Mystery Poster Theater Oct 29 2008 @ 11:00 am
Mystery Poster Theater #8
Every Wed. at 11AM CST we play this game. Easy poster worth 1 point, hard poster worth 2. Whoever has the most points at the end gets a personal foot massage from Luke, quite possibly the most tantalizing prize in the history of prizes. Also, congrats to taybo20 for getting on the scoreboard last week. He certainly worked hard enough for it.
Went with a bit of a minimalist aesthetic this week. I’ll be interested to see if the Hard poster actually is hard or if someone guesses it right out of the gate.
THE SCOREBOARD THUS FAR…
Jason – 5
Fox – 5
Eric – 3
redison – 3
Joseph Demme – 2
Sarah – 1
taybo20 – 1
on Oct 29 2008 @ 11:35 am 1. Collin said …
The one time every week where I wish I could spend a bajillion hours collecting/studying movie posters …. *sigh*
on Oct 29 2008 @ 11:37 am 2. fletch said …
Hard one = The Man With the Golden Arm.
on Oct 29 2008 @ 12:01 pm 3. Evan Derrick said …
And Fletch nails the Hard one. Bravo, Mr. Fletch.
on Oct 29 2008 @ 12:26 pm 4. taybo20 said …
easy- the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert ford
Woo hoo!
on Oct 29 2008 @ 12:40 pm 5. Sarah said …
I know it’s already answered (wooo, skimming down to the comment box!), but Hard – The Man with the Golden Arm.
I don’t understand why I get the hard ones, but not the easy ones.
on Oct 29 2008 @ 1:05 pm 6. Evan Derrick said …
And taybo snags the easy one. Geez, another quick week of guesses. The post’s only been up for 1 1/2 hours!
And Sarah, its really hard to judge which will be easier or harder for people. Assassination of Jesse James a much more recent film, so you would think that that would be an easier guess for people. How many people have even seen The Man With the Golden Arm? However, that is something of a famous poster, so if anyone has even a cursory interest in classic poster art, it would have been readily recognizable. You must be one of those people.
on Oct 29 2008 @ 2:12 pm 7. Fletch said …
I think of it this way, Evan: if anyone isn’t familiar with the work of Saul Bass (at least somewhat, anyway), they probably shouldn’t be playing movie poster quiz games.
I’m with Sarah – I find the hard ones easier. Just because something is recent doesn’t mean it’s memorable (speaking generally here, not nec. about Jesse James). And really, “classic” older ones should be much easier than even some of the big name movies of today. I might not be able to pick out an element of a Harry Potter poster, but I could get the glasses from Straw Dogs.
on Oct 29 2008 @ 3:25 pm 8. taybo20 said …
I’m actually the opposite fletch. I don’t know that much about saul bass (probably half of what you do) but I do about drew struzan and john alvin. I know that the easy posters are more recent so it helps me to decipher them more quickly. I regret that I’m not as familiar with older more classic film which is why the hards tend to be hard for me. I’m working on my list of films to watch but it just keeps getting longer…LOL.
Anyways my method involves using the image to figure out the time period of the film. If can’t do that then I go through other processes… The easy today however just came to me.
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