King Kong vs Godzilla new poster

[babycyclops]

Just to bring it back to horror movies here's one of my favourite Criterion Collection covers by poster artists Aesthetic Apparatus from a few years ago:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

Oh wow! I watched that Dr Mabuse film a couple of years ago for the first time. Wild stuff!
The Criterion package for Videodrome is really nice too.

[Brazoo]

TOTALLY - they have their misses for sure - but I do like that they take chances and get interesting designers. They really seem to think about which designers to pair with which movies. Sometimes I also miss the original art, especially with some of their vintage releases.

I hate most DVD packaging and movie art these days too.

[cjefferys]

Criterion have always had some interesting cover designs for their releases. Some I like, some I don't, but definitely better than the "floating heads", uninspired covers for most major studio releases these days. Big fan of Criterion's DVDs and Blu-rays too.

[Brazoo]

Things are kind of backwards - screenprinting was a totally commercial way of printing until Andy Warhol started using it ironically to blur the lines between product and art. Now we think of it as artistic instead of commercial.

Screenprinters did everything they could to register print colours correctly and make halftones smaller and less noticeable, and now that we have the technology to easily eliminate these flaws people are using filters and digital tricks to recreate them. Somehow the faults of older technology look more organic to us now. It's kinda weird, but I have to say I'm a huge fan when it's done right.

[Brazoo]

^^^
I think this style also has to do with vector based software like Flash and Illustrator becoming tools of choice about ten years ago when interactive media needed the versatility and ability to resize and export easily between platforms and media. I know it makes our lives easier when outputting both the web and print stuff on any given project.

Yeah, great point! For sure vector art, flash cartoon design and a few other factors are involved in this kind of retro style coming back.

Vector art and halftones work perfectly with screenprinting, which is also really trendy process for collectable designer posters. There's TONS of trendy design stuff faking the look of screenprinting now too. Stuff where the colours are purposely not lined up correctly to look like a badly registered screenprint, and using noticeable halftones.

Here's a DVD I just picked up that looks screenprinted, even though it's not. You can see the orange and blue/green are slightly off, and the contrast of the photo is blown out with a digital half-tone filter on it:




Just to bring it back to horror movies here's one of my favourite Criterion Collection covers by poster artists Aesthetic Apparatus from a few years ago:

[samurainoir]

^^^
I think this style also has to do with vector based software like Flash and Illustrator becoming tools of choice about ten years ago when interactive media needed the versatility and ability to resize and export easily between platforms and media. I know it makes our lives easier when outputting both the web and print stuff on any given project.

[Brazoo]

These kinds of retro-restyled posters have been going on for a while now. I think "The Criterion Collection" DVD packaging and their interesting designer choices have inspired these reworkings - also Saul Bass' design style has become SUPER trendy in the music poster world the last few years - so now the music poster guys are doing movie posters and it's going full circle.

[mazinz]

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleim...sters/kong.jpg

WOW... Kong's fighting Jaws and the Titanic!

WE NEED A BIGGER BOAT!I'M KING OF THE WORLD!

that poster is actually for the giant ape film called "A.P.E." which was a Korean King kong ripoff

[MightyMegs]

This one isn't from France by the way, it's from Belgium
http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleim...sters/kong.jpg

WOW... Kong's fighting Jaws and the Titanic!

WE NEED A BIGGER BOAT!I'M KING OF THE WORLD!

[samurainoir]

Rob Kelly does some wonderful work that sometimes gets used at retro cinemas:

http://namtab.com/robkelly/universaljekyll.gif

Rob Kelly Illustration: monster posters

The dinnerware stuff is fun!

[Meule]

>Polish movie posters had a really distinctive, unique look

There's a few here:
Lost In Translation: 20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters | Cracked.com
15 Grossly Misleading Movie Posters | Cracked.com

Don C.

This one isn't from France by the way, it's from Belgium

[ctc]

>Polish movie posters had a really distinctive, unique look

There's a few here:
Lost In Translation: 20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters | Cracked.com
15 Grossly Misleading Movie Posters | Cracked.com

Don C.

[cjefferys]

Wow, those really remind me of Godzilla theatrical posters that were released in Poland back in the day. Polish movie posters had a really distinctive, unique look (I don't know about now, but they did back in the 60's and 70's).

Do a Google image search for "Polish Godzilla Poster" and see what I mean.

[Hector]

They are beautiful...they have that almost Andy Warhol pop art look to them...very 60s.

The one that kinda does not work for me is the Aliens poster...for alien is futuristic...and these are kinda throwbacks.

[palitoy]

I dunno . . . I think the Godzilla ones work -- they remind me of the opening sequences of some of those old movies, or the titles on the original Ultraman show.

Yeah it kind of reminds me of Saul Bass credits.