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1. In earlier times, the posters were original artworks but, often, what was shown had little bearing on what happened in the movie. One can often see that on entries on IMDB or on the cases for DVDs.

2. Most of the time a goddess is featured on anything cuz sex sells. Here’s a 29 second cutie by one heck of a Montreal comedian. Enjoy this, ha ha:
   Watch “Brudder’s Dream Car Wash” 29 secs
   https://youtu.be/wO9HpOR3SQA

   1. Shades of the famous swimming pool scene from Fast Times At Ridgemont High…..

3. The worse are the sound effects

   no matter if a car crashes in a tree or an airplane crashes in a brick building

   or a man falls trough a glass roof

   the sound effect is pretty much the same

   I hear the exact same sound effects in dozens of movies no matter what is being crushed, destroyed .

   Also every freakin time they use a knife or anything with a blade, no matter if the blade is cutting a cotton sheet or is pulled out of a leather sleeve – two things that make NO sound at all – , they all make that noise that a blade only makes if it rubs hard against another blade…. that loud SHLING noise that then turns into a triangle bell noise…

   or screeching tires for cars on ice and snow…

   sound effects in movies are so dumb, yet it seems most people never even notice…

   1. Many of the masters of those effects aren’t around any more or have left the business.

      One of them was the great Ben Burtt, whose work included the original Star Wars. I listened to a radio documentary about him many years ago and he described how he and his crew created the sounds of the ray guns.

      The source was a guy wire for a radio tower. Someone struck the cable, the sound was recorded, and the speed of the recording was adjusted to give the effect of the gunshots.

      Similarly, the old BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which is perhaps best known for creating the sounds for the original William Hartnell Doctor Who episodes, did similar work.

      The work that those people did was sheer genius!

   2. Yeah CF, I notice that stuff all the time. For some reason, I pick it out, when most don’t even notice. Another bugaboo are continuity fails that I also notice. My thinking is that these days there is nobody that really gives a damn, and it’s all generated with a computer. The original foley artists were exactly that, artists, that cared. Today, some pimply faced twenty year old nerd does the job at a tenth of the cost/price, and it shows.

4. The worse is the goddammed music and sound effects during previews at the cinema. 30 minutes of commercials followed by preview of movies with the absolute predictable music and sound effects (that building up of frantic music, followed by a silence and the bass twang with a slow-mo of something blowing up). I hate going to movies just for that part. Oh yeah, and the inevitable shot of the protagonist either blowng up something and walking away without looking, or him/her/xir outrunning the shock wave of some explosion.

   1. Turner Classic Movies often shows the trailers for some of the old flicks. Many of them are about as much fun as the actual flick itself.

5. Ah, the boundless wellspring of creativity that is Hollyweird. /sarc off

   1. Hollywood has become lazy in recent years. Many visual effects now are produced by computer and they quite often look cheesy.

      By comparison, studios often had crews building and producing all sorts of stuff for that purpose. I remember watching a short documentary about how The Hunt for Red October was made. The underwater scenes were made with models that were, say, 2 or 3 metres long, allowing film crews to make their fancy camera shots.

6. I dunno… It kinda worked for Irwin Allen, and the original Battlestar Galactica (Glen Larson ?)!

   Lady Kate, are you gonna revamp your own logo now?! Just kidding…!!!

   1. Larson was not only the creator of the series but one of the producers as well.

7. Look up ” the Wilhelm scream “. Recently re-watched The Hobbit, used three times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

   Once you hear it, you’ll hear it everywhere.

   1. Any time you hear frogs in a film or TV show, it’s the same frog sound effect, originally recorded in a swamp off the back lot of a studio in California in the 1950’s.

      The problem I have with the movie poster site is that most of the patterns are demonstrably deliberate attempts to evoke an earlier iconic poster design, usually a Bond movie poster.

   2. Jungle scenes in movies use the call of a kookaburra as part of the wildlife sounds. I remember hearing that in The Creature from the Black Lagoon, which takes place in the Amazon basin. The kookaburra, however, is Australian.

      Well, one can’t accuse Hollywood studios of having geographical geniuses on the payroll. After all, in the Randolph Scott movie Canadian Pacific (or as it The Cariboo Trail?), Indians were constantly on the warpath, complete with burning teepees. (Movies like that are worth watching for Canadians because of such laugh-out-loud howlers.)