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pooballAug 20, 2010
If you haven't been introduced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Struzan
http://www.drewstruzan.com/illustrated/portfolio/
kojoteAug 20, 2010
Well, wouldn't you know...back to us, head turned to right, paint brush in right hand.
http://www.drewstruzan.com/img/drewhomewhole.jpg
artofwar420Aug 20, 2010
That guy is amazing. Thanks for the link.
smacksawAug 21, 2010
His life story and his art seem surprisingly like the plot of Xanadu.
lowenfelsAug 20, 2010
Whatever happened to the old fashioned Floating Head?!?!
davincihAug 20, 2010
Yeah that poster for Inception wasn't great.
Though there were some other Inception posters which were amazing. This one for instance: http://bit.ly/b7sS1E
That may be my favorite poster of the year.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2010
Kept seeing this one on Park Av in Manhattan:
http://wpimgsrv1.easywebdns.com/uploads/wpap0000014/2010/07/inception-2.jpg
Confusing, but at least it's original, I guess.
gekkeijyuAug 20, 2010
that poster only makes sense if you've seen the movie (or trailer, at the very least). for everyone else, its kinda "wtf is going on???" (and not ina good way). there's a faceless jumping dude with a gun, an upside down guy, and someone falling down. movie posters are supposed to intrigue and inform you at the same time. i'm no art student, but i see many things wrong with this picture. firstly, it doesn't have the main character in it. secondly, it doesn't tell us what the movie's about, or even worse, it gives the wrong impression. also, the picture is boring...i look at it and say "meh". the poster implies the movie is about JGL fighting people in an off-gravity environment, a cool but irrelevant 5 minute scene in the middle of the movie. that would be like if the star wars movie poster had a picture of chewbacca playing chess (or whatever) with C3PO.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
kingfootAug 20, 2010
None of what you said was "wrong" with the poster really matters.. Considering there really aren't "rules" for posters. It's what the director wants in the end, and in this instance it's exactly what he wanted. Secrecy. He tried his best to not produce trailers and posters that gave away what the story really was about because he knows that will drive more people to see it.
yosafbridgeAug 21, 2010
Hell, I liked that one so much I drew it:
http://yosafbridge.deviantart.com/#/d2vg6vt
Needless to say, I agree that's one of the best posters (and scenes for that matter) I've seen in a long while.
batonryeAug 21, 2010
L E O N A R D O D I C A P R I O
< and then a bunch of other random actors >
Closed AccountAug 20, 2010
hollywood is regurgitating crap over and over again?!
what is the world coming to?!
bluehouseAug 20, 2010
hollywood is regurgitating crap over and over again?!
what is the world coming to?!
factorof13Aug 20, 2010
HOLLYWOOD IS REGURGITATING CRAP OVER AND OVER AGAIN?!
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!
/this time it's louder
mixeaoAug 20, 2010
THESE PRETZELS.... ARE MAKING ME... THIRSTY!!!!!!!!!!
r3m1x645Aug 20, 2010
THE FLOOR IN THIS THEATER IS STICKY! WHO SPILLED COKE HERE???!?!
Closed AccountAug 21, 2010
THAT'S NOT COKE!!!!!
trapper2530Aug 21, 2010
HOLLYWOOD IS REGURGITATING CRAP OVER AND OVER AGAIN?!
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!
/this time you have to pay an extra $4 dollars because it's in 3D
polarbearfireAug 20, 2010
This is what happens when people don't take chances and let "opinion panels" dictate what they produce. 8 out of 10 times, they always choose the boring or mainstream option. Posters are one thing, what's worse is many movies alter their stories or endings in significant ways to appeal to larger audiences.
gekkeijyuAug 20, 2010
welcome to pop(ular) culture!
when you go to the mainstream (ie, hollywood) for entertainment, expect the mainstream.
luckily, there is a whole industry out there that is dedicated to non-mainstream fare: the independent movie industry. that's right, indie movies. you're turning into a hipster.
darkphenoxAug 20, 2010
The problem with indy movies they are extremely hit or miss, even more then Hollywood, at least I can sit through the worst Hollywood movies but bad indy movies can be so bad I would walk out of a theater if that is where I am watching it (I never had during a Hollywood movie).
tommedwardsAug 21, 2010
Most people going to indie movies know what they're about and have a reason to go.
On that note, I walked out on Avatar... f**k that was horrendous.
yosafbridgeAug 21, 2010
I totally agree about Indie movies being very hit or miss. Hollywood has its share of misses sure (Airbender was terrible) but most of the time the movies just "meh" with a few "OMG that was AWESOME" mixed in every year. Overall Hollywood is just forgettable and been there done that, not terrible though. Even the ones that could be called "terrible" at least have explosions and side boob.
