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Movie Poster of the Year « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:10:01 +0000

[...] Robert Rodriguez wanted you to know how much they love the 1970s exploitation double-bills with the Grindhouse poster campaign. Were they trying to recreate the haphazard aspect of 70s B-movie advertising by creating [...]

By: Thresher

Thresher — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:08:00 +0000

I used to go to the Burnet Drive-In when I was a kid. It was at the corner of 2222 and Burnet Road. Right up the street from the Top Notch Hamburgers place that is featured in Dazed and Confused (still stands). I ordered two of the posters – just for nostalgia sake. :)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:52:20 +0000

Small observation about the poster, but interesting to note in case someone thinks that they were actually physically ‘distressed’. Rodriguez says they were dragged around a parking lot, but the distressed look actually comes from photoshop ‘brushes’ that add this. For example in the McGowan poster, the upper left corner distressing is the same as the lower right (but rotated 180), and there are other repeats on the sides.(and I saw the posters in EW and I could tell that the other Planet Terror poster had the same distress marks.

Not a big deal – I only thought to note it because of Rodriguez’s comment and that some people care about those small details.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:45:08 +0000

I have only been to a drive-in once — some small drive-in in Tennessee. The double-bill was Lone Wolf McQuade and HOTS. ;)

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:41:01 +0000

We have one about 45 minutes away. The one time we tried to go the sound cut out about 5 minutes into the movie. There was a problem with their FM modulator (you tune to a radio station on the lower end of the dial). Anyway, after patiently waiting and enjoying the night air, my kids were getting restless. I went up to the snack bar to see if I could get any information.

The person clearly in charge was anxiously waiting at the food counter, “hurry hurry! I need it now!” The kid behind the counter then ran back with a piece of alumninum foil. The foil was then hurridly ushered to the control booth. Assumedly to attempt to MacGyver the equipment back into operation.

15 minutes later they refunded all the tickets saying it would be “fixed next week, this has never happened before!”

By: admin

admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:24:11 +0000

It’s funny, because the DEATH PROOF poster (and the Die Monster Die! / Planet of Vampires double-bill poster we posted) motivated me to and see if there were ANY drive-ins nearby — sadly there are none to be found.

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:23:00 +0000

I didn't remember there being a drive-in theater in Austin. I used to drive down Burnet Rd to work every day. It turns out there was a drive-in there, but it closed in 1975. Pictures of the theatre do exist. I wonder if Quetin Tarantino used to go there? I mean, why choose that particular theater? IMDB lists the movies as being filmed in Austin which might explain it. But, according to this page, there were at least 3 others in Austin alone. I thought maybe they would be re-opening the place for the premier or something, but the site is now a storage place and you can see on the satellite image that it would be difficult to put the theatre back. I guess Robert Rodriguez's comment about an alternate film universe will just have to suffice.