The Bourne Nonidentity

Boooooo. Second Avenue and Fifth Street...

If you don't like movie posters of En Sabah Nur strangling Mystique, then move to...

Kidding!

However, as this photo from EVG reader Michael shows, someone did take exception with the poster for "X-Men: Apocalypse" at First Avenue and 14th Street.

Someone took the time to leave an eight-pieces-of-paper message: "This violence in my kid's face is not OK."



On that topic, what character is most likely to die in the film out on May 27?

Beast? Psylocke? Moira MacTaggert? Magneto?

'Palin's Egg & Moose Hunt' filming today; plus, black bleeding eyes and mouths!

You may have seen the fake film permits around for today...

EV reader William Klayer, who took the above photos, also notes a rash of black bleeding eyes and mouth poster tags cropping up fairly regularly in the past few weeks.... Such as!

Little Lucifers

Third Avenue between 11th Street and 12th Street... This actually gives me the creeps. (The thought of the movie does too.)

Harrison Ford's giant head continues to give Nolita the creeps

OK, it has been giving me the creeps when I've been walking on the Bowery at Great Jones of late... Here's the view looking west from the Bowery....



"Hello, I'm Harrison. I'd like to put you to sleep..."

Will this be the worst movie ever made?

Or at least the worst movie poster ever made. Third Avenue near 11th Street.

Unborn yesterday

No doubt you've seen the movie posters for The Unborn plastered around the neighborhood...such as these at 6th Street and Avenue C. The movie opened yesterday in theaters.



First reaction? What the fuck is Gary Oldman doing? He plays a rabbi. In the shot below below, Gary reads the script. Yuk, yuk.



Ugh. At least we were spared The Unborn Gratuitous Butt Shot posters for the teenaged audience.

Che in the city

So Guerrilla opens Dec. 12. Benicio Del Toro portrays the Argentine revolutionary.

Here's how a few of the posters for the film have fared around the neighborhood.




Sixth Street and First Avenue.



First Avenue near Fifth Street.

Meanwhile, as City Room reported, there's a life-size statue at the Doris Freedman Plaza — at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 60th Street — by Christian Jankowski that depicts a street performer dressed as Che Guevara.



According to a post on Commentary magazine from Nov. 21: "Why is the most vibrant capitalist hub in the world playing host to a statue of a murderous communist thug? Bailout mania? The Castroesque extension of Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s reign? The base of the sculpture is inscribed with a Che quote that my ignorance of Spanish prohibited me from deciphering. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an apology for committing acts of terror and helping to derail a country for nearly half a century."

Then later:

UPDATE: Apparently, the sculpture is not intended to depict Che Guevara, but rather a street performer dressed as Che Guevara. Which I’m sure makes all the difference in the world to the families of Che’s victims.

Eliza Dushku's nipples continue to show up all over the East Village

Posters for Nobel Son -- the dark-comic crime thriller that opens Friday with Alan Rickman, Eliza Dushku and Danny DeVito, anong others -- seem to be everywhere in the neighborhood. These were on Houston just a few hundred feet from each other.




However, for the full-on effect, you need to see the poster draped on the side of a building, such as here on Third Avenue and 12th Street.




For some reason I'm reminded of this scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation:

Easiest movie poster in the world to deface is defaced

C'mon, someone can do better than this. On Third Avenue near 12th Street.

The black lips

I'm so easy. Deface a movie poster, and I'm going to take a picture of it.

Oh, and speaking of the Black Lips.



Previously on EV Grieve:
Seth Rogen backlash begins

Seth Rogen backlash begins

6th Street and Avenue C.