Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
The one thing is that this poster looks like a teaser poster. It shows very little, you must admit.
Official U.S. NU-Trek Poster
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What does a poster have to show?
Well, it is just a title and a black and white smear.
Maybe the next poster will just be the title and a blank star field...actually they already did that.
Eh, movie posters in general have gone way down hill, to the point where anyone could throw one together in photoshop. This one looks like it took a whole 2 minutes to make. 5 seconds to up the contrast and apply a blur/distort filter, and 115 seconds to type out all the text. Can't say I find that exciting. I like stuff like the Indy posters that are actually painted and distinct.
Anyway, that's my earth-shattering opinion of the movie poster.
Maybe the next poster will just be the title and a blank star field...actually they already did that.
Eh, movie posters in general have gone way down hill, to the point where anyone could throw one together in photoshop. This one looks like it took a whole 2 minutes to make. 5 seconds to up the contrast and apply a blur/distort filter, and 115 seconds to type out all the text. Can't say I find that exciting. I like stuff like the Indy posters that are actually painted and distinct.
Anyway, that's my earth-shattering opinion of the movie poster.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Whoa cowboy, I wasn't judging it. Just saying that to me it fits the mold of a teaser poster.
I would like to have the new poster as a T- shirt, but without any border, so the Enterprise just sort of blends into the rest of the shirt.Without the words Star Trek though.
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Just to be a smarty, I threw this together (I have no real photoshop skills):
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2079/blackwhite.png
The concept looks kind of slick, I can can buy it as a Trekkie wallpaper or some sort of abstract fan art. It doesn't look bad, I just question using something like this for a movie poster.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2079/blackwhite.png
The concept looks kind of slick, I can can buy it as a Trekkie wallpaper or some sort of abstract fan art. It doesn't look bad, I just question using something like this for a movie poster.
I appreciate the marketing departments attempts to be creative, the US version is definately the best of all those presented but I've never been a fan of posters with big heads on them. The Spanish poster makes it look like a damn disaster pic!
When I first saw the poster the first thought that came to my mind was that it looked like the original TMP poster. That one, despite innacurately using the Phase II Enterprise design, has always been my favorite Star Trek poster.
When I first saw the poster the first thought that came to my mind was that it looked like the original TMP poster. That one, despite innacurately using the Phase II Enterprise design, has always been my favorite Star Trek poster.
I agree with that. But ...
... what has that to do with anything? I don't judge the visual quality of an image by the time it took to produce it.
Something thrown together hastily with an obvious lack of skill/effort just sort of says 'thrown together for a quick buck' to me. It just gives me the wrong impression. Besides, the final image is...well, it's just a black blob, you get what you pay for when you cut corners, y'know? The really good posters would take a little more time investment, I think.
The old-style painted poster worked for Indy because the movies were set in the past... for a movie about the future, the US poster works for me.
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I like the US poster; simple and to the point. The others are overly-complicated, imo. There's just too much going on in each poster, except for the Japanese one.
I reckon the black n white, enterprise motion poster looks awesome!
It looks like it's bursting forth from the searing light of planetary destruction - epic!!!
Never thought for one instance that this was supposed to be an image of the enterprise going in reverse... it certainly doesn't look like this, judging by the motion blur, which looks more like a backlit burst of light - great concept I reckon. Homage to Phase One, and a nice sillouette shot of the Enterprise as well.
I love it!
It looks like it's bursting forth from the searing light of planetary destruction - epic!!!
Never thought for one instance that this was supposed to be an image of the enterprise going in reverse... it certainly doesn't look like this, judging by the motion blur, which looks more like a backlit burst of light - great concept I reckon. Homage to Phase One, and a nice sillouette shot of the Enterprise as well.I love it!
It's art.
Wow, then you must have some old-ass acquaintances!In my experiences, if I said "Raumschiff Enterprise" people would look at me and say "You mean Star Trek!" No one calls it that anymore. And though it may be a bit of a generational thing, the words Picard, Data, Janeway or Seven of Nine are as frequently associated with Trek as Kirk or Spock. In fact, most of the time when I mention Star Trek, people say "Oh, I loved the film with the Borg!" or "I watched Voyager every week".
But maybe this just means that I know all the wrong people...
Well, I wouldn't say they are 'old-ass' (particularly not in their presence). Most of them are history/Asian studies/ethnology students (undergraduate and postgraduate) or teaching/administrative staff at the university or historical reenactors or guys and girls from the historical sword fight club... It's not that they haven't heard about the other Star Trek stuff (some of them even watched on a regular basis), it's more like they could never connect with it. Perhaps they are old-fashioned, perhaps they are nostalgic, perhaps they are into camp, who knows?
Maybe. Them academics love the camp! I would know, I had so many seminars on cultural studies subjects... the nostalgia and the camp come up again and again. I wrote my own master's thesis on Star Trek, too, after all...
Most people are hurrying down the hall to their auditorium without having time to stop analyze posters. This one says, I know you're in a hurry but wanted to let you quickly know a Star Trek movie is coming.
It's really kinda clever. As you glance at it while quickly walking by the blurring might coalesce into a clear picture of the Enterprise in your minds eye.
It's really kinda clever. As you glance at it while quickly walking by the blurring might coalesce into a clear picture of the Enterprise in your minds eye.
I don't think it's clever. I think it's something that non-fans will forget ten seconds after they've seen it.
A big blurry blob. That'll make them want to see a Star Trek film
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You know what? I LOVE IT. I was hoping for something that was the complete antithesis of what came before (floaty heads, etc.), and this does not disappoint. It sends a clear message to Trekkies old and new. It's yet another nail in the coffin of tired, old, Trek 1.0 and its ever increasingly irrelevant fanbase. And I for one couldn't be happier. That poster definitely going up in my studio. Oh, and it's a beautiful poster, too.
