Salem's Lot 1979 and Salem's Lot 2024
Happy Halloween everybody! Julie's working late and the boy doesn't have school tomorrow so he's heading to one of those crazy f...
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(2007) * First of all let me say that as far as I could tell there are absolutely no dead teenagers in this entire film. Every year just ...
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I actually don't like this at all.
All the current (last ten years or so) Star Wars print graphics have been bad. The posters, the DVD boxes...all bad. It's either those cheeseball paintings by that guy who did all the Indy posters (whose style is perfect for those movies but not for Star Wars or its this new style of crude photomontage with lurid glowlines around each element.
The original posters (with the old-style 1970s montage paintings, like the one that has Han and Leia posed like Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler) are great. The VHS boxes that picked up that motif were great too. But this new stuff is awful. My $0.02
And no, I'm not in a bad mood!
Damn, I never know what's going to honk Jordan off!
I like imagining Vincent Price saying "...honk Jordan off!"
Jordan scares me more than Mr. Price!
I agree 100%. The artwork on the DVD boxes for Episodes 4-6 were a complete waste of time. Why wouldn't they just use the original, superior art?
At least there's no Jar Jar!
No Jar Jar; you're right! Ten points just for that.
I have a very high standard for graphic design stuff (being a designer myself etc). I drove the art department at Simon & Schuster nuts when they were designing my book cover etc. I was their worst nightmare: an author who actually knows about typography etc. and won't butt out.
But I'm in good company: Unexpected font geeks include Stephen Soderburgh (who names the fonts in the credits to Solaris, in the commentary) and, um, Sting.
In a way I agree with JPX's initial tag of "cool" just because it's kind of neat to see elements from six movies mishmashed together like that. It appeals to my love of complete sets, but that appeal fades pretty quickly.
Jordan's right, the photo montage w/ glowlines formula is crap. And the choices here are lame. Where's the looming background Darth Vader helmet? Oh, I see, we only get half of one along with Hayden Christiansen's face.
Who's that random rebel pilot off to the left? He's flying a snowspeeder in Empire, right? Why is his head so big you can fit the ENTIRE image of Han Solo inside of it? Or the image of BOTH droids?
At least Jar Jar and the Ewoks are presented as symmetrical elements, as if to say "we are the lame aliens of this trilogy! Helloooo!"
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