tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279530091641272518.post3283947858822662581..comments2024-03-27T13:58:27.053-04:00Comments on Where Danger Lives: 50 GREATEST CLASSIC SCI-FI POSTER COUNTDOWN! 40-31Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07715057178983752370noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279530091641272518.post-51455277180052193832011-07-07T18:19:06.528-04:002011-07-07T18:19:06.528-04:00Thanks Moira, great comment! I find the This Islan...Thanks Moira, great comment! I find the This Island Earth poster to be extremely frustrating - there's so much potential there.<br /><br />I've seen many of these films (I think 30 or so of the final 50), but The Killer Shrews is not one of them. My extreme familiarity with the crime films made the writing of that countdown so much easier than it has been for this one. <br /><br />You are spot on about there being a connection between the posters' busy-ness and the target audience. It also isn't lost on me how, for that same reason (and the wars with television), so many of the posters advertise their use of Technicolor in such large text.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07715057178983752370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279530091641272518.post-36163751643639968002011-07-07T16:52:18.550-04:002011-07-07T16:52:18.550-04:00Mark, I'm amazed how some of the worst movies ...Mark, I'm amazed how some of the worst movies (and believe me, I've squandered my youth with some of these movies) have the best posters, graphically. <b>The Killer Shrews</b> poster is so elegant, restrained and enticing, while the movie was so unfortunate (I shoulda known if James Best is the leading man, stay away!). <br /><br /><b>This Island Earth</b> only needed a silhouette of the big forehead guy and his minions to get over the imaginative strangeness of this movie, not all that uncoordinated action. <br /><br />Then again, we have to remember that the target audience for these movies was writhing in adolescent angst and boredom. They were probably more interested in violence, sex, the apocalypse, sex and the dangers of the unknown more than clean lines and allusive content, so maybe those posters that tried to jam in as much color and action as possible were on the right track.<br /><br />Great post for summertime, btw!Moira Finniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12626493736940699514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279530091641272518.post-34878844709253137932011-07-05T17:24:21.861-04:002011-07-05T17:24:21.861-04:00Zombies of the Stratosphere/Satan's Satellites...Zombies of the Stratosphere/Satan's Satellites indeed has merit in an "insider" vein, as even though he's not credited on the posters, it was one of Leonard Nimoy's first jobs in Hollywood -- playing an alien!DesiluTrekhttp://facebook.com/marstonjjnoreply@blogger.com