Contest: VOTE Avatar Contest: Poster Children of SF/F Cinema

[Kai "the spy"]

Time to see which four posters get you to buy a ticket.

@Orac #1

Star Trek - The Motion Picture

@Orac #2

Forbidden Planet

@Orac #3

Jaws

@Orac #4

Batman

@Avro Arrow #1

Back to the Future

@Avro Arrow #2

The Black Hole

@Avro Arrow #3

Time Bandits

@Avro Arrow #4

Tron

@JD #1

Star Wars

@JD #2

Star Trek: First Contact

@JD #3

Raiders of the Lost Ark

@JD #4

Avengers: Endgame

@Nerys Myk #1

Blade Runner

@Nerys Myk #2

Superman: The Movie

@Captain pl1ngpl0ng

Dune

@Kai "the spy" #1

Needful Things

@Kai "the spy" #2

The Green Slime

@Kai "the spy" #3

Battle in Outer Space

@Kai "the spy" #4

Deathstalker

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

great designs here!! i actually think i must buy some of these.....

 

[JD]

My votes have been hung up on the wall.

 

[dupersuper]

This was hard to narrow down to four...there are several of my favourite movies in there.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I've turned voting into an art form.

So out of the alternates I mentioned I had, only one got entered in the meantime... @Captain pl1ngpl0ng 's Dune avatar. (And I still had another Dune avatar anyway!) So here are the ones that didn't end up being entered.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Posted, I mean voted.

Okay, I may have made the topic too broad, as I have a real shit ton of alternates. I'm not going to post them all at once, though. Better use them to occasionally bump the thread. So, here are the first twenty:

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Still time to vote.

And here are the next twenty alts:

 

[JD]

Are those all from movies? I don't recognize most of them.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

They are. I'll list them:


First post:

1. From Dusk Till Dawn (alternate poster by Frank Frazetta)
2. Jason & the Argonauts
3. Sinbad & the Eye of the Tiger
4. Conan the Barbarian
5. The Sword of the Barbarians
6. The Warrior & the Sorceress
7. Excalibur
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
9. Metropolis
10. Things to Come
11. Atragon
12. Destroy All Monsters
13. The Return of Godzilla
14. The Shadow
15. Highlander
16. Planet of the Vampires
17. Barbarella
18. Starcrash
19. Spaceballs
20. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country


Second post:

1. Gorath
2. Battlestar Galactica (theatrical re-edit of "Saga of a Star World")
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Nightflyers
5. Galaxy of Terror
6. The Lost World
7. Planet of Dinosaurs
8. Q - The Winged Serpent
9. X-Men
10. Spider-Man
11. Re-Animator
12. The Thing
13. The Blob
14. The Howling
15. House of Wax
16. Army of Darkness
17. Phase IV
18. Legend
19. Hercules (Lou Ferrigno version)
20. Dragonslayer


Might as well post the next round:

Sorceress

The Lord of the Rings (animated movie)

Blood Beach

The Deadly Spawn

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

The Frighteners

Woman in the Moon (German poster)

Die Nibelungen (German poster)

Superman and the Mole Men

The Incredible Hulk (European theatrical re-edit, German poster)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Darkman

The Crow

Batman Forever (Teaser Poster)

The Phantom

Ultraman

War for the Planet of the Apes

The NeverEnding Story (original German release poster)

The NeverEnding Story (US release poster)

Momo

Still more to come ...

 

[JD]

They are. I'll list them:


First post:

1. From Dusk Till Dawn (alternate poster by Frank Frazetta)

4. Conan the Barbarian

7. Excalibur
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
9. Metropolis

19. Spaceballs
20. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country


Second post:


3. The Empire Strikes Back

9. X-Men
10. Spider-Man

12. The Thing

14. The Howling


18. Legend

20. Dragonslayer

Those are the only ones I've seen, and the only one of those I didn't recognize was From Dusk Til Dawn, although I did think the character I now realize is Santanico Pandemonium looks kinda familiar. Some of the others I'd never even heard of before.

 

[Avro Arrow]

That's the problem with today's modern movie posters... not enough overt references to the budget!

 

[Kai "the spy"]

A bit more than 12 hours left to vote.

Continuing the Onslaught of Alts:

Sex and Death 101

Beetlejuice

Alien

Aliens

Fire & Ice

Time Masters

The Beastmaster

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Batman: The Movie

Superman II

Superman III

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Dr. Who & the Daleks

Titan A.E.

Ghost in the Shell

Still another twenty left.

 

[dupersuper]

3. Sinbad & the Eye of the Tiger

Followed no doubt by Sinbad & The Thrill of the Fight

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Well, first let me post the remaining twenty alts:

Akira

Warriors of the Wind (US poster)

Jupiter Ascending

Dune (European poster)

Ghost

The Terminator

Conan the Destroyer (German poster)

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Hellboy

Pacific Rim

Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters all-out Attack

Godzilla against Mechagodzilla

Godzilla: Final Wars

Gamera 2: The Attack of Legion

Big Trouble in Little China

They Live

RoboCop


And now that that's out of the way, let me congratulate @Orac for his winning "Star Trek - The Motion Picture" poster.

 

[Orac]

Thanks for the votes!

I shall post a new contest with all due haste...