Am I Missing Something In This WOLFMAN Poster?

[devincf]

http://chud.com/articles/articles/21...TER/Page1.html

[Brad Millette]

I sorta get what they're going for with the big full moon in the background, even though you can barely tell since they decided to make it a blinding white night sky as well. It just doesn't really work.

Isn't this pretty much directly from the trailer, when she turns around and OH NO HE'S RIGHT THERE BEHIND THE TREE!

[DARKMITE8]

I didn't even notice the moon the first time I looked at it.

[Brad Millette]

Yeah, you can barely tell it's there. It's like the suckiest Magic Eye poster ever.

[devincf]

I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but that shit needs a menacing Wolfman shadow. Stat.

[Mattioli]

Originally Posted by devincf

I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but that shit needs a menacing Wolfman shadow. Stat.

Yeah, but in this case, the marketing department desperately needs someone to tell them how to do their job.

[Brad Millette]

It really is just a bizarre non-poster. Is this the official one-sheet? I mean what's the point of hiding your wolfman in this. The movie is called "The Wolfman". We know there's going to be a wolfman in it, he's already been prominently featured in the trailers, so why are we sans wolfman here?

[DARKMITE8]

"Sans-Wolfmans" would make a good name for a band.

Originally Posted by devincf

I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but that shit needs a menacing Wolfman shadow. Stat.

Paul Naschy agrees.

[devincf]

Originally Posted by Brad Millette

It really is just a bizarre non-poster. Is this the official one-sheet? I mean what's the point of hiding your wolfman in this. The movie is called "The Wolfman". We know there's going to be a wolfman in it, he's already been prominently featured in the trailers, so why are we sans wolfman here?

I think it may be a 'character poster.'

[Brad Millette]

You know the character people want to see on a poster? THE WOLFMAN.

[Princess Kate]

So I just got done commenting on the terribly dull GREEN ZONE poster. It's nothing more than a black and white photo of the films star.

This poster however could have seriously benifited from just such a brain dead approach. At least it wouldn't leave people wondering why the wolfman is a woman with no obvious lupine traits

[DARKMITE8]

Originally Posted by Princess Kate

At least it wouldn't leave people wondering why the wolfman is a woman with no obvious lupine traits

*INSERT "I'd Romulus/Remus on Emily Blunt's corset companions" JOKE HERE*



Maybe it's a lenticular poster and if you look at it from a certain angle in the theater lobby, the Wolfman pops out? I'm grasping here.

[Princess Kate]

Originally Posted by DARKMITE8

*INSERT "I'd Romulus/Remus on Emily Blunt's corset companions" JOKE HERE*



Maybe it's a lenticular poster and if you look at it from a certain angle in the theater lobby, the Wolfman pops out? I'm grasping here.

LOL, nice. I'm a sucker for classics-references

[BobClark]

He's under her skirt.

[Ratty]

I can't wait to see Emily Blunt Is Scared Of Something in February.

[Jake]

Peter Dinklage In: The Littlest Wolfman

[BruceL]

I'm sure the idea was that the title is enough to tell you that the creature is out there somewhere, and the viewer not being able to see it is supposed to make you understand how Blunt's character feels.

[Fizzgig]

Originally Posted by DARKMITE8

"Sans-Wolfmans" would make a good name for a band.

No way I'm going to see a band that guarantees not to have any wolfmans present.

As for the poster, surely a silhouette of El Hombre Lobo is a no-brainer, unless there was some market research that said people don't like being threatened by carnivorous man-beasts or something.

Is there some kind of contractual obligation that if your site is getting an exclusive reveal of a poster that you have to write about how good it is? Cinematical seem to love the fact that there's no wolf, but it almost reads like meta-sarcasm.

[mcnooj82]

Originally Posted by Brad Millette

You know the character people want to see on a poster? THE WOLFMAN.

I read this in the voice of Al Gore.

[mcnooj82]

Originally Posted by Princess Kate

LOL, nice. I'm a sucker for classics-references

Intentional?

[Princess Kate]

Originally Posted by mcnooj82

Intentional?

Hm.. Yes, in that I chose all my words with careful intent, but no in that I was not making any sort of joke (I took latin and love classics. I was even in the JCL).Where is the joke/pun? I feel dumb, but I'm afraid can't see it

[mcnooj82]

Sucker.

[PsycheOut00]

Originally Posted by devincf

I don't want to tell anyone how to do their job, but that shit needs a menacing Wolfman shadow. Stat.

It actually had it. Go fucking figure. Or just join the WTF Club indeed.

And it's not a character poster. Think of this as one half of the 1-sheet campaign (alongside the other one) just like they did a couple of years ago with the Int'l Bourne Ultimatum ones.

[dajuice7]

Originally Posted by Jake

Peter Dinklage In: The Littlest Wolfman

I'm ashamed of myself for laughing as hard as I did at this. Especially since I loves me some Dinklage...wait that didn't sound right. The Littlest Wolfman versus Leprechaun. Dinklage versus Warwick Davis. It has to happen.

On topic: You know, normally I wouldn't knock an Emily Blunt image, except for when I'm expecting bad-ass Del Toro Wolfman poster action. Like you guys said, faint moon + no shadow = fail.

[Merriweather]

They need to pay for a guy in full wolfman garb to lurk near this poster so that, whenever somebody looks at it, he can sneak up behind them and scare them half to death when they turn away. That's the only way this poster works.

[Bitches Leave]

This is completely retarded. Right now my version makes more sense.

[PsycheOut00]

Hahahaha. Very nice. Though if I were you, I'd change that tagline to "When the moon is full, the PMS comes to life".

[Ken Savage]

Originally Posted by Merriweather

They need to pay for a guy in full wolfman garb to lurk near this poster so that, whenever somebody looks at it, he can sneak up behind them and scare them half to death when they turn away. That's the only way this poster works.

That would be the best marketing campagin ever.

[LisaNY]

Originally Posted by Ratty

I can't wait to see Emily Blunt Is Scared Of Something in February.

Damn you, Ratty, damn you! I did the age-old "Read the whole thread before posting", already having something similar in mind. Except my version was going to be Emily Blunt Needs a Shower.

[DARKMITE8]

Originally Posted by dajuice7

I'm ashamed of myself for laughing as hard as I did at this. Especially since I loves me some Dinklage...wait that didn't sound right. The Littlest Wolfman versus Leprechaun. Dinklage versus Warwick Davis. It has to happen.

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