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The New PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES Poster Is Pretty Cool!!
Merrick here...
This poster actually appeared online over at IGN a few days ago but got lost in AICN's SXSW madness.
Nonetheless, here's a rather nice/classically styled poster for PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES. Not out-of-the-park great, but rather good, and definitely puts to shame many recent poster offerings from similarly high profile projects (Universal's ROBIN HOOD posters and Fox's cheap/lazy/amateurish X-MEN: FIRST CLASS artwork spring to mind).
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Works for me.
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My paycheck!!
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'Smells something bad pose to express mystery'
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a lot!
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Bringing them a little more front and centre would have been a nice touch. That is, with there chests facing front.
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As will TF3. How many times do you fanboys need to get burned to learn your lesson?
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March 15, 2011, 10:26 a.m. CST
In the Disney Universe, mermaids always face away from the viewer...
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
...or have clamshells instead of mammaries. It's a law!
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It's in RUSSIAN!! check it out, it is grand!
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http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/03/15/russian-x-men-first-class-trailer-banshee/
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This whole shebang is really grooving to a "Black Pearl" vibe. I think a return to form is in the offing. Psyched.
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I'll PROBABLY see it with some friends, but tired of the stupidity... can't blame everybody for getting out, the stories kept getting more retarded with each release. Depp is like Nic Cage.. will sign on the dotted line for ANYTHING
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Another $350+ million for Johnny Depp and his Pirates. Book it.
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March 15, 2011, 10:47 a.m. CST
Am I the only when disenchanted with Johnny Depp's performance?
by SmokingRobot
He turned what could have been an interesting character in to a cartoon.
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Also, is that the pearl on fire ?
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On the other hand, it is a nice looking poster.
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One of the most beautiful women in world, Penelope Cruz, is in this movie and you don't put her on the poster = GAAAAAAAY!
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Take this exact shot, color, composition, etc., but have Struzan paint it in his wonderful style, and this poster goes from "cool" to "I WANT IT ON MY WALL FRAMED!" Summer blockbusters just aren't the same since he retired. Thank you studio marketing hacks.
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Jack Sparrow is gonna go all John Woo with those two pistols in his pockets. This is a really nice design for a poster. It's a heroic framing for Sparrow, and it's not floating head Photoshop.
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Does he set certain parts of it on fire to terrify opponents and victims the way he put fiery brands in his beard and hair?
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I HATED the last Pirates Movie, but I'm actually excited to see this one. The poster looks great. And yes it seriously puts to shame that horrible X-Men Posters
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Just goes to show how our standard for what constitutes a good poster has fallen. Utterly forgettable, something which could never be said about Struzan, Peak, Saul Bass and co.
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They finally realized that Jack Sparrow IS POTC...and got rid of Elizabeth and that douche from LOTR.
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March 15, 2011, 11:19 a.m. CST
I'm not saying this to disparage the gay community, but this poster is pretty gay.
by Coughlins Laws
And did pirates from a century or two ago REALLY have their loaded guns pointing right at their dicks? Looking at this poster, not knowing about the other movies, I wouldve just as easily thought the title was ASS-RAMMERS ON THE HIGH SEAS Part 6. Just saying...
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March 15, 2011, 11:21 a.m. CST
Or maybe HINEY-PIRATES Part 12. Hee hee, hee hee...
by Coughlins Laws
Sorry, let all complaint letters from GLAAD go to Merrick for posting this...
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March 15, 2011, 11:47 a.m. CST
I don't think the second one was bad. It was just constant action set-pieces
by Coughlins Laws
and unnecessary plot twists and double-crosses. The third one, however, was just a bunch of really strange shit thrown up on screen, a criminally underused and killed off too soon Chow Yun-Fat, and an extremely disappointing climax that promised a huge battle royale among dozens, if not hundreds of ships, which ended up being a fight between two ships in a lame whirlpool. I'm just glad they cut Orlando Bloom out of this. He was a guy that they thought was some kind of star because he ended up being a character that could've been played by any actor and the two massively successful trilogies he was in would STILL have been blockbusters, it had ZERO to do with his ability or drawing power as an actor. As Hollywood quickly found out, he as no drawing power at all. See that Cameron Crowe movie he stunk up...
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but the problem was never the posters or even the actors. The first film was really good, the second one I can only compare to Transformers 2 and the third one decended into the kingdom of Rubbishdom. So really no one cares!
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Action movie protagonist standing there looking all moody in a HDR'd to death composite of random shit. We've seen it a THOUSAND times before. Fuck me, I HATE movie posters these days. Get Drew Struzen in. At least he had ACTUAL TALENT and not a GCSE in Photoshop.
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I've gotten over the stigma so many on this site still have where they condemn a movie in advance: "It'll suck" / "poster doesn't meet with my standards = movie bad" / "number 3 sucked, number 4 will too" / "Disney is desperate" I am going in expecting a fun pirate movie and that looks exactly like what I will get.
