…no, none of that nasty photoshop stuff. I mean legitimate movie posters. Movie posters from Poland. Movie posters you couldn’t intentionally make this funny. Movie posters so utterly surreal and misrepresentative, you have to wonder about what appeals to the popular imagination in that country. Weekend At Bernie’s advertised like a David Lynch movie? Gandhi advertised like Altered States? Romancing The Stone looking like a sequel to Friday the 13th? The Muppet Movie looking like a sequel to Pink Floyd’s The Wall? And what the fuck is going on with Trading Places?

Without much more ado…

The Fly

2001: A Space Odyssey

Airplane!

The Blues Brothers

Rosemary’s Baby

Gremlins

Alien

Alien 3

Benji: The Hunted

Apocalypse Now

Crocodile Dundee 2

Back To The Future

Dumbo

Gandhi

The Empire Strikes Back

Young Guns

Young Frankenstein

Weekend At Bernie’s

Trading Places

Superman III

The Birds

The Terminator

Star Wars

Short Circuit

Short Circuit 2

Saturday Night Fever

Romancing The Stone

Revenge Of The Pink Panther

The Muppet Movie

The Last Emperor

Cabaret

Howard The Duck

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan

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misrepresentative

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I wouldn't say. Most of them are hilarious in the context of the movie but they're also obviously very well thought. Movie posters were considered an art form in our [Eastern European] countries.

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I wouldn't say. Most of them are hilarious in the context of the movie but they're also obviously very well thought. Movie posters were considered an art form in our [Eastern European] countries.

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Okay, poor choice of words on my part. I do actually admire the, um, imagination displayed in a lot of those posters.

However, I don't think I could apply the phrases "obviously very well thought" or "art form" to the Gremlins and Young Guns ones.

Well, there certainly ARE exceptions

btw, some Czech posters:

Cabaret
Wild At Heart
Short Circuit (!)
The Witches Of Eastwick
The Name Of The Rose


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Ok, I've just clicked on a few so far. Are these real? Here we are trying to photoshop funny posters and these countries just put them out like this? I've got tears running down my cheeks!

Am I suspended in gaffa?

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(Sam_X) Wild At Heart

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I'll bet David Lynch himself couldn't have come up with anything as utterly weird-ass as that poster.

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(Commandant) Ok, I've just clicked on a few so far. Are these real? Here we are trying to photoshop funny posters and these countries just put them out like this? I've got tears running down my cheeks!

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I wanna go to Poland and make movie posters. It's as simple as that.

There's a good repository for Polish movie posters here. The Close Encounters one is especially brilliant.

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There's a good repository for Polish movie posters here. The Close Encounters one is especially brilliant.

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Their drinking water has been laced with acid. It's the only explanation.

Am I suspended in gaffa?

I like Revenge of the Pink Panther - madness!

Its about time I had a signature

The Thin White Duke: David Bowie Tribute Band

These are fuckin' great! I've got quite a few framed film posters and Japanese chirashi already, but I'd sacrifice them all for the chance to have the likes of this adorning my wall:



God's footballer hears the voices of angels
Above the choir at Molineux

That's my favorite one too.

meow

My personal favourite aside from the gut-bustingly-funny Fly poster is the "looks like it was done by a 6-year-old with MS Paint" poster of Gremlins.



Am I suspended in gaffa?

This one is fitting tribute to good old Steve Irwin.

"I know you believe you understand what you think I've said. But I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant."

this thread shows a great deal of cultural myopia. consider these facts:

- surrealism in eastern europe, unlike in the west, survived well into 1980s; some artists still work in that framework (e.g. jan svankmajer)

- as sam_x rightly pointed out, a poster was considered an art form (hence great posters for shitty films, like trading places or the muppet movie)

- since 1990s, 20-something harvard mbas have been teaching eastern europe how to properly do things, hence the end of this psychodellic poster craze. thank god, the world is safe, and all the publicity for hollywood movies comes directly from hollywood too. also, thanks to the 20-something harvard mbas, eastern europe is nearly devoid of any labour laws, and people literally cannot earn their living.

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this thread shows a great deal of cultural myopia...thank god, the world is safe, and all the publicity for hollywood movies comes directly from hollywood too. also, thanks to the 20-something harvard mbas, eastern europe is nearly devoid of any labour laws, and people literally cannot earn their living.

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Well, that just totally dragged the mood down. I guess we should all cry, if we're not allowed to laugh.

Agreed... maybe one or two are funny (Saturday Night Fever), but most of these posters are great. They're beautiful and creatively thought-out, and far more interesting visually than the glamour-shot-with-explosion-behind-it stuff we have here.

Heck, in Eastern Europe, even children's books are often illustrated with surrealistic or avante-garde art. It allows one to stretch one's imagination regarding the subject more. (For instance, the Ghandi poster feels very evocative of both Ghandi's philosophical stance and the political situation India at the time to me.)

gah is EVERYTHING america's fault????

meow

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gah is EVERYTHING america's fault????

