Category: Photoshop

  • Movie Pass Adventures: The Accountant 2

    Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2
    Altered image of Ben Affleck in The Accountant 2. A profile picture, high contrast, in four colors (red, blue, green, and yellow). The background is dark purple screenprint-style dots on a lighter purple field.

    When I watched the original Accountant movie earlier this week I wasn’t surprised that Affleck’s character has Hollywood Magic Autism that makes him a super genius who sometimes does unexpected things. The sequel beats that by giving him a squad of kids who also have super-autism that they can use to control any device connected to the internet to help Affleck’s character solve a mystery- or murder people, if that’s the job.

    It’s not very good.

    Today’s poster would work better if I had better Ralph Steadman-style custom Photoshop brushes.

    A poster for The Accountant 2 mimicking the poster for Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Thunderbolts*

    Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine at an impeachment hearing in Thunderbolts*.
    Stylized image of The Thunderbolts* (Ghost, Taskmaster, US Agent, Bucky, Red Guardian, and White Widow) in red and yellow, with a blue background

    It turns out Marvel can still make fun movies with Captain America characters (as long as they aren’t actually Captain America). Let’s see if they can get two in a row with Fantastic Four.

    Today’s poster was an excuse to try out a Photoshop trick I saw in a Youtube tutorial.

    A poster for Thunderbolts* mimicking the poster for The Exorcist.

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  • Streaming Movie Adventures: The Accountant (2016)

    Ben Affleck as The Accountant, writing on a window like all geniuses do.
    Ben Affleck in The Accountant thinking "Remember: autism makes you stand like a robot"

    “Hey, y’know how Matt Damon’s first big role was as a math genius, and then he did a bunch of action spy movies? What if we had a movie where the lead guy was both, and also a secret philanthropist?”

    “How would we make that believable?”

    “Easy- let’s make him autistic!”

    “Does autism give people super math/killing/philanthropy powers?”

    “No idea!”

    “Good enough for me!”

    “Should we also include a nonsense plot?”

    “I think that’s practically a requirement.”

    “If people like it, we can do a sequel in ten years.”

    “But after all that time people will forget the first movie!”

    “You’re right. Let’s do it in nine.”

    Today’s poster is so, so, so dumb. But so is the movie, so that works out.

    A poster for The Accountant mimicking the poster for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I had to stop myself from adding "Into the Accountant-Verse."

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  • Retro Movie Adventures: Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

    Michelle Pfeiffer looking shocked as she realizes she's in Amazon Women on the Moon.
    Alpha Beta (yeah, that's the moon girl's name) and Butch in Amazon Women on the Moon.

    1987 was a huge year for movies. Full Metal Jacket, The Princess Bride, The Untouchables, Predator, Lethal Weapon, Robocop, Three Men and a Baby, Good Morning Vietnam, and The Last Emperor all came out that year. So many great films came out that a lot of smaller films got buried- films like Hollywood Shuffle, Swimming to Cambodia, and River’s Edge.

    There also was this turd. It’s like someone said “Let’s make a new Kentucky Fried Movie, but lose a lot of the racism and sexism (but we’ll still keep a healthy serving of both). But let’s make sure we stick to the real spirit of Kentucky Fried Movie by avoiding humor as much as possible.”

    Here’s the best sketch from the movie. You can skip the rest.

    Kind of an obvious parody poster today.

    A poster for Amazon Women on the Moon mimicking the poster for Moon.
    I should rewatch Moon, and pretend I don’t recognize the robot’s voice.

  • Movie Pass Adventures: Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie

    Cheech & Chong smiling and looking at the camera.
    Early Cheech & Chong, shirtless and making bodybuilder poses & silly faces.

    The story of how a Chinese Canadian soul musician and a Mexican American with a love of pot(tery) became comedy superstars. Very watchable. A little too forced at times, but that’s about right for these guys.

    I went with a different last movie for the parody poster.

    A poster for Cheech and Chong's Last Movie mimicking the poster for The Last Picture Show.

  • Retro Movie Pass Adventures: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

    Natalie Portman as Padme in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
    A collage of R2-D2 and the Emperor with Vader in the background in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Today’s poster is based on a revenge movie that’s problematic in a completely different way from this one!

    A poster for Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith mimicking the poster for Revenge of the Nerds
    My favorite thing about this one is how it makes it look like the three leads include some random wookie.

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  • Movie Pass Adventures: The Legend of Ochi

    The baby ochi peeks out of Yuri's backpack.
    The baby ochi riding on Yuri's back. Stylized image- Yuri and the ochi are primarily shades of yellow and gold, but some parts (the ochi's face and claws, and Yuri's eyes) are cyan. The background is shades of green.

    If you ask A24 to make a kids’ movie, you can’t be surprised if it has some blood and swearing and Willem Dafoe. The baby ochi puppetry (and CGI probably) is great. Amazing facial expressions.

    I originally thought I’d do a parody poster based on the one for The Hateful Eight (because “ochi” sounds like “ocho”), but that poster isn’t very memorable. I went with a different “kids’ movie with a bit more adult content than you might expect” poster instead.

    A poster for The Legend of Ochi mimicking the posters for Dick Tracy.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: Sinners

    movie bar for Sinners
    Michael B. Jordan in Sinners.

    I wish I’d seen this with no idea what kind of movie it was. Nearly half the movie is not what you’d expect from the marketing. One thing I did have going for me: I missed some really obvious things in the trailer.

    There’s a musical number in the middle that easily could have slid off the rails (and for about a half second I thought it was going to) but it ends up being fantastic.

    I started today’s poster thinking I’d have to just recreate the title, so I did that. The I realized that doing it right would mean hand drawing nearly every letter on the poster. So I did it wrong. Enjoy!

    A poster for Sinners that's a half-assed parody of the poster for City Slickers.
    Roughly 40 percent of this works.
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  • Movie Pass Adventures: The Wedding Banquet

    Han Gi-Chan and Bowen Yang in The Wedding Banquet.
    Lily Gladstone and Kelly Marie Tran in The Wedding Banquet

    There should be more movies like this. Not because this movie is brilliant (it’s good but not great), but because it’s a (mostly) lighthearted romp full of (mostly) strong performances. Lily Gladstone once again shows that they can tell whole stories with just their face. Totally follows the formula you’d expect it to follow, but movies follow formulas because they work.

    Today’s fake poster is based on an abandoned teaser campaign for a movie that came out three times. If you recognize it, you might be as big of a nerd as me.

    A poster for The Wedding Banquet based on the teaser poster for Justice League
    Bonus: Confusing “Not Quite Warner Bros” logo!
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  • Streaming Movie Adventures: How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    M & Grandma in How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
    M & Grandma in How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

    Really lovely. I’m glad I finally watched it.

    Netflix tried to trick me into watching the dubbed version instead of the subtitled one. And after I watched it, I noticed the subtitles in the trailer were different (and better!) than the ones on Netflix. Boo! Still glad I saw it.

    Also: the English title really makes it sound like this is some sort of wacky “where did granny hide the loot?” story, and it’s not that at all. The original Thai title is much shorter and more accurate: Lahn Mah, which apparently is specifically about the connection between grandmothers and grandsons.

    This poster is dumb, and reminded me how terrible I am at using Adobe Illustrator. I doubt anyone will get the reference without peeking at the alt text.

    A poster for How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies poorly based on the poster for How To Train Your Dragon.
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