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But the poster is god-awful. I really don't like it. The worst Bondposter to date. I don't like the colors, the position of Bond, the style. Why the hell is Bond in his Skull-costume in the background? Don't like Craig's pose. It's a horrible photoshop and at first I thought it was a fanmade poster.
What I do like is the white tuxedo and the image of Craig would be OK as an production image. But not as a final poster.
Its amazing how much I agree with you recently.
In the end of the day, SP is a spy thriller. On the poster, you see a spy. A particular spy: the tux and the gun indicates that it is very likely to be James Bond. It also has a grim reaper in the background. The movie is called Spectre. It's a Bond movie poster. I fail to see what's lazy about it.
It's not the greatest poster of the Bond era. The ones of CR were simply gorgeous and full of atmosphere. I really loved the teaser poster of QOS, with only Bond's shadow. This one is not as good. But it is still good IMO. And not worth ripping one's shirt apart as if it is the greatest crime against Ian Fleming.
Exactly
and again
I am not talking about liking something , I am talking about a few posters over here who will blindly fall for each and everything EON puts out
And I could write Grapes of Wrath in a week if all I did was type all day. Doesn't make the book lazy. You're not considering what went behind the creation process. You're making pure assumptions with regards to how much thought and creative process went into the poster. I agree with @Ludovico.
I can't explain it any further if you don't find the poster to be lazy. We'll just agree to disagree!
I know what you're saying pal, I can read; it's pure speculation. You think that when people like something you don't, it's "blindly falling for each and everything EON puts out", whether or not you even realize it. You assume to know why people like things, and when someone likes something you think is bad, it must be because they're blind to critical thinking. Your posts, username, spell it all out.
Maybe I should do one of my infamous simple, rash and bold statements about Skyfall or BB or Craig to divert attention from the movie poster =))
Worth repeating.
This is what I'm trying to say. I take issue when people say others blindly love or hate something when their own opinions don't align.
I also agree with @BondJasonBond006, but for me the discussion has transcended the poster a bit, and perhaps it shouldn't have.
It's the background where the hours and hours have been spent. The spectre skull is probably one of around 20 other layers in the same file where the real battles and time will have been wrought over the final piece.
You know despite endless persuasion and designer strops, the client, NOT the designer, will always get what they want as they're the ones stumping up the money at which point, creative sensibilities are a moot point! It won't be cheap either as the agency adds more zeros after the price the nearer to Central London you get.
We'll never see all the mind blowing prelims which maybe a whole team of creative designers put in front of Babs etc...
"Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire" (Freely translated: time is irrelevant to the matter at hand). Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange in a few weeks. Same with Gaston Leroux with The Phantom of the Opera. Like @NickTwentyTwo said, you are making an assumption.
You're convolutions the issue. We're talking about a concept above the discussion of the poster, were saying the argument that "if the product can be physically created in a short amount of time, then the product is 'lazy'" is faulty.
No. I was making an example: The time spent working on something is irrelevant. Especially when we know nothing about it. For all we know they spent ages and ages working on a concept for the poster, they decided to go for this one because they thought it would have the biggest impact.
I will agree that the poster definitely does its job, so do the Skyfall ones, despite how mediocre they are creatively.
And second point - you can still make a good poster with the modern minimalistic actors-first graphic design (as in non-painted/hand-drawn but with Photoshop) that is required of today's release posters. I've posted examples of good posters like that before. For release posters, the era of painted/drawn and montage styles are over, especially montage ones with modern graphic design which today look quite tacky IMO.
The two painted/drawn Star Wars ones released and were posted in this thread aren't going up in cinemas. One was a collectible gift to fans who went to the D23 event, the other goes on sale in stores along with the other Star Wars merchandise. Creatively, the best posters released for films today are of the IMAX exclusive/collectible type, not the actual release posters.
5 minutes. That's it. That is all it would take me to do this poster if I had a picture of Craig in a white tux. I would probably fix his overexposed face though. So maybe six minutes. And that.... I don't assume.