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  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If you ask me, all movie posters should be paintings. Photoshopping the actors over a background just feels like such a goddamn afterthought.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Personally, while I find the Dune poster here a bit bland, I would say that that painting isn't really much better. It's still a really similar kind of composition, characters take up a large part of the frame and the setting of the movie is also very present. It feels more like a flashy way to present the movie's important visual stuff and characters they might recognize to the audience rather than a really artistic representation of the movie. Maybe it's a bad analogy but it's kind of like the difference between an a billboard and a mural, where that kind of painted poster is just a more artsy billboard.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You kidding? Look at Luke's pecs! And Leia's clingy and revealing dress! Hundreds of starfighters are swooping up towards the Death Star, while Darth Vader looms overhead! I guess we're just focusing on different things, because I would say that the compositions are completely different.

        Not to say that a movie studio couldn't do something interesting with Photoshop, it just seems to me that "overlap production photos of the actors" is the default.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah you're right, the painted poster does have more going on. I guess composition isn't the right word, it's more like someone made a rule book to how you should make a movie poster stating that you have to include at least 3 characters, a view of any IP you plan to make into merch, and the setting of the movie. Very few posters deviate from that formula.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I mean I'm just saying I don't like it, no need to read into it any further than that.

      • spicymangos51 [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Ill admit I do like when a theater gives you a poster for a movie or some item about the movie

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This and it's part of the contract deal. Billing is really important and most actors want their face in the poster.

        This is why they always have the "special edition" that comes out later with better art.

  • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Wouldn't a better poster be Paul standing on a dune while a big ass Sand-Worm blows out of the desert in the background? That like, does a better job telling what the story is about.

  • Galari [he/him,love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    This film looks so unispired design wise. A shame as the weird cover art was a big reason I liked the books as a kid.

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      The designs have looked OK, not spectacular, but I'm always hesitant to infer too much from trailers and posters. That said, a realistic look can work if done right, and it doesn't look like they're falling into "dark and gritty" territory.

      Of course,

      spoiler

      Give me my David Lynch vagina mouth Guild navigators hotboxing spice tanks and ejaculating space folding all day, every day

    • mars [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Same, maybe I'm fickle but I lost a lot of hype when I saw the first set photos. Probably a reach, but I feel like the influence of the marvel algorithm-aesthetic killed off a lot of visual creativity in the summer blockbuster.

  • flowernet [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    if you're ever in Turin, the cinema museum (it used to be a giant synagogue) has an amazing collection of Cuban movie posters, many of them for movies you'd recognize, and all of them are imaginative and striking.