Why Do Movie Posters Suck Now?

Here are my thoughts on the current state of movie posters and why they're so much worse than they used to be.

[NightmaresinParadise]

thank you! i hate the floating heads it’s so visually unappealing

[tigermacc]

My favorite poster of all time is the one from Spider-Man 3. Where he is sitting on the ledge with the black suit in the reflection behind him

[lukassmarkusslegzdins]

I heard someone else say this, that back in the day posters were THE main marketing tool. Then they didn't have the sort of trailer culture that we have today and the poster is secondary. So I guess as dependency on the poster as a marketing tool declined, so did the need for them to pop and be original.

[jacktoma]

The funny thing is, I’ve been taking comic book posters and redrawing them with comic designs and I usually always go with the multiple heads photoshop one, just cause it gives me an excuse to draw more of the characters.

[danielatthemovies]

Love the different type of video! Keep doing what you're doing

[betterine]

Just saying this is a really cool channel and I wanna see it keep growing — it's very honest which I like.

[alimfuzzy]

It can all be seen in the rise of the skywalkwer poster. They actually had a beautiful drew struzan poster done. But scrapped it for one in which they used a photo of a toy of the emporer on it. They had access to the actor but instead used the toy because of reasons.

[bloodbond]

I found this channel because I saw Nerdstalgic had an upload about this subject. I decided to find out who they ripped off this time. Idk if that was this video (I didn't watch the Nerdstalgic video) but you've got yourself a sub!

[yuichiusagirabbitpawssnow]

Love 💕 old star 🌟 wars poster and older Indian jones movie poster really good 😊

[christiangrant]

If you have to put a bunch floating jpegs of your whole cast on your poster business wise thats fine, but at least give it a style that fits the tone of the film like 2000s star wars and indiana jones for example

[vfc]

Welcome back! Also, will you ever do a review of Quantumania?

[jespersichlau]

I actually don't think movie posters are much worse than back in the days. I think we just tend to look back at the good ones and forget the terrible ones. Plus when all you are fed with is the exact same style of poster it gets tiresome very easy. We're probably gonna look back at todays best posters in 20-30 years with a sense of nostalgia thinking these were good. That's how nostalgia works, we forget the bad things and remembers the good stuff.

[StarWarsHour]

I mean when comparing them to other posters that are white backgrounds with a character and the title (your ferris buillers, norbit, nutty groundhog days) like they don’t put effort into the poster at all. It looks like stock photos.

[Comicbroe]

It's so weird how main posters these days look so meh & muddled but all variants look mostly amazing.

[EqualOpportunityDestoroya]

Somewhere in Time is a good way to start for listening to Iron Maiden, but Piece of Mind is the best.

[joec]

3:27 Don't disrespect the Chef man like that. He's the reason I watched the movie

[Fatsaver]

Back they wanted art to be remembered. Now they want you to remember who's in the movie.

[RobbieWilkinson-fl]

Funny that you used the video cassette posters for the first 2 Indiana Jones movies and not the original release posters which I like a lot better

[StarWarsHour]

The worst poster I believe isn’t a movie poster but a Broadway musical. Anastasia the new Broadway musical. It’s actually really good but the poster is just bad.

[boomingbob]

Because nowadays they use the same style every-time where the old ones were unique