Comments on: Movie Poster of the Year

By: Jose Nieto

Jose Nieto — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:42:14 +0000

2007 was not a great year for movies.

You may be right about key art, but any year that has great movies from the Cohen brothers, PT Anderson, David Cronenberg, Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Pixar, and as well as Atonement, Once, Gone Baby Gone, The Assassination of Jesse James, Borne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz (for crying out loud), the Savages, Superbad, and Knocked up has to rate at least as pretty good — even if you hate Juno.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:06:25 +0000

Have to agree that The Savages is a great poster. ;)

By: Jugger Grimrod

Jugger Grimrod — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:57:55 +0000

I agree about 3:10 to Yuma posters, both were nice styles, they did however cause some confusion, with my customers that is. The style with the train on it was the first style released, yet had the credits on it, so everyone assumed it was the final style, but the final style is generally the last style to come out. Some thought the one with the Bale/Crowe on it was the advance, but that turned out to the final. Maybe they should have called it 3:10 to Confusion. Very good film by the way, I heard it is one of the best looking Blu-Ray titles out there. When I make the jump to hi-def I will probably pick it up.
I still think Blade Runner: Final Cut should have been the top poster design of 2007. Even the IMP site (great place that is by the way) didn’t chose it as the best poster design. I was surprised.

Jon

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:37:39 +0000

… and ironically the 30 Days posters look more like Frank Millers stuff than the movie based on his work.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:35:40 +0000

of course I want you to post more often.

It’s funny you bring up wilding cause that’s were the 30 Days and 300 posters struck me as similar… on the streets. Not on a subtle level of course but the heavy use of black and red along with the 3-0 titles and comic origins so close together in time made me think the 30 Days designers were attempting to bottle some of the same lighting as 300.

In fact I prefer the 30 Days of Night posters, I think they have a great brutal simplicity to them.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:16:29 +0000

The Savages is an interesting concept but it repeats some of the common elements from other posters; Big sky , small forground image, use of color. The 3:10 to Yuma Teaser not only uses an unusual and distinct color palate, the main figure in the poster is not facing front, and is not one of the stars in the film, The image is actually about the concept. Since this is not an election, it doesn’t get my vote but it did get respect. My favorite for the year. I’m posting for the first time, I love your site and subject, thanks for taking the time to pull stuff together.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:10:43 +0000

Chuck, did you mean you wanted me to post more often? LOL! How did you come up with the comparison of the 300 poster and the 30 Days of Night? They didnt appear anything like each other to me. The problem with 300 was mainly confusion among collectors….there wasn’t as many posters made as some made it out to be. People on eBay posting “wilding” posters claiming they were originals just made it more confusing for collectors because wilding styles are not originals, they are mass-printed versions that are put up just about on every street corner. That’s one of the problems with posters, and people on eBay or even some dealers, they think every image released is an official poster, when it’s not the case.
30 Days of Night was a good poster, the advance and final styles were the same, just the credits added to the final, I didnt see the film, but heard it wasn’t that bad. Grindhouse was a very good poster design as well, but was another one that suffered from multiple images being released all citing they were posters when in fact they weren’t.

Jon

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:48:10 +0000

This is the post of the year for this website. Please post more often. I think we’d all love to know your thoughts on most of the posters out there as they are revealed by the studios.

Even though I didn’t like the movies, I thought all the work done for Planet Terror individually was great, and also on the old school/retro side I liked this poster for The Orphanage — http://www.impawards.com/2007/orfanato_ver2.html and the tinted profile one sheets for Summer Rain.

30 Days Of Night campaign was nicely done even if it did seem derivative of 300.

But I agree that this was a weak year for poster art. Most of the work just seemed incredibly half hearted and unfocused.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:50:33 +0000

I realize after checking my post, I forgot the word “the” in my first sentence. Ugh. Just because the artwork was primarily done for the 1982 release of Blade Runner, technically it wasn’t used as a an official movie poster until 2007, after Struzan finished the artwork . Just my opinion but it was/is an amazing piece. To me, Savages is rather boring piece, nothing about it screams “Poster of the Year”. Another good poster in 2007 was the advance style for Captivity depicting the woman buried underground in a see-through like fashion. The film bombed, the poster was recalled, but it was a very interesting concept.

Jon
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By: deafscribbler

deafscribbler — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:10:43 +0000

Is the Struzan/Alvin interview on the bonus materials for the Final Cut 2-disc edition, or is it on one of the other discs in the 5 disc suitcase edition?