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.
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.
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.
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).
I made a little video of my San Francisco trip.
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.
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.
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.
I imagine Jia Zhangke in 2014 watching Boyhood and thinking “I like the idea of a movie shot over decades with the same actors. I’d like to do it with my favorite actress (who is also my wife), but I want to start with her twenty years ago. Maybe I’ll recycle old footage of her I shot for other movies. And I’ll throw in some random experimental videos I shot along the way.” No one should be able to make that work, but Jia somehow pulls it off.
Today’s poster is about getting caught. I didn’t have the right pictures of the cast to make it work, but I decided they were blurry enough to fake with substitutes. Please pretend they look vaguely like the real characters.
I’m not sure why the Mission: Impossible movies don’t do much for me. Yeah, they’re preposterous and predictable, but so is pretty much every superhero movie and I generally like those. I don’t know if it’s the direction or the stars, but they just feel soulless.
For today’s fake poster I went with the opposite of Impossible: Easy.
I went into this movie knowing almost nothing about it, and I’m glad I did. Afterward I remembered seeing a promotional picture and thinking it wasn’t for me, and I’m glad I forgot about that as well. It had a lot of clever and unexpected turns. Plus, I learned you can make food that pleases men by cutting it into big dumb chunks!
Rejected ideas for today’s poster included Sister Act, Midnight Run and Midnight Express. I ended up going with an antonym. If someone was paying me to make these I would have spent more time getting the colors right, but at least I matched the fonts!
