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FITZZ wrote:

Perkustin wrote:Funnily enough i would call that a complete FAIL of a movie poster. This little dakka experiment has proved it, ten out of 20 posters (me being one) didnt get it without looking at the URL at the bottom or reading the posts.

The graphic designer needs to be punished lol...

Just called the Missus and my Kids in ( one at a time) to look at the add...
Son saw it immediately , Missus saw it after about 10 seconds, Daughter didn't see it at all and asked if she could go watch some mermaid movie..oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

You do this... often?

purplefood wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Perkustin wrote:Funnily enough i would call that a complete FAIL of a movie poster. This little dakka experiment has proved it, ten out of 20 posters (me being one) didnt get it without looking at the URL at the bottom or reading the posts.

The graphic designer needs to be punished lol...

Just called the Missus and my Kids in ( one at a time) to look at the add...
Son saw it immediately , Missus saw it after about 10 seconds, Daughter didn't see it at all and asked if she could go watch some mermaid movie..oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

You do this... often?

Hey, I helped create two of the three people in question and let them live in my house rent free...if I want to conduct experiments concerning the effectiveness of an add campain I by god will...

FITZZ wrote:

purplefood wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Perkustin wrote:Funnily enough i would call that a complete FAIL of a movie poster. This little dakka experiment has proved it, ten out of 20 posters (me being one) didnt get it without looking at the URL at the bottom or reading the posts.

The graphic designer needs to be punished lol...

Just called the Missus and my Kids in ( one at a time) to look at the add...
Son saw it immediately , Missus saw it after about 10 seconds, Daughter didn't see it at all and asked if she could go watch some mermaid movie..oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

You do this... often?

Hey, I helped create two of the three people in question and let them live in my house rent free...if I want to conduct experiments concerning the effectiveness of an add campain I by god will...

You sound eerily like my father...
O_o

purplefood wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

purplefood wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Perkustin wrote:Funnily enough i would call that a complete FAIL of a movie poster. This little dakka experiment has proved it, ten out of 20 posters (me being one) didnt get it without looking at the URL at the bottom or reading the posts.

The graphic designer needs to be punished lol...

Just called the Missus and my Kids in ( one at a time) to look at the add...
Son saw it immediately , Missus saw it after about 10 seconds, Daughter didn't see it at all and asked if she could go watch some mermaid movie..oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

You do this... often?

Hey, I helped create two of the three people in question and let them live in my house rent free...if I want to conduct experiments concerning the effectiveness of an add campain I by god will...

You sound eerily like my father...
O_o

Maybe he is?

coolyo294 wrote:

purplefood wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

purplefood wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Perkustin wrote:Funnily enough i would call that a complete FAIL of a movie poster. This little dakka experiment has proved it, ten out of 20 posters (me being one) didnt get it without looking at the URL at the bottom or reading the posts.

The graphic designer needs to be punished lol...

Just called the Missus and my Kids in ( one at a time) to look at the add...
Son saw it immediately , Missus saw it after about 10 seconds, Daughter didn't see it at all and asked if she could go watch some mermaid movie..oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

You do this... often?

Hey, I helped create two of the three people in question and let them live in my house rent free...if I want to conduct experiments concerning the effectiveness of an add campain I by god will...

You sound eerily like my father...
O_o

Maybe he is?

Obi Frazz never told you what happened to your Father (HackGasp)..

EDIT:...I suppose a lot of us Fathers sound alike...

I didn't see it. I'd be surprised if many people in the total population did, given we're a bunch of geeks and should be better at this stuff.

That said, it's a great poster, and has worked really well precisely because a lot of people didn't see it at first, and that gets people talking. Would we have this thread if the poster was obvious?

Much easier to see when it's smaller (like you might see when walking up to the theater)...where it basically becomes a white symbol on a black background.

It's a great poster, though.

Ahtman wrote:I'm wondering if this is going to be a No Man's Land type situation where Gotham is rocked by a massive earthquake and the criminal elements us it as an opportunity to seize control. Batman, running from the law since the end of two, will have to step up and fight back to save the people and the city, ect ect.

That'll be what, the third or fourth time this decade that Gotham City has been redesigned? Actually... if this leads of a redesign of Gotham back to the Animated Series/Burton-esque Dark Deco look and away from the Chicago Skyscraper look I'm all for it!

purplefood wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:I remember reading a comic based on a Gotham where the rest of the country had sealed off the place and left it to rot and fall into anarchy (with the Police Force reduced to simply being another 'Gang' in the war). I liked it, probably becuase it was a lot grittier than any other batman comic I'd picked up.

Damn that sounds good.

That would be the previously mentioned No Man's Land story arc, which led to the redesign of Gotham City to better match the Nolan series of films.

chaos0xomega wrote:

Ahtman wrote:I'm wondering if this is going to be a No Man's Land type situation where Gotham is rocked by a massive earthquake and the criminal elements us it as an opportunity to seize control. Batman, running from the law since the end of two, will have to step up and fight back to save the people and the city, ect ect.

That'll be what, the third or fourth time this decade that Gotham City has been redesigned? Actually... if this leads of a redesign of Gotham back to the Animated Series/Burton-esque Dark Deco look and away from the Chicago Skyscraper look I'm all for it!

If the movie did have a bit from that, the earthquake, I doubt that we would see a design change outside of the city we have seen already but suffering from a natural disaster.

purplefood wrote:

Soladrin wrote:I don't get the OP...

