the greatest movie poster of all time

[thehefner]

Things are a bit rough for me right now, to put it diplomatically. Thankfully, the good Lord must have seen my predicament and decided to grace me with discovering one of the greatest (and 100% real) movie posters of all time:



Thanks, God. You're a champ.

Comments

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Finally a prequel to Johnny Mnemonic?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Is there a dolphin plot in JOHNNY MNEMONIC? I haven't seen it, but I need to, as I want to create a character based on spacechild by way of Ice-T in that film.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

In order to get at the info that's stored in his head, Johnny needs the help of a hacker. The hacker in question is Jones, a war-trained cyborg druggie dolphin who lives in a very small tank up in the tower the LoTeks call their own.

Here's his intro text from the Gibson short story the movie was based on:

He was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less. I watched him swirling sluggishly in his galvanized tank. Water slopped over the side, wetting my shoes. He was surplus from the last war. A cyborg.

He rose out of the water, showing us the crusted plates along his sides, a kind of visual pun, his grace nearly lost under armor, clumsy and prehistoric. Twin deformities on either side of his skull had been engineered to house sensor units. Silver lesions gleamed on exposed sections of his gray-white hide.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Astounding! One of these days, I probably should give Gibson a go.

So theoretically we could make it a triple feature: ORCA, followed by DAY OF THE DOLPHIN, and finally, JOHNNY MNEMONIC! Break out the booze and popcorn, it sounds like a plan!

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Theoretically! I think you'll like JOHNNY MNEMONIC, or at least, I think one of the adversaries will appeal to you.

[pondering-duck.livejournal.com]

I can only hope that I'm with kimmy when she sees this

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I should certainly hope you'd be the one to show it to her! I expect a full report.

Oscar Nominated, even!

[american-arcane.livejournal.com]

Man, you gotta love the 70s.

Re: Oscar Nominated, even!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

God, I know, right? And look at who's involved in the smaller print! Mike Nichols! Buck Henry! The legendary Fritz Weaver! This movie looks like it would kick ORCA's tail.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

Awesome poster, but whats wrong?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Let's just say my trip to Vancouver was supposed to last a month and a half and ended up lasting less than a day. We'll hash it out at some point, over the phone if not over a beer. Edd and I had plenty of those last night. I'm okay, though. A bit rough, but okay.

[spacechild.livejournal.com]

Wow. That sucks.

We will talk.

[tazira.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry things are rough, and I hope they get better soon. In the meanwhile, whenever you need a good laugh, you need only look at this poster.

What the fuck is it about dolphins? A friend of mine who designs computer games for a living tells a story about when his company needed money, and found an idiot to bankroll them. The idiot had a dream of a game he desperately wanted to see made. A game about dolphins.

Mankind, fearing the intelligence of dolphins, hauled them up into outer space in giant spaceships and dumped them there. Instead of dying nearly instantly, space being a vacuum and all, the dolphins learned to adapt to their new environment. They learned to swim in space, despite the fact that it's a vacuum and all. And now, the dolphins are angry with us, and they attack our shipping whenever we dare to leave the planet. It's a shoot-em-up game involving dolphins in outer space.

Yeah, somebody thought this was a great idea, and was willing to put his money where his mouth was.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Not just somebody! Mike Nichols! Mike "Nichols and May, THE GRADUATE, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINA WOOLF, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, ANGELS IN AMERICA, CLOSER, THE BIRDCAGE, SPAMALOT" Nichols!!! With a script by Buck Henry, the great comedic mind being GET SMART and...

Oh, wait. It was all a joke, wasn't it? Two great old-time comedians doing a serious drama about dolphins going to assassinate the president and only George C. Scott can stop them? Wow, epic prank, you guys! (seriously, though, I hear the movie's actually pretty great, and not ironically either)

A game about dolphins? If he means video game, Sega beat him to it sixteen years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_the_Dolphin_(series)

It was a very strange, New-Age-y adventure game, releasing it bizarrely as an almost flagship game, right alongside Sonic the frickin' Hedgehog. That's right, a blue hedgehog was more badass than this dolphin.

Also, dolphins are sex-crazed thrillkillers, you know this, right?

http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html