First 'Inception' Poster from Christopher Nolan

There's a new poster for Christopher Nolan's Inception and...meh. I really dig the tagline - "Your mind is the scene of the crime" - but I don't think it's terribly memorable, as teaser posters for movies of this stature go. Also, what gives with the title font being so similar to Chicago? I'm not sold on that aspect of this poster at all. I don't know what the deal is with the spinning top is in the teaser trailer and on the website, where this poster came from, but I think that would be potentially a more interesting design than this. In fact, it's my opinion that it shouldn't so closely resemble the Joker teaser poster from The Dark Knight, but that's just me.

Comments

[D]

I'm not big on the tagline actually. "Your mind is the scene of the crime" just sounds cheesy to me for some reason. Admittedly, it doesn't help that this is not a particularly good poster (I actually thought it was Nolan on it at first). While I am a full on Nolan fanboy who's seen all his movies more times than I wish to admit, I am really worried about the marketing of this film. I have no doubt the movie will be good, but I have feeling this could be a bomb at the box office.

[Jonny]

I like this a lot.

[SEAN]

Agree , lets explore the spinning top I want to know what that is...

To me this screams disaster movie lol
--Like NYC is being flooded calling 2012 & The Day After Tomorrow...

[1-7]

The author of this article is an !diot. So is D. The author should be banned from ever writing again.

[Get The Big Picture]

Thanks for your input. On what grounds am I an idiot? Is it that I don't believe Christopher Nolan is infallible?

[Lillian James]

I agree on the Chicago lettering. That's really blah. And when I first saw this article in my top sites thing on my computer, I could see a smallish picture of the poster and I totally thought it was a TDK poster. I mean, did they do that on purpose or what?

[anybody]

The one thing I will say to defend this poster (and why it looks like a TDK poster) is that I get a sense of Wally Pfister's cinematography in it (just like the TDK poster of which it is being compared). I like the idea of posters looking like the films they come from but I do agree with the comments about the tagline. (some serious cheese, maybe some corn too) and the lettering (a solid red might have been more visceral). I'm not worried about the film though, this is a great collection of talented artists at work.

[anybody]

Ohhhh I get it now... the letters are all little mazes, like the kids puzzles you get on restaurant place mats. I couldn't tell until I enlarged the image.