Galactic Specter
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Watch Superman be absent until the third act.
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New Justice League Poster
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Username1198
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Yes, based on MoS, BvS, this is gonna be bad. It will still make an ass ton of money, I think.
KDash31987
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That's my shtick, bubba
What did he mean by this?
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We've always had color... it's the crushing black that I think fans complain about.
Or they're just hiding him from the marketing because they're trying to build up hype for his return at the end of the second act.
Alex_Mexico
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I didnt know you could disable them!!!!! Thank you for that. I just did that. Browsing at work shall be easier now without colorful images on the side.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
I hope they release the first photo of Superman on Sunday. Our savior risen from the dead on the hills of Golgotha.
Glass Rebel
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Eh, it's alright, I guess?
GAF servers would be fried if Thor actually outperformed Justice League. Even the fact that we're mentioning them in the same breath says a lot about the MCU and the DCEU.
GAF servers would be fried if Thor actually outperformed Justice League. Even the fact that we're mentioning them in the same breath says a lot about the MCU and the DCEU.
Because of this poster?
I'm not sure how you got that opinion from this poster... why not save it for the film? Or the final trailer (god I hope not, just save it for the movie)
PhantomX1313
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Seventh member is a secret
Were they going for this?
What are they looking at?! Terrible movie!
If they were it didn't work
Were they going for this?
Fancyarcher
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Well they certainly seem to be emphasizing the brightness this time around, I'll give them that.
Ya wanna play this game?
Literally EVERYTHING about that Seven Samurai poster looks better than this awful Justice League poster.
PhantomX1313
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SNYDA DA GAWD!!!!!
Even better.
Whoa, I've never seen that... that image screams like it needs an OLED HDR tv.
They aren't even looking at the same direction.
SomedayTheFire
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Oh damn yeah. Think I asked this in a previous thread and you answered. That makes sense.
Doctor Decimate
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Batman is avoiding eye contact with what everyone else is looking at
Do you blame him, he's still terrified of the real GOAT, Clark.
Glass Rebel
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It's Disco, he just doesn't like people shitting on something starring Bats.
Discotheque
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Everything aside from Schumacher films and TDKR. But the latter i see some worth in
Batman da gawd. Just starred in the boldest cinematic universe comic movie yet.
There's a blinding light in the BVS poster too... and the sun rising as Superman is resurrected or comes back kinda makes sense since he's solar powered...
Glass Rebel
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I can only hope that you will come to see the light in February 2018 and stop caping for this emo chump.
Since they are aerodynamic... would that not make sense?
Exploratory
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Without Superman.
Okay, the tagline is seriously bothering me. Bat's head is overlayed over "United" but his body is overlayed by "The League". The inconsistency means my eye is confused whether it's supposed to pay attention to the character or the text to at a glance.
Why does the tagline have to be so goddamn huge anyway. It takes up the entirety of the center of the picture. Maybe it's to hide that the league isn't doing anything interesting, but...well, that's the problem. I hate how so many posters seem to just be "Have character stand there staring at something".
Why does the tagline have to be so goddamn huge anyway. It takes up the entirety of the center of the picture. Maybe it's to hide that the league isn't doing anything interesting, but...well, that's the problem. I hate how so many posters seem to just be "Have character stand there staring at something".
He's the got danged Flash he cares about aerodynamics as much as Superman should care about gravitational forces.
SNYDER: Okay so the Flash he runs really fast right? Like, he's a really good running guy?
JOHNS: Well, it's not really that simple I mean, yes he runs fast but-
SNYDER: Perfect we'll put him in a bike helmet.
AuthenticM
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They should be facing right.
replace Empire with L'Oreal and it wouldn't make a difference.Even better.
More warrior motifs, please
To be fair, Quicksilver got some training shorts in Avengers and thats it.He's the got danged Flash he cares about aerodynamics as much as Superman should care about gravitational forces.
SNYDER: Okay so the Flash he runs really fast right? Like, he's a really good running guy?
JOHNS: Well, it's not really that simple I mean, yes he runs fast but-
SNYDER: Perfect we'll put him in a bike helmet.
He's the got danged Flash he cares about aerodynamics as much as Superman should care about gravitational forces.
