It's not really about the quality of that pic (which I agree was horrible) but even those nicer looking ones have no real context or meaning to them other than "Oh, here's a character!" They've been doing that EXACT SAME THING for every movie now--X-Men, Harry Potter, Sinbad, Over the Hedge, Pirates--soooooo sick of it!
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Yes, it's a Turtles movie. We get that part. But what kind of movie is it? What does it deal with? Yes, I realize these are "teasers", but the final poster won't have much more.
Hey, wasn't the first Harry Potter poster drawn?
That's true. It was an exception and had that Spielberg/John Williams/Star Wars vibe in how they marketed it. Really nice work.
But most of the HP posters, especially for Chamber and Azkaban, same exact thing as Turtles: "Harry", "Ron", "Hermoine", upgraded photos--nothing else. Real creative.
Not sure I follow your TMNT examples Vi... the new one is a CGI image and the 1990 version is a photo montage...??
Actually, I just meant that the old TMNT poster (IMHO, even being a photo montage, had a cool, imaginative, interesting drawn quality to it--a big city, a sewer, part of these characters you know revealed. Even with the tagline: "Hey man, this is NO cartoon" it had a neat, cartoonish quality about it. (my local theater has a lot of these old posters like Roger Rabbit, Batman Returns and '90 Turtles as well in the lobby.
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) Maybe it's just nostalgia,
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, but just showing a single character and there name is STALE, STALE, STALE!
EDIT: I saw the new group TMNT posters, and I like them a whole lot better. But in general I prefer the old one.
WJ, the Pirates poster with the group shot isn't that bad, (although none too original) but all in all, they bascially looked like this:
http://www.impawards.com/2006/pirates_o ... _ver3.html
Just Johnny. Or Kiera. Or Bloom. The truth is we do live in a very celebrity-obsessed culture.
Little Mermaid...nope, I'm right! Original release: 17 November 1989 (after a premiere on the 15th).
Re-issue: 14 November 1997. The poster you linked to promotes this 14 November release.
Sorry!!
No biggie.
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Anyway, as we've been saying....you know everything.
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We're all pretty used to it by now.
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You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!