Either I didn’t take enough drugs this morning or the poster designer took too many before opening Photoshop and working on this poster for Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. I understand you’re trying to channel the 60s but is the tie-die mess really necessary? The design itself isn’t so bad (reminiscent of the cool concert posters that now sell for thousands on e-Bay plus I like the folded look) but the colours…it’s a little too psychedelic for me. Add in the fact that I wasn’t particularly impressed by the trailer and you’ve got a movie that I’m going to to forget until the day before it opens. I will say one thing for it, at least it looks like the designer was proficient in Photoshop unlike the dude that designed Richard Kelly’s The Box poster; I could have done better with one eye closed.
You may want to cloud the room with a little smoke before looking at this thing that Kurt found via Rolling Stone.
I like the design. It is reminiscent of the Sixties. But when it came to the colours I think they were trying too hard. Even in the Sixties most posters weren’t THAT garish….
This poster doesn’t do much for me other than a headache. I can’t read any of the text or really tell who is in the film. To be honest, it’s just kind of annoying.
A white background that barely fades into a crane shot of a 500,000+ crowd right in the middle of the poster (as if surrounded by mist) and then in dark grey at the bottom: “Woodstock: An Ang Lee Spectacle”
Mixed feelings for me. I don’t mind the colours, and I quite like the ring of photography in the middle, but the text is impossible to read, especially the “generation” tagline.
I think it is groovy especially since my nephew will live on immortally through his permanently stamped face in the lower right corner