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Yes. Yes it is.

shit.

well fuck. ain't there someplace america didn't fuck up the ass?

meow

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eastern europe is nearly devoid of any labour laws

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If only that was true. Life here would be great.

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and people literally cannot earn their living

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We're fine, thank you.

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well fuck. ain't there someplace america didn't fuck up the ass?

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Yeah. Atlantis. And that's only because the damn island sank ages before there was an America to go and fuck it up the ass.

Well, Disney made an honest effort to sodomize Atlantis with that damn cartoon they made about it.

meow

Good point. But I think we're straying from the topic here - we should be turning this into a hate-thread against Ronald Reagan and John Paul II for ending the Cold War, bringing down the Iron Curtain, and fucking over Eastern Europe's insane movie poster industry.

meow

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maybe one or two are funny

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oh please, don't exaggerate. NONE of them are funny.

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It allows one to stretch one's imagination regarding the subject more.

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yes, one's imagination is quite rigid, isn't one's?

meow

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oh please, don't exaggerate. NONE of them are funny.

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What makes you say so? You don't think the John Travolta eye sparkle is humorous? (Consciously so, even?)

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yes, one's imagination is quite rigid, isn't one's?

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Well, now I'm confused as to whether you like these posters or not. Unless you're saying you hate them entirely and think they're neither good nor funny.

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eastern europe is nearly devoid of any labour laws
If only that was true. Life here would be great.

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kinda proves my point about the 20-something harvard mbas.

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We're fine, thank you.

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ok, so i'm exaggerating. besides that, i can't tell for sure about czech republic, but for the countries i do know (and i have a feeling czech republic won't be that different) the following are true:

- minimum wages are laughable; sometimes they do not even amount to a montly rent
- unions are dismantled or largely ineffective
- labour/social democratic and even socialist parties are run by people openly endorsing corporate interests
- some old factories have turned into export-oriented sweatshops
- taxation is not progressive, and there is no itention to make it progressive
- employers may hire, fire and make employees work unpaid overtime whenever they want to

shall i go on?

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gah is EVERYTHING america's fault????

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i blame it solely on the 20-something harvard mbas (well ok, by now they're 30-something) - a very small part of america's population.

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- minimum wages are laughable; sometimes they do not even amount to a montly rent

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Don't know about the other countries but this certainly isn't true in Czech Rep.

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- unions are dismantled or largely ineffective

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Wishful thinking!

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- labour/social democratic and even socialist parties are run by people openly endorsing corporate interests

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Yep. The socialist parties especially, as they're keen to support dying industries they've been feeding during the totalitarian era. On the expense of growing industries / education / culture of course.

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- some old factories have turned into export-oriented sweatshops

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Some of them, yes. Mostly foreign labour works there. What's wrong with export, though?

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- taxation is not progressive, and there is no itention to make it progressive

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Slovakia has introduced the flat tax few years ago and their economy is on the rise.

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- employers may hire, fire and make employees work unpaid overtime whenever they want to

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Quite the contrary. Employers are forced to kneel before the employee.

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Slovakia has introduced the flat tax few years ago and their economy is on the rise.

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Sure, their economy is strong, but what about the people within it?

The flat tax is one of those beautiful neo-liberal reforms which, like free trade, helps the rich and helps the poor... get fucked even harder by the rich.

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Some of them, yes. Mostly foreign labour works there. What's wrong with export, though?

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Nothing's wrong with export but there's something very wrong with sweatshops, Sammy. Or does that not matter because 'mostly foreign labour works there'?

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Employers are forced to kneel before the employee.

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Sounds beautiful. Got any room for an absurdly handsome Antipodean English teacher?

Deny your culture of consumption;
This is a culture of destruction

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Slovakia has introduced the flat tax few years ago and their economy is on the rise.

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Add to what R/R said, this comment has very little to do with what tv eye's original point. It doesn't in any way counter the original point, in fact it supports what tv eye said.

And pray tell, what is wrong with trade unions?

"If one of us dies, I'd be the one to inherit your money."
- Mrs. K on the function of marriage

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yes, you are.

let me see if i can clarify:

1) NONE of those posters are funny. not even one or two.

2) It's a good thing one has avant-garde illustrations in children's books to stretch one's imagination muscle, because on occasion it seems one's imagination muscle has atrophied somewhat.

did the emoticons help??



meow

i'd buy that for a dollar!

meow

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helps the rich and helps the poor... get fucked even harder by the rich

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Yeah? How? The rich still pay more, as they earn more. Fair & square in my book.

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I think you might be a bit confused, too. It's my sense of humor that's rigid/atrophied, not my imagination. Come on, get with the program.

(Yes, I like emoticons.)

Your knee bone connected to your thigh bone
Your thigh bone connected to your hip bone
Your hip bone connected to your back bone....

and so on and so forth.

Welcome to Anatomy of Humor 101, Starlite.

meow