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March 15, 2011, 12:04 p.m. CST
"People looking....very Spielbergian" - Tom Servo, Prince of Space
by Kamaji
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Otherwise it looks like a pile of shite.
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this being the first one. looks awesome.
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...or are you just happy to see a 10-year-old cabin boy?
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hahahaha is this guy fucking serious? a word of advice: get a better taste for women before you get too old to fuck them.
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in the first movie.now that is a fine piece of chocolate ass.
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Not terrible, but kind of overly-serious looking. Guess they want to appeal to people who think the PotC movies are too goofy. I think they should have not focused the poster so much on Depp, and included Penelope, Blackbeard et al. They could still have had grave expressions. Maybe a bit more like the Star Wars and LotR posters. Also, I would enjoy this movie so much more if they would just have a bunch of topless mermaids in it. But they won’t, because of the children. Children fucking ruin everything.
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March 15, 2011, 12:55 p.m. CST
mattman, Disney doesn't have that many franchises they can run into the ground-
by Kamaji
-which explains why they are going as far as they can with POTC before they finally crash and burn, walking away as if nothing happened when Jack wears off on people, or Depp decides not to do anymore and we get some new guy as Jack's long-lost brother John Sparrow to 'continue' said adventures (or at the very least, go all prequel on us as to how Jack became Depp).
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it was an hour too long
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"that jamaican weed is the shit,mon."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKwCCB8G4Uc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I agree with moondog this would look so much better as a panting.
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I agree it would have been a better piece if it was done by Drew or another artist, but at least it's not the floaty heads like the posters for the other 3 movies.
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March 15, 2011, 1:17 p.m. CST
If they thawed Walt Disney and stuffed him full of Taco Bell and pork rinds,
by THE_CHOPPAH
his poop would look better than this poster.
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I'm not big on this series, but I get the feeling they've learned from the mistakes of the first three and this one will be a nice fun cartoon adventure movie.
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i really like that poster.
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http://tinyurl.com/46zuc42
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March 15, 2011, 1:44 p.m. CST
According to Reuters, everyone should get the fuck out of California.
by THE_CHOPPAH
The Big One is coming within the next 30 years. It's time to buy up some future beach front land in Arizona.
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March 15, 2011, 1:47 p.m. CST
MAYBE WHEN HIS KIDS ARE TEENAGERS HE'LL DO LESS MAINSTREAM FILMS AGAIN
by Meadowe
Last time I checked he did the first potc because he wanted to do something his kids could see. Even though they're not officially teenagers now, I remember him giving advice to a reporter about having children, telling him that kids start becoming like teenagers around 10, which is around his daughter's age now I believe. Personally I like both the 90s and current version of Depp. He very well could have been Charlie Sheen crazy by now, but I think he really did take River Phoenix's passing away on the sidewalk of his then partially owned Viper Room as a wake up call to live a cleaner life, if not at least do everything with more moderation.
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March 15, 2011, 1:52 p.m. CST
I dunno, I miss the 90's Depp...
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
...do the occasional weird-ass indie flick, smash up a hotel room with Kate Moss in tow, rinse, repeat.
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He can't even put up a headline correctly.
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March 15, 2011, 1:59 p.m. CST
Merrick is still recovering from a coke-fueled rampage at SXSW last night.
by Frank Conniff
If he’s even there. I don’t know.
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But at least you are RE-posting movie posters as news. Sweet!
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if the directors other work is any clue.
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March 15, 2011, 2:14 p.m. CST
Mark my words: This will be the Batman Forever of this franchise.
by THE_CHOPPAH
Rob Marshall at this point in his career is just like Schumaker was when he took on Bats: Just DYING to make an over-the-top swishy genre film.
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...oh! Isn't that Jack's mother?! Cool!! :)
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I can't get enough of Schindler's List, for example.
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It was epic...
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March 15, 2011, 2:58 p.m. CST
This film could be either better or worse than the Verbinski ones.
by Frank Conniff
Or it could be about the same.
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Oh wait this is Pirates...of the Carribean
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...of this movie. The trailers thus far have been a big yawn.
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I don't give a fuck.
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Can't wait to see how many time she calls Depp "Cocksucker".
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the crazy voodoo witch lady. Whoever she is played by.
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they downplay any love story that might be involved. That was really the downfall of the other movies for me. And of course if the script and direction don’t suck. And they should throw in some topless mermaids for good measure.
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She looks a lot better in that movie because she doesn't have any of the makeup she did in potc.
