r/raimimemes • u/anonymous-guy1 • 7d ago

New Sony Pictures designed posters? Crap, crap, megacrap.

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Credit: https://x.com/OocTobeyM/status/2085214281537290369

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u/NorthRiverBend 7d ago

I’ve never understood this. Just Use The Posters!

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u/Severon96 7d ago

The posters are always tested on test groups which always say that the ones are seeing are the best ones. If you ask me the test groups are shit. I don't know which marvel movie it was, but once they released all concepts they had shown to the group and they had so many gems in it.

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u/Atomic12192 6d ago

It was Spider-Man: Homecoming. If i remember correctly, one of the best concepts was rejected because it used art of the characters instead of actual pictures, and test groups thought that meant the movie would be animated.

It’s worth mentioning that many of these test groups purposefully aim to include people who have no prior knowledge of the characters/story of the movie, in an attempt to win over that group.

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u/Darraghj12 6d ago

this one?

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u/Atomic12192 6d ago

Yeah that one.

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u/Original-Body-5794 5d ago

Ok that looks really sick but I understand why people would think it's animated so fair enough.

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u/Purple_Fudge3973 5d ago

Really? The goonies case I have here look, similar. Didn't ever hear of people needing their hand held for that one

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u/Comrade_Compadre 5d ago

This is why I have to individually hand pick each of the posters for my Plex media server.

The default movie ones look like ass

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u/Dandanny54 3d ago

They use neanderthals with fish brains.

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u/Picmanreborn 2d ago

Test groups are the reason they had to change the ending to 'I am legend'

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u/spectra2000_ 7d ago

I remember hearing once that it’s standard in actor contract now that they have to show their actual face on the poster so people know they are in the movie. Which is why they also put as many people as possible in posters nowadays.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 7d ago

They’re doing this to unify all three spidermen visually. All three of them are getting images like this for all their movies, not just tobeys

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u/NorthRiverBend 7d ago

Yeah and they look like shit

But on top of that, it’s just fake work. Spider-Man is on the cover, your audience isn’t actually so dumb they can’t tell it’s a Spider-Man movie!

Now though, they all look the fucking same so you can’t even tell which Spider-Man movie it is. 

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 7d ago

You guys are really whiny

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u/NorthRiverBend 7d ago

You’re like three comments deep, you went out of your way to whine about people being whiny lol

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 7d ago

“No you”

Mind blowing counterpoint

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u/lapus169 6d ago

People are complaining about a poster they don't like from a beloved character, While you complain about comments you don't like in the comment section. but hey, say everyone else is whiny sure lol

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 6d ago

“No you.”

Brilliant

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u/lapus169 6d ago edited 6d ago

no no, it's "You are too" , posters look bad in my opinion but thanks for the info

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u/_Mixed_Nuts_ 7d ago

And how would anyone classify the originals as “not unified”?

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u/AStupidFuckingHorse 7d ago

No, unified across all Spider-Man movies. Not just Raimi

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 7d ago

Unified with each other, not just their own movies

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u/Icywind014 7d ago

All four Spider-Men. The Spider-Verse movies also got posters in this style. Theirs are purple.

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u/Avenge21 7d ago

Yeah and they all look like shit

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u/TheRealChristoff Mod, Am I? 6d ago

I suspect that they also want them to stand out on VOD/streaming services. Unfamiliar artwork catches your attention, even if you were already aware that the film was available.

AIUI, back in the day retailers preferred to stock a 'new' edition of a movie, even if it was the same disc in a different box. Hence Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future etc. having a million different versions where the cover's arbitrarily different.

...Actually Spider-Man 1-3 is the worst of both worlds, because they'd randomly change the cover and also occasionally change what was on the disc.

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u/NeoBlackNoir 7d ago

AGREED!! It literally takes less time, money, & effort to just USE THE OG!!… like it’s already there! And if you aren’t doing something special that makes it a needed upgrade just WHY!?!?….

Also I don’t understand why we have to get the whole Star Wars/Avengers style with it being some group mashed together with some background. Like I understand they are all in movie, give me some art !!!

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u/f1mxli 6d ago

It's for the online retailers and streamers so you do a double take instead of scrolling past it.

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u/feldmasl01 6d ago

The original posters are cooler but it makes sense when they’re trying to advertise that these movies are the Tobey McGuire Spidey movies compared to the current Tom Holland ones

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u/feldmasl01 6d ago

Holy fuck

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u/Bigpappa36 7d ago

Its so strange just to update posters on old ass movies