Official Movie Poster Purchase Thread

I'm buying this one either today or tomorrow. Also, the pulp fiction cover posters on that site are going to be the death of me.

This is what this thread was always intended to be, but it kinda died.

Thanks for that link Rath! Actually, no thanks. This site will bankrupt me. But this one has to be mine.

I've been wanting this for ages - just waiting until I have the money to not only buy it but frame it immediately.

I'm thinking of forking over $32 (that includes the shipping) for this beauty from Thailand:



I have two cons against making this investment:

1. It measures 25" X 37" which is not really a standard framing size that I've ever seen. I'm not gonna do any custom framing shit so I'd probably have to buy a 24" X 36" frame and fold in the sides a bit which would sort of blow.

2. I've been trying the past couple of years to make my decor less geeky. This would clearly fly in the face of that policy. Maybe I could get away with putting it in the guest john but that's about it.

The Limey is probably my favorite Soderbergh. No lie.

Also, that site has a ton of TV posters, as I'm sure you figured out, but some of the gems are those period-style posed portrait posters that Deadwood did for the third season. I kind of want this one.

Like many of you, this site is going to bankrupt my ass. I've found the biggest pain in the butt for posters is framing. Anyone agree?

I've certainly wanted to get a couple of posters framed but I'm considering moving next summer so I don't really know if I want to make the investment.

I always enjoyed this one

If people ask me what I'd like for Christmas, I think I'll show them this poster:
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_post...s_the_1956.htm

When King Kong came out in that nice DVD set, it had a coupon for this poster for free:
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_post..._kong_1933.htm
I have it up in my little home theater room and I love it.

I'm in the middle of trying to get the Silk Spectre character sheet for Watchmen. Also, I just got in a Zach and Miri double-sided one sheet.

Looking to grab:


The Monster Squad
Out of Sight
Cool Hand Luke

I pretty much want every poster off here but i'm dead broke so i can't.

I own this "Cool Hand Luke" poster;

Its one of the small ones not the badass-sized one that Norton has in "25th Hour".

and non-movie related (hurry up with the film Fincher!),my brother bought me a "Goon" poster signed by Eric Powell for my birthday.It's still rolled up as i need to get a nice frame for it.

OK, so these are really shitty pics because I took them with my webcam (the DC broke), but these are my favorites of posters I've bought recently:

That's the one I'm looking for.

MovieGoods bothers me because almost all of that stuff is scaled-down reprints - they call them "masterprints" - I'd rather do a correctly-sized reprint, but that's me.

If you guys have a bit of the DIY vibe in ye' - you may find how I do a lot of my framing helpful.

Firstly - go to www.hobbylobby.com and find a store close to you.

Next - check the site until they do a weekly specialon CUSTOM FRAMING.

Then buy yourself a few SECTIONAL FRAME KITS. The cool thing about these is that you can easily frame the 30"x40" British quads (I have a Tartan Releasing Hard Boiled and the Shaun of the Dead Brit Quad - both signed - and I DEFINITELY didn't want to fold or cut them) or the oddly-sized Thai posters (like Molti's I Come In Peace) or Australian daybills. Each kit contains two pieces of frame - and they're sized at one-inch increments from 5" to 40" - so you buy one set of each length to make four sides (one set of 30" and one set of 40" gives you one 30"x40" frame - and the hardware you'll need to put it together. During one of the frequent sales on custom framing items, you'll be able to buy a set for $16.00 or so.

Then you can have backing board and glass cut there as well (the corrugated cardboard backing can be had for around $4.00) - though I like to go to Home Depot (best prices in my area) and have PLEXIGLAS custom cut (if a frame falls off the wall, and the glass shatters, it might shred the poster. Plexi doesn't shatter - and it's heavier). You should be able to make these on your own for under $40.00 - which...is A LOT CHEAPER than custom framing. Like...ONE THIRD of what a custom frame would cost you.

These are made of steel, have a very high gloss black finish, and look really well-done. I'll try to put up a few pics to give you an idea - but you really can't go wrong doing this.

The poster I wish I could frame but never will is my 5'x9' Army of Darkness teaser poster...the materials just don't exist.

For me nothing beats getting them framed properly - I have the poster matted onto foam core and framed with a glare-resistant glass. It really does make a big difference. Michael's and AC Moore have sales on custom framing all the time.

You mean "mounted" onto foam core, yes? Do you do a dry mount?

There's nothing improper about the method I described - it just amounts to legwork and action on my/your part. Frankly, unless there's an actual matte to be cut - the framing guys don't really need to get paid the exorbitant amount of money they charge.

I had some paper props framed recently - and I had designed a fairly slick matte that required three perfect holes. I picked an awesome board, measured everything out - then had the guy behind the counter cut it because he knows how to do it properly and I'd have blown it three times. I was charged $26.00 for the board and the cutting. And I paid it happily because he provided a service I could not render for myself. But I walked three feet from the framing desk, bought the frame and the backboard, and put the actual frame together myself. The employee would have used the same frame kit - he'd have just charged me a fortune to utilize a phillips screwdriver.

