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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 13, 2022 16:52:10 GMT
Not quite The African Queen I saw !
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Post by bess1971s on Jan 13, 2022 17:10:43 GMT
I always get a good laugh when I see these old posters for classic films. They almost never reflect the theme of the film. I guess the old studio heads didn't think that people would come if the movies weren't salacious enough. The one above for The African Queen is downright hysterical and an insult to the actors and the viewers.
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 13, 2022 17:35:27 GMT
Can't locate it now -- but I recall the misleading poster for 1956's THE KING AND I
A menacing Yul Brynner is holding a frightened Deborah Kerr and tipping her backward while declaring:
"You are woman -- made for the pleasure of man!"
The only time in the whole film where he even lays a hand on her is in the delightful scene where she teaches him to waltz.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgVPnWmUqd4
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 14, 2022 3:42:45 GMT
NOT really the focus of the movie !
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Post by timshelboy on Jan 14, 2022 8:56:21 GMT
The fact that this is a modern dress version, text faithfull, of Shakespeare's CYMBELINE is skillfully ignored by the dvd marketing.. The movie ain't bad
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 13:45:30 GMT
No haunted toys appear. I recently re-watched it, and still think it stands among as one of Romero's better but maybe not all that highly appreciated films of the 80s and 90s. But yeah, that poster is not exactly a good way of "promoting" the film. Also, it sure looks very much similar, to a DVD double I own, from MGM Studios, and where Crawlspace (with Klaus Kinski) is one, but the other, is the much better and kind of sad psychological drama-thriller, The Attic: Which of course, is again not a very "good" way of selling the films story, but I guess that toy monkey, sure got re-used, a dozen of times back then.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 13:50:59 GMT
Hoo boy. Great movie, and all the other "stuff" (the one with the helmet, kind of looks a bit inspired by the looks of Sean Connery) behind the main characters, remind me of the Valhalla Rising (2008) poster or DVD artwork, and where you have Mads Mikkelsen, surrounded by an army of bloodthirsty vikings on the rampage, but yeah, that did not happen (beside a little group of starving and demoralized vikings trying to reach the New World by boat). I guess someone thought it would be a great idea, to try an sell it as this huge epic war movie, but it is anything but that. Instead, a rather slow moving, yet powerful (or so I think) and dreamlike or maybe feverish nightmare is more fitting? But one I really enjoyed, and for me it was actually a positive thing, that what I got in return, was anything but how it was marketed on the DVD cover. Not often it happens, but always a nice surprise when it does.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 13:56:50 GMT
Do not hold your breath waiting for this in the movie ... but do stay to the end of the credits. Oh yeah, the Frogs DVD, I pretty much picked up, only because of the hilarious looking poster/artwork, where the tagline said someting like: "Today the pond, Tomorrow THE WORLD!"Ah, well, I found the exact same DVD image, still get a good laugh of how almost every poster I have seen, is funny and very over dramatized.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 14:07:21 GMT
I remember picking up this adventure-thriller not long ago on DVD, and it felt like one of those that I guess got tampered a bit too much with, as in some ways, it felt like a cheap and hasty attempt, on cashing in on the Ferris Bueller movie, then next up, it suddenly became a far more serious and dangerous survival of the fittest journey. Seemed like several scenes were re-cut or put in, much later on, and I guess it did not the make it any easier to try an promote it the right way either. A shame, cause Kevin Bacon puts in a solid part here, and there is some truly beautiful nature footage and, yeah, just two very different kind of posters (one spells fun, the other danger), as one looks like some typical teen-sex/party comedy, the other, well, far more like some Deliverance for teenagers, and I guess neither really managed to find the right balance of the even less balanced movie. Most likely it hurted the film, and sad because in the right hands, it could have much better potential.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 14:11:48 GMT
Another classic film, but that has gotten yet another poor DVD artwork, which is not really the right one, to fit the films tone and story:
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 14:18:28 GMT
This DVD artwork/poster, led me to believe I was about to witness yet another Larry the Cable or Kevin James b-movie, as I picked up the dirt cheap rental video copy, of Kenny (2006). And to my big and pleasant surprise, is was anything but similar to the films of the above mentioned names, instead it was a very funny and charming mockumentary, and ended up as one of my favorite impulsive purchases of 2013.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 14, 2022 16:11:46 GMT
I think a lot of people ended up feeling quite, well not exactly what they were looking for, when they picked up this rental VHS or later DVD release of Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). And where I still remember having seen at least a couple of other nordic copies around the late 90s and into the early 00s, featuring a huge Michael Myers mask image on the front cover, and while also some would include Jamie Lee Curtis on the backcover. But yeah, not the best way to promote what you actually ended up with, as Season of the Witch is very, very far off the rest of the series, but to me, I ended up loving this black sheep of the franchise, and has it down as my favorite of the sequels.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 14, 2022 20:14:53 GMT
Beautiful and artistic poster BUT it ignores that they fight and squabble through most of the movie AND that it is a comedy !
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Post by teleadm on Jan 14, 2022 22:13:37 GMT
This post have given my lots of laugh, but sadly I can't remember a thing to contribute.
Funny idea and I support it!
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 14, 2022 22:17:23 GMT
Drew Barrymore should be in the back of the poster and not in front, or not at all
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 14, 2022 22:17:33 GMT
This post have given my lots of laugh, but sadly I can't remember a thing to contribute. Funny idea and I support it! When you find one (or more) ... you know where we are !
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 14, 2022 22:31:26 GMT
An early David O. Russell movie poster that provided no information about the movie. I never did get that hands gesture.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 14, 2022 22:44:24 GMT
The movie was not as cool or sexy as the poster, and I don't remember any explosive car action.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jan 14, 2022 22:46:00 GMT
There is no snow in the movie.* It takes place in the late summer/early fall of '43. Also, the prone soldier in the poster is wearing a Waffen-SS uniform. (There are no uniformed SS in the film; they're all Army.)*Some snow is briefly glimpsed via some real WWII newsreel footage used during the opening credits. That doesn't count!
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 14, 2022 23:38:41 GMT
This poster does not convey that all of the charm of the first film has been removed and that the film will make you wish that you had never spent more time with the characters (imo)
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