I couldn’t agree with you more Scott. I saw that list of posters a couple days ago and saw some pretty interesting ones. I didn’t think the persons write up of each poster was entirely correct, but that’s besides the point. If you ask me one of the best on the list is/was Metropolis. So amazing for 1927.

Holy shit…thats an amazing poster, so refreshing to see that style actually being used nowadays, as we mostly only get designs like that orange nightmare you also posted. Whoever took the original photo and turned it into that poster did a wonderful job!

Looks to be influenced by The French Connection poster back in 1971.

I would see that movie just based on that poster design.

And like Alex said, it’s very refreshing.

But who’s brilliant idea was it to put gray text on an orange background? That’s not annoying or anything…

Hot damn hot poster!

Great poster, I guess they’re trying to invoke some sort of nostalgia for The Italian Job, and other great 60′s/70′s heist films…

Now, is the film any good?!

Damn good job with the poster, especially when contrasted with the still image. Just compare the colors of the jacket from the poster and from the still; awesome edits.

Yeah thats a sweet poster. I’m a big fan of the Grindhouse posters- Death Proof and Planet Terror. As far as awesome recent movie posters go.

this is the most beautiful movie poster i’ve seen in a very long time!

until now i wasn’t really interested in the movie, maybe i should check out some trailers

Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad I somehow brought it back to your attention as it is in my opinion indeed one of the nicest posters I’ve seen in a very long time. So I can only be happy more people get to see it.

Keep up the good work ’cause reading your posts is always been a pleasure for me.

Kind regards Joris

For some reason I didn’t really like the poster at first. I’ve since come back to look at it about 7 times. It’s pretty fantastic. I’m kind of sad they didn’t go with the orange one though.

Just kidding.

I like the overall style, the grainy/retro photograph and it’s colors, the chosen fonts – but for the most part it’s a typographic catastrophy.

A center-aligned title forced into some virtual right aligned box. How dumb.
They should have consequently aligned all elements to the right or all elements to the centre, but this is some messed up combination.

It feels poorly executed, or like compromise.

Yeah, but still (especially in comparison to most movie posters) a great movie poster. Makes me want to watch the movie.

I can’t see what’s so great about this poster? I don’t think the grainy looking picture meets the movie(-plot) at all. And just like Jan said, the poorly executed typography is just bad. They defintely need to do a final version here.

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great poster, shame the film is terrible.

I can’t remember if anyone ever told me that center aligned text moved to one side was a design don’t.

But for some reason it’s really eye catching. The entire piece feels well thought out to me.

looks likes the designer was using the golden rectangle/spiral as a layout reference

I saw these posters all over NYC a few months back & thought they were great. Beautiful, classic design.

I know someone posted a link to a Dark Knight Poster already but I came across a much better one (on Perez Hilton’s site of all places) that I think will be a real classic. I was so impressed by the composition. I think I may just order it and put it on ice. I would feel like a dork hanging it in my place right now as the movie is about to come out.

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