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thomasyan: movie posters in the style of medieval Russian woodcuts. I think I've IDed about 7 of them.

1. Something with mokeys
2. Arnold Schwartzenwhater, but I can't place the specific movie
3. The Matrix
4. LoTR
5. Eh?
6. Spiderman
7. Ehhh?
8. Harry Potter
9. Ehhhhh?
10. Dunno!
11. Farenheit 451
12. Anaconda (they look so happy as they're being crushed or eaten!)
13. War of the Worlds

A friend IDed #1 as King Kong, which makes sense to me.

I spoke too soon - friends on a mailing list have been doing some searching and IDed the monkey and the alligator on a chain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_Gena

Cheburashka sounds adorable! I was thinking the other one had to be either a cute Russian movie or Lyle the Crocodile (http://heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.com/2006/02/have-yall-met-lyle-crocodile.html), so that makes sense.

Was there a remake of Farenheit 451 in 2004? It certainly does look like it, but...

(Now, of course, I am imagining the Russian woodcut poster of Snakes Onna Plane.)

D'oh! Farenheit 9/11!

mizkit is smarter than me.

No, but there'll be one in 2007 with lots of attention on pretty pretty burning setpieces, I heard. The movie came out in 2004? How can you tell? ...that rules out Equilibrium, which was like a cross between 1984 and the Matrix (with a little bit of book-burning thrown in for fun).

YES.

equilibrium = amazing film.

Equilibrium was great, so when I heard the director was doing Ultraviolet, I had high hopes. Then the reviews came in, and I stayed far away.

Equilibrium was a wonderful terrible movie XD. The movie that invented gun-fu! Basically it took all of these cool things about dystopian books and movies and threw them together in a blender, which resulted in AWESOME.

Though sometimes I wonder if it would have been as great if it had actually come out in theaters as originally intended. Half the pleasure's in knowing that many people have never heard of it (see also: Boondock Saints, Six String Samurai).

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