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This week in This Week In Posters, we begin with Annihilation, which didn’t need to say much after “from the director of ‘Ex Machina.'” You had me at from the director of Ex Machina. That being said… I don’t know what I’m looking at here. Is she inside a tear drop? Does the story take place in a snow globe? Am I watching it from a peephole? And why doesn’t Natalie Portman look like Natalie Portman? Also that title font is way too thin to try to put a texture on. FEH, I SAY! (Yes I will see this movie).
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Sweet Jesus, this is like the visual equivalent of one of George W. Bush’s mangled idioms. It’s the “fool me once… you won’t get fooled again” of movie posters.
So there’s… a desert, with a tank, above a New York skyline… made of cash? And they put the names right above the wrong faces just to be obnoxious. Is it about… invading a boardroom? War profiteering? I’m going with war profiteering.
Oh, the English title is “Backstabbing for Beginners.” According to Google Translate, “Dobbeltspil” means “double game” in Hungarian.
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As much as I love to piss and moan about pointlessly diagonal posters, this diagonal actually works. Mostly because they didn’t just take a normal image and tilt it sideways. In this it looks like a choice. An artistic choice is almost always better when it seems like a choice and not a mistake.
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Finally, a movie about a giant portal!
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IMDb says: “Explores themes of female empowerment through sex, work, and friendship.”
Aw, dammit. For a second I thought it explored female empowerment through sex work and friendship, but the commas ruined everything.
The Half Magic in this poster is also known as Photoshop.
I am 110% onboard with seeing Kickboxer: Retaliation as a group and then dedicating a Frotcast (or two) to this film.
The poster for Nostalgia, along with the cast, got me curious enough to look up the trailer. Immediate regret.
The more I look at the Half Magic poster the more completely off the face/head/neck alignments are. Plus Heather Graham can’t figure which eye is looking at what.
Fredheads? Really? Robert England must get so much pussy from 50 year old single moms.
Makes you think twice about Freddy Got Fingered.
He gets Fredhead every time one of them sucks his dick.
@Alcoholics Gratuitous : I would totally watch a documentary about Freddy Got Fingered Fan(s)
Five Fingers in Freddy
5 nights in Freddy.
Talk about a Shocker.
As long as they only make one “Annihilation” movie I’m in. Those books went downhill quick.
AGREED
The first was okay-ish but yeah. It felt too much like “Lost the novel” to me.
@Torgo The first one was like, ooh this is mysterious and moody and I’m kinda intrigued? Then the next two were just like, oh, here’s slightly more stuff but it’s bad.
idk if it helped that I actually read the first one and listened to the next two.
Christopher Lambert is The Mountain now?
By Christopher Lambert rules, Pedro Pascal is The Mountain now.
@Alcoholics Gratuitous +1
Speaking of Every Doy, it kind of looks like Bruce Willis is starring in Death Wash.
Every Cue Ball
Every Goy
Half Magic: Three friends go on a blurry adventure to find Angela Kinsey a neck.
Well excuse me, sir, but according to my Google Translate Dobbeltspil is Danish (as is the tagline, En film af per fly) In Hungarian it would be kettős játék. Come on, Vince! You know this!
“Finally, a movie about a giant portal!”
Settle down Vince. This isn’t about your mom.
The postal portal is blue, not green.
*poster. Whatever. The point is Vince’s mom has an infection.
Maybe she’s leaking Cherenkov radiation.
It has become a successful go-to assumption that if a movie is relying on the prestige of its cast, it’s a terrible movie.
Preach!
Nostalgia is stupid, childish bullshit.
The sparkler inside Every Day symbolises anal sex. Or maybe the literal sparks are a broad wink wink nudge nudge to lure in the Nicholas Sparks fans. I don’t know if those two theories go together.
Huh, so that semi-sequel to The Last Detail was directed by Richard Linklater. He keeps surprising me, on his filmography I see a lot of movies where I wouldn’t have guessed that they’re all by the same director. Perhaps a recurring element is that they’re often very human, a certain warmth and charm. The mees rongis factor, if you will.
To be fair, Ben Kingsley has always looked more like a Belçim Bilgin.
Annihlation is such a weird novel, and probably unfilmable as is, but I can’t wait to see what they do with it. I’m willing to bet that it’ll be one of those “love it or hate it” things.
I’ll see it.
Slender Man? They’re already giving Eddie Redmayne a biopic?
So Every Day is like Quantum Leap meets 50 First Dates..?
I thought Red Sparrow was code for when you find a tampon in the toilet?
For anyone into the Nightmare On Elm Street movies, I’d actually recommend “Never Sleep Again,” a four part documentary that is (or was for a while) up on Netflix. It’s pretty in-depth about how the films were made, and has an interesting meta-narrative about how a low-budget horror franchise ended up building a major studio.
I do like how only one eye is poking out from the Red Sparrow title like if a spy is always watching you.
“Like a twisted remake of Home Alone on bath salts” might be one of the all-time great pull quotes, but “ZERO to 60 SPEED CRAZY” sounds like something that would appear inexplicably in big bold letters right in the middle of an otherwise Japanese film review.
Sadly, I’m certain that all the best parts are in the trailer.