Good lord, the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood posters are really terrible

Publish date: 2024-05-12

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is still scheduled for a July release. The film will be released just a few weeks after the 50th anniversary of Sharon Tate’s murder by members of the Charles Manson Family. I also expect OUATIH to get a splashy and extra Cannes Film Festival premiere. So, those dates are coming up. It feels like we should have gotten a teaser trailer for the film by now, and there are steady rumors that we’ll get some kind of trailer this week, maybe even today. But for now, Quentin Tarantino has just been releasing the posters for the film.

The posters suck, right? The first one released was the Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio one. Leo plays the movie star and Brad plays his live-in buddy and stunt double (their neighbor is Sharon Tate). Personally, I think this sh-t looks way too modern for 1969. Leo can do period costumes, but I’m not sure if Brad is capable of that anymore, and neither one of them looks particularly “1969.” Plus, as someone tweeted at me yesterday, Brad’s face has been terribly Photoshopped and he looks like he’s been blended with Thomas Haden Church. Now that you’ve seen that, you can’t unsee it.

Then they released the second poster, with Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate. Margot is a pretty woman and she looks more like Sharon Tate than most women, but still… it’s the same problem as Brad and Leo. She looks like Margot Robbie in go-go boots, not Sharon Tate.

I get that the film is about a serious subject – murder, cults – but considering the period, I would have expected something more “fun” from Tarantino for his first posters, you know? This was a moment in Hollywood where you really could have blown it out with styling and done something really special with the posters. The fact that it feels like Tarantino has phoned it on the posters (and the styling) doesn’t give me high hopes for the film.

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Posters from ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.’.


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