The Best Poster I’ve Ever Bought
[Updated 12/7/2010, 6:15 PM]
Q: When is a Kevin Smith movie poster worth $2,000?
A: When it feeds, educates, and saves children.
Today GFBRobot bid on, and won, the right to be the first to show you the poster for Kevin Smith’s upcoming movie, Red State. The money all went to help kids in Haiti, so as glad as I am that you’re here to see the poster, I’m even more gladder that the money went to a good cause.
But first, a few words directly from the Kevin Smith camp:
If you’re a movie website or film journalist and you want to feature this poster or use it in a story, don’t be a detail-thin dick.
Be sure to tell people WHY the poster was released: because http://gfbrobot.com/ bid $2000 to Mitch Albom’s www.havefaithhaiti.org in less than 30 minutes.
If you also include the link for Mitch’s Haitian charity in your story/article, you’re not only being a thorough journalist, you’re also helping to save actual lives – lives whose progress you’ll be able to trace via www.havefaithhaiti.org
It only takes a few seconds longer to provide all available facts in any story.
Including THIS fact can help save a child’s life.
I couldn’t agree more, so a big thanks to Kevin for thinking charitably. Not only thinking charitably, but acting charitably as well: Kevin matched my donation, bringing the grand total donated to $4,000.
Now, without further ado:
I don’t know about you, but that primes my pump to see the movie. The weathered look pretty much tells you what you’re in for, am I right? I’m usually not one for “horror” flicks, but given that this is a Kevin Smith movie, I can imagine there’s going to be some good dialogue and story work happening, as well. For a brief period I wanted to be a screenwriter, and the extent to which I polished my skills by aping Smith’s pacing and delivery is probably illegal. Red State doesn’t seem to shying away from touching on some religious themes as well, which is a road Smith’s traveled before to humorous effect. It’ll be nice to see his serious take on it.
The poster above can also be viewed at http://smodcast.com/redstate/thefather/ for those that don’t like our spiffy, fiery graphics.
Also, as a final note, a special shout out to my competition in the auction. A plucky group of people on Twitter banded together to try to outbid me. Even though they lost out in the end, they deserve a mention for pooling together and being willing to share the limelight to raise money for charity. Good competition, fellas, it really got my competitive streak going in the name of a good cause!
Again, congrats, mate.
You’re one big big mean machine. Thank you and well done!
Haiti: You’ve got yourselves a new hero.
Nice work giant fire breathing robot person, was great you paid so much and a good cause is going to benefit.
As for Red State, I am excited enough to piss the bed.
Woot! So want to see this movie.
Congratulations for helping give a chance for a better life for children in Haiti!
And thank you Kevin Smith for matching the $2,000 for:
http://www.havefaithhaiti.org
The Robot is truly a machine! Awesome job!
Thanks for the shout out!
Jeff Anderson
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Well done to everyone, Charity rocks!! VERY cool bit of vision. Michael Parks might collect some statues for this one.
wow that looks awesome I think that was great that you did that for charity I will go to this site every day just because you did that for charity this site looks really cool your a really good person for doing that.
More gladder?
Kudos, sir. Great cause and a great opportunity for us Smith fans to get to see this poster. Great work. I will be returning to your site often.
@Conor – Quiet, you!
Good job and congrats robot dude…
Awesome poster and great cause. Great work everyone!
Great cause great article. I watched the whole bidding war. Only one thing left out, Kevin himself matched the $2000, so total for the charity was $4000. Great job guys!
Major kudos to the Robot for being so charitably inclined.
Really looking forward to this film.
Awesome poster and good on ya man for helping a good cause too !
Proud of you, my son.
Congrats and well done. Nice to see this money going somewhere other than some PR / Marketers pocket.
It ain’t Iron Man but I guess it is pretty cool. Good on ya for the charity.
Class act all around. Well worth it for that poster, I love it.
Congratulations on winning/buying/doing a great thing for charity. Watching that whole thing transpire on Twitter was something else.
When people ask, I think you should tell them that you went ass-to-mouth with charity for Kevin Smith.
Completely and utterly unethical to participate in this, which is why none of the major movie websites did.
I watched this go down on Twitter today. It was intense. Great job!
How is this unethical? Raising money for a needy cause Is unethical??
I doubt your motives sir. I see nothing wrong with this.
I don’t really dig the poster, but holding this auction for charity was an awesome idea by Smith. Way to go with the high bid GFBRobot!
@Green3695 I did indeed leave that out. I updated it on the fly during the day, and just made some bigger updates and took the chance to correct myself inline. Mea culpa!
Mega-Size Awesomeness!
I came to see the poster (btw way to go), I stayed because you’ve got a kick-ass mobile site going on here. Keep it up.
I… don’t really see how this could be considered “unethical,” unless the person who wrote that has no idea as to the actual meaning of the word. Which is likely. But beyond that, awesome stuff.
Awesome poster!! Even though I am in the Red State Q&A school class at Smodcastle every Monday, I haven’t seen this but it’s all for a good cause that you got to post it here. Thank you for helping the kids in Haiti.
Most of the times i visit a blog i get disappointed. On the contrary,I have to say that you have done a good job here.
Nice job dude. Cool site.
Awesome of you to do this (donate to charity, that is). And congrats to you on landing such an amazing photo.