90’s old school thriller poster for In The Valley of Elah
Posted by Matt Holmes
I was wrong when I said Lions for Lambs looked like an old school 90’s poster. This poster for the Paul Haggis co-written and directed middle-east drama In The Valley of Elah is how you do it!
Big American flag, actors in clothing that really does nothing for them and kind of a bleak colour scheme. I could imagine that poster being on the front of a VHS box.
Big cast in this one. Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, James Franco, Josh Brolin and Susan Sarandon. The movie follows Jones and Sarandon who team with a police officer (Theron) to uncover the truth about their son’s dissapearance in Iraq.
Relevant story but in the hands of Haggis, it’s going to be finger-pointing nonsense with zero conclusion and zero reason to care for anyone. Look for this next month in the U.S. and in January for the U.K.
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I happen to like those 90’s posters, they were more sophisticated than the brain dead crap they make today (Transformers) or just plain stupid one-sheets (We Own the Night). The 90’s had some kick-ass thriller posters that had nothing to do with American flags (The Firm, Backdraft) or washed out colors.
That said, I do agree that this poster could use some focus (the light’s too soft, the image too blurred) and the cop car in the background just looks funny.
A very 90s posters. Unlike you JaySmack I’m not a fan of the movie posters of the 1990s. To me it stands as a time when photos took over innovative artwork and things became a bit soulless in comparison to the artyness and/or creative cheesiness of old-school postermaking styles.
I like the look of this poster though, especially with its soft-focus. Whether the film is up to it remains to be seen. It sounds alright, but could just be a hard-to-really-love overwrought drama cleans up at awards ceremonies but doesn’t stand out as a classic.