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TIME MACHINE Poster.... not too hot
Hey folks, Harry here... This poster BLOWS... What the hell!?!?!? Well so far the comparison between the George Pal original and this one... well it begins with the posters and this poster sucks in comparison. Let's hope the film compares better....
Have you seen this poster?
You didn't get this from me. Call me "SUPER-SCOOPER"
Folks, Harry here... would you please refrain from sending images taken from other peoples' websites, unless you also credit the place where you got them. It saves a lot of strife....
Harry,
Be warned about this 'Super Scooper' cause the guy aint attribuing sources.
"The Time Machine" poster scan you got was stolen from my page
(CLICK HERE). Someone has been
e-mailling a lot of other sites with the same image and seem to claim they
scanned it which is wrong. The actual source should be properly attributed
- he's 'Hargon', anyone using another codename (like 'Super Scooper') is
lying.
Garth
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. . .He could sue over the "melted watch" design.
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I saw a trailer for this before AI last week, and it was blah. First?
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It's fresh and cool, what's wrong with it? That is a great slogan!
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The visual of Guy Pearce on the time machine in the teaser looks great, I think.
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...that the finished film bears about as much resemblance to the HG Wells novel (not to mention the George Pal film) as a doughnut bears to a chainsaw? Next we'll be finding out that about 16 of the Wayans brothers are in it.
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...notice how they want the younger audience "BUY POPCORN" to have the poster appear "hip" "SEE THIS FILM" with the logo "Zero to 800,000 years in 1.2 seconds." creating "SEE THIS FILM" a subliminal, fast-paced, speed reference. This dangles the carrot in front "BUY POPCORN" of them thinking that this will be a "cool", "hip", fast paced" action film when in reality it'll be a stinker. To paraphrase the most common line used on AICN these past two summers, "Just because its shit, doesn't mean I'm going to taste it."
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If you are talking about time travel, how do you start from zero? Aren't we all traveling toward the future, second by second?
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...that infinity sign/clock logo, that's a nice touch. But who the hell came up with this car comparison/motif? Chris Pula?!? Unfunny and nothing to do with the movie. THIS IS H.G. WELLS NOT BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 4! But as it is, a teaser poster like this only serves to get the name of the movie out there, it'll be the release poster that counts. But the whole director-being-replaced thing doesn't bode well. Time will tell, eh...ho ho...well I'm all punned out now.
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8169/timemov.htm-----------Movie posters are such a lost art, and Harry's right, this new one sucks. The Planet of the Apes looks good, Spider-man teaser was interesting, and while the Swordfish Poster looked like a magazine ad for hard liquor, it was at least better than the close up faces bullshit so many other posters have anymore. Enough with the photoshop! Bring back poster ART!
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Great idea... a trailer that resembles a car commercial. People are already pissed about the rolling stock that plays before the previews begin.
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It feels more like a teaser than a theatrical poster. But I feel it's got merit. I'd be a little interested if I wasn't familiar with the project already.
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It's not that it doesn't blow, but this is a marketing nightmare. Barring major star-power I wouldn't know how to make a compelling poster.
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in big huge letters "FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MOUSE HUNT" --------------Seriously though, I haven't seen the teaser so I don't know of any images that could be incorprorated (the time machine itself, eras, wardrobe, etc.) or the feel of the movie thats being gone for.
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I saw A.I. on the first day and I didn't see no Time Machine teaser. Dang it. Heck, I didn't even know they had a teaser ready yet...geez I'm behind.
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...the very worst poster I have seen for a long time. Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one? I mean, hey, it doesn't take much to get me excited for a movie, but couldn't you at least put something on paper that is about a movie? And "Jump Start the Future" is ALMOST as forced as "Assimilate this!" from Star Trek:First Contact. Nothing says advertising incompetence like a non-catchy catch phrase.
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Lord, that was lousy. At least this is a smidge more subtle. Are they trying to ride the unholy coattails of "Fast and the Furious", or what the hell's going on? Doesn't this take place in VICTORIAN TIMES?! And they're trying to make this look like a car commercial?!? WHY?!?! That's like remaking "Psycho" and coming up with some lamebrained tagline like "Bates Motel: We'll leave the light on for ya." I mean, geez! Thank God that would never happen. Ha ha! Cuz, see, it DID happen! Ha ha ha! Heh. Well, that's about enough. Bottom line, bad advertising, there I said it. This has been a Moment with User ID Indeed! Goes from not posted to posted.... right now!
