Am I just a grump ...

[veronica_rich]

... or do the "official" posters for the upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel look incredibly cheap for being recycled from the first movie? (I'm sorry, it's time for an editorial. Feel free to skip me over.)

I'm referring to the posters here and here. There's also a Jack character poster that is essentially this one with the POTC2 logo in the corner of it.

I mean, what the hell? Disney can sink a few hundred thousand dollars into the sequels, but couldn't budget something for an artist to design some new promotional materials, and possibly a photographer to help create it?

I would understand if new art concepts were based on those from promotion of the first movie. Universal did it quite cleverly with Back to the Future in posters for both II and III, and look at all the different "Matrix" posters Warner got out of a few basic design ideas - yet, each was distinctive to its own movie. What Disney's doing is just outright, obvious recycling with little to no new material.

I mean, criminey. I know fan artists who probably have charged less than what Disney is used to paying, and would've produced really GOOD work.

Comments

[pseudoblu.livejournal.com]

You are not alone in thinking it.

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

Nope, psuedoblu isn't the only one. I don't read arrrrr on a regular basis so I get my news mostly from you!;) No, you're not the only one and you're not just being a bitch. It's just corporate Amerika for you--do as little as you can in hopes of getting as much as you can out of it. And they wonder why employees are lazy, steal, and cheat. *sigh*

Always Recycle?

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

Posters aren't the only things Dinesy recylces. Try their movies: Shaggy Dog remade with Tim Allen, Herbie and Parent Trap with Lindsey Lohan . . . feel free to add more.

- Silver Rose

[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

All I can say is: at least we know someone at Disney needs to get off their lazy ass and do something called work.