Why Do So Many Modern Movie Posters SUCK (and Look the Same)? | No Film School

Last week we talked about how amazing Saul Bass posters used to be. Since trailers really only ran in front of films, posters had to draw in your eye and get you to care. Now, with trailers, thumbnails on streaming, and the fervor over teasers, it seems like cool movie posters are largely a thing of the past.

And The Royal Ocean Film Society agrees with us.

They made an informative video that has a bone to pick with modern posters.

I don't think anything is more depressing than that image of all the Christmas movies with people in green and red sweaters. It feels like marketing departments have completely given up.

I know we talk about movie poster colors and why certain ones get used, but we have to find a way to break out of what we've seen over and over again.

I think there needs to be a revolution at the studio level that makes the art of the movie poster much more of a concern.

What are some of your favorite modern movie posters? Any good ones no one should miss?

Let me know in the comments!

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Source: The Royal Ocean Film Society

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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