Poster Roundup – Green Lantern,Transformers,Melancholia, Sleeping Beauty & At Stranger Tides

Quite a few posters have been released this week and all of them are pertaining to films arriving in the next few months or so.

Starting with Green Lantern, it’s a film that’s come under some criticism whether its for its visuals, tone or the general quality of the marketing materials that have been put out. Personally I’m intrigued as I have been since the film was announced although I am put of by the mythology of it. It definitely is something that we haven’t seen in the superhero realm and as I’ve said in previous posts on the Green Lantern I’m hoping that Goldeneye/Zorro Martin Campbell turns up. If not then the marriage between the more comedy elements and what looks like being huge sci-fi elements may not fit. Still as the film comes ever closer I’m willing to give it a chance especially as I’m reading some Green Lantern comics and trying to get a sense of this universe. The first poster is from Yahoo Movies.

And here is the banner released by MTV movies featuring the Green Lantern Corp. I bet you can’t guess them all (I certainly can’t). Click to enlarge or view separately.

With this poster we have Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia and like the trailer I’m struggling to find the words to describe it. Its clean and sparse but it gives me even less information than the trailer did. It certainly looks striking enough and there’s a simplicity to it even if the poster doesn’t scream ‘end of the world’. It looks more like an invitation.

From one film with arthouse aspirations to another. Sleeping Beauty, by first time director Julia Leigh (who wrote the screenplay) and backed up with Jane Campion Presents (I’m not sure how much weight her name will give the film beyond the arthouse crowd) it looks like the rarest of things in cinema at the moment – a film with female talent both in front of and behind the camera. I posted the first trailer a few weeks ago and its followed up by this poster which is both revealing and suggestive. Its not often you see films put sexuality front and centre, especially when its about a woman who enters the world of prostitution.

Back to the blockbusters we have Transformers and Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides (x2). Rather standard posters these ones although Shia does look a little confused and dishevelled (not to mention dirty). Pirates also showcases the “attributes” of double barrelled actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey (who has both Spanish and French heritage). I can’t say I’m too interested in these films but I’m always willing to give them a chance although they both really have to redeem themselves after their rather wasteful efforts last time.

Thoughts on the Super Bowl Trailers

I’m not much of American football fan myself, living in the UK we don’t get a lot of coverage on the NFL so the American Football (or Hand-egg) is usually out of sight, out of mind. That is until the Super Bowl rolls around and we’re inundated with reports on THE GREATEST SPORTING EVENT IN THE WORLD (/sarcasm). It gets even worse as since I live in the UK all those trailers that studios pay through the nose to get on air aren’t even available for me to see til the next day. All the glamour and glitz of the Super Bowl is lost in me as I struggle to figure whose who and why play consistently stops every thirty seconds, disappears for a minute, comes back for ten seconds and so on…

Anyhoo, the trailers, most of which run for thirty seconds, a few one minute spots and they usually represent films coming out in the Summer; setting down a marker for possible definite blockbusters that will occupy our screens for the duration of the summer. For my thoughts, read on…

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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The franchise that will absolutely not die. I can’t say I particularly liked the sequels (that the second was the better out of the two), considering there supposed to be grand entertainment they felt rather flaccid and plotless at times. Davy Jones was the best thing about them but (in my mind) was squandered in the third film. along with, copious love triangles, double-crossing and some cringe worthy acting (Keira Knightley’s ‘rousing’ speech makes me squirm every time).