Timeless VHS

April 13, 2015 11:19 AM

Today's TV and movies as 80s VHS covers. Worth it for the Breaking Bad one alone.
posted by colie (8 comments total)

I feel like at least one of these covers should have been done poster art style, instead of with movie stills.
posted by leotrotsky at 11:26 AM on April 13, 2015 [3 favorites]

That photo from Dexter still has the wrong lighting for the period. Interstellar's definitely got the wrong font (should be more arty, like Alien).

Grand Budapest & Gravity are great. Walking Dead looks like a lost Romero.

Game of Thrones' visual is pretty spot on for an early '80s BBC miniseries, but the font's wrong. I think they would have gone for generic medieval-style font, instead. Think Camelot.
posted by leotrotsky at 11:33 AM on April 13, 2015 [3 favorites]

These are making my tracking finger itch.
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:06 PM on April 13, 2015 [3 favorites]

These are great, and on a related subject, can I just say how much I love the opening credits for Better Call Saul? Not even the Monopoly-card / 50s diner main logo (though that is great too), but the blocky, flashing text from an old analog video editing rig. It lends the perfect "I just threw this together at the Cable Access station" atmosphere to the show.
posted by Joey Buttafoucault at 12:33 PM on April 13, 2015 [4 favorites]

The Game of Thrones font could be wrong but the crap kerning is a work of art.
posted by colie at 12:34 PM on April 13, 2015 [1 favorite]

The GoT one definitely feels like a show/movie that made the set and costume designers famous and killed everyone else's career.
posted by griphus at 12:45 PM on April 13, 2015 [2 favorites]

The "HQ" burst on The Wolf of Wall Street is a perfect touch.
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 2:06 PM on April 13, 2015

Love it. Some of the attention to detail is really great. It looks like they actually printed these out and inserted them into old VHS boxes, then photographed them. Nice touch.
posted by seymourScagnetti at 5:51 PM on April 13, 2015