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"Honest" Movie posters

Rob Beschizza at 11:04 am Thu, Jan 26, 2012

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The Shiznit devised some "honest" movie posters for this year's Oscar awards season. I love the ones that blandly explain the poster's symbolic intent (left) but not so much the ones that explain the moviemakers' motives (right). [via This Isn't Happiness]

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MrsBug

I think the site has been Boinged.
obeyken

theshiznet needs more bandwiznidth.
IronEdithKidd

Dang, Rob. You done killed the shiznit.
kP

Mirror?
- http://twitter.com/squealingrat squealingrat
  
  Here are the direct links to the images:
  
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/shame.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/ides-of-march.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/j-edgar.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/kevin.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/tinker-tailor.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/moneyball.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/the-tree-of-life.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/beginners.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/war-horse.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/iron-lady.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/the-artist.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/a-dangerous-method.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/dragon-tattoo.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/descendants.jpg
  http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/media/2012/January/bestpicture/the-help.jpg
cubby96

working slowly now…
http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

these are quite accurate.
tsoyptc

blog name error – you wrote “This Isn’t Happening”

Should be “This Isn’t Happiness”

Please fix – it’s an awesome blog and deserves to be credited accurately.