Thoughts on three new posters as they came to me after the jump...
GOAT
• Beer-boarding? It's a striking image and those are smart for posters. Good poster if uninspired compositionally.
• "Full Metal Jacket meets Animal House?" blurb. That sounds unpleasant and tonally schizophrenic
• Ben Schnetzer is dead to me after Warcraft so hopefully this rescucitates my love for him post-Pride.
• I was neither raised on the Disney Channel nor a teenager when the Jonas Brothers arrived so I have never understood the Nick Jonas thing. My first exposure to him was on SMASH. True story. LOL. But I loved that episode. Also when I saw him perform on --was it the Grammys? it was some music awards show? -- recently I was really put off. Is he always grimace-singing like he cant open his mouth lest saliva pour out? In short (too late) he's not for me even though I appear to be at least adjacent to his target audience since he's always courting the gays.
• It's come to this: the name James Franco on movie posters is an active turnoff now.
• Does GOAT stand for Greatest of All Time or does it have some other meaning her? I haven't read any reviews.
• When I first heard about this movie I thought of that Swedish Oscar nominee in the Aughts.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
• I hope this looks more like Cinderella than Into the Woods but anything dark and bluish worries me as that so often signifies: muddy and dark cinematography ahead! (Or at least blue & teal cinematography ahead -- slightly preferrable but not by much). I get why they went with this image for the teaser but it's very very expected.
• Is the rose going to be CGI? Nathaniel wept. Real flowers are just not hard to come by.
• Beauty and the Beast is one of the only two or three Broadway shows I ever walked out of at intermission. It was amateur hour where all the actors just mimic'ed all the line readings from the animated classic like we were in someone's giant dark living room with uncomfortable seats watching the DVD on loop. Blargh. This reminds me of that classic Cats joke in Six Degrees of Separation:
You said it was an all time low in a lifetime of theatre going. You said, "Aeschylus did not invent the theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids in cat suits prancing around wondering which of them will go to kitty-cat heaven."
• I'm trying not to be excited about this movie because it might be terrible but I want it to be great because the casting seems so very promising although I would have been much happier to see Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who is classically musical-theater trained, switching parts with Emma Watson (who isn't).
• March 17th. Which Oscar wins will we still be praising and bemoaning as it opens?
• The great Jacqueline Durran (Atonement, Vera Drake) on costumes. Both of Disney's live action retells (Maleficent & Cinderella) have been nominated in that category at the Oscars... and only that category. Can Beauty & The Beast break out bigger with AMPAS?
LIGHT BETWEEN THE OCEANS
• "Love Demands Everything" -- not sure what to do with that.
• This poster is so beige, it could be Nancy Meyers fan art.
• Should I read the book? Have you?
• Alicia and Michael have the exact same color hair.