SNYDER: Okay so the Flash he runs really fast right? Like, he's a really good running guy?
JOHNS: Well, it's not really that simple I mean, yes he runs fast but-
SNYDER: Perfect we'll put him in a bike helmet.
Hey I'm not agreeing with it, but if that's their line of thought, at least they put some thought into it and it kinda makes sense. You seem him, you think aero dynamic...
the only way to unite the league is by watching the solo films, or else this gets cancelled
I'm not an expert photographer/cinematographer but there's a stand out issue with this poster, something that really bugs me - facing left.
Left lateral movement is generally associated (in western, non-Arabic cultures) with negative connotations: evil, being wrong or regression. We read right hand movement as progress. 60-64% of camera pans are to the right, indicating that overall progress in film visually connoted as to-the-right.
http://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/vitae/EgiziiDennyNeuendorfetal12.pdf
This study uses examples from Hitchcock's Strangers on a train and Run Lola Run to show how a protagonist and antagonist are intentionally introduced, and how a protagonist finally learns to do things the right way, respectively. In Run Lola Run, for instance, she starts out her day running from right-to-left only to fail in both initial attempts to save her boyfriend's life and only when she chooses the path going to the right (on screen) does she succeed.
There's a few instances of "good" characters moving left in dramatic/climactic battles, Braveheart and The Last Samurai -- but compare that to The Battle of the Bastards from Game of Thrones that took a decided heroes move to the right on screen striving against the forces of evil.
The JL poster seems to position its heroes as facing off against evil forces that are coming from the left (and presumably moving right).
There's the added confusion of lighting - the sun is behind them, on their right hand shoulders, but they're also being lit by another source coming from the left?
It all seems to be intentionally working against convention -- or I hope it's intentional, because it could just as easily come off as sloppy and not well thought out.
But you can see that the filmmakers understand these conventions and have executed them before -- Snyder purposefully positioned Superman on the right of the screen facing left against Batman -- a visual cue for us to presume Batman as the hero who faces to the right, against adversity, in both the movie (BvS) and on its poster.
Left lateral movement is generally associated (in western, non-Arabic cultures) with negative connotations: evil, being wrong or regression. We read right hand movement as progress. 60-64% of camera pans are to the right, indicating that overall progress in film visually connoted as to-the-right.
http://academic.csuohio.edu/kneuendorf/vitae/EgiziiDennyNeuendorfetal12.pdf
This study uses examples from Hitchcock's Strangers on a train and Run Lola Run to show how a protagonist and antagonist are intentionally introduced, and how a protagonist finally learns to do things the right way, respectively. In Run Lola Run, for instance, she starts out her day running from right-to-left only to fail in both initial attempts to save her boyfriend's life and only when she chooses the path going to the right (on screen) does she succeed.
There's a few instances of "good" characters moving left in dramatic/climactic battles, Braveheart and The Last Samurai -- but compare that to The Battle of the Bastards from Game of Thrones that took a decided heroes move to the right on screen striving against the forces of evil.
The JL poster seems to position its heroes as facing off against evil forces that are coming from the left (and presumably moving right).
There's the added confusion of lighting - the sun is behind them, on their right hand shoulders, but they're also being lit by another source coming from the left?
It all seems to be intentionally working against convention -- or I hope it's intentional, because it could just as easily come off as sloppy and not well thought out.
But you can see that the filmmakers understand these conventions and have executed them before -- Snyder purposefully positioned Superman on the right of the screen facing left against Batman -- a visual cue for us to presume Batman as the hero who faces to the right, against adversity, in both the movie (BvS) and on its poster.
VenomousCoffee
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Just a badly designed image. Their legs and torsos take up such a huge % of the poster, but they don't really convey anything interesting. And their faces (which, like others have said, aren't facing the same direction) are at the very top of the image, where they are too small/distant for the viewer to connect with.
I guess it's supposed to convey that they're powerful, but to me it feels like the image is simultaneously far away and crowded. Ugh.
I guess it's supposed to convey that they're powerful, but to me it feels like the image is simultaneously far away and crowded. Ugh.
Gordon Shumway
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Might be part of the problem.
yep, disabling avatars, disabling images, and using the chrome CSS Stylebot to make GAF look more like the page we use at work is a great advantage
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