Now it's all I see too. Not quite a self portrait of Mr. Struzan though.No Ticket said:a smiling face that was staring into cate's crotch.
HollyW00d said:Here's a quick shop I did to compare them all
HollyW00d said:Here's a quick shop I did to compare them all
ya i posted this on the 7th page post 93 but I ain't in it for the fortune and glory.drwynn said:...and, if I had bothered to read the page before this one...I would have seen that the information I just posted was already provided by someone else.
Sorry, mods...my bad!
A_True_Believer said:I think I know why the new poster is throwing me off a bit: it's really photorealistic. The other posters are more "sketchy". This is not a bad thing. If anything, it shows how the quality of Drew's work has improved.
What angers me is seeing people at other sites saying that it sucks because "it's photoshopped!". It's sad that in this day and age people can not just assume that Drew has simply gotten better at what he does and instead conclude that he's cheating.
mr.wolf said:ya i posted this on the 7th page post 93 but I ain't in it for the fortune and glory.
Yeah his trademark smirk would have been a nice touch! Drew already shaved off 10 years in the poster, and the lopsided smile would have taken off a few more.replican't said:Looking at the new poster, I'm surprised they didnt have him smiling fully, a la Raiders. When you see photos of Ford flashing his pearlies, he looks a whole lot more youthful. In this one, he looks like's about to cry.
Still, its not a bad poster and certainly fits with the other 3.
No Ticket said:The thing on the left.
I know that says "drew" ... really... I do. But the first time I noticed it I thought it was a smiling face that was staring into cate's crotch. With the "w" making up the forehead and nose... and the little black speck making up the eye.
Now that's all I see when I look at the poster. Haha.
I have a shirt with this on it and everyone tells me Indy looks mexican!snake_surprise said:Looks great, although you should use the first and original Raiders poster in this comparison. The poster you are using here is the 1982 re-release poster.
The original is better for your/our purposes here as it is a portrait pic of Indy.
I think a Struzan poster is only as good as the reference material that he's provided with. It's possible that the intense -- and unprecedented -- secrecy surrounding "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" meant that Struzan didn't receive as much reference material as he did for, say, "Last Crusade".The Stranger said:Uhm... I've read all of the replies, just to realize the almost entirety of you fellow IndyFans loved the new poster a lot. But to me the thing is a little different...
Sadly, I don't like this poster... and I say "sadly" because it is clear that it will be the definitive one...
Uhm... no... the more I look at it, the more I don't like it...
This doesn't have anything to do with the colours, the speculated Photoshop editing or whatever else... I don't like it because of the portraits... the most important thing in a film poster are the portraits of the actors, but, in this new poster, they simply aren't so good to me.
- As somebody else already wrote in one of the first pages of this thread, the portrait of Cate Blanchett makes her seem to be a chinese/mongolian actress... and NOT Cate Blanchett... amen to that...
- The portrait of Karen Allen simply doesn't look like Karen Allen at all...
- The portrait of Shia LaBeouf makes him look much older than he is and, most of all, it makes him look as he was of indian ethnicity (imagine a little darker skin on his face and you'll know what I'm referring to...)
- And then the portrait of Harrison Ford... the number one of them all... well done, except that the mouth looks so unnatural and the left profile of the face and chin is not good at all.
Now, call me a stupid, call me a nitpicker, whatever you want... but this is what I think of this new poster: the teaser one was FAR BETTER...
Drew Struzan is a GREAT artist... sorry but to me this poster is probably the worst he has ever drawn. This doesn't mean it's awful, just that it's mediocre. The only well done drawings are the portrait of Ray Winstone and the image of Indy rushing away from the natives (which is FANTASTIC, by the way).
Anyway... have a look at what I think is a GREAT promotional image, and would have been a GREAT official poster...
P.S. I still think the only good thing about this new "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" poster is the fact that I'm probably the only fan in the world who dislikes it. LOL!! Well, after all, is a positive thing.
You're not the only one who isn't crazy about it! The more I look at it, the less I like it! I'm definitely disappointed by the end result, and I agree the Hugh Fleming poster is more exciting and better handled than Struzan's.The Stranger said:Uhm... I've read all of the replies, just to realize the almost entirety of you fellow IndyFans loved the new poster a lot. But to me the thing is a little different...
Sadly, I don't like this poster... and I say "sadly" because it is clear that it will be the definitive one...
Uhm... no... the more I look at it, the more I don't like it...
This doesn't have anything to do with the colours, the speculated Photoshop editing or whatever else... I don't like it because of the portraits... the most important thing in a film poster are the portraits of the actors, but, in this new poster, they simply aren't so good to me.
- As somebody else already wrote in one of the first pages of this thread, the portrait of Cate Blanchett makes her seem to be a chinese/mongolian actress... and NOT Cate Blanchett... amen to that...
- The portrait of Karen Allen simply doesn't look like Karen Allen at all...
- The portrait of Shia LaBeouf makes him look much older than he is and, most of all, it makes him look as he was of indian ethnicity (imagine a little darker skin on his face and you'll know what I'm referring to...)
- And then the portrait of Harrison Ford... the number one of them all... well done, except that the mouth looks so unnatural and the left profile of the face and chin is not good at all.
Now, call me a stupid, call me a nitpicker, whatever you want... but this is what I think of this new poster: the teaser one was FAR BETTER...
Drew Struzan is a GREAT artist... sorry but to me this poster is probably the worst he has ever drawn. This doesn't mean it's awful, just that it's mediocre. The only well done drawings are the portrait of Ray Winstone and the image of Indy rushing away from the natives (which is FANTASTIC, by the way).
Anyway... have a look at what I think is a GREAT promotional image, and would have been a GREAT official poster...
(That was the image from the cover of the comic adaptation of the movie)
P.S. I still think the only good thing about this new "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" poster is the fact that I'm probably the only fan in the world who dislikes it. LOL!! Well, after all, is a positive thing.
sarah navarro said:I have a shirt with this on it and everyone tells me Indy looks mexican!