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Jul 07, 2001 8:02:24 PM CDT
How would I create the poster? Simple...I wouldn't start off wit
by uncapie
I'd draw a poster that showed the time traveller in his machine in the center on his journey with action scenes from the film surrounding him. Look at the movie posters from American International Pictures, Universal International, most of the studios knew how to attract the audience from the fifties and sixties. THAT WAS ART! Those posters made you want to see the film. "X-The Man With the X-Ray Eyes", "Beyond the Time Barrier", "The Time Travellers", "The First Men In the Moon", "Tarantula", "Reptilicus", "Gorgo","Forbidden Planet",... even the original M-G-M "Time Machine" poster had class and stood out. This looks cheap.
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Well what do i have to say about this....aw to hell with it! I don't have the energy to rant about how wroung this is. what is you ask? EVERYTHIG! This film should not be made this poster sucks I'm... I'm... AHHH! who cares! bye...
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I think it's far too early to tell much of anything about this film yet, based on the teaser poster or trailer, but it doesn't seem so hot so far...
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I think it's far too early to tell much of anything about this film yet, based on the teaser poster or trailer, but it doesn't seem so hot so far...
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Jul 07, 2001 9:07:04 PM CDT
60 MINUTES THE MOVIE: ANDY ROONEY IS BACK, AND HE'S PISSED. . .
by the duke
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I fail to see what makes this poster so terrible. It's a teaser, and it does just what it's supposed to. The trailer, though, did suck.
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Jul 07, 2001 9:38:52 PM CDT
Overheard at H.G. Welles' gravesite: "SIMON, YOU BASTARD! YOU BA
by uncapie
...Guy Pearce teaches the Eloi how to use machine guns and finishes off the Morlocks with a leftover hand-held, nuclear rocket launcher from World War XX, but not after after a nifty car chase that includes Humvees and a guest appearance by ape brain, Johnny Goodboy who miraculously knows how to fly one of the last Harrier jets in the world. Last time I read the book, all the traveller had were a box of matches and steel lever he snapped off a piece of machinery to thwart off the Morlocks.
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geeezus this place pisses me of to no end. C'mon now. If I'd have walked into a cinema and seen that poster with out any internet knowlege of the film or all that crud, then I would be creaming in my pants. Sorry to be so graphic, but it's so much easier to get excited then to get pissed off, y'know?
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If I'd have walked into a cinema and seen that poster with out any internet knowlege of the film or all that crud, I would think, "Hm, they're remaking the Time Machine. And they have a lame, underwhelming poster that looks like an add for oil with a clock logo twisted into an infinity symbol. Hmm, hey, that popcorn girl is hot....."
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thats great!! its scary and ABOUT hotels. user id indeed, are you in marketing? cause i dont think your average joe could come up with that. i bet your average jo wouldnt even understand it!!baff3
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Just show one of the Morlocks, and you'd be cooking up fanboy fervor.
Unless, of course, your character designs suck.
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Jul 07, 2001 10:42:57 PM CDT
Hey, there's no half-faces on it, which makes it good in my book
by andy travis
Yeah, the poster is ALWAYS an indication on how good or bad a movie is...(sarcasm, in case you missed it). What a bunch of whiny children we have here.
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show it please.
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it wouldn't load before... i'm an ass...
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I am sorry, but that tag line sounds sooooo much like a career day motivational slogan!
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Jul 08, 2001 1:28:45 AM CDT
Truth in advertising would be "Inspired by the classic H.G. Well
by reb55_0
".....this Victorian-era flick is guaranteed to ROCK YOUR WORLD!!!" It will involved a time-travel concept and quirks similar to the Traveller and pretty much nothing else (unless Harrier jets were in the original, I can't recall....oh wait that was BATTLEFIELD EARTH, now THERE'S a great adaptation).
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If it's just the teaser. All it needes is the name of the movie on it. Cripes. Who gives a shit?
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Jul 08, 2001 5:22:52 AM CDT
Andy Travis, if that makes us whiney children because we seek cr
by uncapie
...I'd rather be a whiney child than a self-absorbed moron any day.
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I saw the teaser last week, and I thought it was pretty cool! Why the hell it isn't online yet I don't know. The poster is cool too, but I hope the actual movie isn't just a mindless time machine thriller the publicity seems to be telling us. If it were, there'd be no point in seeing it; we've already seen Back to the Future. So I hope the full trailer tells us there's a lot more to this movie than you might think. If there isn't, I think it's not being faithful to the novel. But for now, the teaser campaign looks cool; but if the whole movie's like this, I'll pass.
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hahahahahahahahahahaha. Oh deary me, this is slightly underwhelming.
