I don’t know about you, but when I see a poster for a movie I’m psyched about? I get a little fannish. Okay, a LOT fannish. Bouncing happens. So in the interest of sharing the love, here’s the latest crop o’ posters that have had me goin’ a little crazy. Click the images for the full-size awesomeness!
Wrath of the Titans: did the first one suck? Yeah. But am I still hopeful that the people throwing money at this sequel will pull their heads out of their asses and give us a sequel that won’t be a huge time and money suck? Yeah.
Blame my year of undergrad mythology, but anytime someone even hints at some sort of epic saga backstory? I’m all over it. Hell, I even accepted the weird steampunk Valhalla of Thor and plus Idris Elba makes everything better, so I’m an easy sell. Big monster with a little dude hai-yaaaaa-ing all over him? Yayz!
The Flowers of War: Nominated for a Golden Globe for best pic, I’ve already been hoping this one’ll nab the globe. But a story about how a man saved women from A Fate Worse Than Death at the hands of Japanese soldiers in China during WWII has me salivating. This could be a good story, and with Bale in the lead you know the acting will be top-notch.
I love this poster too. The fact that I can’t read a word of it? Who cares?
Mirror Mirror: OMG Julia Roberts hamming it up as the Evil Queen! C’mon, everybody knows she’s the reason this film will bring folks above the age of 8 to the theater. And to be honest, the trailer left me underwhelmed at best. Seriously, that’s the best Snow you could find? She’s pretty, but doesn’t have the chemistry to stand up to the awesomeness that is Julia when she really sinks her teeth into a role.
Yeah, there’s another poster with the Queen and Snow. But really? This is gonna be Julia’s movie y’all.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: OMFG, have you seen the trailer yet? Then you know why I’m psyched. This new PJ joint has all the earmarks of amazing that LOTR did. And this poster is a lovely bit of minimalism that shows just enough without being a total letdown (seriously Avengers, a big “A” for the teaser poster? Not enough! Okay, the new ones are awesome though.)
I want one of these posters so bad I can taste the second breakfast.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Did you know that the real reason Honest Abe detested slavery had something to do with vampires? Neither did I.
All these classic lit/monster mashups have been running amok, so y’all knew it was only a matter of time before they hit celluloid. Abe’s up first, and though the trailer looks dumb as hell (I can only hope that’s a teaser for the novel since Abe isn’t played by Benjamin Walker), with a really groovy movie poster like this, I’m now officially on the bandwagon with this film.




