The Internet Movie Poster Awards site is taking nominations for best (and worst) posters of the year. You can see all the eligible posters. Here are my picks (click through for full size on the IMP site):
Best:
-- I usually don't like star-head posters but this one captures the whole gay-cowboy-romance thing.
-- Cool. Coming soon to dorm rooms everywhere.
-- I'm sure the dog-tag thing has been done before (Platoon?) but still a great poster.
-- Great use of type.
-- Wow.
-- I love the shapes of the penguins, plus a great tag line.
-- Beautiful poster; I'm sorry I didn't get to see this in the theater.
-- Gutsy poster.
Hard to choose between the Sin City posters; both of these are very Frank Miller:
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-- a good design undercut by a terrible tagline.
. Wow.
-- The China / USA on the basketball is pretty cool as it sums up the movie in one image.
Creepiest:
-- I'm melting! I'm melting!
. Creepy.
Funniest:
-- I'm sure this poster is funnier than the movie by far.
Worst:
-- I get what they're trying to do -- use "aristocratic" type, get it? -- but it just doesn't work. Confusing.
-- great movie, but the poster seems to be advertising "how to badly photoshop floating heads."
-- a frame grab from the video game would have been a hundred times better.
-- He's fat, get it?!?
-- How much gratituitous cleavage can we fit in one poster?
-- Do I really have to see Adam Sandler trying to look serious?
-- Their expressions say "phoning it in." Makes me not want to see the movie.
-- The flies making puns while on the zebra's ass just adds insult to injury.
-- They all look like they're in different movies. Plus the order of the names doesn't match the order of the pictures. I know this is because "first billing" is decided by agents, not designers, but it still always bothers me. This should have been the poster concept, if weren't so badly 'shopped:
-- Loved the movie. Lousy poster.
Did I miss any?
