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Thanks. Do I have your permission to continue voicing my opinion?
We will bang your heads together one of these days ;)
No. I will torture you like Daniel Craig in "Casino Royale" :-P.
Is he fat or slim :-)?
I wasn't expecting art, just something effective and marketable. I guarentee people will see this in theaters and know instantly exactly what it is advertising. That is its main job and to me it succeeds.
Here he is last time I saw him.
I've since grown.
That has nothing to do with this, definitely speaking for myself, and I believe also for the other fans on here.
And if it was to be true that whoever responsible in fact "cobbled" this together in "10 minutes", I honestly don't care. I am not interested in "professional demonstrations" fo photo techniques that don't interest me, I am far more concerned about the actual result. And that satisfies me a lot! This poster is elegant, classy and bang on the money as far as I am concerned. I don't care if the guy(s) responsible didn't demonstrate unusual technical skills, or whatever. I really couldn't care less about that... ;)
There's a lot of 'not caring' in that statement, for someone who clearly cares enough to let everyone know how much they don't care.
Obviously, @RC7 will have a reply for you :-P.
Of course he did! ;) Not a very good one though...
Honestly, unlike some others, I do care. Hence why I'm peeved by the final result. If people like it, cool, but in all honesty I don't believe for one minute that the majority think this is the best that they could have achieved. Not even close. I don't want for much and I'll wait as long as they want to make me for trailers, posters etc, but it gets me down when the finished article is undercooked. One poster, they just had to nail one poster. Unlike those who want montage posters, I'm happy with a minimalist look, but this is lacking any coherent concept. It's just a bland, generic image with no panache, no innovation and no thought behind it. Remember when this was released...
We all lost our shit and rightly so. There's an idea behind it and it's visually intriguing. This new poster just doesn't do that. As for those giving it a pass because it's 'fine for marketing purposes', we're supposed to be Bond fans, not money men, where's the thirst for some genuinely original and classic Bond art?
That hurts.
Nope. Odd they excluded Scott, and Christensen, in the credits block.
As for title artist - don't think either of the Skyfall final posters had it either.
Well, I know which one is my favorite of these two :-O.
Totally forgot about Christensen! I agree it's odd. Hopefully, their roles are still of the same significance.
I wonder if previous Bind posters have ever left out acting credits for roles of their supposed size.
True, for me this just fits the current era best. But as is the case in many movie posters, some want it one way, others a different one, and no marketing team can do both. I'm happy.
I think it may be just that they couldn't fit everyone into the billing block. Just a spacing issue as opposed to a significance issue.
That could be as well. Guess I just assumed everyone automatically gets billing. Thanks.
This whole argument is a straw man. This isn't a case of DAD vs. SP, neither is it a case of painterly vs. digital or montage vs. minimal. It's a case of good vs. bad. I'm personally happy for minimalist posters. The SF and SP posters, however, look cheap and lack the requisite class. They also have no solid idea behind them or any panache in the way they're composed or any richness or distinctiveness in the colour palettes. There are plenty of great minimalist posters out there, but I fail to see how this is one of them.
Best answer I've heard today ;-)
See above.
Comparing everything to DAD, as is your hobby, is essentially presenting a world's tallest dwarf competition. Perhaps judge the individual pieces on their own merits.
As associate producer credit is usually a joke, even when it is a star involved, what they gave Connery on RISING SUN and Sigourney on RESURRECTION. So it is no news at all really, and a godawful lousy poster (par for the century.) [/quote]
Well as Craig is Co-producer and funnily enough in case you missed this tidbit of information, this isn't rising sun or alien resurrection, its laughable you're even drawing comparisons to a Bond movie. Believe it or not this actually is significant news. If you can point out to me the last time EoN gave co-producer credit to their leading actor then I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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If you can show me some instances where a co-producer/associate producer was a significant creative part of the process on a major film (as opposed to just being an assistant line producer or, more likely, somebody's agent or an early writer on the project, I'll defer to your knowledge in this matter. Jon Povill on the first trek movie is the only one I'm aware of.
I don't understand your perception regarding the films I cited either. In both cases, they were clearly courting their star (Crichton had written the novel with Connery in mind, and alien4 couldn't even get greenlit w/o Weaver), so I don't see this as different at all. Perhaps what's laughable is your attempting to distance this from those off-the-top-of-my-head examples.
The producers guild has made some strides on film credits, but they need to do more to hone it. The only producer credits I'm inclined to take at face value currently are the ones with PGA included on the titles, but it is early days with this I guess.