Dark Knight "Armed Joker" international DS 1S poster

[Hallucination Generation]

I've emailed BLT to see if they can or will, set us straight.
Not heard back from Warner's or LA yet.

[Hallucination Generation]

And Moviegoods are back with a fresh supply.....

[Zorba]

And Moviegoods are back with a fresh supply.....

The gift that keeps on giving. 

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

I don't normally get involved with new material however...let me see what I can do at my end...this has me curious...

Dan

I'm happy to send my copy to the "Godfather" of authentications....

[Charlie]

I'm happy to send my copy to the "Godfather" of authentications....

Asshole!

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Oh Lord, Charlie's again. Forum, should I give him the poster just to "pacify" him? 

[stewart boyle]

Oh Lord, Charlie's again. Forum, should I give him the poster just to "pacify" him? 

Send it to Louie D,he loves modern paper...I`m sure he would put it to good use 

Stew

[Charlie]

Oh Lord, Charlie's again. Forum, should I give him the poster just to "pacify" him? 

I don't want it? You're just an asshole!   

I'm just playing now... Batman is cool but it's not my thing or I would already have a few Batman posters - If you are that worried about it, you can send me the Jolie poster...   

[stewart boyle]

I`m gonna stick my neck out (of line)...of the two posters mel presented,the image on the right is a fake..too many speckles amongst other things,although I only have online images to go with...

Stew

[Zorba]

I`m gonna stick my neck out ...

Why should you be any different than any of the other loons on this board? 

[stewart boyle]

Why should you be any different than any of the other loons on this board? 

Stew

[Ari]

well to be fair, rich never sticks his neck out, his dick is another story.

[110x75]

well to be fair, rich never sticks his neck out, his dick is another story.

Rich sticks dick. Try repeating 3 times.

[Posterodyssey]

Mel,don't take this the wrong way.I know your passionate and want to help but,why are you authenticating a poster from moviegoods by itself?
I think the last 10+ years of movie goods speaks plenty. 
If you don't have an original to compare I don't see the point.
Posting information about a fake without the information on the original seems unnecessary too me.

One more thing,in light of movie goods supposedly 'running out' for a minute,in the future when you do a legit authentication complete with an original and several different sourced fakes,might be wise not to reveal where the fakes were purchased unless absolutely nessecary.Some here and elsewhere have bad intentions.Don't wanna give em' any help.
Not saying that's what happened but it has in the past.

Anthony

[Charlie]

Mel,don't take this the wrong way.I know your passionate and want to help but,why are you authenticating a poster from moviegoods by itself?
I think the last 10+ years of movie goods speaks plenty. 
If you don't have an original to compare I don't see the point.
Posting information about a fake without the information on the original seems unnecessary too me.

One more thing,in light of movie goods supposedly 'running out' for a minute,in the future when you do a legit authentication complete with an original and several different sourced fakes,might be wise not to reveal where the fakes were purchased unless absolutely nessecary.Some here and elsewhere have bad intentions.Don't wanna give em' any help.
Not saying that's what happened but it has in the past.

Anthony

I don't think you read every thing here Anthony.  Mel suspects that the movie goods is original. Right now there are no known originals...

[ddilts399]

Those that have been around awhile, think back to the Grindhouse and 300 reprints. Think you have the same printing source with these.

[Harry Caul]

Is there a full sized, high quality DS Grindhouse floating around?

[ddilts399]

I believe the grindhouse were 27x39. They were shopped around in the wholesale market as an INTL printing. The print quality on the 300 was very good, I never bought any of the grindhouse because the title was already going for high prices so the math didnt add up to what the sellers were trying to get out of the batch they had.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

No I think it's fake now. I've changed my mind again. It's just too dark and lacks critical detail compared to the image provided by the ad agency to IMP, which is a classic sign of a reprint. I've printed a few reprints myself and that is a very typical result.

I don't agree we should wait and only post "perfect" authentications. We need to put everyone on notice of the known issues ASAP. The "we only publish perfect and super-scholarly authentications" attitude contributed to MPA's current zombie state.

Check my Grindhouse authentication on MPC.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

The key to creating a great fake is recreating the small text and logos on your digital master image.  (The image is relatively easy - just blow up your source image with Blow Up software).  The text is a little more challenging but there are tools you can use to match the text. (I ain't saying where or how to find text matching tools).  I was able to find these perfect logos on the Internet with relative ease.





With these logos (and a few others) and the "Armed Joker" source image from IMP, I could create an excellent digital master image very quickly.  The real bottleneck is printing them double-sided cheap.

Of course, if you obtained the original master digital image from the ad agency, you're really set....

[Zorba]

No I think it's fake now. I've changed my mind again.

Thats too bad. I dont like its chances but I was still hoping that it somehow found the light of day. I like the image much. Off to Germany I go.

Mel, I think you might have answered this already but why no Pulp Fiction regular authentication?

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Note the green vest is very prominent and visible on the front of the US bus shelter:



The Moviegoods poster. I just don't believe the studio would have printed a poster in which the vest is very dark and practically invisibile.

[Posterodyssey]

I don't think you read every thing here Anthony.  Mel suspects that the movie goods is original. Right now there are no known originals...

I think you're right,Charlie.
T, this is exactly what I was taking about when I said I needed schooling.
The rate everyone purchased this poster back then I assumed it was legit.Ya learn something new all the time.
Still,ya know movie goods version was never gonna be legit.

Mel,occassionaly the 'quick' authentication won't work.Some posters in the future will require more in depth work.
About MPA,it's doing what it was meant to do.A place where the info could be spread to the collectors in need.Anybody's free to post another authentication whenever they want.

Anthony

[Zorba]

Anybody's free to post another authentication whenever they want.

That would be nice but its been what three years since someone put something new up?

Why is that?...Far too many egos?... maybe some conflicts of interest as well? ...Dont wanna piss off a bootlegging buddy?

Seems strange to me that that just died like that.

[Ari]

nah, Jeannie who owns the site isn't in the poster scene anymore.
Someone should take it over.
But I guess as it it sits there and there's good info.
So long as things dont need updates I guess.
I dunno, only read my own one, as the others I have no interest in.