Friday
29Aug2008
'Body of Lies' Has a Really Boring Movie Poster
Friday, August 29, 2008 at 2:44AM
Hmm...I'm not falling in love with
Body of Lies. Let's begin at the beginning: The
first trailer for the
Ridley Scott spy movie was as exciting as week
old melba toast. Remember? It was one of the three trailers released with The
Dark Knight, and of the three - Terminator and Watchmen being
the others - it was the one you would've been perfectly OK without?
The second trailer was a little better. I'm convinced
that the re-recorded
Russell Crowe's voice because something about
his accent became much more believable in round two. It still wasn't great, and
I didn't have the sort of reaction you'd expect when you see Crowe and
Leo DiCaprio on screen together.
And now, thanks to
Cinematical, there's a poster for Body of Lies
and it's terribly perfunctory, just like everything else I've seen. The color
scheme is something out of 1992 and the Photoshopping makes DiCaprio look like a
G.I. Joe action figure - the hair's plastic, the furrowed brow doesn't look
real, the left arm can only move in 45 degree increments. No thanks.
Reader Comments (8)
The poster has a very dated look and as you say the arm has been badly photoshopped to leave room for the placement of the title text.
I guess a film with Leo and Russel would have caused a buzz a decade ago, but these days the kids want Shia The Steak instead. The irony is that Leo has never been as good as he is today.
Russel is more or less running on empty, which seems to go for my favourite director Ridley as well.
"Russel is more or less running on empty, which seems to go for my favourite director Ridley as well."
American Gnagster and 3:10 Yuma just last year for Crowe...and this his character in this movie looks fantastic. Consistently great as always
Well, I don't agree. Those roles had nothing new, just weaker versions of Russel Crowes previous exploits.
The last film that really displayed Russel Crowes special brand of on-screen charisma was Master of Commander.
American Gangster was a huge disappointment in every department.
If that's DiCaprio's real body, then I just figured out who should play Michael Phelps!
When I saw this poster it made me think of the Heat movie posters. It has nothing original.
Yeh, the poster looks like Heat and the trailer looks like Syriana. Wonder what we're looking forward to.
"Wonder what we're looking forward to."
Nothing.
I'm tired of seeing either of the Scott brothers direct anymore. Nothing between the two of them has been good since Gladiator, which unfortunately has spawned too many more collaborations with Russel Crowe. That and I'm going to go ahead and blame them for the destruction of Denzel Washington's career (or credit them for pointing out his limited range as an actor)
Black Hawk Down, Man on Fire, Domino and Kingdom of Heaven were all good in their various ways.
Not many directors could have pulled those off as well or with the same depth of vision.
Denzel is not always brilliant but he's good when he ventures outside the normal "I'm the Likeable Denzel" fold.