Great Design: "Caddyshack" Teaser Poster

After yesterday's events, and my pouring my heart out over film femininity, I feel the need to get back to some cool, but crass visuals. This week's installment of Great Design, brings us the advance sheet for "Caddyshack," which, if I saw in early 1980, I'd probably think porno... huh huh. I have a penchant for tacky, euphemistic and sexual design in the vein of the Quickie Burger sign in Ann Arbor or Playboy cartoons pre-1985.

Seriously, this thing looks like it should be advertising a movie called "Sex Goofballs!" amirite?

Why its got balls:

1. Well, that can be taken literally. So, its got all kinds of giggly double entendre.

2. The poster is simple, clever, and just showy enough, like the Rolling Stone mouth, or the recent posters for "True Blood" and "Jennifer's Body." A mouth, with heavy lipstick, can be kinda, sorta, possibly, dare I say ... hot? Enticing? Intriguing? All good for advertising purposes.

3. It's part of that wonderfully straight-forward sex-comedy era (despite the fact that "Caddyshack" has matured beyond "Porky's" golf status), and it used rough suggestion and fantasization. I'd say this is much harder than the now ironic gradient posters brought on by Steve Carrell's viriginity.

So, in conclusion, I ask you: when's this movie coming out?

Er, any ideas, comments, complaints on this thing? Put it in the comments. And wash your balls before entering.

THE 50 Finest Movie Posters of the Oughts

This is a list in response to Adrian Curry and Roger Ebert's claims of what the best posters for this decade (2000-2009) were. Curry's list was interesting, but it favored artistry and obscurity. Meanwhile, Ebert's list favored iconography a tad too much. As a disgraced film critic AND graphic designer, I felt compelled to scour the Internet Movie Poster Awards website, and try to make a good, objective list. I just nabbed as many posters that would stick in memory, and then trimmed it to 50. 50 sounds nice, right?

How'd I judge this list? It includes posters of:

- Pop cultural relevance. (The "High Fidelity" poster's as good as "Hard Day's Night")

- Influential design. (How many lifts have there been on "40-Year-Old-Virgin?")

- Creativity. ("Antichrist" does so much with so little.)

- Memorability. ("Orphan," forever brands upon the brain.)

- Beauty. ("Volver," uh, period.)

- Style. (Anything Soderbergh really.)

- And, of course, good use of text. That's hard. But look at "Black Sheep..."

Any glaring omissions? Bad taste in design? Questions as to why things made this list? Stick it in the comments.

So without further adieu, the 50 finest movie posters of the oughts. First, there's a slideshow of them all. Then you can click each for larger images.