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General => Movies and TV => Topic started by: mrjazzguitar on May 18, 2011, 12:39:08 AM
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compare the poster for this new flick "Fright Night" and the poster for "No Country for Old Men"
I mean, its just too obvious - I noticed the moment I went to the Fright Night page on imdb.
(https://imageshack.us/m/696/7075/screenshot20110518at234.png)
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That reminded me of this article: https://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html
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I don't see what the big deal is. Every genre has its conventions.
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But that is where convention meets unoriginality. Not a problem for many people, no doubt.
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Oh I remember NCFOM. Great movie.
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meh, it's not like it was a terribly original poster to begin with.
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Its kind of like this and this.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_V7mvgP5PM-I/TAQ-LgVF19I/AAAAAAAAAhE/YA85rxQuE1Q/s1600/thirteen+ghosts.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i5nlRTgiXcA/TawuMjJEOnI/AAAAAAAABCE/NRDOBh1ivSQ/s1600/Dream_Theater_-_Metropolis_Pt._2-_Scenes_from_a_Memory.jpg)
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Sort of off-topic but is that a remake of the old Fright Night?
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meh, it's not like it was a terribly original poster to begin with.
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I thought I read that the 13 Ghosts poster was actually by the same artist who did the Scenes from a Memory cover. I'm not sure which is worse though, copying someone else, or copying yourself.
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I thought I read that the 13 Ghosts poster was actually by the same artist who did the Scenes from a Memory cover. I'm not sure which is worse though, copying someone else, or copying yourself.
I was the same guy.
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I thought I read that the 13 Ghosts poster was actually by the same artist who did the Scenes from a Memory cover. I'm not sure which is worse though, copying someone else, or copying yourself.
I was the same guy.
so you did both the movie poster and the cover? sweeeeeeettttttt
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I was phone.
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I thought I read that the 13 Ghosts poster was actually by the same artist who did the Scenes from a Memory cover. I'm not sure which is worse though, copying someone else, or copying yourself.
Dave McKean did the SFAM cover. DT originally wanted a similar piece of work by him, but it had already been used for the cover of the Sandman:Brief Lives graphic novel. So, he created a new work using similar techniques for SFAM. I don't believe the 13 Ghosts art is by McKean, but, rather suspect it was someone else "inspired by" his works.
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Hundreds of movies come out every year. It's inevitable that some of the posters will look the same.
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Sort of off-topic but is that a remake of the old Fright Night?
Yes, but why isn't it easy being green?
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Sort of off-topic but is that a remake of the old Fright Night?
Yes, but why isn't it easy being green?
You get ridiculed day after day just because you're the same color as a pear and it's not fair dammit.
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That reminded me of this article: https://www.cracked.com/article_18664_5-annoying-trends-that-make-every-movie-look-same.html
a lot of that was bullcrap. saying you can't make the camera shake unless you're making a documentary, jesus christ. Imagine what Saving Private Ryan would have looked like if the camera was steady the whole time. no emotion.
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That wasn't the point, and not what he was saying at all.
The point was that the handheld camera used to give a feeling a immediacy and presence, drawing the viewer into the scene and making it seem "more real' because it is so strongly associated with documentaries. Now that everyone uses it all the time, it has all but lost its effectiveness, like all the trends he lists.
This wasn't one of the better Cracked lists IMO, but all were valid points.
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oh, I see that now, I may have misread the tone.
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Its kind of like this and this.
*snip*
Beat me to it.