On Whiteout's Poster


So not to go on a total poster bitch-fest jag, but the one-sheet for the forthcoming Whiteout, starring Kate Beckinsale, has dropped, and it also looks like a weird Photoshop job, albeit a better one than Good Luck Chuck's sorry poster.



The red text on a single-toned, silver-grey background — pretty eye-catching, and it tells us something about the movie's setting, Antarctica. (Again, I don't know how in God's name director Dominic Sena is going to wean himself from his usual orange-saturated look.) But the proportion of feet to gun to head is off; it doesn't quite play.

Maybe I'm subconsciously pissed because this shot affords no glimpse of skin. Or maybe I'm just unnerved because it reminds me in passing of a recurring dream I had as a young kid, wherein a hooded Eskimo tried to violently shiv me.

After all, that's a large part of the reason that to this day I bear a grudge against the Inuit. Well... that, and the fact that they clubbed the rest of my family to death with baby seals when I was 10.

 

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  • 8/21/2007 10:46 AM Forever Tardy wrote:
    It looks like Kate is snowboarding in that picture. Weird.

    And goddamn those Inuit! WITH baby seals, huh?
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