Poster Round-up – The Avengers, Haywire, The Amazing Spider-Man and more

Lots and lots of posters, most of them Marvel related, let’s get to it…

First up is the series of Avengers posters that Marvel released during Comic-Con. What I like about these posters is that (for the main characters at least), it’s a compilation of the most important moments that  have taken place in the respective Marvel films. I also like the painterly feel to them, the posters were created by Ryan Meinerding and Charlie Wen.

 

 

And here’s the banner incorporating all the characters, click on it to expand.

Haywire

The Muppets – Captain America spoof

Our Idiot Brother

The Amazing Spider-Man

Immortals

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

 

 

 

 

Poster Round-up – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Captain America, Moneyball, Dream House and more

Poster overload, first up is…

 

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6′s echelons.

Moneyball

The story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Hunger Games

A young girl joins a survival contest in order to save her community in a dystopian future.

In Time

In the future people stop aging at 25 and must work to buy themselves more time, but when a young man finds himself with more time than he can imagine he must run from the corrupt police force to save his life.

Dream House

Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.

The Raven

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer’s stories.

Contagion

An action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

Captain America -Olly Moss

After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America’s ideals.

Trailer watch: The Amazing Spider-Man

Debuting to an underwhelming response (lots of “ums”, “mehs” and “no, not an origin story again!”), the first teaser of Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man gave a good indication of the story that we’ll see in full next year. From the online response, while some are excited from the comments I read some seemed to be debating whether another origin story was necessary.

I have to admit, while I thought the trailer was okay, what’s keeping me from embracing this reboot is the origin story. From what I can glean from the trailer there will be some different elements (Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy, Peter’s parents, mechanical web-shooters) but I’m still of the mind that if they were going to reboot it would have been something like Peter coming back into contact with the people he met at high school years later and getting to know them again. The approach they’ve taken with this film smells like an unsubtle cash-grab, an attempt to milk the young teen audience in the same manner as Twilight.

An origin with a slight twist: in Raimi’s Spider-Man the parents were never really mentioned. It made sense if you considered Raimi was taken a leaf out of the 60s comics which focused on Peter and Aunt May. The opening shots of the trailer indicate that there’s some kind of mystery surrounding their disappearance, it looks as if Webb is actually going to delve in Peter’s past especially

He’s a loner, heavy emphasis on loner. Maguire’s Parker was goofy, nebbish nerd; Garfield’s looks like your disaffected youth who has no friends, except…

…for Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy. I don’t doubt that he becomes more than friends with her. Things will get more complicated as he takes to the streets of New York as Spider-Man and considering her dad is George Stacy (Dennis Neary), a New York City police Captain.

It’s behind you…!

Garfield looks exceedingly dorky with his glasses and bouffant hair.

A lot’s been said about the nature of the special effects in this reboot (eschewing visual effects for practical ones) however I do recall the first Spider-Man doing the same thing as well with the CG being ramped up in the sequels.

This shot has me worried a little teensy-weensy bit, not because it looks bad but because it reminds me of the finale in the first Spider-Man with the Green Goblin. What are the odds the Gwen Stacy will be there and Spider-Man will have to rescue her?

First time we see the costume and it looks oh…kay. I think the biggest question about is how will Garfield maintain that bouffant hair of his when he puts the mask on?

Reminiscent of video game Mirror’s Edge, the last twenty seconds of so is a face paced, first person perspective of Spider-Man swinging through the city. I can’t honestly believe this is part of the film if they’ve made so much noise about if being practical (it looks as if it was made purely for the trailer). Nevertheless, why put it in the trailer?