Category: Photoshop

  • Streaming Movie Adventures: Mountainhead

    Stylized image of the main cast of Mountainhead: Ramy Youssef, Cory Michael Smith, Steve Carell, and Jason Schwartzman.
    Mountainhead movie bar. Cory Michael Smith, Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, and Jason Schwartzman talking to each other.

    This is the movie equivalent of the kid who thinks he’s the beloved class clown, but he’s really just annoying.

    Today’s poster is based on one from a much better movie.

    A poster for Mountainhead mimicking the poster for The Nice Guys.
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  • 70mm Movie Adventures: Babylon (2022)

    Stylized image of Margot Robbie and Diego Calva in Babylon. Robbie & Calva are shades f gold and red. The background is dark purples and greens.
    Margot Robbie in Babylon, laying on the floor, eyes closed, cigarette in her mouth.

    This movie is a three hour game of Spot the Reference to Singing in the Rain. It’s big and insane and it mostly works. I’m glad I got a chance to see it in 70mm, even if the print was a little janky.

    Today’s fake poster looks awesome, if I do say so myself.

    A poster for Babylon mimicking the poster for Psycho.
    …but it really should have a picture of Diego Calva.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Superman

    The back of Superman and Krypto sitting and looking at the Earth. The image is stylized: Superman and Krypto are red, blue, yellow, and white. The Earth is the same colors, but darker.
    Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and David Corenswet as Superman looking happily at each other in Superman.

    I’m a bit of a comic book nerd, so I don’t think I can accurately judge how normal humans will feel about this movie, but I freaking LOVED it. A charming, likable Superman in a movie that isn’t afraid to have fun? Count me in!

    I had a good idea for today’s poster, but I kind of whiffed the title logo. But it was fun to try and remember how to use Adobe Illustrator!

    A poster for Superman mimicking the poster for Super Fly.
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  • Streaming Movie Adventures: Egghead & Twinkie

    Louis Tomeo (Egghead) and Sabrina Jieafa (Twinkie) sit across a table from each other in a restaurant in Egghead & Twinkie. The image has been manipulated: Egghead, Twinkie, and the table are purple, green, and yellow. The background is cyan and blue
    Louis Tomeo (Egghead) and Sabrina Jieafa (Twinkie) sit next to each other in amovie theater. Egghead is watching the movie with an empty look. Twinkie has her eyes closed and is leaning her head against her left hand.

    What if you remade The Mitchells vs. The Machines, but live action, and slightly more about LGBT and identity issues, and with high school friends instead of a family, and also no machines?

    A light, sweet, pretty by-the-numbers high school buddy rom-com that is probably much more interesting for people one quarter of my age.

    What’s the link between this movie and the source of the poster to mimic? EGGS!

    A fake poster for Egghead & Twinkie mimicking the poster for Cool Hand Luke.
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  • Retro Streaming Movie Adventures: Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)

    Sean William Scott and Ashton Kutcher in Dude, Where's My Car?
    The Space Babes from Dude, Where's My Car?

    When this movie came out I was 34 years old, and I was sure I wouldn’t like it, so I didn’t see it. Today my spouse watched it for thing she’s doing, so I decided to watch it with her.

    Yeah, 34 year old me made the right decision. This movie’s terrible. I couldn’t tell you how many times the whole joke was “what if we kept repeating this?”

    Maybe the problem is the rating; A stoners and boobs comedy that’s rated PG-13 is a movie that’s been gutted by a studio that wants to market it to the widest group possible is naturally going to struggle.

    Or maybe it just sucks.

    Today’s fake poster is based on a different car movie that I’ve never watched.

    A poster for Dude, Where's My Car? Mimicking the poster for The Fast and the Furious.
    …but I bet it’s better than Dude, Where’s my Car?.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: 40 Acres

    The cast of 40 Acres.
    A small, thin image of the top halves of the cast of 40 Acres.

    When a suspense/horror/apocalypse movie is really good you ignore all the details that don’t make sense. That said:

    The whole plot is based on a disease that kills 98% of all edible plants, which causes the death of all animals. But the forest looks great! What happened to the animals that eat forest plants? How is the forest not completely out of balance? What about insects? If the trees are alive, should insects that eat wood be having a field day? And then wouldn’t animals that eat insects also be having a grand old time?

    And where do they get gas?

    And the farm has been turned into a heavily monitored fortress. How?

    And the electric fence can be disabled by breaking a junction box that’s unlocked and in plain sight on the fence! How is that useful?

    And I won’t spoil the fight scene at the end that is so dumb that it hurts.

    Even with all this, the movie is still okay. But if the story was just a little stronger I wouldn’t have cared about the billions of plot holes.

    The big link between this movie and the movie the fake poster is based on: their titles both start with a number in the forties.

    A poster for 40 Acres mimicking the poster for 48 HRS.
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  • Streaming Retro Movie Adventures: Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

    Stephen Chow as Sing in Kung Fu Hustle

    I watched this because it was a pick on the Screen Drafts “Action Comedy” episode. It’s really fun- very much a live action martial arts version of a Warner Brothers cartoon. I was a little put off by a bit of homophobia, but other than that it was pretty darn good.

    Today’s fake poster once again has almost nothing to do with the poster it’s copying, but they both feature someone smoking. That’s something, right?

    A fake poster for Kung Fu Hustle mimicking the poster for The Phoenician Scheme.

    A side note: I think I finally fixed the way these posts are showing up on Mastodon. We’ll all know when I hit the publish button!

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  • Retro Streaming Movie Adventures: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    Robert Mitchum in The Day of the Hunter, holding the head of a post, showing tattoos oneach finger that spell out LOVE.
    A closeup of Robert Mitchum's fingers in The Day of the Hunter, showing tattoos that spell LOVE on his right hand and HATE on his left.

    Call me crazy, but I think that preacher seems untrustworthy.

    If you recognize the source poster for this fake one without looking it up, you know far too much about movie posters.

    A fake poster for The Night of the Hunter mimicking the poster for The Day of the Dolphin.
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  • Retro Movie Adventures: Nashville (1975)

    Stylized image of Henry Gibson as Haven Hamilton in Nashville. He is drawn in red, white, and blue, with red white and blue outlies.
    Keith Carradine and Cristina Raines as Tom & Mary in Nashville.

    Things to have or do in a movie to make me less likely to enjoy it:

    • Tons of characters with no clear lead
    • So many people talking at once that it’s hard to know what anyone is saying
    • Lots of country music

    Robert Altman manages to put all of those things in a movie that’s over two and a half hours long and make something great.

    Now I should probably watch it again with subtitles.

    Today’s poster isn’t very good, and the two movies have pretty much no connection whatsoever. Enjoy!

    A poster for Nashville mimicking the poster for Dune.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Poolman

    Stylized image of Chris Pine as Darren Barrenman in Poolman.
    Chris Pine as Darren Barrenman in Poolman, showing off his sweet elementary school headphones.

    Watched as prep for The Flop House. I try to do my homework!

    This movie got hammered by critics like it was made of cancer and strangled kittens, and I don’t think it’s anywhere near that level of nightmare. It constantly almost works. There are details I love, like his “Walkman”: a COBY knockoff with big elementary school headphones (I see you, Califone 2924AVs). But Pine lets too many of his influences take over instead of using them as a lens for his own style. But it’s is first shot at directing; I would not be surprised at all if there are Chris Pine directing retrospectives in the future (where Poolman is called “critically misunderstood”).

    Or he might become Neil Breen. Who knows?

    Today’s poster: A movie called “Poolman” gets a pool movie poster.

    A poster for Poolman mimicking the poster for The Hustler.
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