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Post #253227

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Gaffer Tape
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Star Wars Wall Paper I Made!
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Date created
24-Oct-2006, 7:35 PM
Well, as long as we're on the topic of posters, I know that a lot of people have expressed their affinity for the SE posters. And I agree that they're good-looking posters, but they, as well as the '04 covers, have the same thing going on: they represent the three movies visually as a trilogy. And, yeah, it sounds good when I put it that way, but it doesn't honor them as individual movies. For example, think of the original poster artwork. Each movie had the main cast in the look and situations they would be in that movie. Also, since they're right here, take a gander at the prequel posters. Each one has the main cast of the movie in an image that reflects the movie. Now look at the '97 and '04 artwork. For Star Wars, both have the main cast of Luke, Han, Leia, and Obi-Wan. All is good. But then you get to the sequels, and it seems like they feel compelled to use all the new characters and all the characters that weren't pictured previously. Neither ESB cover has any of the three main stars on it. Can you imagine a movie poster for any movie that emphasizes the cast but doesn't feature the stars of the movie? And while I don't mind the '04 covers as much as most of you here seem to, I have to admit that the ESB cover has a particularly weird assortment of characters: Vader, Lando, and Yoda? Granted they're all major characters, but if you hadn't seen these movies before, you'd think that the star of ESB was Vader, and that he has a whole new cast of adversaries to fight against. I just felt that's something I wanted to add to this discussion.