This week in This Week In Posters, we begin with this series of Black Panther character posters. These are all pretty badass, and maybe the most impressive thing about them is that they could come up with 11 different variations on the “his/her ____’s _____” construction.
[all posters via IMPA]
Hmm, I don’t really know what those rings are. Weapons? I assume weapons.
Everyone seems to be holding weapons. That makes sense. But what’s the background? Are they in a smoky room? A misty forest?
Only the white guys (the “Tolkien white guys,” as has been noted) don’t get weapons. That’s a nice twist.
These posters are all pretty badass, but I think this one might be the baddest assest. I would totally wear fur trying to look like this guy and ruin it.
Is that… a ram’s horn? Is that also a weapon? I guess the last guy didn’t have a weapon either so my whole theory is shot. All I’m saying is, if someone is using a ram’s horn as a weapon I want to know about it.
*riiipppp sound effect*
Is the “torn down the middle” poster style the visual equivalent of a record scratch? Also there seems to be a slight breeze blowing through that locker room. Must be nice.
Oh finally, a zombie thing. Not enough zombie things, I always say.
Hey look, it’s a Deadpool 2 Thanksgiving poster. It’s cool that they trusted us to know that without putting the title on it. And I’m all for a Stan Lee cameo in the poster if that means there doesn’t have to be one in the movie. We get it, Stan Lee.
I love this. Before this poster, I’d nearly forgotten that it’s possible for animation to depict people without Dreamworks/CalArts faces.
“Okay, so we need a really good pun for this Ferdinand poster. We did the teaser, we did the heartwarmer, and now we need a really good pun for the novelty poster. Any ideas?”
“…anyone?”
“How about ‘bullieve?'”
“Is that ‘bull’ and ‘believe?’ I don’t know, it seems like a stretch. Anyone got anything else?”
“…anyone?”
“…”
“Hey, I’m pretty hungry. What were you guys thinking for lunch?”
This Game Night poster reminds me of that time-lapse sequence from Idiocracy where “Fuddrucker’s” slowly turns into “ButtF*ckers” as people get too dumb to understand subtext. I mean this literally just says “OH F*CK” on it. That’s not even a play on words.
Here’s another version. Okay, I take back what I said about the OH F*CK poster, this one is way worse. I didn’t realize that the other option was going to be a stock photo of dice with a crappy font overlaid.
Does this lame-ass circus even have any animals? Where are the elephants and stuff? No way this is going to be as good as Water For Elephants where the elephant gets loose and eats all the Italian guy’s cabbage. “Mamma mia, thees-a granissima elephant gonna anna eat-em-up all Guiseppe’s a-cabbage! Who-a gonna pay-a for-a alla thees-a cabbage? Now a-mama canna make-a no pizza pie!”
Childhood fears never end! They’re a lot like horror franchises in that way.
“Deal with her.”
At first, I thought this was a reference to a Sorkinism, but then I realized “deal with it” isn’t a Sorkinism. At least, not in the same way “Ya think?!?” is a Sorkinism. In any case, Aaron “Ya Think?!” Sorkin and Jessica “the motherf*cker who found him, sir” Chastain seems like the perfect match. I just wish Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba had been wearing different colored suits in this so I could tell who was who. That’s a lot of navy.
Yikes. I feel like they should’ve maybe led with “the first documentary directed by an active duty soldier” and not with the dog tags-turning-into-doves thing.
I wish we could replace Dreamworks face with Paddington face. Instead of being rakishly confident, he’s cautiously optimistic. Much more charming.
Uh… I feel like they didn’t really think this poster through. If you just look at the rabbit part, he looks like a Playgirl centerfold or subway flasher with the bottom half cropped out. And that’s before we even note that he’s lying on a bed of phallic symbols and is named after a penile euphemism. This Summer… it’s DICKS! DICKS! and more DICKS! Fun for the whole family.
There seems to be a gun filled with faceless children growing out of this unrecognizable man’s face. He should see someone about that.
That’s a lot of steps. The steps sort of look like redacted lines of text. Was that the point? It hardly matters. If you’ve got Streep, Hanks, and Spielberg’s names all on the same poster, it’s a good call not to show too much. This is a poster that says “We don’t need to beg.”
If you’ve got a bunch of unevocative images, squeezing them all into one poster doesn’t suddenly make them evocative. Why do so many indie comedy posters do this?
“Glowing Text” is the new “Big Yellow Text.” Who was the original with this? It reminds me of Drive, but they didn’t actually use it in the Drive posters. It was definitely in Murder On The Orient Express, but I don’t think that was the first. Anyway, I’m not tired of it yet. This looks like a life-affirming good time, in which soaring music will play.
Look, one man’s opinion, but I feel like a movie about swinging should have shorter shirts, smaller tops, and bulgier crotches.