I guessed your top four, just in a different order (switching Mean Streets and Taxi Driver). Last Temptation is my personal favorite. My only major change would be I like the New York, New York poster you picked about as much as I hate the movie, so that would've been in my top five.
Love that Bringing Out the Dead poster almost as much as the movie itself, which I saw multiple times in theaters; maybe Scorsese’s most underrated film and painfully overdue for a packed Blu-ray edition.
I was a kid when "Cape Fear" came out on video, and so the poster and its giant glowering eyes are burned into my memory. That and the cover for "The Silence of the Lambs" were all over video stores around the same time, and I remember being fascinated by and terrified of them. A super effective image.
I guessed your top four, just in a different order (switching Mean Streets and Taxi Driver). Last Temptation is my personal favorite. My only major change would be I like the New York, New York poster you picked about as much as I hate the movie, so that would've been in my top five.
Love that Bringing Out the Dead poster almost as much as the movie itself, which I saw multiple times in theaters; maybe Scorsese’s most underrated film and painfully overdue for a packed Blu-ray edition.
I saw the title slightly revealed (no pun) in my email, and had the kombucha woman meme reaction as I scrolled through the article title. Fun idea!
What a cool idea for a column! I would love to see more poster reviews like this.
Casino is just obviously trying to ape Goodfellas, no?
Before this, I don't think I'd ever realized that that wasn't a photo of De Niro on the "Raging Bull" poster.
I was a kid when "Cape Fear" came out on video, and so the poster and its giant glowering eyes are burned into my memory. That and the cover for "The Silence of the Lambs" were all over video stores around the same time, and I remember being fascinated by and terrified of them. A super effective image.