Comments on: The Posters Came From The Walls

By: Destiny Gockley

Destiny Gockley — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:48:32 +0000

So many tattoos to choose from. I search the net looking for the best pictures! Great site!

By: David Earl

David Earl — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:41:27 +0000

With that font, the Bounty Hunter poster just looks like a magazine cover. Maybe that's the point.

I don't think the SatC 2 poster is so bad, though – it's only meant to be a teaser, it does the job.

The generic ones churned out for Judd Apatow's movies are far worse. Being boring is a bigger sin than dodgy photoshopping imo. I mean, what the hell is this:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/11/13/judd-apatows-...

By: Lim Salt

Lim Salt — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:34:54 +0000

Good shout. The Man On Wire one is esp great.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:35:14 +0000

For all the crap out there (and i agree with everything that has been said), there are people like all city making amazing posters… http://www.allcitymedia.com/, check them out and regain your faith in the poster

By: delarge

delarge — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:52:21 +0000

Good write up. I agree 100% posters today are 95% shite! There are a few exceptions but on the whole they are usually horrible guff. Olly Moss's (as linked above) – simplistic styles are really great. We all realise there are people out there who can't make a decision without a big hollywood head grinning back at them and films like Big Fish bomb because there's no stars on the poster.
But the creative edge has disappeared in te last 10+ years.

Personally I grew up with Drew Struzan posters and to me that old drawing style is still unbeaten. Even the cheesey stuff like Police Academy and Vacation are up there as great artwork posters for me.

I did a feature about posters on my site (apologies for the shameless plug, but it's relevent and LWL are plugged there too)

http://www.casualco.com/arthouse.html

By: Zuko

Zuko — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:31:01 +0000

This man is behind it all: http://tiny.cc/0XBnC

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:11:36 +0000

A friend of mine told me he's been driving past billboards and bus shelter posters for this for weeks without any knowledge of the film. At a glance he thought Hugh Grant had done an Eddie Murphy and that SJP was actually just Grant in a wig.

By: Marie F

Marie F — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:25:54 +0000

actually this poster is a lot smarter than given credit for, they are in fact hiding out in Sarah Jessica Parker's hair parting, you can tell by how dry her hair roots are. In fact if you zoom in on her scalp you can see their gormless mugs repeated into infinity.

By: Harris Thomas

Harris Thomas — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:01:19 +0000

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/10/15/did-you-hea...

-ugh-

even they can't comprehend the banality

By: Harris Thomas

Harris Thomas — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:40:17 +0000

haha good spot