Indie movies tend to be either amazing and nothing I've ever seen before or complete and UTTER hipster trash. I'd rather waste my money on something I'll sit through and forget about an hour after it's over than some Indie film that will cause me severe brain damage (which is why I only tend to watch Indies on DVD rather than in the Cinema..only venturing to the theatre if the movie is written or directed by someone who's proven themselves to me already)
techsmackAug 20, 2010
So do you blame copy cats or do you blame graphic design schools? As they teach you "What Sells", and that there are quotes time and time again stating that its common practice to 'copy' a masterpiece....
"One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!" Brahms replied, "Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly." (Johannes Brahms)
quambAug 20, 2010
This is not how graphic design schools work, in fact they spend a great deal of their time trying to breed creative outside-of-the-box thinkers...
The truth is more to do with advertising and the hollywood 'formula'. Which basically is, if it worked previously, milk it.
techsmackAug 20, 2010
I disagree. I've gone through the schools, and like I said, standardized art gets the A... people who think outside the box may also get the A, but for the majority of people walking out, and into a desk based graphic's job, they'll have gone through the middle lines of graduation. Not failing, not exceeding. The ones who think outside the box become the "well knowns" or go off and do their own thing. The ones who end up producing the work so many see are the ones who satisfied the need for repeatable standardized art.
The schools may want you to believe they live for "out side the box" thinkers, but these are the ones who give the school a good name, these are not the ones we follow, and crave more artwork from. These are the ones who give us cereal boxes, and movie posters. Cookie cutter artists.
wildAug 20, 2010
I think maybe your school just sucked specifically.
techsmackAug 20, 2010
Perhaps you are right and I'm just bitter.
tommedwardsAug 21, 2010
"This is not how graphic design schools work, in fact they spend a great deal of their time trying to breed creative outside-of-the-box thinkers..."
Yeah that's bulls**t... I am currently attending an aforementioned Graphic Design school... and a phrase I hear nearly everyday... "you're in this business to make money, this isn't art"... I ended up dropping out of several modules because it's utter bulls**t.
julian88888888Aug 20, 2010
I'm majoring in Graphic Design at a graphic design school, and you've just fabricated the largest misrepresentation about it, it's nothing like that at all. What the hell are you talking about?
wildAug 20, 2010
As someone who is a designer and works in this crazy industry, it is the clients.
erostarAug 20, 2010
techsmack I want to reply to you but I can't figure out what you're trying to say. Design schools breed boring artists? It is possible for the school to turn a boring artist into an innovative one? It sounds like you think design school should be more like artist factories, turning boring designers into exciting designers, but I think that might be beyond the reach of a school. School can give you the resources and guidance, but being an artist is a difficult thing to teach. Some people just have it and some just don't.
Besides, boring artists – or maybe we should call them craftsmen – serve an important purpose in creating disposable art. Not all art is meant to be a classic masterpiece; sometime it's just there to let you know about a new movie.
techsmackAug 20, 2010
This is more or less the point I was trying to get across. Not to hit against schools. Point being that art repeats itself. Weather its art in a museum, or art on a poster. This is why we have art movements such as impressionistic, and realism, surrealism and the like. We see, across a broad spectrum of graduating students, common art.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2010
I think you missed the point of the Brahms quote entirely.
His point was that it's possible to over-analyze the similarities between two composers' works, but to do so is to miss the fact that every composer builds off of the composers before him. Great composers simply do it brilliantly enough that they impart enough of themselves in the work to make it interesting and new despite such similarities.
techsmackAug 20, 2010
I don't think so, Its more about similarities of style, styles come and go, and I think this blog post about finding specific pieces of art (in this case commercialized movie posters), that all mimic each other. What came first? A specific movie poster, or the concept that pushed each individual artist to create something so common - was the desire to create a common art piece because the masses demanded it? If one composure had success with a certain style, why not try to let that influence your own compositions.
Closed AccountAug 21, 2010
You sounded rather negative about the whole thing and I thought you were dissing my man Brahms. My bad.
kangouliusAug 20, 2010
She can spit on my grave any day
wateryouthAug 20, 2010
If by grave you mean penis, as she is fellating me, then I agree.
yacksAug 20, 2010
I'd rather spit in her grave.. if you know what I mean..
gitargr8Aug 20, 2010
I'd like to put my penis in her vagina, if you know what I mean.
botaxeroAug 20, 2010
I don't get what you're alluding to.
chocobomogAug 20, 2010
There are 500 - 600 movies released each year. Each one needs 2-3 posters which shows the title and the main character(s) in an interesting fashion and entices audiences to see the movie.
