binary solo said:
SuperNova said:
Except the Star Wars ones are actually well done. The second Rogue One poster especially is a Masterpiece.
Just goes to show how wrong you can go if you don't get what makes a classic a classic.
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I don't think I'd ever call a movie poster a masterpiece. And the Rogue One poster is no exception. Some movie posters become iconic because the movie itself becomes a significant piece of cinematic history. Rogue One will not be that either. Out of all the Star Wars movies only the original movie is a truly significant piece of cinematic history. And thus only the original Star Wars posters are truly iconic.
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I was talking less about the poster being iconic and more about the craftsmenship of it. The composition, lighting, coloring, where your eye gets drawn first, while still having enough real estate to put little datails. It has nothing to do with the movie for me either (haven't even seen Rogue One :P). It's just a very good Poster and I definitly think a poster can be a Masterpiece, just look at the yearly Bafta Posters for the nominees, they comission illustrators to do them and some of them are just stunning.
The fact that they are concieved for marketing purposes doesn't strip them of being art, especially when they are this well done. The man responsible for the Star Wars Posters, Drew Struzan is kind of a legend, he hand-painted every single one of the last two trilogies posters and that style still shows, even though nowadays they use photoshop. He did come out of retirement to do a sort of speed paint alternate poster for 'The force Awakens' at a con though.
