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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 15, 2022 1:07:56 GMT
Along with the sheer cheek of the tagline the increased scale of Kong (or were the towers smaller back then?) made this poster a favourite of mine at the time of release.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 15, 2022 3:55:29 GMT
What a silly and misleading image and tagline for this delightful movie from 1945 ! and another with even sillier verbiage !
Just finished watching it ! - A+
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 15, 2022 5:02:58 GMT
NOT really the focus of the movie ! In this case, Hitchcock likely intended the poster to be misleading. Audiences back then may have been led to believe that Janet Leigh was going to be the "psycho," with John Gavin as an aggressive boyfriend and Anthony Perkins as a naive stranger who tries to help her.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 15, 2022 13:09:59 GMT
What a silly and misleading image and tagline for this delightful movie from 1945 ! and another with even sillier verbiage !
Just finished watching it ! - A+ Margaret Rutherford steals the film but I guess she didn’t look that great in a tight dress.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 15, 2022 13:31:37 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) Have not yet seen the follow up, but maybe that is for the best? Still, some part of me, wanted to do so, straight after I first saw the original, years ago. The Accidental Tourist (1988)Another example, not sure if the same tagline/quotes were actually used on the original movie poster back in the day, but I seem to have found it, time after time, on VHS and DVDs, but where they all, along with the rather jolly facial expression of Geena Davis, seem to try and sell this film, as a more "typical" feel-good romantic comedy, and of course, there are romance and comedy in it, but maybe not the kind that many would like to expect in the first place. Anyway, I remember loving this rather quirky, sweet and very well played drama-romance, which comes along with a great cast and also features some very strong performances by specially William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. But yeah, do not expect constant huge laughs, as the comedy is surely more "offbeat", and not just "thrown" at the viewers, all the time. Also, the character of Davis, comes with far more layers, than what the poster and several trailers or teasers tries to make her out as. When it comes to more alternative (specially Italian and European movie posters), and where someone surely has taken a bit extra freedom, to end up with something very far away, of how the actual movie is, well, this Italian poster is one that seems to sell something very different, than what takes place in the cult-classic Massacre at Central High (1976): Now considered a cult-trashy classic, among b-movie lovers (like myself), I somehow was not quite sure what to expect, the first time I got it on DVD. I had of course read and heard about it, but not seen much clips or videos from it, and this striking poster/artwork, and the title, was pretty much what I had to go with. Well, it is most likely an attempt to cash-in on the sucess of the William Lustig Maniac Cop trilogy, which has both a similar title, but also a similar artwork going, as well as having Robert Z'Dar, starring in all of the films. But those expecting some maniac cop, with a huge samurai sword, chopping off heads and limbs, well, they might be in for a surprise. For me, it was a very pleasant and fun one, as it turns out to be far more of a very cheap and hilarious b-movie version of Lethal Weapon (1987), than Maniac Cop (1988).
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 15, 2022 13:50:31 GMT
Certain great films, seems to just end up with some of the most generic and lame movie posters or artwork, and where it is often obvious that those who made it, could not care any less, or tries desperately to hang onto other films, and I think Manhunter (1986) is one of those that probably is just constantly unlucky, and while I kind of have soft spot for the original poster, I would not think of it, as a great looking one, but damn, I would take it anytime and anyday, over some of the horror shows, that has been released over the last few years, or more: Talk about misleading artwork, and if one has only seen the more popular and famous Lecter films, starring Anthony Hopkins in mind, and expecting something similar with Manhunter, well, then be prepared to be either very disappointed, or as me, very pleasantly surprised. I did not love Manhunter as much as The Silence of the Lambs, when I first saw it, but it was sure a big grower, and over the next visits, the film became soon one of my favorite films, and Brian Cox has probably just a few minutes as Dr. Lecter in that one, and is anywhere near as prominent or heavily used, as in the later films, with Hopkins, which is a good thing, because it is really about William Peterson and Tom Noonan, who is fantastic in their parts. Well, at least it got the tagline/quote right, even if I think for most movie goers, it was Silence of the Lambs that probably made Hannibal Lecter a household name, where Manhunter would become more popular due to cable tv and re-runs, and with CSI and similar cop shows taking place in the late 90 and into the 00s, you could cleary see how much impact the Michael Mann film, had, but sadly, it did not caught on when it was releaed to the cinemas, and became a huge flop. Anyway, it still hurt me to see a film with so much beautiful and dreamlike scenes and great use of lighting, colors and locations, end up with that many terrible artwork/posters. And as an opposite, or maybe more within "got it right" alternative movie posters, I think this recent fanmade one, is among the best looking and also one which yeah, sure got the vibes of the film and its characters:
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 15, 2022 15:43:28 GMT
How could I forget Makes the male lead look like a woman hustler, not a pool hustler. And neither quite look like Paul Newman or Piper Laurie. I see that the above is the theatrical release and not this one, which is a bit better.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 15, 2022 16:54:23 GMT
TheGoodMan19 and the unclear double edged tagline on that first poster .... and the little image of co-star Gleason looking up at them from the corner ...