And you think finding 5 posters, two from movies no one has ever heard of (and 1 from a movie everyone is trying to forget), out of 1200+ is odd?
You try telling graphic designers to create 1200 posters a year with the same requirements and see how much variance you get.
strad2Aug 20, 2010
Yeah, good point. You could just as easily find 10 posters with just someone's face on it, and then say that is the pattern.
fredfredricksonAug 20, 2010
I see a few commonalities between them, but there's actually a surprisingly large amount of variance there. I mean, how many times can you make a poster with someone standing on it before they start to look at least kind of similar?
thatsnomoon66Aug 21, 2010
The "blue and orange" color scheme is a bit overdone
Closed AccountAug 21, 2010
Their advertising movies?
withearsAug 20, 2010
I Spit On Your Grave.
Nice ass.
random314Aug 20, 2010
U know what happened to that ass right?
therealkamiAug 20, 2010
SURPRISE BUTTSECKS?!
spookyttwsAug 20, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V2mE_QCpzU&feature=related
skinturtleAug 20, 2010
I was thinking of taking some pictures one day of some DVD covers down at the local video store...with this exact same thot.
Actually one day while nobody was looking...I took the videos and lined them up beside each other.
Hollywood doesn't give a crap...as long people still go to view their regurgitation...they'll keep on spewing it out.
There is no art anymore...just money.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
laughtoAug 20, 2010
Between this and the orange/blue thing I'm thinking the net pretty much has this stuff nailed: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/27/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-posters/
wussAug 20, 2010
it doesn't nail anything. The contrast of using cool and warm colors is a common tool to create drama and make things pop. If you move outside the realm of movie posters, I bet you'll find a lot of art and photography in general that uses the exact same principles. It's a part of art composition.
It would be the same to blast all black and white art just because it's black and white.
skinturtleAug 20, 2010
There is no art anymore...just money.
thecoffeeAug 21, 2010
There is no money anymore...just ideas.
warpsmithAug 20, 2010
I actually really liked the the Joker version of this from the Dark Knight. What makes it interesting is that the Joker's face is such a distinctive trademark, and hiding the face evokes more curiosity and interest.
http://the-reviewer.net/wp-content/uploads/the-dark-knight-joker-poster-500w.jpg
r3m1x645Aug 20, 2010
This: http://media.whysoserious.com/stupidbats.jpg
was my favorite poster for it by far
nick041Aug 20, 2010
Jonah Hex. I forgot about that piece of cinematic bulls**t.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2010
The last one was different in that I found it easier to masturbate to.
neutron7Aug 20, 2010
In a world where Hollywood regurgitates crap, one man fights them in the only way possible!
holygodAug 20, 2010
I thought the Dark Knight and Inception posters were oddly similar given it is the same director.
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/15/inception-movie-poster-looks-like-dark-knight-poster/
wugieAug 20, 2010
Not even phoning it in but mailing it in
adarahsiaAug 21, 2010
You're just mailing that post in, Here's how you should say it.
Not even mailing it in but texting it in.
Not even texting it in but Morse coding it in.
Not even Morse coding it in but tracing it in thin air.
joshuame505Aug 20, 2010
I blame the Creative Director not Hollywood. Everyone must listen to the Creative Director, designer, publisher, even the puppet that is the client. These images are all from unoriginal Creative Directors that approved this artwork.
wildAug 20, 2010
You have NO idea how this works. CLient as the puppet? Ahahahahahahahaha.....f**k no. They pay the bills. They get what they want. Stop watching Mad Men and thinking it is completely real.
creativeamp68Aug 20, 2010
I Spit on Your Grave doesn't count. It's an homage to the original movie poster made in 1980. If anything, the other movie posters ripped that one off.
Google it. I'm not promoting anyone's website.
holygodAug 20, 2010
Didn't you just promote google's?
creativeamp68Aug 21, 2010
Guess I did. OOPS. LOL.
swift2Aug 20, 2010
Why not the poster art, when Hollywood movies have become repetitive bits of crap?
larssonk22Aug 20, 2010
How much are they paying these people?
