Recent Bond Posters --- Lack of Creativity?
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I wanted to bring this up to the rest of the forum and get everyone's opinions.
That being said, IMO I feel Die Another Day gave us the last visually appealing Bond poster we'll be seeing for awhile.
CR wasn't necessarily terrible, but very ordinary. The blue color scheme gave it a melancholy feel, opposed to the previous twenty that all incorporated many bright, stunning colors of the spectrum. There was not much composition to this one, besides Vesper lurking in the background. Not much going on here.
QOS was even worse than CR. While Craig and Kurylenko are attractive faces, that's all the poster has to offer. There's nothing else involved besides the smoke funneling into the air behind them. An extremely bland poster for a rather dull film. The poster just seems empty. Maybe that's what they were aiming for? Who knows.
SF is an interesting case. I remember the hype surrounding the first teaser poster to be released. It was Craig walking down a tunnel that was designed as a gunbarrel. I remember thinking... okay, that's cool. But I can't wait to see the theatrical poster! This was it. It was either the black gunbarrel poster or Craig in front of the 007 logo on a white background.
We've gone astray from the eye-popping visuals of the previous 20 films. Of course we won't return to the hand-drawings, unfortunately, but with the digital technology we have today, I've been expecting posters more visually stunning than ever before.
What do you guys think about the last three posters? What should we expect for Spectre? I hope the octopus bullet-hole isn't the theatrical poster, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Thoughts?
That being said, IMO I feel Die Another Day gave us the last visually appealing Bond poster we'll be seeing for awhile.
CR wasn't necessarily terrible, but very ordinary. The blue color scheme gave it a melancholy feel, opposed to the previous twenty that all incorporated many bright, stunning colors of the spectrum. There was not much composition to this one, besides Vesper lurking in the background. Not much going on here.
QOS was even worse than CR. While Craig and Kurylenko are attractive faces, that's all the poster has to offer. There's nothing else involved besides the smoke funneling into the air behind them. An extremely bland poster for a rather dull film. The poster just seems empty. Maybe that's what they were aiming for? Who knows.
SF is an interesting case. I remember the hype surrounding the first teaser poster to be released. It was Craig walking down a tunnel that was designed as a gunbarrel. I remember thinking... okay, that's cool. But I can't wait to see the theatrical poster! This was it. It was either the black gunbarrel poster or Craig in front of the 007 logo on a white background.
We've gone astray from the eye-popping visuals of the previous 20 films. Of course we won't return to the hand-drawings, unfortunately, but with the digital technology we have today, I've been expecting posters more visually stunning than ever before.
What do you guys think about the last three posters? What should we expect for Spectre? I hope the octopus bullet-hole isn't the theatrical poster, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Thoughts?
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If you want bland Posters for the older Films, then the Poster's for LTK where rather dull. But this was down to the Name Change and all of the already created Promotional Material had to be chucked in the Bin.
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I would love a more retro action poster for Spectre but not sure it'll materialise. Mind you, if they really are giving so many nods to OHMSS, you just never know..
The last great poster (and one of the best of the series) was TLD.
Here are the Casino Royale posters I think are best:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Casino_Royale_2_-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM5MjI4NDExNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM1MjMzMQ@@._V1_SY1200_CR89,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
I liked the one best for Casino Royale where DC is sitting at the poker table with his hand on the PPK (the gun which incidentally was not used in the film).
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm984650240/tt0381061?ref_=tt_ov_i
I agree on both counts. The full TLD poster is excellent & the CR one with Bond at the poker table is the best of his three films & should have been used as the final poster. QOS is underwhelming & SF could well be the laziest Bond poster since LTK. Even more baffling considering all the effort that went into making that film one of such quality.
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The last good poster IMO was this one for TWINE:
http://www.impawards.com/1999/world_is_not_enough_ver4_xlg.html
But IMO the best were the McGinnis posters of the 60s:
https://uk.pinterest.com/illgal/robert-mcginnis-movie-posters/