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MovieDude
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Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am Posts: 11675
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 Here's an early canidate for best movie poster of 2006
http://impawards.com/2006/hard_candy.html
Wow, color me extremely impressed by Lion's Gate Films marketing department. What a memorable image, it fits perfectly with the plot of the film for anyone that knows it, and anyone that doesn't will surely want to know what the storyline is.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:13 pm |
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andaroo1
Lord of filth
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:47 pm Posts: 9566
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The website images are better:
http://www.hardcandymovie.com/
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:09 pm |
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xXVincentxX
La Bella Vito
Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:56 pm Posts: 9146
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Wow! That looks really interesting. That poster really intrigued me. Now I really want to know what it is about. Just by staring at it I would guess it is a horror movie.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:12 pm |
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andaroo1
Lord of filth
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:47 pm Posts: 9566
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Plot:
Man who is like 30 meets girl online.
Girl is 14.
They go out, she refuses to drink unless she prepares the drink.
She makes a drink for the guy.
Guy passes out.
She tortures him (for some reason I don't know).
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:26 pm |
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48677 Location: Arlington, VA
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andaroo wrote: Plot:
Man who is like 30 meets girl online.
Girl is 14.
They go out, she refuses to drink unless she prepares the drink.
She makes a drink for the guy.
Guy passes out.
She tortures him (for some reason I don't know).
That sounds vaguely like that Audition movie or whatever it's called.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:43 pm |
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andaroo1
Lord of filth
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:47 pm Posts: 9566
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That's what I thought too.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:44 pm |
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BacktotheFuture
I'm Batman
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:53 pm Posts: 5554 Location: Long Island
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Ummm, that poster sucks.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:22 pm |
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MadGez
Dont Mess with the Gez
Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:54 am Posts: 23248 Location: Melbourne Australia
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The poster doesnt look great - but its very clever. ie, the girl as bait...
Sounds like a creepy movie.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:35 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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The poster looks great to me. Very creepy.
The reason why the girl tortures him is apparently because the guy kidnapped and tortured her friend. That's what I read.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:42 pm |
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andaroo1
Lord of filth
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:47 pm Posts: 9566
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Great Lecter, way to give away the secret of the movie!
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:37 pm |
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MikeQ.
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Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:28 pm Posts: 10266 Location: Mordor, Middle Earth
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So basically it's just another movie where people torture people the whole time.
Meh, I'll pass. I'm getting sick of Lions Gate's fascination with torture movies with no plot! Saw, Saw II, Hostel, and now this.... meh.
The first Saw was not too bad though. I'd give it C+. The thing that dragged that movie down was the ridiculous, laugh out loud acting! Terrrrible. The plot wasn't a masterpiece or anything, but I found it quite interesting/creative nonetheless. Now this torture idea is just getting out of hand.
PEACE, Mike.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:45 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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andaroo wrote: Great Lecter, way to give away the secret of the movie!
Ummm...that's the premise of the movie at ComingSoon, man. Hardly a secret.
http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=8232
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:52 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
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MikeQ. wrote: So basically it's just another movie where people torture people the whole time.
Meh, I'll pass. I'm getting sick of Lions Gate's fascination with torture movies with no plot! Saw, Saw II, Hostel, and now this.... meh.
The first Saw was not too bad though. I'd give it C+. The thing that dragged that movie down was the ridiculous, laugh out loud acting! Terrrrible. The plot wasn't a masterpiece or anything, but I found it quite interesting/creative nonetheless. Now this torture idea is just getting out of hand.
PEACE, Mike.
What Scream did to slashers, is what Saw did to...um...torture flicks.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:52 pm |
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akkightlinger
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Joined: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:13 am Posts: 1
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 Trailer...
Saw the (teaser) trailer on "Hostel"...it grabs you and doesn't let go. If LGF gives "Hard Candy" a modest release, I could see it going places.
Hostel was pretty good too...ridiculous...but highly entertaining.
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Jmart
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Dr. Lecter wrote: The poster looks great to me. Very creepy.
The reason why the girl tortures him is apparently because the guy kidnapped and tortured her friend. That's what I read.
Now I have a slight interest to see the film. The poster really didn't do anything for me, but if that's the plot I might just have to go see it. Nice little twist on the whole "revenge" element.
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Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:18 am |
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am Posts: 11675
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Mild spoilers if you haven't read Dr. Lecter's post for whatever reason: I think there's more to it though. It sounds like he didn't actually do it, or at least he said that he didn't.
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Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:27 am |
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STEVE ROGERS
The Greatest Avenger EVER
Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 18501
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 Re: Here's an early canidate for best movie poster of 2006
MovieDude wrote: http://impawards.com/2006/hard_candy.html
Wow, color me extremely impressed by Lion's Gate Films marketing department. What a memorable image, it fits perfectly with the plot of the film for anyone that knows it, and anyone that doesn't will surely want to know what the storyline is.
Hmmm.. After looking at the kid standing on the steal trap, I'm getting a sort of Pedophile torture feel for this movie which may not go over to well at all.. 
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Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:38 am |
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Harry Warden
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Lionsgate has the torture sub-genre cornered, or so it seems. Not very admirable if you ask me but they don't care. They just want to make money, no matter how.
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Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:17 pm |
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andaroo1
Lord of filth
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:47 pm Posts: 9566
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By the way, Hard Candy premiered last January at Sundance, so it was finished with filming by the time Saw had been released.
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Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:39 pm |
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Jeff
Christian's #1 Fan
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 8:25 pm Posts: 28110 Location: Awaiting my fate
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Poster is brilliant. Trailer is decent, nothing special, but it does intrigue me.
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Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:10 am |
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baumer72
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Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:00 pm Posts: 7087 Location: Crystal Lake
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I actually hated Audition. One of the most over rated films I've ever seen. But this looks intriguing.
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Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:34 am |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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baumer72 wrote: I actually hated Audition. One of the most over rated films I've ever seen. But this looks intriguing.
Miike hater
Audition had one of the freakiest scenes in any movie ever...
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Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:19 pm |
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Joker's Thug #3
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Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:36 am Posts: 11130 Location: Waiting for the Dark Knight to kick my ass
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Really like the poster, the trailer left me unimpressed though. I'll probably still see it, interesting premise.
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