Pardon me while I rant a little (yet again) about current Hollywood movie posters. Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 classic, Straw Dogs, has been redone and the movie will be released this week. The poster created for the original movie is prized by collectors everywhere. The image captures the tense, violent nature of the film perfectly…
Now, here’s the teaser poster that was released for the new version…
Notice anything strange? Just how do those glasses reflect the bad guy? There’s no lens there! I guess the good folks behind this snafu decided they should fix it, and later released this version…
It’s fine that they wanted to pay homage to the original poster’s design, but to do it so sloppily with that teaser poster was just insulting. Tyler Perry did a better job of respecting the original, and his version was a parody…
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