Comments on: 10,000 BC Poster http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/ Because we all like pretty pictures Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: clearreceptor http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/#comment-3162 clearreceptor Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:52:47 +0000 http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/#comment-3162 I think the poster fails becuase the giant mammoth and the teeny caveman arn't really engaging eachother. There's no action. The cavemen doesn't seem to be throwing the spear at the mammoth or even looking at the damn thing for that matter. He just feels "there", because, well...they needed him. And while the mammoth is the center of attention...it seems dead to me, positioned on its hind legs for a good photo-op in a natural history museum. Which, by the way, could be intentional since there's this ice-age allusion going on at the top of the poster. "Thawed and coming to a theatre near you." I think the poster fails becuase the giant mammoth and the teeny caveman arn’t really engaging eachother. There’s no action. The cavemen doesn’t seem to be throwing the spear at the mammoth or even looking at the damn thing for that matter. He just feels “there”, because, well…they needed him. And while the mammoth is the center of attention…it seems dead to me, positioned on its hind legs for a good photo-op in a natural history museum.

Which, by the way, could be intentional since there’s this ice-age allusion going on at the top of the poster.

“Thawed and coming to a theatre near you.”

]]> By: Larking http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/#comment-1104 Larking Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:58:05 +0000 http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/#comment-1104 That is a very interesting analysis Andrew. The H.R. Giger spear bit is cracking me up. That is a very interesting analysis Andrew. The H.R. Giger spear bit is cracking me up.

]]> By: andrewTee http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/#comment-1097 andrewTee Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:35:52 +0000 http://www.movieposteraddict.com/2007/10/04/10000-bc-poster/#comment-1097 I know what you mean. They kept the thing from looking like a dumb caveman cliché, so hats off there. But somehow the angle on the mammoth doesn't seem to threaten the caveman like it should. The cave-dude, meanwhile, is stuffed in the corner, like a little toy figure that's fallen over in a museum diorama. And what's with the fancy-shmancy spear? I hear H.R. Giger wants it back. I'd guess the original poster had the mammoth more central, and put you the viewer underneath it, in harm's way. Then some studio guy told them to slide the beast over and put a li'l caveman in, to suggest the conflict. So now the poster's neither immersive nor clear. My 8-year-old daughter said of the trailer, "I don't understand what story they're trying to tell." I guess I feel the same way about this poster. I know what you mean. They kept the thing from looking like a dumb caveman cliché, so hats off there. But somehow the angle on the mammoth doesn’t seem to threaten the caveman like it should. The cave-dude, meanwhile, is stuffed in the corner, like a little toy figure that’s fallen over in a museum diorama. And what’s with the fancy-shmancy spear? I hear H.R. Giger wants it back.

I’d guess the original poster had the mammoth more central, and put you the viewer underneath it, in harm’s way. Then some studio guy told them to slide the beast over and put a li’l caveman in, to suggest the conflict. So now the poster’s neither immersive nor clear.

My 8-year-old daughter said of the trailer, “I don’t understand what story they’re trying to tell.” I guess I feel the same way about this poster.

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