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How To Squander Your Rachel Weisz Opportunities: Which Of These Movie Posters Works For You?

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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I’m totally stealing one of Dustin’s gimmicks, because I’m lazy.

Here are four posters. As many may realize, the art of the movie poster is a dying breed, much like the art of the trailer. There’s a certain verve involved with a great poster, a sense of artistic panache, an understanding of space and placement, and making something intriguing without being too obvious. These days, we see very few great ones — in fact, the best movie poster’s you’re likely to see are the unofficial ones done by independent artists. Sometimes the marketing and PR folks get it right. Sometimes it’s such a shit movie that no poster can save it. Sometimes, it’s somewhere in between.

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This? This is an utter waste of Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz. Still, it’s not a bad poster, just wasteful.

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Another Very Serious Movie, again featuring Rachel Weisz. I was planning to see this at IFFB, except that I got drunk by accident. It’s an interesting premise, though. Kind of a bland poster, and it tells absolutely nothing about the movie, and I don’t mean that in a good way. For all I know, it’s a thriller about marching band tryouts. Do they have whistles in marching band? Oh, fuck you.

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I love this poster, and not just because I adore Juno Temple. It’s sort of Warhol-esque, it’s a lovely homage, and it’s just… interesting.

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Eh. Men with guns. Not too exciting, and that tag line is atrocious. Plus, isn’t Clive Owen the bad guy? Shouldn’t they at least be pointing their guns at each other? Also, the lack of Yvonne Strahovski = massive fail.









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Comments

The answer is clearly the one that has Weisz and Monica "you can chain ME to a radiator" Bellucci.

Even if they don't share a scene together...well...you know.

Posted by: D-Day at July 6, 2011 12:04 PM

The Dream House poster is a waste of ALL of the "talent" involved. Also, someone needs to get the following tattooed on Daniel Craig's agent and managers' arms: At no time, shall Daniel Craig have hair that in any way be construed as long or lanky. Longer hair seriously harshes his sex on a stickiness. Kind of like a reverse Lenny Kravitz.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 6, 2011 12:24 PM

I like the Dreamhouse one. It's got a cool Escher vibe and it's different.

Whistleblower shows absolutely no effort on the part of the designers. That's as lazy as the mosaics they use on ensemble-cast movies.

Dirty Girl is pretty damn cool.

That last one we won't even talk about.

Posted by: Figgy at July 6, 2011 12:31 PM

I don't mind the last one and I think the tagline is pleasantly wry. The real offender is "nothing if more dangerous than the truth".

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 6, 2011 12:33 PM

As long as that first one has Jim Sheridan's name on it, I'm in.
At least it suggests a story over going the route of "look who is in this movie" which most posters do these days.

Posted by: PaddyDog at July 6, 2011 12:38 PM

At no time, shall Daniel Craig have hair that in any way be construed as long or lanky. Longer hair seriously harshes his sex on a stickiness.

Word.

Posted by: Sbrown at July 6, 2011 12:40 PM

I thought Rachel was a serious AK-tor now? What is she doing in some horror flick?

Posted by: logan at July 6, 2011 1:13 PM

Because that is all Hollywood makes now.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 6, 2011 1:15 PM

Doorknob.

I like doorknobs.

Posted by: snapnhiss at July 6, 2011 1:16 PM

I thought all they made was comic book movies?

Posted by: logan at July 6, 2011 1:20 PM

leoben, get out of that doorknob!

Posted by: sailboat at July 6, 2011 3:22 PM

I'll agree that the Dirty Girl poster is cool, but look at her earring. It's just sort of hovering and poorly photoshopped, non? Is it attached to the back of her knuckle?

Also, I'm always skeptical about movies which use a "stamp" in the title.

Posted by: Racheee at July 6, 2011 9:32 PM

The Dream House poster is pretty but Killer Elite sounds AWSM...

Posted by: Sarah J-Town at July 7, 2011 2:59 AM