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Source Code looks pretty good! Jake Gyllenhaal is trapped in a Star Wars trash compactor and he has to keep having a Groundhog Day to save a train that is Unstoppable but then he falls in love with some other dude’s girlfriend and that is when things get very The Adjustment Bureau! Also, Duncan Jones directed Moon, and Moon was pretty good. But what is this poster?! Even the Takers poster is like, “Uh, guys?” LOOK OUT JAKE GYLLENHAAL, THERE IS A PHOTOSHOP JPG BEHIND YOU! They might as well have made this poster a Magic Eye poster? (Actually, how come no one has made a Magic Eye movie poster yet? Is it just more comfortable, sitting on gold?) Why is he running with a gun? He’s going to shoot the JPGs? LOOK OUT, JPGS! Let’s put it this way: if you were stuck in a dead end job and what you really wanted to do was pursue a career in graphic design that would finally give you a chance to express your creativity, but you didn’t have a lot of time or money, and you saw a late night advertisement for a local technical college with an affordable graphic design program that promised to at least give you some of the tools you were going to need to start turning your life around and in that commercial they showed this poster as an example of the kind of work you would learn how to do, you might say AH, FORGET IT and turn off the TV and have another beer before passing out on your mattress that you don’t even have a boxframe for, it just lies on the floor because who even has the energy anymore. Let’s just put it that way.

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Comments (68)
  1. The Eagle Eye poster is all like, “Not cool.”

  2. I think the concept is sound enough but the execution is what kills it. If it was a painting, Drew Struzan-style, I think it would be passable. But considering the poster for Moon was bad-ass (SO bad-ass), this is a slight disappointment.

  3. The tag-line should read “Make Every Second MOVIE Count” because Jake Gyllenhaal.

  4. Look at those dark clouds swirling behind him. The way the wind is whipping up the JPG’s. Look at how fast he’s running.

    Looks to me like this was one of those “70% chance of rape” today.

  5. Topher Grace.

  6. The poster says “Vera Farmiga,” ergo the poster is great.

  7. Maybe the movie is about werttrew, and his epic battle to get the gifs to submit to his will.

    “Bend to my will, corgis on a treadmill!!” –werttrew

  8. To the left of his gun… is that a zune?

    • Somewhat relevent, I don’t know why nobody has made a movie about any format wars. There are so many format wars!

      I would love to see VHD duke it out with LaserDisc.

  9. I’m surprised Jake isn’t slipping and falling on all those JPGs…they don’t look very sturdy. Let’s walk, not run okay buddy?

  10. Also, I think Jake would pop more if they put him in Hancock’s leather suit. Also also, they should throw in that kid and the dragon from How To Train Your Dragon. Also also also, Jake should be blue. They all should be blue.

    • They should also all be inventing a social networking website, be kings with lisps, and have nervousness when it comes to ballet dancing.

      They will be guaranteed so many Oscars.

  11. He could not look less interested in running away from that dark swirling cloud.

    • He has the same expression I have in school picture from middle school, when the photographer kept on taking picture after picture because my smile wasn’t good enough and I eventually picked the last one out of spite.

      • Tangentially, I’m reminded of when they took our college ID photos. They woke us up waaaaaay too early during orientation, so we didn’t have time to shower or anything. We were a bit peeved (as teenagers always are), so my friend Rich goes into the room and sits down in front of the camera, the camera dude all cheery and happy. The guy says to him, “Don’t you wanna smile?!” to which Rich replies, deadpan, “No.”

        #holyshitgreatstorybro

        • The happiest photo I have seen in real life was a high school friend of mine. The joyous grin makes sense when you find out that off camera, another friend shouted “Don’t think about penguins!”

        • the same thing happened to me when college ID photos were taken. i looked ridiculous. but even when given the opportunity to take a new photo, i declined since the original one was much more funny.

  12. its like my mother always told me “Don’t run with scissors! Feel free to run at a full sprint with your finger on the trigger of a loaded handgun angled at your temple but for gods sake DON’T RUN WITH SCISSORS!!”

  13. The other, less impressive poster has Jake falling face-first into a fountain full of Jpegs while carrying a cellphone instead of a gun.

    He’s much more athletic in this one though, so good choice, Hollywood!

  14. I assumed it was about a guy trapped in the iTunes store.

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  16. Do they still make those pictures where the main image is made up all of smaller images? That might have worked here. Or they could have made it all out of smaller guns… that never doesn’t ever work.

  17. He looks like he’s going to shoot himself in the head which is exactly what I feel like doing when I watch a Jake Gyllenhaal movie these days.

    • Hey, give him a break. Every generation has a great actor that everybody likes who has to make a lot of terrible movies that no one wants to see so we all get to sit around hoping that actor we all like makes a movie we want to see.

    • I just feel like there’s so many other things I could be doing with my Sands of Time.

  18. What the hell did Jake Gyllenhaal just do? It looks like he just blew up a factory that makes giant, stiff posters.

  19. I really don’t get why Jake, the lesser of the two Gyllenhaals, has reached this level of fame, while poor Maggie is constantly overlooked. Was it his solid work in The Bubble Boy that boosted his reputation as being a worthwile actor?

  20. “Actually, how come no one has made a Magic Eye movie poster yet?”

    Ahem…

    … though this explains why no one has made one since

  21. The Most offensive part is the Yahoo! logo. Ugh, just out of focus, stamped on…

  22. If this movie was on NBC the poster would say CUMMING SOON.

  23. I always thought Groundhog Day needed more explosions. And did we really need to repeat WHOLE DAYS? It’s a new millennium, people! Eight minutes is just right.

  24. This Source Code poster also sucks:

  25. I’m not sure where this will show up, but in response to the Moon comments: Moon is awesome. Its truly beautiful and the story is heartbreaking. Its worth your time for sure, especially since you already paid for Netflix. Also, check out Dear Zachary (if you want to cry till you just can’t cry any more).

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