Just the same cliche gloomy/brooding character portrait that seems to be the only thing Hollywood knows how to do these days.
shareI think its like a teaser poster. It's simple, but I think it works well for an iconic character like Indy.
shareLike the OP said it's just the same old shit. Decades ago movie studios contracted artists to draw really cool film posters. Later, those exact same posters were replaced on DVDs with generic collages of the faces of the primary actors. Obviously, some marketing genius thought that the recognition of familiar faces on the posters boosted sales. To hell with the original artwork when there's a few extra shekels to be made, right? As examples, compare the original movie posters for Animal House and Slap Shot with the dull images that pollute their Blu-ray box covers. No person who doesn't profit directly from the sales would think these represent an improvement. For the past couple decades, Hollywood dispensed with cool artwork altogether and went straight for the dull images of brooding actors, thence bypassing the need to replace anything. Comic books have also suffered from this laziness and lack of inspiration.
shareDecades ago movie studios contracted artists to draw really cool film posters.
That's not the final poster. It doesn't have all the credit information on the bottom. I suspect the poster is gonna be a throwback to Raiders or Crusade with that classic adventure look.
shareSo far as modern movie posters go I think this placeholder poster is fine, even if unimaginative. My comment was more directed at the abandonment the much more creative movie posters of older films (for blu-ray box covers, etc) in favor of dull collages of the faces of each film's stars. In my view this shift constrains the poster art we see today for new films.
shareIt's so obvious when a corporation, group or entity doesn't have imagination.
Look at musk and anything musk has 'created' and owns. Tesla was not his invention, and thus it has the most imaginative name, but even that's just a exploitation of a historical genius.
If YOU were going to conquer the universe by traveling into the stars, wouldn't you come up with something more imaginative than 'Space + masonic X'? They just took the word 'Space', and added the most masonic letter, and said, 'perfect!'.
Why not 'Cosmoration' ('Cosmos Exploration') for something more unique, just off the top of my head? Why not at least SOMETHING more imaginative than taking a regular word and adding an 'X'?
What about 'Boring Company'. I realize it has a bit of potential for a 'pun', but really? Just taking what it's supposed to do and adding 'company' - not to mention, it looks like that name is already reserved for another corporation or something!
This goes with every single thing they have ever named that I am aware of. Hyperloop? You just take 'loop', and add 'hyper' to it - WHAT IMAGINATION!!
Not to just rag on that guy (even if you can be a bit shocked as what he has gotten away with if you watch some 'Thunderf00t'-videos of him), this lack of imagination seems to permiate all over the place.. no one seems to have imagination anymore.
At least the Názi organization called 'NASA' sounds unique and interesting, even though 'Never A Straight Answer' seems more apt description of them.
When these corporations clearly function from greed, control, agenda ad dictation from the owners of them instead of vision, good story, excitement and inspiration, the end result will, OF COURSE, always be lackluster, uninspired and unimaginative.
It's sad to see this, when you can just so easily look at nature and see true creativity in the form of a simple tree, let alone the actual diversity of nature in so many amazing forms, when you can look at Hubble Deep Space photos..
..when you can look at so many interesting and inspiring things all around you - heck, if nothing else, you can always view a few Monet paintings and get 'the feels'.
But what is being shoved into our faces by these soulless corporations is always so grey and lacking in anything that could touch us in a meaningful way. Movie posters used to have energy, excitement, intrigue and inspiration to them, quirkiness and some kind of visionary radiation about them. Just look at the humorous but at the same time, exciting 'Back to the Future' poster. You immediately want to know more and get excited about the movie.
Modern movie posters couldn't make the viewer yawn more by comparison.