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Wow, and I was just trying to argue my case against this lousy poster. Maybe I should've said "Based on arguably the greatest thriller ever made... this summer, Gus Van Sant invites you to go to ..... 'EXTREME HOTEL!'" I was in advertising for two months before my "Find the Condom Multi-Million Sweepstakes" proposition for McDonald's was introduced to the public with lukewarm results. Since then (not to mention the infamous "Find the Sulfuric Mello Yello Incident"), I haven't set foot in Madison Avenue. BASTARDS! I took that @#$% Pepsi girl to new levels, dammit! Don't pin the parrot movie on me! This has been a Moment with User ID Indeed! Jump start the exclamation points!!!
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Yeah, I work at a movie theatre..and this poster came in this past week. We cracked this tube open, and to our suprise saw one of the blandess posters of the year. I quickly resealed the tube, grabbed the new Spiderman poster and slapped that bad boy on the wall.
I just hope the film is better than the teaser poster.
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jump-start the future is pretty dumb, I will admit, but the images suggest motion and surrealism, an interesting combo. i would really rather not see a merchant-ivory-esque version about a stuffy victorian prof travelling forward in time to frolick with midgets - so if they want to Fast-and-Furious it up a bit, well that's fine with me. traditionalists still have a version they can go back to, so let's get something hipper and different. change isn't always bad (boy won't I look like a moron when this movie turns out to suck like Anna-Nicole at a Bel-Air retirement home).
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They are deliberately unerwhemling us so far. At least...I hope it's deliberate. I hope this isn't some corn-fest.
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...might be to show the guy in period clothes in a street or other environment which clearly clashed. A visual fish-out-of-water thing. That's sort of a hack idea, but it could be effective. He'd hve a look on his face that let us know this world he's dropped into is quite strange and alien; no need to show the time machine at all. The title takes care of that point. Because the story isn't about the machine, anyway -- it's about him.
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If you did ,you'd realize why the clock looks like one.
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...check out the "Time After Time" poster.
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Thanks for pointing out why I hate talkbacks so much, friend. Whenever I actually feel strongly enough to post a comment I get shat on for nothing. My comment was that I was happy the poster wasn't your usual slap-together photoshop "two-faces staring at you" junk. Your comment insinuating that I don't care about creativity in art is at best laughable. Sorry to be so blunt, but you know nothing about me, and seem so insecure that you feel the need to call someone you don't know a moron through a computer screen. Sorry I wasted your time.
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...personally, I don't want to know anything about you. Your posts say it all.
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Jul 08, 2001 11:46:31 PM CDT
TRAILER BLOWS ON NUTS, I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT A DUDE
by sierramountain
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That's the only possiblity. Why else would someone take something I've said and decide to run 180 degrees backwards with it? I've found this to be common on this site specifically and the internet in general. It's as if you're thinking "Why not talk shit to a complete stranger and get away with it?" That being as it may, my disinterest with "creativity in art" must stem from my four years of art school. Want to discuss Byzantine art, or maybe the transition of the Dada movement into Surrealism? Or, since this whole talkback is about a poster, the great Russian poster-artists of the October Revolution, El Lissitsky for example? I simply stated an opinion, and now I'm a moron...
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I'd like to apologize to any AICN patrons who are tired of this back-and-forth tirade between me and someone I don't know. I know I usually don't enjoy reading these things. Maybe the best thing to do in these situations is to simply let them go. I am sorry that I didn't, and won't reply or comment anymore to any personal "attacks" against me. If Harry can endure the thousands of posts trashing him than surely I can deal with one.
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This poster should be drawn out like the Dogma DVD. Now that's the best DVD cover I've ever seen.
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I do agree there should be more painted posters. Drew Struzan's about the only guy I know who still does that (from time to time).
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I saw the trailer right before A.I. (with a shitload of other trailers). Basically had him in the machine spinning in a circle. That was it. No magic prickles on my neck.
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Jul 09, 2001 11:00:16 AM CDT
Thank you, Andy Travis. I'd rather be a tweleve year old than an
by uncapie
Wow, like I'm impressed that you looked up those artists in the Guggenheim Museum art collection book. Do the world a favor and do a Van Gough on your throat.
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...that you're a condescending, arrogant asshole. And a moron.
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Heard he was doing something in ohio.... To throw in my unneeded 2 cents.. Andy, my problem with your comment, "What a bunch of whiny children we have here." is that it was prefaced with the notion that "Yeah, the poster is ALWAYS an indication on how good or bad a movie is...(sarcasm, in case you missed it)." Actually, when you posted that, most of the posts exept maybe one or so DID NOT say that OR imply that the movie will be bad because of the poster, like you assumed they (we) did. It was simple poster critques. And I agree with you about the half faced photo shop crap we get today as well, much like I said in one of my earlier posts, but this is still underwhelming. And it IS only a teaser.
