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The "new" European DVD cover art for this "80's masterpiece"...

Is this even legal?

I guess Tom Selleck played Indiana Jones after all...

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I can assure you it's NOT fake.

It's on sale here in Holland in regular stores (Free Record Shop and all). It's not a boot or anything, but a 100% official release.

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Oh yeah, I wanted to add this one as well. Not a direct rip-off like the Selleck-flick, but this is screaming "this is just like Indiana Jones! as well"

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<b>THE ORIGINAL DRACULA (1992) POSTER</b>

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<b>THE DUTCH DVD COVER FOR WES CRAVEN'S DRACULA III</b>

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For the record; Dracula III is the second sequel to Dracula 2000 (not Coppola's film!). How is this even allowed...?

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Sort of Star Wars like too...

Arnie has bigger tits than his leading lady....not that I'd notice such a thing :lol:

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Yeah I like you as a poster Roald, not as a gaylord .

Nothing wrong with a Gaylord as long as it's not a Focker.

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That Star Wars art has itself been strongly influenced by various manifestations of the hero myth and archetypical representations of The Hero through history.

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Hey, it hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet, so I thought it might be valuable to the conversation, unless of course Hitch mentioned this poster as a bit of sarcasm. Many one-sheet posters are influenced by art and mythology; it's an important consideration of this conversation.

Ted

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Well, isn't imitation the best form of flattery? Or is the movie promoting industry out of ideas?

And yet, making a movie poster look like a similar movie is probably a deliberate marketing ploy to capture attention. If you just glance through and think it's the poster of the more well known movie, like Raiders or Star Wars, you're more likely to give the "copy" a second glance. You might turn away in disgust and go about your day, but you might also get a kick out of the similarities. Add a pretty face or recognizable name, and you're interested and buy a ticket or the video, and they've made their buck.

For one, that High Road out of China doesn't look too bad. Just because I "know" from that rip-off poster that is in the Raiders vein, and I liked Selleck's Quigley Down Under, so I might go rent it. Bang! There's a sucker born every minute.

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The most ripped off poster of all time

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Didn't one of the Clash Of The Titans posters have a similar pose as well?

I'm too lazy to post pics but the poster for Piranha is similar to Jaws.

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There was another one about a giant prehistoric fish, I think it was called Up From the Depths. It had a similar pose as well.

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You pulled an indy4.

:):lol:

How about this?

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I also seem to recall there was a Spongebob episode with a picture of a huge clam swimming up from the water toward a floating dollar, with big red letters above saying "CLAMS," and with Jaws-like music playing.

Indeed.

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Better?

I always thought that having more than one exclamation mark looked unprofessional on anything that isn't a flyer or casual conversation.

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I also seem to recall there was a Spongebob episode with a picture of a huge clam swimming up from the water toward a floating dollar, with big red letters above saying "CLAMS," and with Jaws-like music playing.

I love that episode. The entire thing was a Jaws parody. I loved how Mr. Krabs actually heard the music playing and started looking for it, he opens up a door and you see an old recording of a conductor conducting an orchestra, then he says "There it is! Don't you know that music means danger?" :) Genius writers back then, now the show really lacks in originality and adult themes.

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I also seem to recall there was a Spongebob episode with a picture of a huge clam swimming up from the water toward a floating dollar, with big red letters above saying "CLAMS," and with Jaws-like music playing.

I love that episode. The entire thing was a Jaws parody. I loved how Mr. Krabs actually heard the music playing and started looking for it, he opens up a door and you see an old recording of a conductor conducting an orchestra, then he says "There it is! Don't you know that music means danger?" :) Genius writers back then, now the show really lacks in originality and adult themes.

:lol: :lol: , yes, that was one of the funnier episodes that I've seen, and I must say I've seen quite a few by now.

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No love for Pino Donaggio?

There are a couple of other Jaws inspired posters out there but the names ecscape me at the moment.

I believe the knock off film Great White had several posters, one had the shark underwater but I've only seen it once. The main one had the shark coming up under a raft in a chilling pose.

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To be frank, I too have never found why Donaggio is so respected. I don't know if you've seen DePalma's Blow Out? That was quite some obnoxious and inappropriate score in my opinion.

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To be frank, I too have never found why Donaggio is so respected. I don't know if you've seen DePalma's Blow Out? That was quite some obnoxious and inappropriate score in my opinion.

He can be cheesy, very cheesy at times, but from what I remember Blow Out works really well when it has to. And Dressed to Kill is quite brilliant.

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