Sometimes the whole world goes, "it's never just you".

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers.

You won't believe these posters for the X-Men: First Class movie.

Seriously, who green-lighted these? Because they're giggling now.









Ahh, the old saying. "You'll never be old if you keep your youth in your pants."

Legal, legal.

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

oh Wade... you crazy stalker/fanboy/merc

[ninjapeps]

those posters are real? seriously?

[proteus_lives]

For real-real, not play-play.

[ninjapeps]

if the posters were just silhouettes, it'd be acceptable. adding the faces was just moronic. someone got paid to make that crap?

[ondine]

idk, even when you remove the faces, those silhouettes still look off... it's got something to do with the cropping and underwhelming use of whitespace, i think. they managed to screw up silhouettes, my god.

[midnightvoyager]

Look at the edges. LOOK AT THE EDGES OH GOD. Someone seriously just sat down with a lasso tool and flood-filled that shit in.

[blake_reitz]

Sad. Those first two posters were quite pretty.

[thanekos]

These are, one might say, totally lame buttface posters.

Mod note

[greenmask]

But one wouldn't, here, because of how we have that anti-ablism/"don't say lame" policy!

[sherkahn]

Ok, still waiting for the posters to show up. All I see is the legal (and great!) Deadpool & Thor team up, and some poor DeviantArt attempts at X-men posters.

Seriously, where?

[proteus_lives]

Accept the truth.

Someone thought these were an awesome idea.

[sherkahn]

Reality is a prison. Your mind can set you free.

[darkknightjrk]

Lord, they aimed STRAIGHT for the laps of each of them, didn't they?

[charlottesmtms.livejournal.com]

Is that Loki's headgear, on the ground?

[proteus_lives]

Nah, random Asgardian horn-helm. It's their version of a baseball cap.

[charlottesmtms.livejournal.com]

Ah ... good to know!

Where did that set of panels come from, btw?

[perletwo]

Erik. Charles. Try to think of each other with your big heads, not with your little heads.... *sigh*

[darkblade]

but their little heads become so much bigger when they are thought with.

[liara_shadowsong]

*giggle*

[sinisterlink]

Yet another thing to make me go, "Hrrm" about this movie. The trailer and images and everything from it have all been very meh to me so far. And now we get crotchface posters. Brilliant.

[lissa_quon]

Wow...really.

They're really going with that?

That looks like 15 minutes in Photoshop was spent - tops. What the hell, who signed off on these?

Hey Marvel! If you need someone to make your movie posters, I could do you better than that. *phone gesture* Call me!

[liara_shadowsong]

Honestly? I suspect even I could do better than that. And I don't do digital art. Period. This icon *points* is the nicest thing I have ever drawn on a computer. And I could still do better than faded crotch-face with bad sillouettes. Which look like they were thrown together in ten minutes (no, I'm not even giving them the benefit of the doubt and saying fifteen like you). Although I'm sure you could do much, much better than either that or me. Especially if you actually, y'know, know how to use an art program properly *pokes Gimp with a stick and watches it billow smoke*. Eep.

[jeyl]

That's the worst Teaser Poster design I've ever seen. I've seen direct-to-video cover artwork that have a lot more work put into them. Criterion Collection these are not.

God, are poster artists really becoming an extinct race in the industry? Just check out some of the artwork from these fellow film poster artists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Film_poster_artists

And if you want to watch a great video tribute to Drew Struzan by the Nostalgia Critic, check this out. It's pretty funny and informative.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2081-drew-struzan-tribute

And incase you don't see any problems with that video, check out his top 11 fu** ups video. :)

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/11136-top11fup

[blackruzsa]

That's.... pretty bad.
And the placement is unfortunate.

[baihu]

Man, they couldn't even afford some grudge graphic brushes while they were diddling away with masking in Photoshop?

[wizardru]

This thing has 'train-wreck' written all over it. Every new nugget of information that comes out about it just makes it look worse and worse.

[valtyr]

I'm going for Emma Frost in Sixties gear. Did you see her fur hat? Precious.

[ironspider]

My god, those are terrible. The sad thing is, is that this was lesson #1 in the Photoshop class I'm in this semester. I have little to no hope left for this movie.

[halloweenjack]

I'm not getting "crotchface" out of these so much as that they're putting the younger characters literally in the shadows of the older ones. McAvoy and Fassbender are pretty well known on their own merits already, do the producers really want to implicitly compare them to Stewart and McKellen?

[darkblade]

Well if you want to screw over good actors thats a good way to do it.

[greenmask]

I don't know why people are still pretending that X-Men: First Class is real. Is it all a big joke on me, that everyone else is in on?

[cloud_wolf]

I refuse to believe these are real.

They are terrible..

[steverodgers5]

In my home town's cinema in the UK, they've got the International posters up, which are much, much better..(I mean Gosh they have actual backgrounds!)

Although for some reason, the tag line on one of the UK posters annoys me. The whole "Before he was Magneto, he was Erik Lensherr" has the 80es fanboy in me screaming, no, no he was Magnus!. I dunno, Magneto never really felt like an Erik to me..

[autumn_lily]

Before he was Magneto, he was Erik Lensherr


And before he was Erik Lensherr he was Magnus....

And before that he was Max Eisenhardt....

And before that.....

[liara_shadowsong]

Damn, those are some ugly posters. Please tell me this is a spoof thrown together by a fan on Photoshop in ten or fifteen minutes for fun, which accidentally got mistaken for the real deal. Lie to me if you must.

[selke]

Hey, I have that filter for Photoshop.

[ar_feiniel]

Their heads are floating in their crotches...

[chocochuy]

Nice April Fools' Joke, Marvel. Now give us some decent posters.

Wait, What do you mean this isn't an April Fools' Joke?