Poster Post

Ok. Is there ANYONE who thinks these look good? I mean, not just here - anywhere? Oh sure, some hyperinteligent shades of the color blue from Deneb V that don't see in the same frequencies of light that we do, they may think it's ok. But they probably wear white after Columbus Day, so obviously thier ways are not our ways.

Really - Who sat down at thier trusty Photoshop, twittered for, oh, what? twenty minutes? then sat back and said "Ahhhh, yes. That's what I was after!"

As opposed to these:

































































This "photo cover" thing is not getting any better.

I was looking through the soundtrack LPs at Bookman's last week. Lots of old 50's 60's and 70's stuff. James Bond, Dirty Dozen, Towering Inferno. Painted posters, all of 'em. Then some fool decided that photos were more "now" (and certainly cheaper). We were robbed, man!

As my cousin Jimmy put it:

Well uh... Lucas's original vision was always to use photoshoppy images to advertise and distribute the films. Unfortunately um... Digital imaging software was not advanced enough until now to achieve this until now, finally "Superglow" technology is up to George's high standards. So now he's decided to go back and redo the original posters in a style more fitting his vision. Come this time next year EVERY movie's going to want their DVD covers to be LucasShop CS certified.

Also of note: Luke Skywalker will be replaced by a CGI Bantha in the 2007 HD-DVD release. All part of the original vision, of course.

Heh. Funny kid.