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[iainjclark]

The official poster for Serenity is out and... I'm just not sure about it.



Beautiful woman with f***-off big gun, cool spaceship, broody hero. Tick, tick, tick. It's just not exciting me in the way that (let's face it) more or less everything about the movie has done to date. There's nothing about it that makes it stand out, and with that grainy shot of Mal it looks worryingly like a straight-to-video DVD cover, albeit a reasonably up-market one.

EDIT: the closer you get to it, the better it looks, but still...

Comments

[williamjm.livejournal.com]

It does look a bit straight-to-DVD-action-film-poster.

Also a bit indistinct, at first glance from a distance it probably isn't obvious that she's holding a gun it's so darkly lit and anyone not familiar with Firefly might not immediately notice the strange firey thing in the bottom right is a spaceship.

[ajp.livejournal.com]

As posters go - I've seen better.

But I've seen worse too...

Here's hoping it's enough.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Compare and contrast, movie vs novelisation:



I prefer the novelisation!

On second thoughts...

[williamjm.livejournal.com]

Actually, looking at it a bit more, I think it would be a fine if unspectacular poster if it wasn't for Mal's GIANT HEAD looming in the background.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Classic[1] BIG HEID poster. Hopefully there will be others.

[1] ie cliched and mandatory.

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or does it make Mal look like Charlie Sheen?

[danmilburn.livejournal.com]

Summer Glau is hott. That is all.