Though these posters are slight variation on the pictures released a while back that’s not such a bad thing because they’re just so damn gorgeous. If you didn’t think Hugh Jackman was a hunk already, these posters should have no problem converting you. If they don’t, then you just might not have a sexual bone in your body. Heck, I’d usually never cheat on my affections for Zooey Deschanel, but hell if I don’t wish I were the one kissing him in the rain or licking his hands like that fire. Okay, maybe not that last part. Hand licking is just plain weird. My apologies to any hand fetishists who may read this blog, but it’s just a fact. Just like it’s a fact that AUSTRALIA is going to be the prettiest thing to prey on your eyes since Amy Adams.
The trend at this year’s San Diego Comic Con seems to have been for studios to release two posters at the same time. All things come in twos I guess, an apt expression to use perhaps given that these two posters are for the remake of the excellent 1951 film of the same name. Based on the recent trailer, it actually looks like a remake that might not entirely suck. If anything it’s a stroke of casting brilliance to cast Keanu Reeves as an emotionless, expressionless alien.It does look like the remake ups the stakes a little from the original, but that’s fine. These two posters certainly convey that threat too, especially in the one where Gort (the robot looking thing) appears to be standing over earth itself. Consider me moderately intrigued.
P.S.: On a visually nerdy note, I kind of dig - though I’m not sure it’s intentional - that in many ways the posters are visual inversions of each other.
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