Posters. Posters. Posters.

A giant haul of awesome posters.  No talk just look.

Mash-Ups

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/the-best-movie-poster-mas_n_587649.html#s92928&title=undefined

Minimalist

http://www.listal.com/list/minimalist-posters

Alternate Universe

http://hartter.blogspot.com/2009/11/misc.html

Check 'em all out.

Some Sites to See

If you thinking of linking these sites ain't be stinking.

Highest movie body counts

All those continuity errors in one place

Ridiculous survival tactics

Want to remake something? Try here

Kubrick Faked the Moon Landing

I absolutely love conspiracy theories. The notion that one of man’s greatest feats didn’t happen has interested me ever since my first encounter with its proposal; in 8^th grade science class. As the years went on, my interest in film expanded and my introduction to the cinematic lexicon of Stanley Kubrick occurred sometime during high school. Yet it was only within the last year that I became savvy to a connection between the two. And believe me, I would love for it to be true.

Kubrick, if anything, was likely a veritable genius. And, if the metaphor rings true, likely a madman as well. The pictures of the artist towards the end of his life see his face covered with a thick beard, only exaggerating the intensity of his eyes. Something is going on behind them. Thus, of any renowned and talented filmmaker, Kubrick would be the one to help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration achieve the goal of landing on the moon. Or at least convincing everyone they had done so. And while I would love, very much, to believe such a tale, I would also like to think that we did put human beings on a celestial rock other than our own.

Thus, Jay Weidner’s series of passionate and fascinating articles add a degree of plausibility to the idea. I will not re-iterate the articles here because Weidner goes into enough depth without making the articles laborious or massive. The first, How Stanley Kubrick Fake The Apollo Moon Landings discusses both the cinematic techniques that might have been used and the political negotiations Kubrick would have employed to ensure a lasting film career. Next, Secrets of the Shining explores the ways in which Kubrick admits his involvement and perhaps guilt in being involved in what could be the largest conspiracy ever. A few aspects of this article can be seen as far-fetched but remains intriguing nonetheless. Lastly, Weidner discusses his belief that 2001 is the best film ever created in Alchemical Kubrick 2001, a more taxing read yet passionate.

Weidner’s writings, factuality aside, are incredibly thought provoking and help cement the social, political, and personal importance of film and film education. Did one of the foremost filmmakers to have lived and died have his hand in falsifying great technological advancement? And did he later carefully admit it by adapting and tweaking another artist’s story? The fact that Kubrick is dead only adds to the mystery; we can never truly know. All (A11) that we are left with are interpretations and musings about the great filmmaker and his place in the social sphere. I hope to talk about this more as time goes on.

Short Film: Teeth

The beautiful black and white cinematography allow the simple gag in this short to play out void distracting embellishment. The company is called Heroes for Zeroes and they work mainly in music videos out of Dublin.

Like other successful short films, this relies on no dialogue and the character's actions and expressions are of utmost importance. Again, the two-man cast and single location would have made shooting this much easier than complicated scripts call for.

Poster Mash-Ups

Check out some great poster combinations from Worth1000's 15th contest.

Avatar was obviosuly a big one, so if you weren't tired of it already...

Posters 2009.

Here be some awesome movie posters from the year past.

http://www.instantshift.com/2010/

01/04/30-best-movie-posters-of-2009/

I think listal does the best yet they are simply a collection, not ranked. Although you can choose to see them many an order.

http://www.listal.com/list/melhores-posteres-de-2009

As is obvious, Moon had many phenomenal posters as did Antichrist and Inglourious Basterds.

And here are a ton of posters, many which I know I never saw.

http://www.impawards.com/2009/std.html

I don't know what The Forbidden Door is but I want to see it.

Enjoy.

2009 Movie Mashup

Courtesy of Today's BIG Thing comes a mash-up of many films from the year past. The video as a whole does little to create a cohesive piece and, aside from the occasional graphic match or dialogue continuation, is a hodge-podge of popular films. None the less, it is a good checklist for determining just how thourough one's yearly movie watching has been. Enjoy.

MST3K for Free.

My thanks go to an associate who turned me on to this website where one can find episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in abundance. The site inevitably links to others such as YouTube and Google and may chop up the episode into parts. However, beggars can’t choosers and no MST3K is certainly a lot worse.

Anyway, it’s not like we watch the show to watch the movies. The hosts of the show often pick unbearably ridiculous movies and only manage to save us some of the times. But those bore sessions are worth it when a gem of an episode comes along and sends the abdomen into convulsions from uncontrollable spasms of laughter.

Not A Movie Poster.

I came across this website recently and it has become one of my favorites. If you cannot decipher from the title, these are not movie posters. Actually, they are simply designs that didn’t make the final cut and, far from a surprise, many of them are better than what the studios went with. Naturally some of them aren’t up to par to what was used but many seem to suggest different feelings for the films advertised. Check the site out often for updates.