Over the past few weeks Smith has been submitting other poster designs, all of which have been rejected. In frustration he submitted the following poster - which was immediately approved:
While I'm glad to see a one-sheet that isn't just "big heads" like oh so many posters out there, I cannot see this poster hanging on my wall.
Now I will grant you that it's a great gag and will definitely drive up box office rev due to the "scandal" element but as a piece of advertising it's just not pretty. Solid white? Really? Judging by the trailer and the footage I saw at Comic-Con the film has a very nice color palette which is reflected in the Canadian poster. Couldn't they have at least incorporated that into this new one?
Sorry. I'm nitpicking. I love Kevin Smith. And apparently so do a lot of other people. The movie showed at the Toronto International Film Festival this week and has been receiving great notices from places like Daily Variety, Time Magazine and Roger Ebert.
Speaking of Roger...
The other day he wrote one of his most scathing reviews ever and it wasn't about a film. Ebert wrote a review of Sarah Palin.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/1156080,091008ebertpalin.article
I heart Roger Ebert so much. Pulitzer Prize winning critic, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" screenwriter, cancer survivor and political pundit extraordinaire.
I guess I'll finish this up with a trailer.
This is the just released trailer for the new Clint Eastwood directed, J. Michael Straczynski written, Angelina Jolie starring "Changeling".
It seems that Clint can do no wrong. I am a HUGE geek for films about the dark side of old Los Angeles like "LA Confidential" and "Chinatown" and this film looks very promising. Hopefully it will not turn into another "Black Dahlia".
Mahalo.
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