*insert photo titled "will do graphic design for spare change"*
pixelpimpAug 20, 2010
It not the Artist fault it is the Studio. They figure oh this movie made $60 million and the poster looked like this. So why don't we do that for this poster. The poster guys do hundred of mockup years before the movie ever comes out.
emjayseaAug 20, 2010
Our taste in butts has certainly changed:
http://flicksided.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/spit-poster.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISpitOnYourGraveposter.jpg
For the record, the original was much more bootilicious, and the most recent somewhat reminiscent of the backside of a 12 year old boy. Hey, if that's what you're into, I guess!
afroteeAug 20, 2010
Can we please get over the whole "Hollywood never does anything creative" schtick? Blame yourselves. Hollywood does what makes money, and remakes/sequels/adaptations make money. Why? Because most people are lazy viewers who don't want to be challenged by something new. They want comfort.
Exceptions abound, yes. Inception made a pile of money. But it never would have been made had Christopher Nolan scored so big with the Batman films... which were... yep... a remake/adaptation and a sequel. Plus: Leo.
It's almost suicide for a big studio to make a big budget film without some kind of prearranged audience. These things cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and even a perfectly good film can do quite poorly ("Pilgrim", cough) if coming out of nowhere or aimed at smaller demographics.
ikaytoAug 20, 2010
3 similar movie posters and the author is up in arms that Hollywood Poster designers have lost their creativity? Was the line for tom's shoes too long or his fixie in the shop? x.x
thickapeAug 20, 2010
The posters look to be invoking the two of wands in the tarot deck.
http://tarot-table-talk.com/2008/02/
From wikipedia:
Most often, the Two of Wands card means courage and daring. It has the message of striking out on a journey or new path.
djnikadeemasAug 20, 2010
http://www.bltomato.com/
It takes a while to load but just click on 'Latest' and you'll know who to blame.
yasharAug 20, 2010
http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/the-dark-knight-joker-poster-500w1.jpg
theyarAug 20, 2010
Nice try, but have a look at the A-frame legs.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/22/history-of-a-frame-movie-poster-design/
Much better example.
stormtrooper101Aug 20, 2010
"...C’mon, Hollywood poster artists. You could at least try to be original."
"Hollywood poster artists." ???
This person is obviously well educated and very understanding to the visual communications field
joshuame505Aug 20, 2010
I'm a Graphic Designer. I know how it works. i know that the client is the one that calls the shots and sometimes leaving the Designers upset for choosing to change their designs into pieces of trash like these unoriginal posters.
The client IS the puppet because they follow what they see. The Creative Director is the one who calls the shots... if he doesn't try hard enough to convince the client that the design is stupid then by all means it's his fault. But I guess money talks ahead of art. Sure the client pays the bill, but it's still the Director's fault for going ahead with this bafoonery as shown in posters.
...
Like I said I do know how it works. And MAd men? Wtf r u talking about? Don't watch that soap opera.
seroevoAug 21, 2010
Exactly.
It's not the designers, it's everyone -except- the designers that are to blame. The art directors, executives, editors, or basically anyone with decision-making power that has absolutely no sound education or experience to justify their decisions in relation to creative or design.
Graphic design is one of those careers where for some reason, people will hire you only to turn around and use their complete lack of experience and expertise as a basis for telling the designer what to do.
It's a profession that despite being a part of our daily lives to an extent that few industries could rival, the average person knows almost nothing about it, yet acts like they're experts. Cars and mechanics is probably the closest other example, but when your mechanic tells you your car needs a new water pump, you don't tell him to leave it alone and instead replace your entire exhaust system and throw on some vinyl graphics instead as if it will fix the problem.
Closed AccountAug 20, 2010
Have you people not realized by now that pop culture means selling something that looks just like everything else? Not much room for creativity in ventures that are solely created to make money.
They're about as creative and unique as the movies themselves.
libertarianslolAug 20, 2010
Not nearly as bad as the romantic comedy poster where the two leads are learning on each other with goofy smiles while the optional comic relief is doing something wacky behind them.
thechauvinistAug 21, 2010
what's even worse, it's always matthew mcconaughey
http://dailycontributor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/matthew-mcconaughey-poster.jpg
galacticrerunAug 21, 2010
I was gonna say, I prefer this shot to numerous posters where they had to Photoshop the actors' head on someone else's bodies. Examples include 500 Days of Summer and the movie with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook.
ted516Aug 21, 2010
Was lucky to see the Drew Struzan panel at comic-con. He was a true artist when it comes to poster art
drgmdpAug 21, 2010
http://setentacien.blogia.com/temas/parecidos-razonables.php
batonryeAug 21, 2010
I N C E P C I Ó N
t1britAug 21, 2010
THE GREATEST AMERICAN MOVIE POSTERS IN THE WORLD ARE POLISH !
Check them out and be amazed : http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=USA