I don't know how I would handle a situation like that, but I'm quite sure I wouldn't have handled it as well as you have. That's balls-to-the-wall infuriating.

ha

Good delivery.

You're too good to me. Knock it off!

You're too good to me.

Mmf. I dig it.

Maybe we'll split credit 70/30 for that one. The rest is all you.

[EDIT: Nope, turns out I fixed your inadvertent self-servingness by serving myself a big 'ol potion of same. ]

Anyway.

I really wanna keep playing with these ideas, but I need to get back to work — that said, this would make for a fun standalone Skype-cast, if you feel like recording such a thing. I feel like this is a topic which lends itself to throwing blanket statements at each other and seeing what sticks.

Sounds right — and every movie can be spoiled by its poster now, because every movie is a potential saga now.

I like the ideas we're bouncing off each other here.

EDIT: There's actually probably a lot of strange knock-on effects to posters as a result of the industrial newthink.

For instance, not only that they're [inappropriately] cagey about 'spoilers' in their posters because none of their big movies are presumed to be a nonquel anymore — 'nonquel'; copyright j'boy, 2018 — but also for the exact opposite reason: because no movie is presumed to be a nonquel anymore, they want separate ad campaigns for all of the aspects of the movie they might later spin off. All the characters, all the voices, all the settings, etc..

Hm.

god

Look at the Verhoven image. We'd all have a cultural association with that movie for the rest of time, if they had made that 'The Image' of the movie. All of us, even if we never saw it, would recall such a weird, iconic image.

Consider the following 'old-style; new-style' poster list. How clearly and quickly does an association form for you?

What does the poster art for Back to the Future look like?

What does the poster art for The Avengers look like...?

What does the poster art for The Shawshank Redemption look like?

What does the poster art for Avatar look like...?

What does the poster art for Jurassic Park look like?

What does the poster art for Finding Dory look like...?

Bleh.

(Honestly, the closest recent example I've got for an old-school 'pick an image and own it' style is Deadpool 2.)

(To Ragnarok's credit, they did pick a very specific aesthetic unlike any other movie art, so that's a half-point.)

Dang — it's way more obvious than I was expecting.

Keep your eye right on this circle, at the end of this shot:

(How'd you become aware of this, anyway? Did you just notice this yourself at some point?)

Aww. Thanks.