Likewise, if one of the gents above took their quad or odd Thai poster to a framing jernt - they'd get quoted something like $80.00-$160.00 (I know because I tried that route myself). By acquiring the same materials and handling my own labor (save for the aforementioned dry mount - which will set you back around $9.00 to $20.00 depending on the size and where you have it done), I was able to have both posters framed for less than it would have cost me to have a service frame ONE of them.

And the result looks exactly like what they would have done - and based on some of the photos above, would match the work these guys have already done/frames they've already purchased.

And Dwight grows his own food. I have no aptitude for that stuff, and it would turn out sloppy. I have things I framed myself next to things I've had framed, and there's a discernible difference.

I didn't mean you were doing it wrong when I said "properly"; I just meant "better than I could do it".

Ok I've got a few posters I've been meaning to flog to someone who would get into them; I'm a douche for not thinking of this place first.
I've got four GIANT posters, the kinds they stick up in bus shelters here for King Kong, The Transformers, Spider Man 3 and Indiana Jones and the Crystal Piece of Shit. They are all in mint condition other than the Spiderman 3 one which I think has a few dents in it.
They be keen to find a good home!

I used to collect original posters, but I stopped a few years ago. There are a few more I'd like to own, but most of my favorite posters are from films made 40 years ago; they're expensive.

I think the coolest posters I own are original inserts from The Godfather and Alien.

I haven't purchased any posters lately...my bank account's been hurting and I simply can't afford it. However, I do on occasion attempt to talk posters off the wall of my local movie theaters. My biggest victory so far has been an eight foot tall There Will Be Blood poster. It's the one released after the Golden Globe wins, with Daniel Day-Lewis staring at the flaming oil well. It's currently gracing my dorm room walls along with Pulp Fiction and Jaws (Yeah, I know, how original of me). I'm also a junkie for the mini-posters that theaters give away like candy.

Back at home, I have Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Usual Suspects and, for reasons that I am, quite frankly, not entirely sure of, Gangs of New York. Most of these are re-prints because I simply can't afford the real ones. Once they're on the walls, though, they impress most people.

Oh, and I once stumbled across a garage sale where a bunch of real, double-sided posters were being sold dirt cheap. Now, God help me, I have Pearl Harbor, Sleepy Hollow and The Odd Couple 2 in storage.

If I had the cash, I'd immediately buy:
http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_poster/brazil_1986.htm

It's my favorite film. Me want.

Also needed for my wall: The Fountain, The Saddest Music in the World and at least one Wes Anderson (I'm looking at you, Rushmore).

Originals:
Escape From NY (version w handcuffs on the Statue of Liberty's torch hand)
Rolling Thunder
Badlands
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Psycho (1970 German re-release)
The Fly
Phantom of the Paradise (the one by Richard Corben)

Reprints: too many to list, but Romero's zombie trilogy and Texas Chain Saw are some of the signed ones. All's I got framed is Psycho, Badlands and Two-Lane Blacktop.

Right now, photos are impossible, but here in my "office" (computer and drafting desk):

Behind me - Original poster for Arthur Marks' Monkey Hustle signed by Rudy Ray Moore (RIP), and a Jolly Rancher/Trimark promotional candy display for Peter Jackson's Dead Alive.

To my left - SDCC promo 28 Days Later poster signed by Naomie Harris (framed with additional 28 Days Later promo stickers, bookmarks, and postcards), SDCC promo Freddy vs Jason poster signed by Sean Cunningham and Ronny Yu (framed with additional FvsJ promo coasters, stickers, and the "R.I.P" press pass from the Vegas "Weigh-In"), theatrical standee of Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken from Escape From LA (old-school chewers know where that came from), and a Torque theatrical poster (framed with signed promo photos of Jaime Pressly, Monet Mazur, and Christina Milian).

In front - Hard Boiled british Quad signed by John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat, and Terence Chang.

To my right - Night of the Living Dead 1990 theatrical poster signed by Tom Savini, Patricia Tallman, and papa George.

In the rec room down the hall, the aforementioned signed Shaun quad hangs surrounded by signed laserdiscs (easily as cool as a poster - and getting rarer and cooler as time goes by): Elite Elm Street signed by Englund, Elite Re-Animator signed by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Jeffrey Combs, Clerks signed by Brian O'Halloran and Jason Mewes, Matinee signed by Joe Dante, The Frighteners signed by Jeff Combs, Dee Wallace, and Jake Busey, Sonny Boy signed by Brad Dourif and David Carradine, Heat signed by Danny Trejo, Almost Blue signed "Put that gun away you crazy little wildcat!" by Michael Madsen, and Lord of Illusions signed by Clivus Barker.

