the Vacation poster isn't a spoof of anything. but it is a very tongue-in-cheek effort by artist Boris Vallejo.

Yes, they are similar, but atleast the top movie has one of the sweet valley high girls.

I realize I'm 4 months late on this--but damnit, if you can't see Kevin Bacon's pose is the same with the 2 covers I posted, perhaps you need a bigger monitor.

4 months to think of that insult? I think you could have hurt his feelings more than that.

The people at Spaceballs should be fired for this blatent rip-off ;)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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I mean c'mon, they even have characters that look like C3PO, Darth Vader, Leia, and Han Solo. I can't believe Lucas isn't suing.

;)

It wasn't an insult. And I hadn't read this thread until I went back through threads I started and noticed I hadn't ever come back after I posted. If I wasn't simulataneously wokring while posting, I probably could have come up with something better than that, I suppose. Like call him a doddyhead or something.

Or, you know, maybe you could have just not responded...

-JP

Me? Nahhhhhhhhhhhh.

There was another thread about this quite a while ago...maybe it's in the Cover art forum.

Older then 2 years? :)

I wouldn't be surprised if the ROTS art won't more closely match the Space Balls art than the TPM art.

Three pages of crappy covers:
http://www.davisdvd.com/gallery/bin/0001.html

I always thought this...
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...was an imitation of this...
http://image.milehighcomics.com/isto...04343634.1.gif

I agree with most of those, but come on...the two tornado related covers??? What else are they going to show on a cover for a movie about a tornado??? EVERY movie cover about a tornado is going to have a freaking tornado on it. I don't see how those are blantant copies of each other. There are some on there that really don't look enough a like either, and some that are obvious.

You know what I realized? I'm probably the last to scream "conspiracy".

K

The Under Suspicion/Beyond Suspicion is the most blatant of all.

Did they put Matt on a stairmaster and say, "Here dude, take this gun, and pretend you're walking--errr running or something. Oh, and move your arms back and forth to make it appear as if you're moving naturally. Got it? Good."

I must be blind, I don't see either of those covers on any of the three pages there?

First and second from the right on the third row (first page)

Man, I looked at that thing a good dozen times. "Hackman, Freeman, some other name I don't know" because it's right beside her picture.

As I said, I'm blind. :)

You fu@!ing got that right. Ghostbusters, anyone? Excalibur, anyone? Thief, anyone? Unbelievable...

Hell yes, and I'm only 30. I have always hated cassettes, for that very reason (Iron Maiden!), and I think cover art has taken a dive since CDs took over platters.

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Ahhh, the many faces of Harrison Ford. He shows such range in displaying confusion mixed with thinly veiled contempt.

And sometimes he runs...




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This one makes me a little ill, actually:

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Naomi Watts rings twice:

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