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Eric Tan Poster Art
The superb artist Eric Tan has just released via his blog (http://erictanart.blogspot.com/) the artwork for his 'Temple Of Doom' retro-style poster. You may already be aware that he has done a similar poster for Raiders that is available in the official Indiana Jones shop. He states that this new 'Temple Of Doom' print should be available via Acme Archives (http://acmearchivesdirect.com/) shortly ...
Eric Tan posted on his blog about the finishing up the trilogy with the Last Crusade. You can find it at the end of his Feb. 14th post. I hope he does a Crystal Skull one with a 50's B-Movie style.
I love the Temple of Doom and Raiders posters, but I'm not so crazy about the Last Crusade one. It's just a bit odd. Why have Henry Sr. be the large image of the poster? He's not imposing or threatening like the villain in Temple of Doom, nor is he the hero. I understand not wanting to do Indy again, but making it Henry Sr. just seems so strange. Eh, I guess it doesn't really matter, since I won't buy these anyway (although I love them).
Why have Henry Sr. be the large image of the poster? He's not imposing or threatening like the villain in Temple of Doom, nor is he the hero. I understand not wanting to do Indy again, but making it Henry Sr. just seems so strange.
I see it as Henry Sr. is always looking over Indy. Judging him as a father does. Not to mention Connery was as big of a character as Ford in LC.
While I love all three of these posters, I prefer "Doom" and "Crusade."
It's also lame that they took the "Doom" tagline and used it for "Raiders" and slapped the "Doom" poster with the lame-ass "The Adventure Continues...".
For "Raiders", they should have used "The Return of the Great Adventure", which was used on re-release posters, to keep it consistent.