By limiting my reading to dust jackets and book covers, I never risk losing my page
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Can you judge a book by its cover? Well, how about a movie? It seems that every few years a trend develops where great posters strongly correlate to great film, but without fail a movie like Smokin Aces comes along with excellent visual design and proves to be terrible. Take a run down /film’s list of the best posters of 2007 and excepting Smokin Aces which was terrible and horror films which are always, well, horror-ble. The only poster missing is the brilliant work for Funny Games, perhaps 2007’s best movie poster.
Will this hold for 2008? Check Internet Movie Poster Awards’ list of 2008 posters and judge for yourself. But based on this rational, I’ll be first in line to see Choke and City of Ember when they hit theaters.