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 15, 2022 21:40:00 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 15, 2022 21:52:37 GMT
The poster makes it look like a battle filled WWII epic. while it's actually about behind the line operatives and intelligence trying to come up with a plot to fool Nazis. Resulting in a double or look-alike for General Montgomery.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 15, 2022 23:01:40 GMT
The poster makes it look like a battle filled WWII epic. while it's actually about behind the line operatives and intelligence trying to come up with a plot to fool Nazis. Resulting in a double or look-alike for General Montgomery. This film is filed on IMDb as Hell, Heaven or Hoboken and says that is the American title ...have never before seen it called by that name ! I have a vague memory of seeing this film and as I am on a John Mills kick...may watch it again soon. Trivia: The screenplay omits David Niven's part in the real operation. It was he, working for the Army's film unit as a Lieutenant Colonel, who first made contact with M.E. Clifton James. His role is taken in this movie by Major Harvey (Sir John Mills).
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 16, 2022 0:33:39 GMT
Cosh Boy (1953) UK. Dir. Lewis Gilbert. The crime drama of delinquent English youths features Joan Collins in an early role. A cosh aka blackjack is a weighted club designed to stun the victim. Re-released in America with a misleading title and poster-art to match...Featured in a thread way back, which may be of interest to you "Rebranding the title"
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 16, 2022 0:54:32 GMT
Cosh Boy (1953) UK. Dir. Lewis Gilbert. The crime drama of delinquent English youths features Joan Collins in an early role. A cosh aka blackjack is a weighted club designed to stun the victim. Re-released in America with a misleading title and poster-art to match.. .Featured in a thread way back, which may be of interest to you "Rebranding the title" Thanks ... thread now bumped and linked ... Rebranding the Title
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 17, 2022 5:32:26 GMT
Two ridiculous attempts at faux-lurid posters for this chaste Edwardian love story in which a couple of murders happen to occur. "Not suitable for general exhibition" ... HA! Even in 1944 that is ludicrous. Worth watching (it's on You Tube) .. just don't go expecting action or femmes fatale.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 17, 2022 12:58:56 GMT
Out of all of the Christmas "slashers" of the 70s and 80s, I think few were ever given as many hopelessly misleading movie posters, as Christmas Evil (1980) aka You Better Watch Out. This one I think fooled many into believing or hoping they would get Jason, Myers or Freddy inside the Santa Clause suit, chopping bloody limbs and doing so rather frequently, throughout the entire film. Well, it turned out that Christmas Evil is quite a different and maybe not the easiest film to just stuff inside only one type of genre or entertainment value, as it is a bit of "everything", and the terribly lousy and vulgar way of promoting it as yet another teen-slasher, is not the way to set up the viewers for what to come. But then again, I guess it is quite an "acquiered taste", but one that sure seems to have a very loyal fanbase (myself included), who loved the combination of a bit of psychological drama and very black use of comedy, along with a charming and very likeable leading part. It still kind of, well not angers me, but annoys me more, that they still keep on dishing the same cover artwork, with some angry and violent Santa, along with a bloody huge knife, axe or something else of a weapon.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 18, 2022 10:39:36 GMT
Awesome looking movie poster, and here is how it all ended up:
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jan 18, 2022 14:24:03 GMT
A very informative post about the bygone era's publicity conventions!
My contribution is somewhat slanted, as it is not particularly about the poster but more about the above-the-title billing:
The poster and the billing above the title are both misleading. They might have fooled the viewers into thinking this film was primarily a romance. It wasn't. It's a purely woman-centric film about Crawford's character. Van Heflin has a supporting role - in fact he and Raymond Massey have similar amount of screen time. But I suppose this kind of publicity would have attracted more moviegoers than for a woman-dominated film.
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Post by Rufus-T on Jan 18, 2022 17:22:13 GMT
The monster wishes
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Post by politicidal on Jan 18, 2022 22:26:26 GMT
Brad Pitt is not the main character. But this Italian poster seems to think he is.
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Post by msdemos on Jan 19, 2022 2:47:37 GMT
This one, for trying to give the impression that this was a film worth paying to see..... Showgirls (1995)That said, if you happen to be a person that occasionally enjoys a film SO bad, it's GOOD, and have somehow missed (avoided?) this GEM, you NEED to make a point to see it !! I often wonder if THIS might have been the film that "inspired" some modern day filmmakers to try and make money by producing movies that were PURPOSELY bad (the brainless Sharknado series of films being a PRIME example), after seeing this one that OBVIOUSLY was NOT purposely trying to be bad.... SAVE FERRIS
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