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My admittedly first thought when I saw the poster for "The Robot" was actually of Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit", but the poster for THX was a better fit.

It's probaly just the young girl with a surfboard image that instantly conjured up "soul surfer" when I saw the cover for "Raw Blue", but I like to believe that it's actually the shared feeling of danger that did. 

I think "Pacte" and "Lincoln" are self-explaining.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery

Title quoted after Rev. Caleb Charles Colton, in Lacon: or, Many things in few words, 1820.

May the 4th be with you!

What's on their wall...

In the movie Julie & Julia, we get in a rather grim moment of humorous juxtaposition to spot the poster for Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters on the wall of Julie's living room, right after she cooked Lobster for the first time in her life. Too bad for these creatures that this will likely be the closest they will ever get to see revenge for what is being done to them...







Less portentous is a framed ad for the movie The Angry Red Planet we spot later, when they relax watching a comedy spoof on Julia Child.

A (Belated) Happy Birthday

This month the German SF-series Perry Rhodan celebrates it's 50th birthday, half a century old and still going strong - First issue 09/08/1961 .
That probably makes it the longest running continual series in history.
Although they managed in that time only one movie adaptation, which then failed miserable at the box-office, we don't let that keep us from congratulating!

Live long and prosp... err, wrong series. Best of luck for the next fifty!

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The truth is out there...

Whish you were here - if it wasn't for the weather.

















There's not much variety in dance movies is there?
But then again, what more are we looking for than a soft body to hold?

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Not to say anything, just a peek at how my mind works.

















I am bound up in an 80's frame of mind, just saying, not that I really hoped Dylan Dog to be. (Yeah, right!)

















I could give you the whole bull about water symbolism here (not really, never understood that part) but for me the formula is simply called "Sex sells", and boy does it sure work.
(Speaking of which, have some Kylie)

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There’s probably a shortage of poses going round, but I prefer to entertain the idea that in a shocking twist-end we learn that Liam Neeson’s Unknown character turns out to be Alex Pettyfer’s father: “I am your father, number four!”

















I'm a fan of the first Sisterhood movie, liked it better than I did the book (which is not meant to say that the novel was pants *giggle*, I just had higher expectations of it after watching the movie).

















It might be just me, but I like how here one poster mirrors the other as if they came from the same place of imagination. Being both tied to the werewolf myth they even might. Now, if only the idea of "twilight" director Hardwicke at the helm didn't curb my enthusiasm for Red Riding Hood so much...
BTW: Make sure to check out the spanish version of Red Riding Hood I added to one of my older posts.

What's on their wall...

Now, now, what's this we see hanging at the back of the room, doubtless left there by his much younger self, when Roger Cobb (William Katt) opens in his mother's now demon infested House the door behind which a raging flurry of, uhm, flying garden tools lies in waiting?
Why, it's the poster to the original The Blob (again).
How ... flattering I guess, a suggestion this must be to make for a demon mommy monster from hell.

Old teen...

Extraordinary teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him.

...

This has my Spider-Sense tingling, telling me it can't possibly get much more extraordinary than the age of this supposed teen.

Like really people, couldn't you have at least given him a clean shave if you insist on selling him as a teen?

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Children of the Machine, part I: SF & Horror reflect the fears of society.

















Children of the Machine, part II: One generations nightmare is another's dream.

















I have actually no smart-ass comment to go with this, but I didn't want to miss the chance to put Tron and its sequel in here as well. You see, no matter how one stands to Disney's company policies, they sure now how to market! (Yes! I'm all giddy for the new Tron)

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Alien Abductors:
Since the advent of the SF age Robots and Space-Aliens must have stolen our women by the thousands, I keep wondering what they might need them for.

















The grip of fear:
Hollywood, or the film industry in general has by now turned our never ceasing fear of being invaded into an paranoid art-form perpetually fuelling SF and Horror. The Invasion of the body snatchers (right) image is something we find re-used for the movie the Revenge of the Creature, by the way.

















The End:
There's likely equal bits of American arrogance and self-deprecation to be found in the way SF continually uses the image of a destroyed Lady Liberty to mark the end of civilization.

What's on their wall...

In the living quarters of Kate's time travelling neighbor in Kate & Leopold, we can spy at the back of his kitchen a beautiful replica of a drawn poster for 30's crime movie I'll name the murderer (Yo nombraré al asesino).





And we also get to spot what looks to be a further Spanish language (Mexican?) movie poster version, this one for the Sci-Fi movie The Atomic Man (as Cerebro Atómico the "Atomic Brain") also known under the title Timeslip.
I have to admit that I wasn't aware of the alternative title before I looked it up, how fitting a choice.