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You could try eBay.
That's ok! I am bonkers anyway!!!!! 8-}
Guess marketing is about to ramp up..
Nothing particularly new mentioned in this.
And Mendes is being honoured at the 2015 Britannia Awards in LA on Oct. 30th.
I really hope they do a big/classic final poster, as I felt the UK and Us Skyfall final 1 Sheets were very simple.
I actually got one of these when I picked up the SF blu-ray. So, maybe that's why I like it
Call me crapola, but I love this simply posed pictures as huge posters. It basically gives us Bond in full killer costume. His eyes are saying "I had my dose of shit in my first two adventures, but now I'm BACK!" :-P
Something like this
That's a decent poster, at least reminds us the story takes place in London and it has the gunbarrel which is always a plus, but THIS ONE:
It's BAD beyond words..
This is even the cover of the Blu-ray (German version) I almost fainted when I saw this, it's beyond awful.
It feels like SP is doing the same thing with their posters so far. Selling the film with just Bond standing there looking you in the eye
Just look at the current SP poster, that's no movie poster at all.
Just replace the word Spectre with GAP, H&M or ZARA and you have the perfect marketing campaign for clothes retailers.
It's beyond ridiculous.
CR and QoS had some sense of tone. SF and thus far SP have sod all. Like Bond @BondJasonBond006 says, the SP teaser poster is just a fragrance or clothing ad. Given the fact that most criticism aimed at this era is built on the idea that it is dour and introspective, you'd think they would counteract this by injecting a bit of flair and colour into the marketing, but no. Let's go 'grey'.
As long as it's only a teaser poster, i think it's fine.
You know what i'd love to see? Since SP is linked to OHMSS why don't bring back those iconic taglines "FAR UP!, FAR OUT!, FAR MORE!" with each one a different background e.g. Austria mountains with plane: "FAR UP!", Mexico fight on helicopter "FAR OUT!"...
That would be awesome!
Or maybe they could just do something new and inventive with a bit of Bondian panache.
August iirc.
Not happening. At all.
Sorry guys, but that's just the state of today's movie posters, the only way I can see them doing something like this if EON do a deliberate 60s style limited edition collectible poster like that IMAX one with black and white Bond and DB5 for SF. Placed in today's movie posters that'd just be super unfitting.
And posters which throw together lots of scenes/locations/characters at you are very very badly received by the public today. Today: people and studios and directors prefer simple, more minimalist designs. Just look at any other major blockbuster movie poster (minus Avengers 2 because that was a mess of a poster) in recent years.
No doubt, for the final SPECTRE poster they'll carry on the same simple approach as with the QoS and SF final posters (hopefully not like the US SF final poster, mind you). Not overloaded with different locations like the old school Bond posters - just Bond and Madeleine somewhere.
And @RC7 - all movie posters today are pieces if graphic design. If you want old school "art", the only options for that would be those limited edition collectible posters that either EON put out officially or people like Mondo sell.
Wrong. You can have art. Art doesn't mean painterly, it means something that has some genuine thought behind it and stirs an emotional response. I'm pitching 'graphic design' in the sense of Bond posters as something skill based, juxtaposing images in an fashion that requires no emotional input and thus no emotional response.
This has artistic merit. It's evocative, it stirs the emotions.
This doesn't.
I'm not after a classic Bond composition in the vein of the sixties and seventies, I just want some genuine effort and thought to go into these posters. They shouldn't be blandly anonymous, they should have visual flair and tone and not be ads for Hugo Boss.
Btw if you guys want examples of fantastic modern movie posters of today - look into Neil Kellerhouse's work for David Fincher's The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl; or Tim Palen's work on The Hunger Games films. Those two make the best and most creative/arty posters with 'graphic design' style and minimalism that is required from today's posters.
Are you sure it's because of people's reception to them ?
I always thought that the posters were now turned into advertising for the lead actors mostly because of the agents, who ask explicitly for this : I want this movie to increase the market value of my actor, so please put him/her on the poster first and foremost.
There are rumors the Star Wars posters may go back to the old fashioned way.
Oh yeah, I agree with you on that, I did forget about that aspect, duh :S, but overcrowded and messy posters people respond badly to - such as:
So you're probably right, it's more that aspect than reception, but reception does play a part too to some extent. Question is, given this requirement, how creative/arty can you still be with it (Palen's HG work is a perfect example of taking that actors-first requirement and still pulling out beautiful poster art).
Talking of SW - indeed: Struzan came back to do the D23 exclusive poster (just given out at the event and not officially put up in cinemas etc). Opinion seemed to be split: half are OMG because it's Struzan and going back to old school, half are criticising that it's kiiiiiinda awkwardly put together...I'd kinda fall in the latter camp tbh.