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[#Phonepunk#]

what is even going on here?

Merlin appearing beneath trippy green smoke while a hot medieval babe is getting it on.

the crazed Dark Souls battle between a standard knight and one in gold, seemingly controlled by an evil red mist.

the sword itself, glittering with the most amazing airbrush lens flares of all time.

is there anything this cool, this metal, in pop movie poster history? i doubt it. prove me wrong.

the lens flares, my god, the lens flares.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Those are some cool ass posters

 

[bitbydeath]

Krull was pretty cool too back in the day.

Great movie too!

 

[MetalAlien]

apparently i'm easy to please

 

[Soltype]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Love hand drawn art. Now it's all about some guy doing a Photoshop edit in 15 minutes.

 

[oagboghi2]

Is the actual movie good?

These posters really blow away everything they make nowadays.

 

[EviLore]

Is the actual movie good?

These posters really blow away everything they make nowadays.

Camp, but pretty great yeah.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[yeahokaywhatever]

I've gotta say that Ilsa has that one beat! It's a mien gott personified in poster form!

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

The early 80s is one of the best times for movies.

Of course that's true for the 80s as a whole, but especially the start.

 

[Traianvs]

I have a couple of original movie poster on the wall of my main corridor and I love them both. They are Italian movies from the 70s, one of my passion.

Clearly not the "best ever" because I'm biased, but I like them a lot. There are treasure to discover in italian movies from that decade

 

[brap]

80s horror is the best

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

80s horror is the best

*KA-CHUNK*

 

[brap]

I have a couple of original movie poster on the wall of my main corridor and I love them both. They are Italian movies from the 70s, one of my passion.

Clearly not the "best ever" because I'm biased, but I like them a lot. There are treasure to discover in italian movies from that decade

Italian movies used to have some great posters

 

[mcjmetroid]

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[mcjmetroid]

Haha I started something with my post. Gotta love those rainbow colours

 

[Traianvs]

Already one of my favorite threads EVER. I'll follow it, keep posting great posters!

 

[Hissing Sid]

Fab poster. Soundtrack is fab too. Some fab acting from the luvvies. Fab locations, costumes and dialogue. The whole film is just fab.

Extra merits for a young Gabriel Byrne in full plate going balls deep, young Patrick Stewart fucking his foes up with an axe, young Liam Neeson beating peeps up and young Helen Mirren being as completely fuckable as ever.

 

[brap]

 

[J-Roderton]

Love Excalibur.

Unfortunately, this is the cover of the DVD I own.

 

[TacosNSalsa]

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Love Excalibur.

Unfortunately, this is the cover of the DVD I own.

Lol dvds dropping the ball so hard

To anyone asking, yeah the movie is great. Best Merlin of all time IMO and I really like the look of it, they used a lot of green lighting so when people are fighting in the woods in their armor there is this spooky green reflection. Good stuff

 

[oagboghi2]

Camp, but pretty great yeah.

I have to check it out. Sounds epic in a cheap way

 

[Sub_Level]

 

[#Phonepunk#]

dig this scene of Merlin casting a spell

this scene is near the start, right before some huge fantasy titties

 

[Space Runaway]

Love Excalibur.

Unfortunately, this is the cover of the DVD I own.

Sadly they used that same cheapo cover for the bluray too. -_-

I have to check it out. Sounds epic in a cheap way

It's a very good movie and only budgety when it comes to certain effects. I will say it's a "0 to 100" movie, that being it seems kinda sketchy at the start but by the end you feel like you watched a solid movie.

 

[Trogdor1123]

The 80s did posters right!

 

[CrankyJay™]

Dang OP, those are cool.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Man, I miss the 80's. So much fun stuff. Studios would really put money behind weird and creative ideas.

 

[bitbydeath]

Horror movies have a lot of great posters.

 

[Amey]

 

[Uhtred]

Im going to watch Excalibur this Weekend, its been too long. I have it on blu ray.

80's were just bad ass!!!!! It was a bad ass decade to grow up in.

 

[dan76]

Poster art really went downhill with the introduction of photoshop. I love me some hand painted film posters.

 

[Belmonte]

My favorite is this Noriyoshi Ohrai masterpiece:

 

[bitbydeath]

Thread needs some Goonies.

 

[Duellist]

How about monster squad lol

 

[MetalAlien]

Horror movies have a lot of great posters.

yep...

 

[Duellist]

 

[#Phonepunk#]

tbh not that good of a poster, not that good of a movie either, but still totally batshit crazy in a fun 80s way.

 

[J-Roderton]

In an era when people couldn't just pull up a trailer on their smartphone in an instant, these were excellent for marketing a film.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Flash Gordon

 

[Traianvs]

some more italian glorious trash

 

[Silent Duck]

some more italian glorious trash

You get a like for having Ator in there.

 

[Insane Metal]

I have it on my bedroom wall. Love this movie.

And I gave my sis this one which is also awesome

 

[Scopa]

 

[ClanOfNone]

some more italian glorious trash

As another poster pointed out, some of these movies got the MST3K treatment. The bike one was Warrior of the Lost World with the Paper Chase Guy. "He's the Gintiest!"

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Speaking of MST3K I watched the one for Deathstalker last night. Movie was very lame but the poster was good, haha those monsters are not at all in the film. By the legend Roger Corman