Favorite Poster

[Slash Man]

What are your favorite posters from any Batman film?

My top pick has to be the IMAX poster for The Dark Knight Rises:

It's incredibly rare that you see such an artistic poster in today's day and age. Wish this was the main poster.

Of course the poster for Batman gets a mention:

There really is power in simplicity, and this poster says much more than any Photoshop collage could. I also love the Batman Returns teaser poster than only showed the head of the bat symbol and the word "Returns." Though giving it to the Batman poster for coming first.

Also giving credit to the Batman v. Superman posters, those were well done. The whole street art style really looked great.

[thecolorsblend]

For me, it begins and ends with B89. I remember staring at that poster transfixed as a kid. I knew basically nothing about Batman. But there was something so captivating, so mysterious about the poster. It is manifestly BATMAN but somehow it hides equally as much as it gives away. It's one of the great movie posters in history for priming the pump and notching up the anticipation for the movie even higher.

Whoever engineered the pre-release marketing for B89 deserves a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

But... whoever engineered the post-release marketing for B89 deserves to be sent off to Siberia, never to be seen or heard from ever again.

[The Dark Knight]

For me, it's this one.



This radiates so much atmosphere to me. Especially as a kid looking at the very same image on a VHS cover. It looks so dark, cold and mysterious. It can't really describe it better than that, because emotion plays a big part in these things, not necessarily logic.

[Catwoman]

I love the tragic beauty of this poster. The quiet yet violent snowfall seems like it's recalling the memory a dark tragic and stormy winter from years, maybe even decades ago, and now that the storm has passed all that's left is the silent snowfall and the memories it brings. Make sense?

It's just haunting, and beautifully so.

[johnnygobbs]

Does anyone recall this poster?



Another marketing department dud...

It was recalled and replaced with the iconic Batman Return posters Catwoman and TDK posted.

[thecolorsblend]

Gobbs, I remember that one. I think it's too abstract. Someone totally ignorant about Batman and his iconography knew they were looking at that B89 poster. There was mystery but not confusion.

That BR poster is confusing. Someone who knows nothing about Batman won't know wtf that poster is getting at. Sure, that could be the top of the bat symbol there. Or it could be something else. "Returns"? What's "returning"? Or what are we "returning" to?

You say it was recalled? How that ever got approved in the first place, I have no idea.

And you're right, the poster Catwoman posted is far superior. It's even better than the "totem pole" poster, although that one wasn't too bad. Not great but not bad.

[The Laughing Fish]

My favourite movie poster was this one for BR.



I know it might have too much going on from a graphic design point of view, but I like it.

[johnnygobbs]

Gobbs, I remember that one. I think it's too abstract. Someone totally ignorant about Batman and his iconography knew they were looking at that B89 poster. There was mystery but not confusion.

That BR poster is confusing. Someone who knows nothing about Batman won't know wtf that poster is getting at. Sure, that could be the top of the bat symbol there. Or it could be something else. "Returns"? What's "returning"? Or what are we "returning" to?

You say it was recalled? How that ever got approved in the first place, I have no idea.

And you're right, the poster Catwoman posted is far superior. It's even better than the "totem pole" poster, although that one wasn't too bad. Not great but not bad.

Of all the Batman Returns posters I'd probably be inclined to go for the 'totem pole' poster.  I like the one Catwoman posted.  It's the most iconic, and the snow over the Bat symbol is a great touch.  But it's arguably too derivative of the 1989 poster to be considered the best.  And I think the one The Laughing Fish posted probably has too much going on, as he admitted.  It also looks like something that one might create in Photoshop, before Photoshop probably existed.

But the 'totem pole' poster is pretty much a work of art, and the penguin army with candy-cane rockets on their backs is very intriguing for anyone who has yet to see the film.

[The Dark Knight]

 

And you're right, the poster Catwoman posted is far superior. It's even better than the "totem pole" poster, although that one wasn't too bad. Not great but not bad.

I think the poster Catwoman posted is great. And it works even better as an inversion of the original B89 poster. However I prefer the totem pole image because its wholly original to BR and stands on its own two feet. It's simple but still says a lot about the movie.

[thecolorsblend]

I think the poster Catwoman posted is great. And it works even better as an inversion of the original B89 poster. However I prefer the totem pole image because its wholly original to BR and stands on its own two feet. It's simple but still says a lot about the movie.

The snowy bat poster being derivative of B89's poster is precisely why I dig it. It's in the same visual vocabulary of B89... but slightly different. And slightly more monochromatic. Both of those can be said of the movie itself. Plus it hints at the snowy, Christmasy vibe of the movie.

It just WORKS for me.

Sadly, your avatar has always been my least favorite BR poster. As others have said, it's just too busy. It does make me wonder what Drew Struzan would've done with a Batman Returns poster though...