Saw the new poster for Disney’s Jungle Cruise and thought hey that’s a pretty good cover I should go find a selectbutt thread to post it in, saw this thread and picked back through where I left off and quickly realized no matter how much Disney tries to make a dope film poster it still isn’t shit compared to what’s on display here.
Like, it was night and day, I went from thinking it was a pretty decent take on the classic adventure film poster format to immediately recognizing how sterile and lifeless and designed by committee it really looks.
you know, people talk a lot about how underrated the mario bros movie is, but i feel like something that’s always missing from those discussions is how ‘gritty cyberpunk city of endless night’ was as ubiquitous in B and C genre movies in the early 90’s as, i dunno, dreamworks face is in the present. (see for example the double dragon movie, theodore rex, etc. a lot of these movies still sucked even if they have settings that feel exceptionally interesting today).
of course it is easy to say that if you have to choose between the two that one is better than the other, but it’s easy to forget that this post-blade runner aesthetic felt really stale at the time.
A couple years back my favorite thrift store got a ton of 70s and early 80s movie posters in, and I just missed scoring Cannibal Holocaust for $30 by minutes. They had a really beat up Pumping Iron one but wanted $200 for it. Kill or Be Killed was the next best thing they had. Supervan and Dunwich Horror were both lucky flea market finds (especially since I’m perhaps the only person on earth who loves Supervan).
