There is a thread on another board (yes Virginia, there are other boards) that has devolved (evolved?) into cool old movie posters. I’m sure The Dope can do better. My favorites so far:
and
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
The posters don’t have to be from old movies. They just have to be good. Also-- a link to the poster, please. Dopers are pretty good at describing things with words but I’d like to actually see the poster. Thanks!
Damn it! Wrong forum.
Moved from IMHO to Café.
Africa Speaks is bizarre.
Here is an even more bizarre advertizing display at the Capital Theater 1930.
There are some pretty interesting posters for plays. One is a lady on a log in a sawmill. Save me!
Note that the poster for Forbidden Planetdoesn’t actually portray any scene in the movie.
I won a T-shirt from the New York Daily News’s “Phantom of the Movies” for reporting the central tagline from this gem:
http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-s/she_freak_poster_02.jpg
I still remember seeing the poster for Brazil.
True love. And creative plumbing.
I love that Brazil poster, but I’ve never owned one. I don’t know why, since it’s my favorite movie.
I have this Subway-sized poster of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu hanging in my kitchen.
Not as cool, but a bit bizarre, I also have this poster hanging in my kitchen, except that mine is for the original movie, not the video. It’s for Ray Lawrence’s 1985 movie Bliss. It’s stupid and cool at the same time. Except for the elephant sitting on the car it has almost nothing from the movie itself. The man doesn’t look like Harry Joy (Barry Otto) and the woman is nothing like Honey Barbara (Helen Jones). It’s almost as if the poster was made before the movie was even cast, perhaps from the book (which I haven’t read). I like it anyway because it reminds me of one of my favorite movies and any Bliss poster is hard to come by. This picture is on the DVD just because it’s a dramatic-looking 5 second-dream scene, but again not having much to do with the rest of the movie. I’d still like a poster one of these days. (Here’s the trailer. The whole thing is on YouTube. Bliss also has a great tagline: “After Harry Joy dropped dead… his life was never the same again.”)
Ooh, Eraserhead! Looks interesting…
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Pine Fresh Scent turns off the TV with the same expression as the character on the poster.
Great movie. Obscene and offensive, but great and funny.
