Illustrator Tom Stults imagines what the posters of popular movies would look like in an alternate universe...if they'd been made earlier or later or in a different setting. He's done dozens of these...the latest "What If..." set is here with links you can follow to his past sets. I could caption these but they're pretty self-explanatory.

Some of these are ridiculously spot-on, revealing Hollywood's casting tropes and near-impressions some actors make of older actors' careers (intentional or not). And that Mad Max / Buster Keaton thing works really really well actually.

I featured Stults' first series of these several years ago...I'm glad he's continued making them.

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Frito-Lay and Marvel have teamed up to offer a limited-edition Doritos bag to promote Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The bag comes with a integrated MP3 player containing the soundtrack from the movie, a pair of 80s-style headphones, and a USB charging cable.

Plug your headphones into the bag, press play, and enjoy the Doritos packaged inside!

Their custom hashtag isn't taking off the way that they had hoped (only 1 result on Twitter and 2 on Insta), but I have to admit, this is kinda cool...exactly the sort of weirdo product promotion that people would have gone bonkers for in the 80s.¹ Engadget has a look at the bag and how it works:

The bags are sold out on Amazon (and I don't think they were ever available anywhere else), but if you really want one, they are selling on eBay for anywhere from $50 to $500.

1. You might even say — wait for it (actually don't, this is stupid and beneath us all) — that it's all that and a bag of chips. (Told you.)↩

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There a lots of videos of movies reimagined as 8-bit video games out there (Kill Bill, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction), but I'm posting the Guardians of the Galaxy one because of the excellent chiptune rendition of the Awesome Mix Vol. 1 soundtrack.

Hooked on a Feeling, beep beep doot doot... (via devour)

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The mixtape that Star-Lord carries around in Guardians of the Galaxy is of course available as an actual album (Amazon mp3, iTunes). The album isn't on Spotify, but there is a playlist of all the songs.

As Slate notes, the movie merch album isn't totally true to the movie as it includes two songs from Awesome Mix Vol. 2, but I will never complain of Marvin Gaye's or the Jackson 5's inclusion in anything.

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