Comments on: Hollywood ruins everything

By: jonron sonrock

jonron sonrock — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:17:37 +0000

Really great!.Because the title of the movie when it’s released in France 6 month ago was
Good Morning England.

By: Generic Lad

Generic Lad — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:19:03 +0000

It was a fun film, not brilliant, but not terrible, and creating a mix where Frost, Nighy, Ifans, and Hoffman can just goof around is no bad thing. Plus, Branagh and Jack Davenport make fun bad guys.

I’d be more concerned about the edits Hollywood will make to the film than the film poster.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:28:02 +0000

I also can’t help but notice that the trailers and promos emphasize “The British Government banned rock and roll… but an American DJ and a band of renegades…”

Bet they’d love that back home.

By: marvinmartian

marvinmartian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:44:36 +0000

Thing you have to remember is….the film flopped.

Desperation is not surprising.

By: scarecrowprophet

scarecrowprophet — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:23:24 +0000

being fair (and this is from someone who saw the film in the UK about six months ago, with all the UK advertising beforehand) the screaming boat is a plot element in the film; you kind of make it sound like a photoshops stunt with no relevance.

and i don’t think this reveals any fundamental truths about america. plus, for those waiting on it, its a TERRIBLE film.

By: Marionette

Marionette — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:42:49 +0000

And naturally since they want to squeeze every last dollar out of the American audience, they had to include the female actress for both sex appeal and to appease the misandric feminists

I think you need to add more than one token girl to a lineup of male characters before you’d appease even quite moderate feminists.

I’d also just like to say that while the American poster is just sad, I did see a number of posters for The Ship that Rocked (not the one above) when it was on here, and I had no idea it was about pirate radio until now.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:08:12 +0000

Name me one great Hollywood poster in the last 5 years. They’re all shit, from what I can see.

By: Zifnab

Zifnab — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:02:21 +0000

I was mad enough by the retitling. Like … you don’t trust me to get “The Boat That Rocked,” you had to tell me it’s about a pirate radio station in the most on-the-nose way possible?

With music piracy being a big deal in the states and with Talk Like a Pirate Day and Pirates of the Carribean and various other pirate-themed popular successes, the name change actually doesn’t bother me in the least.

Drawing a segway between modern pirated music and 70s pirate music makes a lot of marketing since.

But the poster itself got completely trashed up.

By: drmedula

drmedula — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:49:57 +0000

Actually, there’s plenty of good movie posters being designed today- they’re just not the ones being USED.(Seriously, have you seen the Frazetta poster for FROM DUSK TIL DAWN? The CASINO ROYALE “playing card” poster? Or Drew Struzan’s ORIGINAL poster for THE MIST?) Foriegn posters are still interesting, though- I just saw a German poster for the new A CHRISTMAS CAROL that made it look like it might actually be a GOOD MOVIE…which is actually kind of a nasty trick to play on the audience…)

By: Prankster

Prankster — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:44:19 +0000

Or, alternately, nerdy. Y’know. This being the internet and all.

By: lance lunchmeat

lance lunchmeat — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:33:42 +0000

complaining about movie posters is pretty curmudgeony

By: Prankster

Prankster — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:52:09 +0000

Sadly, the art of movie posters has been dead for a while now in America. That’s because it falls under the marketing umbrella, and marketing for most movies has become an utterly soulless, frighteningly calculated, almost Orwellian affair. They have some fucking formula for what percentage of a star’s face should be featured on the poster, leading to some hilariously hamfisted results like L.A. Confidential (GIGANTIC KIM BASINGER with tiny, then-unknown Russell Crowe and Guy Pierce and semi-obscure Kevin Spacey in the background) and Being John Malkovich (GIANT CAMERON DIAZ, smaller John Cusack, even smaller Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich–WHOSE HEAD THEY ARE EMERGING OUT OF AND WHOSE NAME IS IN THE TITLE–nowhere to be seen). This was once a vibrant subgenre of art, but as with much about Hollywood these days, creativity takes a back seat to the comforting, supposed assurance of marketing formulae. Even though creativity is often what gets people into the theater in the first place.

The only way you get good posters is when a director has clout and cares about the marketing of their movie. And even then, sometimes you just get a cool alternate poster that’s merely sold to collectors rather than used to market the movie (There’s a terrific Big Lebowski poster showing a kaleidoscope of bowling pins reflected in The Dude’s shades, but I only ever saw it in World of Posters).

I also thought it was ironic that The Phantom Menace was so well marketed, complete with Drew Struzan posters–why did Lucas apparently care enough to market the film well, but not to, y’know, make it not suck?

By: ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:16:48 +0000

UK Poster: Homage to Abbey Road.

US Poster: Looks like one of those “___ Movie” movies, title and all.

By: Justin Zyduck

Justin Zyduck — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:56:36 +0000

I was mad enough by the retitling. Like … you don’t trust me to get “The Boat That Rocked,” you had to tell me it’s about a pirate radio station in the most on-the-nose way possible?

“Silence of the Lambs”? That’s a stupid title, how about “Charismatic Serial Killer Lends A Hand”? What’s with this “Pride and Prejudice” garbage? I suggest we retitle all future American releases “Girl Falls In Love With Kind Of A Jerk, But He Turns Out To Be A Decent Guy In The End.”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:47:48 +0000

So the movie IS good, then?