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So is Jack Sparrow the only character in this movie? Usually the main posters feature a selection of the cast... So far all the marketing has been very Jack focused! http://www.moviepush.co.uk/2011/03/is-disney-over-relying-on-jack-sparrow.html
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This is what designers call "an open composition". That means that there is at least one element that directs attention off the page. This is usually considered a bad thing because the viewer is then wondering what they are missing instead of getting the message of the ad. However, in this case, guesing what you are missing is sort of the point. Or at least I assume it is. It is intrigueing and has hints of events in the film because of the background. However it is a bit odd that the background is obviously a painting and Jack is photoshopped into it. But that provides sort of an interesting effect, kind of implying the fantasy nature of the film. So yeah not a bad poster in and of itself. I probably would have preferred to have Jack actually involved in the action instead of strangely removed from it.
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i would hit it provided she didnt shrink my head for not being the sexual tyrannosaurus i usually am.HA.
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Maybe just fast forward to the aforementioned shower scene.
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March 15, 2011, 5:15 p.m. CST
Is that the black mark on Sparrow's left hand? Left over from Dead Man's Chest?
by D.Vader
Huh wha? What is that? A leftover scar from Davy Jones' curse?
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It has that Indiana Jones vibe to it, I'm hoping this movie is a throwback to the adventure films of the eighties and early nineties. You know, the films where hot women that look like Penelope Cruz get nakey.
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But fuck it, I'll give it a shot. Any excuse to watch a Johnny Depp movie. Whilst I found "Dead Man's Chest" and "At World's End" to be kind of shit, Depp still owned them.
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March 15, 2011, 5:24 p.m. CST
this is a million times better than that crappy 3D Conan the Barbarian poster
by Andy Pandy
from a week back.
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March 15, 2011, 5:31 p.m. CST
This movie will be the spiritual sequel to Curse of the Black Pearl
by Andy Pandy
2 & 3 should be nixed from the canon
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As a species, it makes no sense that humans don't have double penises. Who the hell doesn't want to put it in the vag and her butt at the same time?
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The sad thing is something like a Drew Struzan poster would RULE on this type one-sheet. This is one of the better Photo Collages I've seen. The art of the Movie poster is lost because of budgets. Drew charges out the ASS for such things. John Alvin has passed. But there are great artists out there who could do this type of work without the Drew price tag. Jerry Vanderstilt and Russell Walks do great work.
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Those were the all-time best movie posters.
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To replace my dignity for doing another one of these turds.
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2 lovely ladies (one based on Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction), a guy who fights with a sword in his mouth, a talking reindeer, a rubber captain, a chicken**** gunner, a wannabe playa, a cyborg in a speedo and a skeleton with an afro.
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That was the only great shining spot in the whole pirates trilogy. He was fucking hilarious! I think the movie can work it's on the supporting cast though.
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Which one is copying the other? They seem very similar, hate speech aside.
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than the two previous sequels. Getting shot of Bloom and whatsherface but retaining Rush is an excellent move towards the better things in the first movie.
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poster. No problems on my side.
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Cannot understand why some people gobble this crap up. It should be awe inspiring based on the universe it inhabits. Instead, it's like the longest couple hours you'll ever have to endure. Just get a pic of the creature effects and save yourself the agony of another episode of a gay Keith Richards trying too hard to amuse you.
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What Drew Struzan charges is a pittance in relation to what they spend on these films. The reason the studios don't use illustrations for posters anymore is because marketing is the number one thing now and a photograph (usually a large head shot) of a bankable star is the best way to get people to the theater. All they care about is: 1) A known property 2) A bankable star 3) The widest demographic appeal. Which is why movies (with a few exceptions) suck shit now.
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After the bloated, incomprehensible clusterfucks that were the initial sequels I'll still be keen to see this. Only because the God-like Ian McShane is in the cast.
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March 16, 2011, 7:18 a.m. CST
Pirate Poster: "Hmm.. did I just fart , or have I shat my pants again?"
by LargoJr
Damn rum farts!
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It sounds like you're probably gay. Might want to look into that.
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and no i wont use mommy jokes.although the reply demands it but anyway.
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I hope this film bombs big time. Depp's too talented an actor to keep playing a retarded pirate.
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I fail to see what's "pretty cool" about this. It's a picture of Johnny Depp as Captain Sparrow...the character that's in the movies....
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.... I mean, cruz ....
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I like that one better. I guess they will also come out with a poster featuring all the major cast members together then.
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Couldn't they have him pointing a gun or something, you know, like a pirate would?
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March 17, 2011, 6:31 a.m. CST
Marshall! Please do the film loving community a favour an crawl back to broadgay from whence you came!
by Anklavepak
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March 17, 2011, 10:24 a.m. CST
And to think Sparrow was the supporting character of the first Pirates movie.
by AsimovLives
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Of course nothing is as bad as a SW prequel, but these come close.
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arrrrrghh! http://media.movies.ign.com/media/859/859550/img_8322090.html
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http://media.movies.ign.com/media/859/859550/img_8325130.html arrrrrrgh..
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