Friday, May 27, 2016

Weekly Roundup #16

Every Friday, we're taking a look at the film and television posters released over the past week. Enjoy! 
After the dark, foreboding Star Trek Into Darkness posters, Beyond opts for a much more vibrant and colorful tone. Much like the polarizing first trailer, it indicates the film is trying first and foremost to have fun, even if that means betraying the nature of the source material. 
There's no telling what the film is about, but the poster definitely has a unique pattern, and the face at the center teases all sorts of horrors.
Alien spaceships destroying international landmarks? Maybe that passed as entertainment in 1996, but I'd like to think that the modern moviegoer is beyond that. 
Because nothing is more appealing than famous actors looking all sweaty and bloody in boring black-and-white. 

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Friday, May 20, 2016

Weekly Roundup #15

Every Friday, we're taking a look at the film and television posters released over the past week. Enjoy! 
There's not much you could put on this film's poster besides its central interracial relationship, but at least the mellow tones and slight graininess help to convey the 1950s setting. And props for putting the female character in the seemingly-superior, comforting position that the male would usually take on a poster. 
This poster mixes the film's revolutionary theme with the style of an old parchment paper and America's most recognizable symbol.
For the first (and probably final) time, X-Men: Apocalypse nails its marketing campaign with these posters stylized as 80's album covers. 
The actors' WTF faces come off more as laughable than "cool" or "badass." And really, I know that Michael Bay has always been quick to sexualize Megan Fox, but I thought that we were beyond the typical action movie posters where the women pose with their behinds facing the screen and their other curves properly visible. 
The Purge: Election Year already continues its trend of putting a sick twist on current American patriotism/politics with this latest tagline. 
More hand-swords! More hoods! More ancient architecture! Yay!

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Friday, May 13, 2016

Weekly Roundup #14

Every Friday, we're taking a look at the film and television posters released over the past week. Enjoy! 
The objects on the titular character's head might seem a little random (the film will probably explain each ofthem), but at least has a uniquely colorful palette and tone. 
There's certainly something creepy and enticing about this poster, but the critic samples are actually a little distracting.
I can't tell if this backwards text is ingenious or incredibly annoying to read. Either way, it's memorable. 
You can see here that some badass with hand-knives likes jumping off buildings in 15th century Europe, which is pretty much everything you need to know about this movie. Hopefully, Assassin's Creed's final poster will distinguish it more from the popular video game series it's based on. 

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Friday, May 6, 2016

Weekly Roundup #13

Every Friday, we're taking a look at the film and television posters released over the past week. Enjoy! 
A freeze-frame image, an uncreative tagline, headshots of the cast underneath their names, and the concept of adults acting inappropriately. Who could have guessed this was a comedy movie? 
With a limited release and a B-list cast, Urge will probably go under the radar of most, but at least this poster has a cool, colorful design. 
Bright, attention-grabbing and hinting at something creepy. Pretty good, even if it may be copying the whole "scary shadow" thing from The Phantom Menace's first poster
The title's a tongue twister and there's no indication of what it means (looking up what the film's actually about doesn't help), but this poster makes it clear that The Neon Demon will be about models...and purple blood, for whatever reason.

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