s doing and what it’s about, and some things are well done (some are really silly and awkward, though), even artful. There’s this scene in the beginning that still makes my stomach cringe when I think about it. Kind of dig the ending, too.
And if you’re hoping for good porn, helloooo seventies. Chunky bellies and hair everywhere. Plus those scenes are pretty disturbing to sit through.
If I were you I’d go in expecting a B-movie from the seventies with some odd, but somewhat good and even original, things.
I can understand why Tarantino likes it, though. For a connoisseur of exploitation and B-movies this must be like the holy grail.
The pulp fiction poster is one of my all time favorite posters