If all is fair in love and war action-comedy, then Reese Witherspoon is getting the Mr. and Mrs. Smith treatment in This Means War…(ImpAwards)
Archive for the ‘Poster Ripoffs’ Category
This Means Love?
February 16, 2012Sparks of Love!
February 9, 2012Okay, sorry to get all mushy on you, but one man heartbreaker, Nicholas Sparks, has written the book The Notebook on the romance genre in the last decade or so with his tender-hearted tales…so much so that pretty much every romantic drama now looks like a Nicholas Sparks novel.
For instance, this weekend’s The Vow? Looks like a Sparks, sounds like a Sparks, but not actually a Sparks.
Can you tell which movie posters below are based on Nicholas Sparks novels and which are merely just trying to give off sparks? (ImpAwards)
Keep Calm and Cary Grant
February 8, 2012If you’re a graphic design/poster aficionado, then you no doubt have seen those vintage British-anthemed ‘Keep Calm and Carry On‘ posters here and abroad. But have you seen the Hitchcock-inspired Cary Grant spoofs from North By Northwest ? (Etsy)
The Artist or The Sexist?
February 6, 2012Prior to collecting his Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards, it appears that Jean Dujardin of The Artist has gotten himself into a movie poster brouhaha for his upcoming French flick, Les Infideles.
But are the French just getting prudish? These new one-sheets don’t seem to be showing any more leg than these fairly common one-sheet designs from the last ten years…Maybe it all depends on your point-of-view!
We Need To Talk To Roman Polanski
January 25, 2012With awards season in full swing, I think We Need To Talk About Kevin has won the Oscar for Most Variations of One-Sheet Designs.
And the marketing dept might be running out of ideas since this latest poster bears a striking resonance to Polanski’s baby Rosemary’s Baby. (ImpAwards)
Red Harbor!
January 19, 2012
Girls Riding In Cars With Boys
January 16, 2012This new dramatic poster for The Paperboy takes me back to that less serious 80s teenage sex pic, Mischief…
Up In Arms!
January 5, 2012The new bullet-laden teaser for Baytown Disco is not the first movie poster to show off its firepower — as seen below by the 2005 one-sheet for Lord of War and the classic 1960s shoot-’em-up film, The Professionals, with posters from American artist, Howard Terpning, and the French version by Jean Mascii. (ImpAwards and EMoviePoster)
Cool Cats!
January 3, 2012The new Spanish-language Will Ferrell film, Casa Mi Padre, reminds me of this old Burt Reynolds classic hombre flick. (ImpAwards)
Poster Break-off!
December 28, 2011
