Category: Photoshop

  • Movie Pass Adventures: 28 Years Later

    Alfie Williams as Spike in 28 Years Later
    Alfie Williams, Jodie Comer, and Ralph Fiennes in 2 Years Later.

    My least favorite part of the movie: the zombie fights. I don’t really care for the high contrast low shutter speed choppiness of those scenes. And I always know a movie hasn’t quite got me when I’m mentally poking at plot holes while I’m watching.

    But I did enjoy the movie more as it went along, and the pace and story shifted from “uh-oh – another zombie horde” to A discussion of the meaning of death and life.

    Alfie Williams plays Spike.. Because he’s in a movie with a bunch of popular actors, he gets pretty low billing even though he’s the primary focus of the film. For today’s parody poster I decided to fix his billing.

    A poster for 28 Years Later mimicking the poster for The 40 Year-Old Virgin.

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  • Retro Movie Pass Adventures: UHF (1989)

    A shot from UHF. Weird Al Yankovic, parodying the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, stares at an Oscar statuette.
    Weird Al Yankovic and David Bowe in UHF.

    Movies out in the summer of1989: Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future Part II, Look Who’s Talking, Dead Poets Society, Leathal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters II, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Little Mermaid, Born on the Fourth of July… and this goofy little movie. It never had a chance.

    I had to adjust my usual Alamo Drafthouse viewing experience expectations for this. For one thing, anyone going to see UHF in a theater in 2025- and this includes me- is likely to be a weirdo who laughs loud and hard at corny jokes they already know. For another, I somehow decided I’d be okay sitting front row center, so the whole movie looked like this:

    A highly keystoned image of a movie screen showing a cat in a costume.
    Actual shot from my seat.

    UHF is about competing TV networks, so the source poster was a no-brainer. I could have left in all the original taglines. Unfortunately, the poster is not very well-known, but trust me: this is really accurate.

    A poster for UHF mimicking the poster for Network.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Materialists

    Dakota Johnson in Materialists
    Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in Materialists.

    Some random things:

    • This is a treatise about the formulaic nature of relationships wearing a rom-com costume.
    • Dakota Johnson’s character says she’s had a boob job. If shes has (and maybe she has), it the most restrained and subtle one I’ve ever seen. But I guess that’s the point?
    • Another character has had his legs lengthened by six inches, but somehow their who body is proportional.
    • At one point one of the characters is in a play. I noticed the poster said it was written by the director. I looked it up, and it’s an actual play she wrote. That’s a nice bit of bonus pay.

    I thought about making the fake poster based on the one for How to Marry a Millionaire, but it has way too many elements to try and correlate things in this movie, so I went with something a little more obscure.

    A poster for Materialists mimicking the poster for Valley of the Dolls.

  • Retro Streaming Movie Adventures: Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

    Seita and Setsuko looking worried with fire behind them in Grave of the Fireflies.
    Seita and Setsuko facing each other and looking at something between them below the bottom of the image in Grave of the Fireflies.

    Boy, Studio Ghibli sure is good at crushing hearts.

    I spent way to long faking the logo for this fake poster, and it’s still not quite right.

    A poster for Grave of the Fireflies mimicking the poster for Ghost World.
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  • Retro Streaming Movie Adventures: Nowhere (1997)

    The alien from Nowhere.
    James Duvall in Nowhere.

    There’s a pretty good chance I would have liked this when it came out, and there are some parts that work for me, but Old Man Me spent most of the movie thinking two things: “Gosh, they sure are trying hard to be edgy” and “James Duval has anti-charisma in this.”

    Some cool set designs, though.

    I struggled to find a poster to parody for this, and I don’t think it really works.

    A poster for Nowhere mimicking the poster for Mean Girls.
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  • Movie (no) Pass Adventures: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

    Camille Rutherford in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
    Movie bar for Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. Pablo Pauly and Camille Rutherford look at each other. Behind them is greenery.

    So there’s this woman who just can’t find romance in her life. There’s a guy who’s her best friend, but they’ve never quite become a couple. Then an opportunity comes up to do something she’s always dreamed of, but there’s this awful (but handsome) guy there. You will never guess what happens next!

    Other than some nudity and frank sex talk that probably wouldn’t happen in an American version, this movie is a lifetime rom-com with some subtitles. Everyone is charming and fun to watch, but it’s total fluff.

    For today’s poster I went with the obvious dumb pun.

    A poster for Jane Austen Wrecked My Life mimicking the poster for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
    Yeah, baby!
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Pavements

    Two versions of Pavement: the original band and the biopic version.
    Pavements movie bar.

    The best possible Pavement movie. A documentary of the band, but also of a jukebox musical about the band, and also about the reunion tour, and also about a Pavement museum, and ALSO a parody of traditional Bohemian Rhapsody style biopics, and ALSO a documentary about making the biopic. Everything is jumbled together, and it’s often hard to know what’s real. It’s refreshing to see a band movie that never pretends to be accurate.

    Today’s fake poster was pretty obvious once I found a picture of the band standing like they were in a lineup.

    A fake poster for Pavements mimicking the poster for The Usual Suspects.
    As a Blank Check fan, I had to add Griffin to the poster.
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  • Retro Movie Adventures: Dogma (1999) (25th Anniversary release)

    Mat Damon and Ben Affleck in Dogma.
    The cast of Dogma looking serious.

    I’m glad this movie was as good as I remembered it. Serious topics buried in New Jersey stoner humor; it’s Kevin Smith at his peak.

    Today’s fake poster is a spiritual successor to the one for Frida (but that one looks better).

    A poster for Dogama mimicking the poster for Dog Man
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  • San Francisco Movie Pass Adventures: The Phoenician Scheme and The Life of Chuck

    The Phoenician Scheme

    Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston on The Phoenician Scheme. They are rendered in muted cyans and oranges
    movie bar for The Phoenician Scheme

    Wes Anderson certainly has a style, doesn’t he?

    My fake poster for this is pretty weak, but I enjoyed trying to push Anderson’s color grading into superhero territory.

    A poster for The Phoenician Scheme poorly mimicking the poster for Deadpool

    The Life of Chuck

    Tom Hiddleston as Chuck, smiling and wearing glasses
    movie bar for The Life of Chuck

    This is more like three related short films than a single movie. Some of it works well, and some of it is trying far too hard to look like deep wisdom. But that’s also how Stephen King writes, so that makes sense.

    This fake poster also isn’t particularly great, but I thought the tagline at the top was pretty funny.

    A poster for The Life of Chuck poorly mimicking the poster for The Secret Life of Pets
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  • Streaming Slightly Older Movie Adventures: MacGruber (2010)

    Stylized image of MacGruber on a colorful fake LEGO background for some reason.
    MacGruber & Vicki in MacGruber

    Would Ethan Hunt ever put celery in his butt as a distraction? I think not!

    Today’s source poster is about as unrelated to this movie as it could be.

    A poster for MacGruber mimicking the poster for High Fidelity.
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