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The new poster sucks...again

posted 5 years ago by TreeShaman (806)
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All of the Daniel Craig movies have had terrible posters. They are just a picture of him with the name of the film. All of the previous Bond films up until the end of the Brosnan era always had colourful and interesting posters which provided some hints about the plot. Once again we have the same dark, minimalist crap from Eon.

The Daniel Craig film posters have also inaccurately represented the theme or plot of the film. The Casino Royale poster is too dark in tone. The QoS poster makes the desert location seem more important than it is. The Skyfall poster is completely meaningless and empty. And the Spectre poster gives the false impression that the skeleton day of the dead theme is of critical importance to the plot when it is actually a very minor detail that is only in the pre-title scene.

All I can tell from looking at this new poster is that James Bond will wear a suit and there will be a blue wall at some point in the film. Great to know.

The poster is here: https://www.007.com/first-poster-for-no-time-to-die/

[–] bozo_500 (13105) 5 years ago

its just the teaser poster like the way LTK had this:
http://www.impawards.com/1989/posters/license_to_kill_ver1.jpg

but yeh most of the Craig posters have been pretty awful. I think the best was probably CR him at the table (also a teaser poster)
http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/casino_royale.jpg

also the IMAX Skyfall was pretty cool in a minimalist arty way
http://www.impawards.com/2012/posters/skyfall_ver9.jpg

[–] jasonbourne (1027) 5 years ago

I liked the Skyfall virtual posters -- http://fr.web.img4.acsta.net/newsv7/14/05/07/15/24/370971.gif Maybe that's the way they'll advertise in the near future.

[–] TreeShaman (806) 5 years ago

If I remember correctly, the LTK posters were changed at the last minute because the name of the film was changed or something like that, so that's why those posters were more minimalist than every other Bond film before it.

The CR poster is way too dark and gloomy. I don't think it represents the film very well.

I want to see a return to the old illustrated posters from the Connery and Moore eras.

[–] janelsenor (2044) 5 years ago

That LTK poster is awesome. Love the tagline....

[–] ivankyazze (182) 5 years ago

Yeah I agree. The teaser poster looks boring and dry. You can tell it was rushed. Even ‘Spectre’ had a better teaser poster where Daniel Craig is wearing the black turtleneck outfit from Roger Moore’s ‘Live and Let Die’ which made me so hyped. So yeah the teaser poster is disappointing.

[–] TandyMan (11096) 5 years ago

The simple black and white poster still up on the page here with just the words is a better poster.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I miss the days when they had actual artists creating posters.

Now they look like they were photoshopped by some intern. Compare No Time to Die to this:

https://i.etsystatic.com/18324742/r/il/325529/1691280371/il_1588xN.1691280371_jp7x.jpg

[–] bozo_500 (13105) 5 years ago

i think most of the teaser posters for previous Bond films (i mean Moore, Dalton, Bros) were pretty minimalist like Craigs teaser posters are - just Bond in a pose sometimes even just a photo.. but their main movie poster 'one sheets' they had were great artwork, classic 007 pose, surrounded by women, lots of stuff going on, lots of characters around, lots of references to various scenes. however Craigs main movie posters continued with the minimalist 'teaser' design - just craig standing there.. maybe with another character

for the NTTD main 'one sheet' they should go back to the style of the Moore/Dalton/Brosnan main movie posters - that artwork 'kitchen sink' approach (they should've done it for the 50th ann anyway)

[–] FilmBuff (7234) 5 years ago

Really? Talk about a messy poster. I'll take the modern, minimalism of the new teaser over that cut and paste nightmare.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The new poster looks like someone's senior class photo.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Craig doesn't even look handsome. Sigh.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Yeah, but that would take effort. The Connery/Moore posters were by far the best, For Your Eyes Only is my fave. Craig ones are so boring, just like the actor.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 5 years ago

What ever happened to movie posters? Whatever happened to setting the tone and vibe of a film with a visually distinctive image?

[–] TreeShaman (806) 5 years ago

They are setting the tone: boring.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

There is no longer a thriving graphics deslgn and illustration industry with classically trained artists and graphic designers. It's all done by kids fresh out of school who learned how to Photoshop. I went to art school in the 1990s, and it's just shocking how far these industries have fallen because of computer graphics and the internet. It's like there's no such thing as craft anymore. It all boils down to finding a photograph and slapping some text onto it. I don't any one of these kids knows who Milton Glaser or Andrew Loomis were.