Mystery Poster Theater Oct 22 2008 @ 11:00 am
Mystery Poster Theater #7 – “Big Hand ‘N Gun” Edition
You know the drill: every Wednesday at 11AM CST we run this little game. EASY poster worth 1 point, HARD poster worth 2.
In combing the ‘net for movie posters, you tend to notice certain recurring motifs. One of those is the “Big Honking Hand With A Gun” marketing ploy, wherein a character points a obscenely large gun at you, the prospective audience, thereby titillating you with promises of gratuitous violence. Exciting, no? The two posters below (obviously) feature both a big hand and a big gun. Hopefully I’ve chosen wisely and you won’t figure them out within 15 minutes.
THE SCOREBOARD THUS FAR…
Jason – 5
Fox – 5
Eric – 3
Joseph Demme – 2
redison – 1
Sarah – 1
on Oct 22 2008 @ 12:43 pm 1. Fox said …
My first gut reaction is “damn, these are both hard” and then “damn, that first one is kinda phallic”.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 12:52 pm 2. taybo20 said …
I agree fox. I am having a tough time figuring out where to start… I think I am on the righttrack and then it all falls apart…LOL.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 1:05 pm 3. Evan Derrick said …
Wow, I was afraid these would be too easy. I have no consistent barometer for what is difficult and what isn’t.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 1:26 pm 4. Luke Harrington said …
Is there a gun out there that isn’t phallic?
on Oct 22 2008 @ 1:46 pm 5. Ibetolis said …
I really thought I had it then, I was going to comment but, just to be sure, I did some research and realised I was wrong. Very, very wrong.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 1:52 pm 6. taybo20 said …
Okay here goes a stab at the hard.
1.???
2. Die Another Day
on Oct 22 2008 @ 2:02 pm 7. taybo20 said …
Okay i got it… it has to be…
1.???
2. Dirty Harry
on Oct 22 2008 @ 2:45 pm 8. Evan Derrick said …
Extremely close with your second guess, Taybo, but not quite. Need some specifics.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 2:54 pm 9. redison said …
2. magnum force.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 2:57 pm 10. taybo20 said …
dirty harry and magnum force…
on Oct 22 2008 @ 2:58 pm 11. taybo20 said …
it’s a double poster
on Oct 22 2008 @ 3:17 pm 12. Evan Derrick said …
Yes, the HARD one is Magnum Force. Hmmmm…. might have to split the point total there between Taybo and Redison.
The EASY one has nothing to do with Dirty Harry. Think more recent.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 3:21 pm 13. taybo20 said …
I was meaning that the movie poster I was looking at had clint Eastwood twice with it saying dirty harry and magnum force. It’s alright give red the points… I found the poster while searching for dirty harry so that’s why I thought that…
on Oct 22 2008 @ 3:25 pm 14. Evan Derrick said …
Now that’s what I call good sportsmanship…
Stressed out this week, redison?
Maybe this should just be like “Whose Line Is It Anyways?” where I hand out millions of points on a whim. Same scoring premise, basically.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 7:50 pm 15. Evan Derrick said …
Ok, I’ll give a hint: the EASY one is an adaptation of an existing work, and came out within the last 5 years.
on Oct 22 2008 @ 10:32 pm 16. taybo20 said …
OH MY GOSH…. I kept thinking I had already seen the poster and kept bypassing this film.
1. A History of Violence
I feel embarrassed…
on Oct 22 2008 @ 11:29 pm 17. Evan Derrick said …
Nice, Taybo. You certainly worked hard enough for this one.
on Apr 10 2011 @ 11:32 pm 18. Rita said …
PxGr2t Real brain power on display. Thanks for that answer!