Of course, we have plenty of modern stuff as well. Most notable is the newly-released international poster for TRON: Legacy, that gives us a real up-close look as Jeff Bridges as an aged Kevin Flynn. Homeboy's got a disc! Watch out!
Another standout is the new poster for The Goon, the upcoming animated film based on the Dark Horse comic series. I also really dig the poster for I'm Still Here, that Joaquin Phoenix doc(mock?)umentary that I only tangentially care about. Sometimes I like the posters better than the movies. It happens.
I'm sure someone is super stoked for these Battle: Los Angeles teaser posters, depicting evidence of alien invasion plans over the years, leading up to the aforementioned battle for L.A. Me? I think it's a slightly weak campaign. Doesn't really do a lot to tell me what I'm in for with the movie, or why I should care about it. Maybe that's just me, though.
Rounding out the list are a new international poster for Buried, the latest poster for Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, a slightly better new poster for M. Night Shyamalan's Devil, and an absurdly colorful one-sheet for Enter the Void (a movie I know nothing about, but sure do like the art for!)
What do you all think? Favorites? Non-favorites? Tell us in the comments!
Ah, just realized there's more to that picture than the gun.
Also...I want that Dirty Harry poster...like now!
Sorry. My favorite movie ever. It always has the best posters too.
Sort of generic looking.
Cool posters though.
Their color pallets are jarring (Blues Brothers), awkward (The majority of the Dirty Harry poster), or just draw unflattering comparisons ( the color combined with the sense of the hight makes the Rocky Poster look too much like the classic Vertigo poster).
Beyond that, the designs elements are slightly... off. The Rocky poster, while giving us a take on a classic scene in the film, makes it look like Rocky is running AWAY. Despite the shadow on the ground, it looks like our hero is tiny, and it feels like a suspense/horror poster. Dirty Harry's face is too faint and ill defined - and beyond that, Moss' style isn't good for faces. The minimal, angular take on what should be detail breaks down the subtle iconography he's usually so good at and makes cartoons out of them.
And Robocop, which should have been a slam dunk, because... ROBOCOP... ends up being the weirdest of the bunch. He combines three elements into one - the visor, the gun, and the negative space of the poster - in a way that's awkward. Incorporating the gun into the visor is fine, but by making it part of the black shadow it gives the viewer the impression that there should be more in that shape, that we should be looking for something and there's nothing there. It's distracting and too clever for its own good.
So yeah, dude needs to step up his game a little bit. Moss has done some amazing work (his Evil Dead poster, all his A Life Well Wasted posters, his Locke poster from the first LOST show), but these are messy. This whole minimalist reinterpretation/revival thing (which he largely kicked off) has been played out and ruined by the folk with nothing more than deviantart accounts. He's better than that, but this particular work isn't.
-Casey-