Sol i know you're not all there sometimes but how can you miss this?

I saw it was a batman movie at first glance, what I don't get is the name of this topic....

"getting away" with a poster? Most posters suck

The "getting away with" part is being able to do something that is at first glance obscure and then suddenly obvious because of the bat symbol.

Here's another film franchise that tried something obscure, but despite the fact the franchise is fairly well known, I didn't have a clue what it was.



...it's Final Destination by the way

Soladrin wrote:"getting away" with a poster?

I don't think there's too many icons that are so well known that you can half hide it in a poster and have people go 'oh cool' when they see it.

Most posters suck

90% of everything sucks

Ahtman wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

Ahtman wrote:I'm wondering if this is going to be a No Man's Land type situation where Gotham is rocked by a massive earthquake and the criminal elements us it as an opportunity to seize control. Batman, running from the law since the end of two, will have to step up and fight back to save the people and the city, ect ect.

That'll be what, the third or fourth time this decade that Gotham City has been redesigned? Actually... if this leads of a redesign of Gotham back to the Animated Series/Burton-esque Dark Deco look and away from the Chicago Skyscraper look I'm all for it!

If the movie did have a bit from that, the earthquake, I doubt that we would see a design change outside of the city we have seen already but suffering from a natural disaster.

Considering that Gotham has been redesigned several times already over the course of the continuity as the result of major events portrayed across different media, its not out of the question. Again, No Man's Land was written to allow for a redesign of Gotham to suit the Nolan interpretation of Gotham. Prior to that was the Destroyer arc that paved the way for the Burton Gotham

FITZZ wrote: I saw the "Bat" from the go, but immediatly thought about 9/11 at the same instant...

Yea I'm not happy about the visual connection.

Frazzled wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I saw the "Bat" from the go, but immediatly thought about 9/11 at the same instant...

Yea I'm not happy about the visual connection.

Visual connection? You mean you associate every instance of collapsing buildings with 9/11?

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I saw the "Bat" from the go, but immediatly thought about 9/11 at the same instant...

Yea I'm not happy about the visual connection.

Visual connection? You mean you associate every instance of collapsing buildings with 9/11?

No you silly rabbit. You youngins. Collapsing buildings should always be associated with this epic. Look at those groundbreaking special effects!

It's a great poster, though.

Indeed. Most striking. Being filmed in Nottingham of all places, go figure.

Trailer info..

Awesome. This has reached the Good List.

Sasori wrote:I don't know how Catwoman and Bane are going to cause that much destruction, there better be someone else in the mix...

In the comics, Bane is the greatest opponent Batman ever faced. The Knightfall comics (available as a three part graphic novel series) is easily the best thing ever to come out of the Batman universe. Greater even than The Dark Knight.

Wait, how are people not seeing this instantly?







This poster is for the long-awaited sequel to 'Johhny English', correct?

Albatross wrote:

This poster is for the long-awaited sequel to 'Johhny English', correct?

One can dream.

Albatross wrote:Wait, how are people not seeing this instantly?

First I was like

This poster is for the long-awaited sequel to 'Johhny English', correct?

Then i was like....

Yea thats pretty cool, at first I didnt see it and was wondering, another 9/11 movie? Then POW! BAM!!!! ZAPOOEY!!!!! I saw it

KingCracker wrote:Yea thats pretty cool, at first I didnt see it and was wondering, another 9/11 movie? Then POW! BAM!!!! ZAPOOEY!!!!! I saw it

Did you actually say POW! BAM!!!! ZAPOOEY!!!!! when you saw it?

The poster is actually harder to recognise on a computer. If you saw it while walking down the theatre aisles, it's very clear.

I blame it on the pressure of the "instantly recognisable" but it took me about five minutes of staring and reading the first four posts to finally see it, never thought to read past coming in 2012.

I actually thought it was Independence Day 2 and thought there must be a space ship here I'm missing?

This thread is dead to me now.

Hmmm.... I wonder if I'll be able to not watch any trailers this time around. Hard when you go to the movies though.

It took me a good five minutes, mostly because I was looking at the buildings, and not the Bat Symbol. My dad came over and looked at it, saw it instantly.

Interesting.
Glasses off - its Batman!
Glasses on - I see crap falling off of buildings and Earthquake 2011!

reds8n wrote:

It's a great poster, though.

Indeed. Most striking. Being filmed in Nottingham of all places, go figure.

AND my old stomping grounds of Pittsburgh soon.

Regarding the poster (putting my advertising hat on), sometimes in advertising you want stuff that's instantly obvious and recognizable. Sometimes you want stuff that an audience has to decipher just a bit. This is an overly simplistic explanation of course, but IMO it's still a fairly accurate statement.

I think it's a great poster for what it's intended to do, which is *tease* about the next installment of a hugely successful franchise. Wait and see how the following and final movie posters will take a different approach, being more literal and selling the characters and stars involved.

I also think some might taking the crumbling buildings too literally. That looks to me to be a trope about a Gotham City on the edge of collapse. The more interesting point IMO is the bat symbol being a bright sky, which echoes the movie title and reinforces the notion of a more upbeat, hopeful ending to the series.

Now that I've seen it, I can't not see it anymore.

Much like the Fedex arrow and Bond's horrendously distended mouthhand on the N64 Goldeneye box.