Thoughts I Had... While Looking at 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Poster
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 7:02PM Thoughts I had while looking at the Age of Ultron Poster as they come to me...
Wow, that's ugly! And since this movie would make a billion dollars even if they advertised with a giant stinky turd as the poster, you'd think they could be a little more creative. You can get away with anything, Marvel, so make it count. Revive the art of the movie poster... it's not like you don't know the important of a good "cover" for your comic books.
And don't make it so obvious that Samuel L Jackson is bored of his role.
Where's Drew Struzan when you need him? His posters could assemble multiple characters, amplify their already potent iconography, be fun and beautiful all at once. If you love poster art of the 1980s, you should consider buying his coffee table book.
Who knew that the Black Widow was a fan of Tron: Legacy ?
You can see The Vision floating up near the top. They let him keep that bright yellow cape though we don't know if his skin will be red and his costume green. Seems unlikely. That's a lot of primary colors for a movie! I don't know why but I now equate his relationship with The Scarlet Witch to with Doctor Manhattan & Silk Spectre so if there's not a CGI generated scene co-starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany with a bright red penis, I'm going to be disappointed.
Thor is about to hammer Captain America [ahem]
I hope the robots made of pixels have more character than those nameless alien pixels they battled at the end of the first movie.
I miss The Leftovers (I'm not the only one who was reminded of this). Come back Carrie & Justin
OMG remember The Rapture (1991)? Mimi Rogers was so amazing in that movie and it seems like no one has seen it. My Oscar nominees that year woulda been Foster/Davis/Sarandon/Rogers/Dern with apologies to The Bening! (What? It always comes back to best actress.)
Reader Comments (10)
Where's Spider-Man? Do you think they had time to cram him in the movie somewhere? 10 bucks says yes
What's up with the fishbowl effect of people floating in the sky? This poster reminds me of the dentist's office!
The Midler?
There's no getting around how ugly this thing is: Way too cluttered and unimaginative.
That is one ugly mess
That poster is beyond terrible.
This Avengers poster looks like a bad The Asylum movie knock-off that is heading straight to DVD when Age of Ultron comes out in theaters.
Heyyy, no female with their ass to the camera, so that's one win over the previous poster already.
Top 5 Marvel Studios Posters, Features, One-Shots OR TV.
5. Netflix Daredevil, Double D. It's a blow-up of the only moment where the Ben Affleck Daredevil was almost cool and leads me to hope that they know what they have to fix as well as what to keep for this new adaptation.
4. Ant-Man, Negative Space. Cheeky gag poster that plays on the, on the surface, unimpressive nature of his powers. Good job.
3. Agent Carter, Trash Mag. Well executed homage to old-school pulp for a series that's significantly deeper than that idea implied.
2. Guardians of the Galaxy, You're Welcome. That poster, more than anything, was what made me want to see what they were brewing up. It kind of wound up being a mix of that and the generic space pulp second poster, but I was still satisfied.
1. The Incredible Hulk, Duality. I wish the movie were as incisive as this poster implies, but the movie was actually the most flavourless part of the entire MCU experiment. Yes, that includes early Agents of Shield and Iron "Gotta advertise like mad" Man 2.
Bottom 5:
5. Guardians of the Galaxy, Space Pulp. Yeah, when you're coming off the high of that snarky, self-deprecating "You're welcome" poster and you follow it up with a generic celebration of battle scenes, that's disappointing.
4. Agents of Shield: Uprising, Trust No One. Not terrible, and it'll probably not wind up one of their worst, but still nowhere near the best or, yet, the middle.
3. Thor, 4 heads above. The "The God of Thunder" single face wasn't exactly interesting in terms of visual composition, but it's not as saccharine and busy as this one.
2. The Avengers, The Heat of Battle. If you feel the need to fit seven characters in the heat of battle in a real city onto a single poster? Get a Struzan or someone, because, otherwise, you're going to compound the already busy concept with lackluster photoshop and a composition that could probably be drawn by Rob Liefeld.
1. The Avengers: Age of Ultron, What the Bleep is Going On. Yeah, if The Avengers was their weakest poster up to this point, they've "topped" themselves with a poster that's so busy that they don't even look like they're standing on anything. So, yeah, this could probably also be drawn by Rob Liefeld.
Yup. Hideous.
And RAPTURE is excellent.