Boy, who would have expected an Ari Aster movie to have a third act where everything goes off the rails?
The source for today’s fake poster was chosen solely because of the similar sounding title. I actually had a bunch of posters to choose from, but I went with the simple one because it’s eleven at night and I want to make sleep.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
Things to have or do in a movie to make me less likely to enjoy it:
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!