Across from them sits a framed chirashi from Kill Bill signed by Madsen, Michael Jai White, Carradine, and Quentin Tarantino, the second (Abe Sapien) disc from the Hellboy DC signed by Doug Jones, and a Grant Grant Slither promo 8x10 signed by James Gunn, Jenna Fischer, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, and Gregg Henry.

Oh, and my beloved Dre Dellamorte blessed me with a copy of the restored Big Red One signed by the cast - and that's seated in a shadowbox with a wood background designed to look like the table Sarge sits at during the B&W opening, and a red strip of fabric, and it's awesome. Dellamorte. Is. KING.

Which reminds me - there's a tube that I will send to you one day, man. I'm such a procrastinating douche...

Behind the TV, there's a framed original Spider-Man WTC poster.

That's pretty much it - I have a wall filled with replica weaponry from LOTR and there are a few cool things behind the bar (a Shaun of the Dead cricket bat...a katana from Highlander), and there are a shit ton of signed DVDs - but there's no real room for them, and going overboard is - to me - tacky (in high school, there were posters on the ceiling. Nowadays, less is more).

Dimmensions are 1325x1630mm. No idea how much I want for to be honest, I have zero knowledge of such things. PM me an offer!
I just picked up a giant Quantum of Solace poster as well.
Awesome.

The only poster I own presently but I think its the best quad ever


No theater so its still in the tube

This in the only other one I really want, and in this the advance form, with no text.

Bought this one several months ago.

I had that Rocketeer poster for years, transferring it to wall to wall before it eventually fell apart. Yes. I know what it would be worth had I taken care of it. Leave me alone.

So is Movie Goods the go to place for most people's poster buying?

What about some of the limited edition stuff that is posted in news articles? I looked at Mondotees and didn't see anything on Alamo Drafthouse.

I am moving into a new place in a few weeks and I am looking towards adding some movie posters to the walls.

When I was still heavily into collecting posters (now I have more than I know what to do with, mostly rolled up in the attic), I used to get some from Rick's. As for brick-and-mortar, Pix Posters in Cambridge was a very cool place to browse around in; dunno if they're still around. (There's a Pix Posters online, but I dunno if they're the same folks. They're in PA.)

Then I started getting into quad-size, and I find eBay is the best place to browse for those. It's hard to find quads that aren't just the original vertical designs with a lot of dead space on the sides to make it horizontal, but some of 'em are quite cool.

Shit, those old Bond posters...
I hate where i live.
I'd kill for a nice From Russia With Love quad.

The old Bond posters are from a time when posters in general kicked ass, but especially the quads, as Sharpel007 demonstrated above.

Hmmm, an online art shop's Cult Film links turned this up:



Looks like blaxploitation article fodder to me.

Apparently it had two sequels as well





These Walk The Line variants are nice.

God dammit, this is gonna sell out too quickly:




EDIT: Phil's right there's some prnts left, and i already asked a friend in the US purchase it for me (its gonna be a great gift for a friend here later this year). Txs Phil.

I just got all the way to paypal checkout with it. Try again?

maybe its the computer at work...i'll be trying again as soon as i get home.

EDIT: Its not sold out. Txs phil!.

If this were Dream Warriors I would have bought it before making this post.

I use this site: http://www.moviepostershop.com

It's $25 for the 27x40's. Plus they have some crazy huge bus-shelter sized ones if you're into that.

Seeing as I just got a decent job, my next purchases will likely be:
http://www.moviepostershop.com/zodia...-poster/GI3018
http://www.moviepostershop.com/the-d...-poster/CF2852
http://www.moviepostershop.com/inglo...poster/GB65860

I'm having trouble framing a 22"x58" poster. The 58 is giving me fits. Any suggestions?

That's a great site, mike tyson.

Tzu, what do you mean? Trouble finding a frame? Sounds like it has to be a custom job. And you're going to pay out the ass for the glass.

OH WHAT?! That Basterds poster I linked was supposed to be an 11x17 Fantastic Fest poster. I guess they sold out? WTF.

Yeah, so far I am coming down to a custom job as I search high and low for what I need. The problem is even with a 60% off sale the local AC Moore was running on custom framing I was told I was still looking at $200 for it. I like the poster and all but damn.

What poster, if I may ask?

I've begun accumulating a lot of posters lately and I need to start framing them. I'm decent at DIY and I might give Pollock's method a shot.

Phil, any chance you have some photos of your framed posters? Just curious to see how they look w/ non-glare glass.

I'm about to paint, so they're not yet on the walls, but here's some older pics plus the new two. Hitting them with full flash, albeit from a slight angle:







The Josey Wales reprint was a gift, and doesn't have the glare-resistant glass:

Phil, those posters are fantastic. Especially the Psycho one. This thread has helped to remind me how frikkin COOL movie posters used to be before the awful photoshopped ones of today.

Also,

I've never seen this before, but it's amazing.