Classic Movie Posters - The Art of INSPIRATION

[@jpthompson]

What a wonderful grouping of memories. This video was like an encyclopedia of my childhood. Thank you for reminding me of a bunch of posters that I have not thought about in years!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Thank you so much for your support. I am glad you liked it and I continue to discover "new" old ones that I love and miss...and make the modern ones look like doo doo.

[@seanmurray3759]

Great video and subject. Very well done and deserving of a lot more views! My favourite era and genre for movie posters is the science fiction and monster movies of the 50s. Stunning artwork that was often far better than the films they represented!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

THank you so much for the kind words, I love doing this....but yes, wish I could get more people watching. My marketing strategy does not seem to be working, lol. Thanks again, and although I keep my channel at a certain era...I LOVE the 1950s Posters, and even some from the 30s and 40s. Agreed on the artwork, fine art to tell a story and sell us on a movie....that are sometimes not as good as the poster, lol. Thanks again.

[@kittc1oudkicker224]

MAAAAN!!!! If I could give you 10 thumbs up I would!! This was a Masterclass in poster art! Excellent!! I could watch these all day.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Now that is a COMMENT...and a Compliment. Thank you so much...and yeah, I LOVE your handle, Kitt. Thank you again. Glad you enjoyed, and if you don't mind sharing...I would love that too. Have a great one.

[@jesseseehawer5840]

One of my favorite artists, Alex Pardee, created an amazing alternate movie poster for inglorious bastards and it stands as proof that it is 100% possible to still create amazing works of art that can lure you in.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I do love to find alternate movie posters from artists now. They have made some better entries than the original. The talent is there, the studios just don't care to look, I guess.

[@futuristica1710]

You speak the truth Earth Man!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Ha! Thank you, glad you liked it. I know I'm not the only one who agrees.

[@TheHAM1980]

You covered so many great posters, and it really is hard to choose a particular best - but i have to say, the OG Drew Struzan Back To The Future poster is perhaps my personal favourite... it has everything - mystery, intrigue, wonder, star quality, beautiful, bold colours and gorgeous composition.... and the title font, along with the classic tagline/paragraph.... all in all, a class act

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I love that you said the Color and Composition. You are correct. all of those feelings were met and we need more like this. Glad you enjoyed. It is a fav topic of mine. See you in the comments.

[@TheHAM1980]

Great video and commentary ❤👌👏👏

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Love this topic. I may not have done it justice, but there are just so many good ones...and there are barely any today to compare. Thank you

[@TheHAM1980]

@GENXPERIENCE yes, I also love this topic, and in fact your video inspired me to go down a Google rabbit hole and make a list of so many great movie poster artists that I deeply admire... some of them are: Drew Struzan Richard Amsel John Alvin Carl Ramsey Bill Gold Bob Peak Saul Bass Jim Pearsall Chinatown R Tanenbaum Bernard D'Andrea Daniel Goozee M. Daily - The Driver Rene Ferracci Escape from NY Boris Vallejo Graham Humphreys Dave Jarvis Alex Ebel Friday the 13th Peter Mueller Fright night Ann Meisel John Raymer Philip Castle Tino Avelli Sorry for the long ass comment! Perhaps you do a part 2 of this topic...

[@andrewrodriguez5468]

80s are forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

No better time before or after!

[@froggycutie0]

not really a movie from 70s or 80s, but the poster for a Polish movie called 'On the Silver Globe' made me feel intrigued with it, to a point where I wanted to buy the poster even! But the poster I'm talking about is specifically with a man looking towards the viewer, it's such a well done poster :>

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Well, intrigued, I look at it, and I am not kidding when I say the subject stared right through my soul. It is striking. I think it is 1988 movie. Not one I know or in the pop culture zeitgeist, but still AWESOME. Thanks for introducing me to it.

[@imbaroud5273]

even im in GenZ category, but i really loves hand painted 70s/80s movie posters, especially my dad bought the original Mad Max (1979) movie that included the poster, when i was a kid seeing that poster, i stare at it for almost every day because of how cool it looks😂

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Love to hear that. I know each genernation is their own, and brings something new to the table, but I still love to hear when someone younger does show appreciation to SOMETHING we offered, lol. Some of those posters just can't be beat. That Mad Max one was mysterious and exciting, to be sure.

[@Rickard...]

Great video, thanks for this!!

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Thank you. YOu are one of few that have went back and noticed that show. ONe of my favorites to do.

[@Rickard...]

@@GENXPERIENCE I love B movie posters... They had a charm to them, like you said something we don't get nower days...

[@mikerohlfs2836]

Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1&2, love the breakfasts Club poses, umm Breakfast Club,all Hughes movies,Millers Crossing had a great poster, The Star Trek posters were amazing. There is sonething to be said about video posters and standies, my friend and me use to hang out at our local video store Video Escape, and the dude would give us extra posters he had or old ones, nd standies, my favorite one was this giand display for Critical Condition with Ricard Pryor. Ive collected ever since then, dont really have any right now, except my Virus one sheet and my Friday tge 13th part 1 one sheet.

[@PaulTesta]

Thanks for a great video! Especially appreciate the "Capricorn One" coverage. One of my favorites, and an underrated film. Similar to "Death on the Nile," the poster for "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) arranges the faces of the main characters to form the deadly dagger, topped by the locomotive itself. You touched briefly on Mad magazine. Have you considered an episode on movie posters with Jack Davis art? I'd bet your Gen-X audience would appreciate that. And also, there was a brief shot of "Spaceballs." What about an episode showcasing the unmistakable Mel Brooks movie poster art? Gen-X'ers would eat that up! Binging on your channel. Love the content! Expect more likes and comments. Paul

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Thank you. I love this topic and this show...too few have seen it. Thank you for the recommendation, I was going to do a show on Digests/Magazines soon enough. I hope you'll like it.

[@larry6795]

I enjoyed this episode

[@GENXPERIENCE]

THank you. It is nice to see someone looking back at older ones.

[@sf-dn8rh]

There a poster for the movie Animalypics, that when it released to theaters and later to HBO in 84 is different from the one seen on the Dvd.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

THere was a lot of those changes for different outlets over the years, too.

[@Kurtiscott]

The original artwork of The Towering Inferno (painted by artist John Berkey) sold at auction for $350.000 in 2023.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Doesn't surprise me. The artwork in that era (especially the 70s) had such a raw style that made us use our imaginations. Love those so much. Thank you for sharing that.

[@EnricoPacu]

Wow, Underrated Video

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I really appreciate you saying that. This might just be for fun, but I put my heart into it. Thank you, and if you have the time to share it, etc...please feel free. Come back soon.

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Movie posters from the past are such works of art. The movie posters of today have no style. It doesn't tell remotely of a story of its own. It's like you said bland. I remember staring at that Gremlins poster while waiting in line to see a movie with my family at the General Cinema in Griffith, Indiana. There's none of that today. These artists need to look at the poster art years past to get some inspiration.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

I love your Gremlins story. Thank you. The Raiders of the Lost Ark with all the hand drawn imagery around it told me so much to get excited for. The poster budget today is like 10 dollars.

[@ResurrectedBrush]

You make some good points, but you are also very heavily cherry picking on both sides of history. There were many wildly uninspired and generic posters from back in the day, and there are some wildly creative modern movie posters.

[@GENXPERIENCE]

Thank you for the comment, but I am certainly not going to cover them all. There are thousands upon thousands. I did chose more famous/well know/or iconic films, to be sure. Of course there are some of each on both sides of the eras...but I stick with my point that today there are far too few pieces of inspired art to inspire us to go to a film. But I get your point, of course.