The Poster Thread

There's nothing much that's better than a good film poster. Well, there is, but that's not the point. I love film posters though. A few favourites of mine, and post your own.


Obvious choice first. It tells you diddly about the film, but it is both inviting and foreboding. Plus it brings back memories of the fantastic music that accompanies the scene.






I love these three that came out for Open Range, reminds of the art during the credits of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.








The old horror films have some great artwork







A few Disney favourites





I remember Disney did quite a few posters in the same style of Beauty and The Beast round that time. A nice Aladdin one, The Little Mermaid etc.



Some Hitchcock





and the last one for now, a Spielberg favourite

Nice ones Gimli!! I'm gonna post a few of my favourites here!!

Here's a few from Terry Gilliam's finest...







Here's a few from Woody Allen's more recent efforts, even if the quality of the films are middling, they do yield good posters...







And now, for a few from Ken Russell!!

I love those Gilliam, Allen and Russell posters. Batman's a winner as well.

These two are nice and simple, but effective

This is probably my favourite ever movie poster:


Simple, yet it says an awful lot. Wonderful.

Then there's this little beaut from our Polish cousins:

Just a shame that The PhantomMenace poster has the bloody annoying oik on it. Great idea though.

Poland has some superb posters.

Yeah, countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia came up with some BRILLIANT poster designs during the era the Soviets ruled the roost. It makes you wish that Hollywood's poster artists and marketing people would take notice...

Here's a couple more ones for Kubrick's films, and you know what?? I think he would have been proud!!

The Shining



A Clockwork Orange



Here's a few more I like!!

Blade Runner



Yellow Submarine



The Return of the Pink Panther



Jabberwocky

Look in this months Empire, they've got an article on Polish film posters!!

I must've missed that. Have to take another look

I liked some of the posters for W.

That top one sums up Bush pretty much. Anyways, time for a few Hitchcock ones...

Now, I would like to show you the 3 posters used for Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno!!

Here's the banned one!!



And here's the other two the MPAA WOULD allow!!

Back to Polish posters, and I found this AWESOME one for The Big Lebowski!! Why didn't we get one like that!?

After seeing Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), I found this disturbing looking Polish poster for the film...

That's just freaky!

There's a great range of posters out for Coraline, one for each letter of the alphabet

Back to Polish posters, and here's some more oddities from behind the Iron Curtain.

Mel Brooks' Silent Movie



Duel



Close Encounters of the Third Kind



The Godfather Part II



The Blues Brothers



101 Dalmations

The Duel and Close Encounters ones are brilliant!

I want to know what on earth they were sniffing when they dreamt those up!!

Back to Polish posters, my favourite "old" film of 2010 is The Last Remake of Beau Geste, a wild comedy starring all our favourite Hollywood greats, Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Henry Gibson, Roy Kinnear, James Earl Jones, Spike Milligan, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Burt Kwouk, Irene Handl with Lurch off the Addams Family and Blakey off On The Buses!!

Here's how it was promoted in Poland...



And this is how it was sold in America!!

I want to see that.

It's in parts on YouTube, but you may not want to resort to piracy...

See if this sways it for you Gimli...

That could be the best prison breakout ever!

YAY!! SOLD!!