I feel like the Infinity War floating head poster is the best and makes the most sense because having so many characters in that movie is the standout. Plus, it's beautifully done.
I agree. I also think that big event movies like Infinity War and Endgame don't necessarily need simple posters because of that reason. But if it's a small-scale story and you have a bunch of floating heads... then... what the heck am I looking at?
Well your wish came true because this is literally happening. Search any movie and add "alternative poster". Ant man had the best ones and many different movies have these are posters
I am kinda glad that Deadpool & Wolverine kept the minimalist style. Just the "Best Friends" necklack or posters focusing on one character or both of them fighting each other. Let's just hope they don't try to make a floating heads poster (or they will do it, but make a joke out of it with a tagline saying "Because every poster needs a lot of faces")
From a marketing standpoint, they didn't need to do the floating heads poster because they KNOW people only care about two actors for the film: Hugh and Ryan.
it's also worth adding that it's not a personal ego thing actors do, it's something their agencies put in their contracts since to them their actor is their business and they want to get as much out of them from every movie they're in as possible.
Now that I think about it the Ant-Man poster on the thumbnail is basically just a white poster with no characters on it Well ant-Man is tiny so you can barely see him
I personally don't want to go straight into a movie knowing every single actor in it. Sometimes its a pleasant surprise watching a movie and have an actor enter playing a role you didn't know about. Its more fun.
If they are gonna do floating heads they should at least be creative. Like in a dr strange movie, make them come out of Dr strange portals! Make it tie in with the movie.
A lot of these floating head posters are studio mandated. They either want to use the actors or by contract actors have to have top billing to promote the movie. Not to mention some of those studio mandated ones set trends or follow trends cause thats what sells. It really shows how homogenized the movie industry can be as well as marvels creativity when you have thse. Compare this to indie films where the directors have more control over their films and have beautiful or awesome looking posters. Biggest example is Robert Eggers indie film posters to when universal distributed his film and had another floating heads poster compared to the one he wanted to have for the same film.
I think some of my favorite movie posters were from the 07 Transformers film Just seeing Megatron and Optimus facing each other is amazing And the poster with an optic looking over the Earth, dayum But i think many films dont just need posters, but also taglines, like 2008's Iron Man with the whole "heroes arent born" schtick, or going back to 07 Transformers: "Their War. Our World"
I’m fine with floating head posters if it at least looks cool or not ugly cuz they gotta show off their star power as long as they got actual posters. Ones that are wallpaper worthy or are made to go on the walls of fanboys and not just the promos at theaters when they’re showing a movie. They need to at least have that variant where it’s actually supposed to look cool and not just show off the cast
I miss when the characters were more of a selling point than the actors. Like if I see a poster of Spider-Man, I don’t want to see Tom Hollands face. That’s why the tobey maguire Spider-Man movie posters are some of my favourite
Sometimes it’s not just marketing’s it’s required, most actors have a secretary and business manager / team of people and they get casted. That contract forces the movie poster to include their face
Infinity war poster looks so good at first because u can see evrybody. But now everytime i see that poster on my bedroom I feel dizzy seeing abunch of heads😂
I feel like a few years back we were complaining that the movie posters were too simple and that we wanted posters more like the floating head posters we have now. Now that we goth them we want it to go back to minimalistic
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Better if they use the individual character posters for promotion. Or even have a floating head for promotion and a more artsy one people could choose to use. Usually the non floating head one's WAY better. Two comes to mind when it comes to that. I prefer the Spider-Man Far From Home poster with just his mask and the pins on it and the Quantumania one with the Ant family is small on Kang's hands. I'm more of a DVD collector and I do prefer to have these more artistic posters as the DVD cover
Yup! That's how it is. Some people really are so simple minded that they would only be interested in watching an Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise or Jennifer Lopez movie. They don't even care what the movies are about, just as long as their favorite actors are in it. But at the end of the day, these studios are businesses trying to pay their bills.
A recent example of a great Marvel poster is the Deadpool and Wolverine poster. The 2 main characters fighting in front of a simple white background. I have it as my wallpaper.
Generally speaking, I like both types of Marvel poster…, their teaser posters and their main posters…, I don‘t mind the main poster having multiple people on it, cause it can look great as well…, plus, I personally do wanna see my favorite heroes on the poster, which is why a teaser like the heart necklace teaser poster from Deadpool & Wolverine wasn‘t enough to satisfy me…, the main poster from Deadpool & Wolverine for instance is far more powerful. Sure Marvel‘s main posters can look weak, but most of the time, it‘s because of Sony…, all MCU Spider-Man films have awful posters…, with the exception of that one solo-poster from No Way Home. Out of ALL the MCU posters, they only have a few misses IMO, such as the main Shang-Chi poster for instance. Overall speaking, the MCU has a lot of strong posters.
I got even a better idea, instead of a somewhat okay background for the actor showcase posters, they specifically make a artistic poster that isn't face reveal oriented for the background with enough flexibility to fit the actors around it, it'd make them look a million times better
I think the only franchise that has actual good movie posters is the Monsterverse. I love how they show a specific shot from one of the trailers or something like in KOTM when Godzilla shot his atomic breath up. The Monsterverse just does a wonderful job having simple posters
I'd rather do artistic posters that will tell a story with the silhouette of the character(s) by highlighting them with important features that describe their character(s)..
Ignoring marketing I think the floating head posters work well for big team up movies like avengers or no way home, but for stand alone movies these just look better and tell much more of a story
As if they already don't promote the actors that are in the movie in the trailers and press tours enough. Let the posters be unique and speak for themselves. If you didn't know for any for the Avengers movies who the cast were before going into it after the majority of them had already been in 5 other movies prior and had to rely on the poster to know who's in it, then I'm sorry, but that's on you at that point.
