Best Movie Poster Of 2013 (and Beyond)

[Geezer]

You know what would make that post better? Pictures of the posters you are killing.

[Buscemi]

Liked:

Godzilla: http://impawards.com/2014/godzilla_ver9.html (this one has plenty of good ones but I was talking about this one)
School Dance: http://impawards.com/2014/school_dance.html
Stage Fright: http://impawards.com/2014/stage_fright.html
Supermensch: http://impawards.com/2014/supermensch_t ... ordon.html
Visitors: http://impawards.com/2014/visitors.html
Willow Creek: http://impawards.com/2014/willow_creek_ver2.html

Hated:

Bad Words: http://impawards.com/2014/bad_words.html
Enemy: http://impawards.com/intl/misc/2014/enemy_ver3.html
Guardians of the Galaxy: http://impawards.com/2014/guardians_of_ ... _ver2.html
The Other Woman: http://impawards.com/2014/other_woman_ver3.html
Under the Skin: http://impawards.com/intl/uk/2014/under_the_skin.html (this was the one that IMP had on the file but there's an even worse poster without the color scheme)

Now, I know someone is going to say "Those posters for Visitors and Bad Words are almost the same". But Visitors' poster at least fits the film and says something through the Nietzsche quote (also, it's a Godfrey Reggio film so you should know what to expect). Bad Words is Jason Bateman's mouth with no rhyme or reason.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

That Bad Words poster was always the worst. I love the GoTG, but I suspect that emoji Other Woman poster is aimed at a very particular demo. So it would never really appeal to us.

And who knew Nick Cannon directed a movie? Huh.

[Buscemi]

The Guardians of the Galaxy poster wouldn't have been bad had it been a hand-drawn or painted poster (seeing how it is a homage to Struzan posters). But since it's a Photoshop design with excessive gold touching-up, it's a complete and utter mess.

I nearly included the other Bad Words posters (which are just as bad) but chose not to.

[JohnErle]

My favourite movie of the year so far also had my favourite poster of the year:



I also liked the brass knuckles/wedding ring poster for The Other Woman, and I thought the main poster for Bad Words was very clever and subtle. I never saw the alternate posters until today, but those leave a lot to be desired. I also think this one from The Quiet Ones has a nice design:

[Buscemi]

So maybe not all of the Bad Words posters were bad. This specially-commissioned poster actually says something about the film but it could never be displayed in a theatre due to the language.

http://impawards.com/2014/bad_words_ver5.html

One more liked poster.

The Final Member: http://impawards.com/intl/canada/2014/final_member.html (great tagline too)

More of my hated posters of 2014.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: http://impawards.com/2014/alexander_and ... d_day.html (There was nothing wrong with the book cover so why not do a real-life version of that? But of course, this looks like an in-name-only version of the book.)
Awful Nice: http://impawards.com/2014/awful_nice.html (just what the hell is going on in this poster?)
Coherence: http://impawards.com/2014/coherence_ver3.html (after the interesting teaser posters, this final poster was a cliched disappointment)
The Fluffy Movie: http://impawards.com/2014/fluffy_movie.html (Gabriel Iglesias just looks creepy here)
I Origins: http://impawards.com/2014/i_origins.html (another poster than says nothing about the film, also a poor attempt to ape the imagery of films such as Requiem for a Dream)
Sex Tape: http://impawards.com/2014/sex_tape.html (goofy-looking people and a title, that's the best they could come up with?)
That Awkward Moment: http://impawards.com/2014/that_awkward_moment.html (another poster that says nothing about the film other than who's in it, also notable for totally leaving Imogen Poots off)
Vampire Academy: http://impawards.com/2014/vampire_acade ... _ver2.html (the color scheme is good but it's lazy and features the year's worst tagline)

Meanwhile, The Giver deserves some sort of award for the laziest character posters (beating Mockingjay and Divergent, which at least put some work in). It feels like they took some color stills, desaturated the colors on 98% of the stills and called it a day. The Maleficent posters were also quite lazy (half of them seem to be the same image of Angelina Jolie and the other half seem to be Jolie behind a white background).

And last, A24 needs to fire their marketing people. They distributed Enemy and Under the Skin (two posters I listed on the worst list) and gave absolutely no marketing to The Rover. The last one may have been more of a studio decision but damn, they really do not know how to package a movie.

[Chienfantome]

Well I like the posters for Enemy. And I liked those for Spring Breakers.
I'll need to check what are my favourite posters of the year so far...

[numbersix]

Agreed. Those enemy posters are excellent.

[JohnErle]

I just wanted to stick this here so I don't forget about it at the end of the year. I have zero interest in the movie, which is why I'll probably forget what a great poster this is.

[Buscemi]

I liked that poster when it was the teaser poster for The Mechanic.

http://impawards.com/2011/mechanic.html

[JohnErle]

I remember that poster from The Mechanic. It's a very cool design, and they both obviously use similar techniques, but to greatly different effect. One glorifies violence, and the other makes you think about the role of violence in American society.

[Buscemi]

I don't know. I think The Purge glorifies violence as much as The Mechanic does. The target audience tends to be violence-loving teenagers who love to talk about how they wish The Purge was real. If a movie like that was trying to condemn violence, they failed miserably.

[JohnErle]

This thread is about the posters, not the movies, so my comment was obviously about the poster, not the movie, which I already said I haven't seen. Maybe the movie does glamourize violence, which is another reason I like that poster. It seems like the ad agency snuck a subversive poster past everybody.

[Buscemi]

Well, I was saying that things can be subjective. What one may see as subversive, another may see as "Cool, violence!" or "Hollywood's finally supporting the Second Amendment". Ad agencies had tried to be subversive for years now but it rarely works as the creator will see one thing but the audience will get another.

It's a lot like a play that I saw a while back called Venus in Fur (which was adapted into a film by Roman Polanski) at the university I attend. Many saw the play as feminist but I found it anti-feminist due to its poor character development of the female character (compared to the male character, who gets a lot of character development) and the fact that the character ended up becoming a tired militant stereotype instead of a feminist figure that felt true. When I expressed this opinion, I was told that I didn't get it and I shouldn't complain because it won awards.

But maybe I didn't see a good performance of that play (I knew the director of this performance and he is a complete misogynist in real life, basically trashing women and saying bitch in most of his conversations).

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Well, I was saying that things can be subjective. What one may see as subversive, another may see as "Cool, violence!" or "Hollywood's finally supporting the Second Amendment". Ad agencies had tried to be subversive for years now but it rarely works as the creator will see one thing but the audience will get another.

It's a lot like a play that I saw a while back called Venus in Fur (which was adapted into a film by Roman Polanski) at the university I attend. Many saw the play as feminist but I found it anti-feminist due to its poor character development of the female character (compared to the male character, who gets a lot of character development) and the fact that the character ended up becoming a tired militant stereotype instead of a feminist figure that felt true. When I expressed this opinion, I was told that I didn't get it and I shouldn't complain because it won awards.

But maybe I didn't see a good performance of that play (I knew the director of this performance and he is a complete misogynist in real life, basically trashing women and saying bitch in most of his conversations).

Dude, if anyone told me "I didn't get" something because I had a different opinion, I would tell them to fuck off so hard.