Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: Is This The Official Poster?

Friday, December 9, 2011

Is This The Official Poster?

Because the guy on the wall sucks. It's looks like poorly done claymation. Gotta be fan produced. Not bad for a ten year old.

6 comments:

Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: Maybe so, but I do think the idea of casting the spider shadow symbol is clever. In incorporates an easily identifiable symbol with the human element even if the protagonist is hidden by shadow. It also shows that this is a man who can crawl on walls, something that is unique to the character. I think this is more a teaser poster meant to build hype.

This may not be a great poster but it tells me more of a story than say the teaser for "Superman Returns" with just the S Shield on a solid static background.; December 9, 2011 at 7:40 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: Are you old enough to remember the GHOSTBUSTERS symbol. It was out there for weeks with no trailer and little else about the movie availiable. Before the internet.; December 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: Yes Kal. I remember Ghostbusters. I understand the marketability of symbols. The original Ghostbusters poster also had a list of recognizable names for box office draw and combined with the beautifully minimalist symbol (that we had never seen before) inspired mystery and anticipation about what the film would be.

I'm just saying that with all the reboots, reimaginings and revivals just slapping something familiar onto a poster like Jason Vorhee's Hockey Mask, The Starfleet Arrowhead, or Superman's Shield and doing nothing else but giving a release date is really getting under my skin.

This poster and the poster "Dark Knight Rises" are made by people with some imagination and creativity working on them, who take the character's iconic symbols and build on to them in order to develop an actual atmosphere.; December 9, 2011 at 9:09 PM
Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...: I hear you. I am pretty sick of any remake news. The latest is AMERICAN PSYCHO. Unbelievable. Set yourselves up to fail by trying to make a movie with that kind of surprise and impact and expecting the same success is a form of insanity. I hope every single remake fails.; December 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Erik Johnson Illustrator said...: Its funny you should say that because I was thinking about all the remakes that I actually liked, and surprising there were quite a few. (Excluding American remakes of European Films)

The Fly, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob and even the new Karate Kid. These remakes may vary on the quality scale and in some cases the original may still be superior but these are remakes are generally good in my opinion.

Each seems to follow the same seemingly impossible formula: Make your film as different from the original as you can, while still holding on to the elements from that original film to earn the title.

For example, "An American Werewolf in London" is the exact same film as "The Wolf Man". The only difference is the forty year gap between the two. In fact "American" is a better remake of the The Wolf Man than the actual 2010 remake since it honors the spirit of the original.

Something I actually would have like to have seen remade was the '50s horror movie "The Tingler" which was ahead of its time with the "Body Horror" Subgenre but was chained down my content restrictions of the time. I find it hard to believe that in the 1980s when The Fly and The Thing and other 50s B Movies were being updated to accommodate buckets of blood that "The Tingler" wasn't at the top of the list. Now that we've had three remakes of "Body Snatchers", and "Thing" remake disguised as a prequel and rumors of new Blob and Fly remakes, can we please freshen up something new?; December 9, 2011 at 10:16 PM
Kelly Sedinger said...: F*** this movie. The mere idea that we gotta sit through Peter getting bitten again, Uncle Ben getting shot again, etc., is just irritating as hell.; December 10, 2011 at 8:49 AM

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