It is no secret that the marketing for Terminator Genisys has been painful for a majority of fans (hardcore fans).
In a series that used to be grounded in an understandable sense of reality (fear and claustrophobia); it has all gone out the window in favor of reality dismantling CGI (computer generated imagery) and photoshop. Now, whilst that does enforce the whole comic book action thing- this is far from what real Terminator Fans wanted.
Terminator 3 and Terminator Salvation also had below par posters, and Genisys shows no signs of representing the franchise we love any better. However posters are not the final movie and that (sadly) can be the only hope we have that the movie may be better than advertised.
The international poster was released first, then followed the US poster, the notable difference being an American flag in the top left of the poster which isn’t in the international one. Oh, and we just noticed Emilia has a rounder butt in the US poster.
While the poster is an improvement on previous posters,- we yet again have Emilia Clarke’s derriere in our faces, the poster itself makes no sense, again, it is loaded with CGI. The sunglasses are more nostalgic and the first time we have seen Arnold wearing them for this production; we do like the design/style as they do somewhat suit Mr. Schwarzenegger. We just don’t like the marketing for this movie. Sorry if our opinions annoy certain people but that is all they are- opinions: “A judgment or estimation of the merit of a person or thing“.
Our honesty is losing the fans opportunities on TheTerminatorFans.com (sorry guys) and that will fuel us on to be more honest and truthful to the people who matter the most ‘THE TERMINATOR FANS’.
Character Posters:
We held off talking about the character posters. We just don’t like them. Also, images put out are continually at a low-resolution, it enhances the cheap tacky feeling and it also emits the feeling that the studios do not care about this movie other than a summer fluff-buster, quick buck cash-cow designed at making “easy money”.
The photoshop on Emilia Clarke is quite frankly ridiculous and trying to remind fans of the real bad-ass (Linda Hamilton from T2). Emilia does not have her (Linda Hamilton’s, T2) body and just photoshopping a similar build is just insulting; even down to altering Miss. Clarke’s nose to breed the familiarity of Linda’s. If studios wanted the fans to take Emilia seriously as the legendary Sarah Connor then they should have suggested Miss. Clarke adopt a more aggressive workout regime (black tea without sugar simply doesn’t cut it).
Paramount Pictures also do the TMNT movies… notice a similar style but done in better quality of color and resolution? In fact this turtle looks more real than Arnold and co. What’s with all the replicated sunbeams?
Let’s look at the other previous posters…
The focal points are boobs and ass in the ‘Pay-Off Poster’ and the ‘Sarah Connor’ Poster… should the studios really be making such an emphasis on sex and sexy in a PG-13 movie? Arnold is devoid of blood as usual…
Emilia Clarke is always holding the T-800 Skull like a bowling ball… why? Does she take that thing everywhere with her? If the studios idea is to suggest that Sarah Connor is such a bad-ass that she is solely responsible for the decapitation of killing machines then perhaps they lack the imagination to do so in a more unique way- other than to repeatedly replicate the same image and pose. #Stupid
Check out this funny tweet we received from one fan on Twiddah!
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— Dolomite Jones (@Pitch_Invader) May 11, 2015
Then this original so called ‘poster’ which now feels like a con…
So; which was your favorite poster… did you find the posters as cringe-worthy as we did? Are you disappointed or happy with how the movie has been marketed? Let us know in the comments below.
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I’m must say that in many cases, I firmly agree. The way that they are marketing this film is very much lackluster to say the least. I’m including the Entertainment Weekly photo shoot as well here. Why are there so many clouds, and “Sunshine Day” back rounds? Especially when there was such a poor response with the premiere EW pics. Why continue down the wrong path with these new posters? Now, some are okay. I dig the dark one with Arnie with the rifle over his shoulder. Nice. And the one with the solo “John Connor” gives us a closer look at what his presence will be on screen at some point in the movie. But in all honesty, they all have a cartoon-like quality about them. As a long time fan, I want a certain harshness instilled in all my visuals of the Terminator World. There should be nothing nowhere near this franchise that looks polished or photo shopped looking. With a battle for all mankind at stake in the movie’s plot line, we’re going to need a lot of grit and realisticness in order for the story to be engaging and believable. This can’t happen if the whole atmosphere of the movie is going to be as CGI manufactured as these posters seem to be suggesting it may be. But I’m still hoping for the best.
I must agree that I don’t like the marketing strategy they are taking with this film; but it is not being directed at me: a Terminator Fan. This is the era of comic book 12/PG-13 franchises. Terminator is a producer’s wet dream for a franchise to reboot, especially seeing as they got Arnie on board.
What I take particular objection to in the marketing is the sexualisation of Sarah Connor. Now, we all know from the almighty T1 that she is a flesh and blood woman but she is also much more than that. As she quite aptly stated in T2 she can take care of herself. She’s not just tits and ass for the lads.
The film may be totally different from that but the marketing suggests otherwise, hence my objection.
I am in two minds about seeing this film as it could just be a really lazy marketing campaign. The new poster is certainly an improvement and is the one I would have personally led with after the Arnold solo.
The other thing to remember is that these posters would have been produced months ago and gone through an OTT approval process. Our complaints come too late in the day…
My final thought is this: 2015. Obvious photoshopping. Still? Really?
TS
I’ve read both other posts thus far, and I agree very much with them. There’s another thing that I forget to mention before and I’d like to add about the new poster content. I strongly agree about the sexual overtone in the posters. It is somewhat problematic with me as well. The sexual aspect of the posters seems to be causing concern with many fans, (from what I’ve been reading). But also, one of my real beefs is with how it seems to be down playing Arnold a bit. Like with the poster of Sarah holding the T-800’s head, from a well intended “back view”. It seems to be insinuating something like, “Don’t worry. Even though there’s going to be a old Arnie running around, there will still be enough eye candy in the film”. This, as well as all the “enhanced” aspects of the posters, is really too much. What a way to insult the Original fans who NEVER thought of the Terminator Universe in a sexual context to begin with. We were and still are here for the action, good story telling, and suspense. I would say that most fans out there have supported these films based on their sheer awesomeness and not how hot any of the actors were. You can make any poster look pretty and all dolled up, that’s easy. However, in a long running franchise, you have to take into account the “tone”. You must remember your previous audience, and how “they” were introduced to the franchise. The newer audiences are of course important, but in a long running franchise they aren’t the ‘only ‘ones important . I’m just saying that these new posters don’t seem to be keeping this mind very much at all. Let’s hope that the film itself will be totally different.