I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thesavages/

I do not want to see this movie. I saw the trailer withThe Darjeeling Limited along with 5 other trailers that looked exactly like it. Earnest, shaky-cam lowfi indie film cliches. But, look at the gorgeous Chris Ware artwork on the poster! (Fanatgraphics cartoonists doing movie posters is a semi-cliche as well… Happiness, etc.)

Chris Ware portraiture! His machine-like precision lettering… slightly old-fashioned but not really placable into any “past.” The rigid sterility of the poster totally at odds at the soppy emotive family drama of the movie it represents. This poster is movie of the year.

If you need to see a movie called Savages, see this one instead… it has Sam Waterson in a loin cloth.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 10:52 am and is filed under I Watch Movies.