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Author Topic: What's the most valuable movie poster in your collection? Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-17-2004 05:32 PM                    I had at least one of them. Perhaps both. I screened various effects for the Wachowskis before the first one came out; I had no clue it was going to be so huge. I'll have to scan the Super 35 framing leader.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 12-17-2004 07:14 PM                    I have the Reloaded holographic, but after seeing it, didn't really care to get the Revolutions holographic.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-17-2004 07:29 PM                  Danny: Cool RHPS sheet!  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-17-2004 08:31 PM                        I don't really "collect" posters, but I have kept a few for films that I've really enjoyed: The Graduate (1997 reissue) 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994) Robot Stories (2002) Starship Troopers (1997) Gerry (2002) Sky Captain (2004) ...possibly others... Oh, and I have an original pressbook (with clip art) in marginal condition for Bonnie and Clyde. (found it in a theatre attic). Not really anything worth more than ~$5 or so.  |  IP: Logged Greg Davis Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Vista, Ca, USA Registered: Sep 2004 posted 12-18-2004 02:59 AM                     Original fight club (1998) Full kill bill set of 3 (2003-2004) 25th Hour (2002) Thailand kill bill (ghetto looking) Singing in the Rain is my parents, God knows, but its friggin awesome. Clockwork Orange is also my fathers, but I will kill him and inherit it.  |  IP: Logged Thomas King Expert Film Handler Posts: 119 From: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-18-2004 09:01 AM                        Original Clerks, probably. At least, that's the best one I know about. There are over 25 big poster tubes in the storeroom.  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 12-19-2004 03:10 AM                        quote: Christian Volpi Brian, How much do you want for it? I'm serious. Sorry, I'm not interested in selling it. Not at this time, anyway. Like I said, it's my coolest one. If I got rid of it, the next coolest would be my Sgt. Bilko banner ... and that just wouldn't be right.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-19-2004 10:55 PM                     I have a few things that could be called 'collectible': Titanic bus shelter (no release date, though I do have the 'summer' trailers and promo drink cups) 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' teaser signed by George Lucas Disney's 'Song Of The South' (probably the '86 reissue, but with the movie's current status in the US I would assume it has some 'rarity' to it) 'Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan' US release (full credits, not a teaser) poster with no MPAA rating printed on it Several 1960's 1/2 and 1/4 sheets of various titles... A legal (no nudity) one sheet for the XXX film 'Passion Pit' featuring a then 16-year old Traci Lords... Unfortunately the value was reduced when it (and a couple other far less significant posters that were on the same wall) was used as a dartboard in a moment of complete drunken idiocy by some friends and myself (back when the poster was 'new' and one assumed that more were available) As far as general collecting I do collect all movie posters with art by master movie-poster artist Drew Struzan... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-19-2004 11:56 PM                     Speaking of guys like Drew Struzan (or Richard Amsel, Bob Peak, Boris Vallejo, etc.), movie posters with actual artwork on them are very very rare anymore. Just about all you see these days in movie posters is BORING damned photographs of some pompus actor's melon! How about a f**king illustration for once!  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-20-2004 12:45 AM                        totally agree with you there about the boring artwork on some posters (most recently: Meet the Fockers...) I would love to collect posters by Saul Bass but my wallet won't let me One of my fav. posters. Is it Mt Fuji erupting, or a woman's legs and bikini????? DISCUSS [ 12-20-2004, 01:56 AM: Message edited by: Allison Parsons ]  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-20-2004 08:55 AM                        That's one sexy volcano. Who did the artwork for the After the Sunset poster?  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 12-20-2004 06:35 PM                     I'm not sure what my most valuable poster is, but my favorite is the 1946 Dressed To Kill 6 sheet (84" square). It reaches from the ceiling almost to the floor. Followed closely by Tom & Jerry from 1948: Allison, you are an unusual women. Most women I have met think poster collecting is weird. -Mitchell  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-20-2004 07:20 PM                    Have posters gotten smaller within fairly recent times? My backlit cases have a sort of magnetic clasp at the top which would be useful only if the posters were a few inches taller.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-20-2004 08:43 PM                        Yes, posters have shrunk about an inch since, i think, around the mid 1980's. The Empire Of the Senses poster that I showed everyone is an Italian 1 panel, or 2-sheet (two times the size of a regular one sheet). Posters before the 1980's were 27x41, now they've shrunk to about 27x40. Maybe someone thought that one whole inch of less paper would save the rainforest They also don't make 3-sheets anymore (3 times the size of a one sheet) but vinyl banners and bus shelters have basically taken the place of the 3-sheet. Nor do you see Lobby Cards or 1/2 sheets (excluding the Lemminy Snicket give-aways). MITCHELL, VERY nice Dressed to Kill 6-sheet!!! Did you get that put on linen!!?? I dont' own any 6-sheets but I do own a few 3-sheets and one 30-sheet for Love Actually. Why do I have a poster that big is beyond me, probably just so I can say 'hey, I own a 30-sheet'. I dont know of any women that collect posters. I'm sure they are out there but all whom I have met are men so maybe that does make me a bit odd hehe.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 12-21-2004 08:32 AM                     Yes, Dressed To Kill is linen backed. The linen backing cost more than the poster. Although they are hard to display, I love 3 and 6 sheets (small house, big posters). My favorite 3-sheets are It Came From Outer Space, Zombies On Broadway and A Night To Remember, all of which have great artwork. I remember walking into a book store many years ago, and they had an entire wall covered with an original release Star Wars 24 sheet. Unfortunately, they want more money than I could afford. /Mitchell  |  IP: Logged

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