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First of all, I don't understand anyone who didn't like the teaser trailer. Of course it didn't show much, it's a TEASER. And personally, I usually would prefer a teaser than a full blown trailer, and will always take one over a spoiler trailer (you know, the ones that give away major plot points or the ENTIRE plot in the trailer?) As for the teaser, it basically was just spinning clock FX overlayed by what basically looked like someone sitting in the old Time Machine prop, and then ended with the title. Very well done, in my opinion. Tells you (at least anyone with half a brain and knows who H.G. Wells) all you need to know: it's a remake of a movie based on a book.************************************************************************On to the poster. At first glance, I actually liked it. No, it's not a great painted cover (most of those died out in the 80s, with the occasional newer one like Mallrats or one or two of the Phantom Menace posters.) At first glance, all I saw was the title, the moebius/infinity strip clock and, what I assumed were the hands of a clock and second tick marks or one of the dials on the machine itself. The bad parts of the poster are the catch phrases. Catch phrases work for some movies, but are used for many more than they should be. This movie is one that shouldn't have catch phrases. Reading closer I realize "0 to 800,000..." means it isn't the hand on a clock. Even worse than that tag line is the "Jump Star the Future." That's as almost as bad as The X-Files movie having the tag line "Fight the Future." (I say almost as bad, only because this movie at least has something to do with the future, I never did understand where the X-Files tag line came in.
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And thanks for not ripping my head off, either! I agree that people were not equating a bad poster with a bad movie, but it seemed odd to be so vehemently opposed to this one. I've seen much, much worse. Anyway, I know you understand what my meaning was, even though my statement was badly worded. I apologize for that. Interestingly enough, the new Premiere has it's own list of the best movie posters in it.
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Dreamworks pictures is busy anally raping my favorite book (The Time Machine). It's not directed by Jan "Speed" DuBont this time (he who buggered and battered Shirley Jackson's excellent Haunting of Hill House), it's directed by H.G. Wells' grandson, Simon Wells. Sounds kinda promising until you realize that Simon is previously the director of PRINCE OF EGYPT and AMERICAN TAIL 2 (is he the same bugger who's got Clive Barker's Thief of Always in developement Hell) and this is his first live action feature.
I know it's bound to be doomed because one of the actors, in an interview, explained that they played some photon-person thing who can "use implants in his head to tap into every database on the planet". What the fuck has that got to do with anything in Wells' book?
Also damning: Some British pop star (Samantha Mumba?) is playing the character of Weena, renamed Mara (and how much you wanna bet she's not the cooing, childlike Weena book readers remember, but rather some cinematic Trophy Girl), and also sings the movie's title song -- another sign of doom, the movie has a title song!!!
Guy Pierce (Momento, L.A. Confidential, Ravenous) plays the time traveller, could work, though I suppose he's been cast in a deliberate scheme to make the character a babe-magnet so that he and Wee-- sorry, MARA can knock boots under the sphinx.
Yet again and again, I read quotes from idiots involved in this production who say with beaming smiles that this movie is absolutely faithful to George Pal's 1960 adaptaion of the book. THAT MOVIE FUCKING SUCKED!!! WHY???
Why is it so out of the question to adapt the Time Machine WITHOUT "updating" it? The beauty of the book is that, although it was written more than a hundred years ago, it has not dated significantly. Yes, true, the main character puts forth many now laughable theories that sound better to 1890s ears than they do today, but it was always clear that they were ONLY theories. The Time Traveller wraps up so many of his speculations with the phrase "but I could be wrong", that the book could have been called "Maybe I'm Wrong".
Hollywood morons are never content to use their state of the art CGI special effects for subtlety, if they were, this movie might be very promising, but no, they have to wag their big pink baboon butts around as much as possible, and will rewrite the script to include those big pink butt-wags.
But who knows, maybe I'm wrong, maybe everyone will LIKE this film and everyone will own the goddamn soundtrack featuring Samantha Mumba's hit single "In Time Love Heals All" or some such crap and I will get to see the title of my favorite book plastered across McDonalds cups and the whole nine yards. Oh joy! Hooray! Hooray! SHOOT ME NOW! -
I ask those of you who say this poster sucks to answer this question: Is this the final one-sheet for the film? Huh? Is this the final ad we'll see in the theaters around the country the night of the premiere? Let me save you the finger-typing energy. NO. It's a TEASER meant to TEASE you into talking about the film. It's not intended to SELL TICKETS. It's not meant to make the finite hairs on the back of your neck spring straight up while your goosebumps pop up like pimples ready to burst. It's meant to get slobs like us to TALK ABOUT IT, which is what YOU are all doing here. What's next? Does the JP3 poster "suck" because it only features the JP3 logo with the SHADOW of a flying dino? Come ON, people! (I need another shot of grain alcohol to stomach this kind of premature eJERKulation. JeezUSSS.)
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