Everyday I use West Kensington tube station either going to or coming from work. As in most tube stations there are a numbers of posters up, most of them movie posters.
Just recently, this one's gone up...
Upon seeing it I was struck with a sense that I'd seen this poster before, but for something else. And then I recalled these two from the 'not at all distant past'...
Strikingly similar. Which then got me further thinking. Is it coincidence? Is it a current trend that movie posters should look this way? Or is it that movie posters do, and have always, fallen into cliched styling?
So I did some research (by which I mean a quick Google search) and it turns out that they do.
They really do.
For instance...
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| The 'between the legs' style |
Or...
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| The 'back-to-back' style |
How about...
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| The 'on a bench' style |
You can see where I'm going but in the interest of labouring the point I'll continue with a few more...
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| The 'from behind' style |
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| The 'one big head in the sky looking down over numerous little people' style |
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| The 'black and white with coloured flames' style |
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| The 'one big eye' style |
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| The 'reflective sunglasses' style |
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| The 'indie yellow' style |
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| The 'red dress' style |
So it's not so much that the posters are becoming as unoriginal as the movies themselves, more that they always have been and most of us just hadn't really noticed it.
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