My poster for the sequel.
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Star Trek XII poster
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That's pretty cool looking and I like the subtitle, too.
That is brilliant. I can't find an edit flaw anywhere on it! 
Excellent poster. I want it.
Excellent poster. I want it.
I miss the good old days when artists made the posters instead of photoshopped "head shots". In fact, I'm just going to bring out a poster that is very dear to my heart.
See? That's an awesome freaking poster.... well, if you take out the theater seat and the text up above. Even with that, I still like it better than any of those close up shots of the actors looking down on us.
See? That's an awesome freaking poster.... well, if you take out the theater seat and the text up above. Even with that, I still like it better than any of those close up shots of the actors looking down on us.
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It looks more like a book cover than a movie poster.
1. I agree with you that when it comes to Star Trek, I hate Photoshop (re: novel covers).
2. If you take out the movie seat and the text, all you have in your poster is the backdrop of space with a tiny little TMP Enterprise. What's exactly so "freaking awesome" about that? (And it goes without saying that the movie that poster was advertising was the farthest from "freaking awesome" as you could get
)3. I still like the OP's poster. It may be photoshopped, but it's not "in-your-face" photoshop.
Call it scope. Space is huge and the Enterprise is small. Sure, if you were to present me with something like this, I would add a cool looking planet of some relevance, but the scope I would keep the same.
When I was five years old, I remember seeing this poster and thinking "OH MY GOD! The Enterprise has been hit and someone's chair got blown away!" because I was a huge fan of battle damage on starships. Thanks to google more than a decade later, I was able to find that particular poster and saw that it was a theater chair. . . ..
Back to the scope of things, a lot of Star Trek were like this. Take Star Trek 6's teaser poster. It's just the Enterprise seen from below warping over a silhouette of a Klingon's face. But the most common theme that I like about the old posters was that it was in space.... Space. The setting of most Star Trek stories....
Does THIS look like a freaking Star Trek poster to you?!
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Only if you cherry pick by choosing a specific poster. This was the official Star Trek XI poster:
There was also the official teaser poster release (before the date change):
There were also many international posters, including ones that showed space in the backdrop.
Your location says you're from Portland, Maine. Why would a person from Portland, Maine, United States, choose an international poster that is in Spanish, to make their point instead of the official poster for domestic release? Gee. That one's difficult.
I mean, really. If you want to play it that way:
OMG! Leonard Nimoy doesn't know anything about Star Trek! Why, these aren't even in space!
There was also the official teaser poster release (before the date change):
There were also many international posters, including ones that showed space in the backdrop.
Your location says you're from Portland, Maine. Why would a person from Portland, Maine, United States, choose an international poster that is in Spanish, to make their point instead of the official poster for domestic release? Gee. That one's difficult.
I mean, really. If you want to play it that way:
OMG! Leonard Nimoy doesn't know anything about Star Trek! Why, these aren't even in space!
Not sure the STIV posters are good examples for your point, J. After all, very little of TVH took place in space, so those posters were far more indicative of the film's setting.
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That wasn't the point he was making, though. His point was that it didn't look like a Star Trek poster because it wasn't set in space, and used something other than the official release domestic poster in the U.S. (where he lives) to make that point, as indicated here:
Jeyl said:
See where I'm going with this one? He was complaining about the poster not being set in space. I showed him another poster not set in space. I mean, if the poster has to be set that way, look at Star Trek First Contact's official release poster:
And much of that movie is either in tight, enclosed hallways or on the ground.
Yeah, I follow now. I think I read through the thread too quickly earlier. At least that FC poster still gives you an idea that it's a Trek film, though, whereas I can also see his point about the STXI international poster not giving any real visual clues that it's for a Trek film (other than the title 
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Yeah, I follow now. I think I read through the thread too quickly earlier. At least that FC poster still gives you an idea that it's a Trek film, though, whereas I can also see his point about the STXI international poster not giving any real visual clues that it's for a Trek film (other than the title
Well, sure, but the official Trek XI U.S. poster gives the idea it's a trek movie, too, with the Enterprise silhouette. All Jeyl showed was a single Spanish international poster to make his point. If he would have displayed the official U.S. release poster, or even the official U.S. teaser poster, his point would have been moot.
Please. What I'm trying to emphasize here is that this marketing strategy isn't trying to showcase space as an element in a movie that's called STAR TREK. A movie based on a series about space travel. The Voyage Home poster is different because that's a film that changed the setting from previous entries. This however is supposed to be the first in a new series yet it leaves out that element in favor of faces and silhouettes, even going so far as to paint it as a disaster movie like Independence Day in other countries. It's like they're saying Star Trek doesn't work if it's marketed as such.
And it's not just the marketing either. The whole context of the film's story practically has no interest in space at all. Like that scene with Kirk looking at the Enterprise under construction. Forget the Star Wars touches, I'm not not going to touch that. But if you want to remove the interest in space travel, don't start with someone looking up at the stars wondering what's out there, but instead have him look at an Earth made object that he wants for his own. Heck, they made a poster for that one to.
Do you just get up every morning and write out agenda items for What I'm Going to be Irate About Today? Seriously. Stop. I hated the new movie too and even I don't want to hear you bitch about it any more. It's bad enough you do it here, but then I go over to the RPF and see you spewing the exact same crap in the same sorts of threads over there. Nobody cares. Dude. Let. It. GO.
Jesus.
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Yet your argument is rendered moot by my simply posting images from official release posters that aren't set in space, which I have done.
Yeah, my original point being that 'that' one official poster totally sells the "Star Trek" feel by having it be all Independence Day style with a laser shooting down on a recognizable landmark.
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So you just dislike that one particular poster. You have an issue with the poster that one particular poster that doesn't depict space, even though many of the other posters, including the official posters, depict space and known Star Trek images. So it all must conform exactly to what you want for you to like it. Interesting.
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