My Movie Posters

Not only do I love movies, but I love movie soundtracks and movie posters.

These are the list of movie posters that proudly hang on the wall of my apartment. In no particular order.

This is the teaser poster from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Now, let me say this, I didn't think that the movie itself was all that great. I loved the original transformers movie; it was action packed and funny. It had that same kind of mixture that you would find in the Die Hard movies. The sequel just got a little too silly I think.

Anyway this poster hangs right behind my TV and it's huge 43x62 inches. It's very creepy as you can see and I like creepy things. Most of my posters are 27x40. But I felt like a poster like this needs to be big. It's so simple and ominous that it needs to be huge in order to have a real presence! The only problem with this poster is that it's so dark that if there is other lights in my room it's hard to see because of the reflections. Besides that, its a great poster and it gets a lot of comments.

This is the italian poster for Once Upon a Time in the West or C'era una volta il West in Italian. I got this poster because I love the style of this movie. It's a western that really stood out to me. It was very stylized in the same way that Hero is stylized. Everyone moves real slow and deliberately. The focus of the movies seem to be the build up to violence rather than the actual violence itself.

In my opinion, this is a very strange poster. The colors are basically pink and yellow and Charles Bronson just looks very odd. What I like is that this is just a very unique poster. It doesn't really give you any idea of what the movie is about. But I like it because it stood out from the average poster I have seen.
This is one of the most interesting posters I have seen. This is the spanish poster for M. The reason I went with the spanish poster is because I like the artwork of this poster the best. Almost all of the movie posters for M had some kind of hand with M drawn on it because it's part of the movie.

This image of the wrinkled up hand with M drawn on it conjures up a lot of different thoughts. It's hard at first to imagine why anyone would have an M on their hand. For some reason, it's also just a creepy kind of demonic looking image.

The poster for M is another example of a poster that really doesn't tell you anything at all about the movie. It just gets you interested with powerful imagery.
This is the movie poster for The Grand Illusion. This is another example of a somewhat strange poster. It has a large illustration of a man looking up and to the left. He looks a little dirty and somewhat mystified. Then in the bottom left, you have a military officer in a neck brace looking off to the right. His hat is clearly askew.

The Grand Illusion poster is seemingly simple, but I think at the same time it tells a lot. When you watch the movie, it might become clear why the officer is smaller than the other man. It also makes sense that the poster would have them on opposite sides looking in opposite directions.

This isn't a great or unique poster. It just happens to be the poster for one of my all time favorite movies. Die Hard: With A Vengeance has it all. Action, comedy, racial tension... well maybe that's not everything, but it's still fun. I just love the dialog between Sam Jackion and Bruce Willis
Here is a great movie with a great poster. The Deer Hunter is an academy award winning film with top notch performances from De Niro and Walken.

I love that this poster only has three colors, black, white and red. Even though the red in the bandanna stand out, what catches my eyes in the intensity in De Niro's eyes. He just looks completely frightening. I suppose if you had never seen the movie, it's probably a pretty disturbing poster.
This is my other huge (43x62) poster. The Dark Knight is one of my favorite movies. I saw it six times in the theater. The only other movie I have seen more than twice was Batman Begins. Hmm seeing a pattern here?

Anyway, I figured I should have a big poster to celebrate one of my favorite movies. I choose this one mostly for its creepy factor. It also has a small puzzle at the bottom which was part of The Dark Knights guerilla marketing campaign. It lead you to a website that had the preview for the movie on it. I was there refreshing the page the moment they released the preview. So this poster kind of reminds me of all that.
Anyone recognize this poster? It's the poster for Alexander Nevsky. What I like about this poster is the kind of forward lean of everything. It kind of conveys a single mindedness or a strength/unity. Clearly Nevsky is a powerful figure even though I can't read anything on the poster.

If you haven't seen the movie, you should. It's kind of cheesy in certain parts, but the music and battle scenes are great. It clearly had influence on a lot of the epic battle movies like Braveheart or Richard III.