Posters Should Be Seen and Not Heard. And Other Grievances.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:07PM 
So Annoying! Let it be known: I'm not going to post the leaked teaser to The Amazing Spider-Man. I didn't even watch it despite it popping up everywhere. I don't understand the internet fascination with getting everything before you're supposed to even if that means crappy quality fuzziness. Why spoil a first view with a bad copy of something?
So Annoying Part 2! That Hunger Games motion poster that everyone is posting. I opted to just screengrab it for y'all because it's so NOISY. At one point with all the windows I open up when I'm working it sounded like my whole apartment was on fire and it's already hot enough up in here.
In addition to setting your computer aflame virtually -- thus denying you marshmallows to make up for it -- the poster counts down the days until the movie opens which will unfortunately NOT put an end to the constant publicity and internet jabbering about it since it's going to be a quadrilogy or something and if Harry Potter taught us anything it's that the world likes television more than the movies and would like the movies to just become television series with new seasons lasting 2 1/2 hours opening for as many years in a row as possible. The minute that Season One of The Hunger Games opens people will just start speculating about Season Two of the Hunger Games.
Y'all know I love the movie posters and anything Hollywood can do to liven them up is appreciated. Only please do so very quietly. Like you're in the library. Or a church. The Holy Church of The Cinema.
The movies aren't silent anymore but posters still should be.
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Reader Comments (6)
I'm glad you're taking a stand against this Hunger Games over-pre-hype. I swear, I'll be done with it before it even begins. And if it's a shit movie in the end, what a waste of massive build-up and continuing endless future dread.
I'm surprised people watch fuzzy leaked trailers at all. Can they not wait for the whole two days it takes for them to make their way to youtube in HD or apple.com? Especially for a reboot for a series that ended less than five years ago? UGH.
so, are you supposed to be a reviewer of some sort or just some loser who has to complain about everything you dislike?
@JSmith1
I'm surprised you take the time to read his blog and comment, then :)
@Nathaniel
I definitely agree with you that leaked teasers/trailers are annoying and usually take the magic out of a good trailer. Still, I do love The Hunger Games animated poster, but that's probably because I just read the book and thought it was a good young adult novel that could transfer quite well to the screen (if they don't censor all the violence).
Complaining loser? Hmm? He's not like Yahtzee (or Linkara.) People like things and dislike things. He mentions things he likes fairly often. High commercial cinema can be great (coughLOTRcough), but, due to having to hit the greatest number of people, it can often be stale, forgettable and generic (personally...coughAvatarcough). And of COURSE Hunger Games is going to be CRAP. It's directed by The Guy Who Did Seabiscuit. And so he has two problems: 1. He could be rusty. 2. He wasn't good when he WASN'T rusty. I'd say: At BEST, expect an AVERAGE movie. MAYBE a BIT better than Seabiscuit.
I read the book - the first one. and I have to admit the casting seems impressive.
As for the poster - it's out. it's cool.
As for the poster style - OH MY GOD! it's going to start a new trend, now everyone's going to do this. just the same with 3D. i hope i'm wrong on that front.
also it didn't work on my itouch, so i had to fire up my laptop to see what all the fuss was about. so yes, this new trend of posters with sound, needs to vanish into thin air.
"The Holy Church of The Cinema"
I like that.