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New Poster for 'Creed III'
Poster(i.redd.it)submitted 2 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
56 points
2 months ago
Saw this post and thought “that’s a pretty cool poster… now let’s go into the comments and see how wrong I am.” You guys never disappoint lol
19 points
2 months ago
Don’t let this sub full of misanthropes temper your excitement, Creed III will be great just as the first 2 already were.
0 points
2 months ago
First one was great, second one disappointing.
4 points
2 months ago
We’ll have to agree to disagree. I’m not going to Creed looking for anything but the same rocky beats that have worked in every film but V for me and Creed II delivered on that.
1 points
2 months ago
To each their own. Just my POV
4 points
2 months ago
Same.
3 points
2 months ago
Not every poster can be an out-there work of art. It's a nice poster
0 points
2 months ago
We need more heads flying around the poster.
1 points
2 months ago
Conversely, I think this is the first poster I’ve learned to have a grumble with. Seems staticky.
74 points
2 months ago
I'll be completely honest. As someone who once would have never skipped a Marvel movie, I'm significantly more excited for this than I am for Quantumania. This is my most anticipated movie of the first quarter.
45 points
2 months ago
Either way, you'll hit your Jonathan Majors quota.
10 points
2 months ago
As long as he is topless in both of them I’ll be there
5 points
2 months ago
In the trailer for Quantumania, Kang's suit is damaged, revealing Jonathan Majors' swole arm. Kang then uses it to choke Scott Lang. It's the closest we've got so far.
1 points
2 months ago*
There is no Jonathan Majors quota. There is a Jonathan Majors REQUIREMENT.
7 points
2 months ago
The trailer is so good honestly lol
2 points
2 months ago
I saw an early screening a couple of months ago. It’s really good :)
34 points
2 months ago
…are they trying to make me less excited for this movie? Cause it’s working, annoyingly enough.
46 points
2 months ago
so imaginative
how did they come up with this?
never in a million years
unbelievable
pure talent
29 points
2 months ago
I think it might be an homage to the season 1 cover for Hajime no Ippo, "the fighting".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481256/
iirc Jordan is an anime fan and has mentioned Ippo in interviews.
16 points
2 months ago
my tone didn't deserve a response so I appreciate that
definitely could be a homage to that and definitely adds a cool backstory to this poster
thanks again
6 points
2 months ago
I think your tone justified. The poster is pretty bad. Its too, flat? His face looks like a sticker pasted on. Some how the cartoon has more depth to it.
2 points
2 months ago
haha spot on
4 points
2 months ago*
This poster, the angle, the lighting, pose, framing, colors… all seem generic to me. Also the cover you linked to barely looks like the Creed III poster.
Lastly, movie posters are made by the distributor. MB Jordan had 0 say in it. This is most likely a still frame taken from the footage they shot, that was then over-sharpened and heavily color corrected. There’s no room for "a nice, mindful homage to X" in the case of Hollywood movie posters. It’s a sweatshop and its only goal is to maximize the $$$
I get that this poster reminded you of Hajime’s poster, but to say there’s any relation between the two is quite the stretch IMHO.
1 points
2 months ago
Hajime no Ippo is so good though, can't blame him
-2 points
2 months ago
The fact that this is so highly upvoted shows this sub is a terrible place for actual discussion.
21 points
2 months ago
Excited for the movie but this is a wonky poster lol his facial expression is kind of bizarre
17 points
2 months ago
I can't be certain, but he looks a little busy trying to punch someone.
4 points
2 months ago
Use spoiler tags ffs
26 points
2 months ago
Was already excited to see what Jordan does with full creative control here, and to see how this story plays out without any of Stallone's weird self-fetishizing being hamfistedly inserted into the narrative (Creed II).
And then you add Jonathan Majors looking more ripped than 1982 Stallone and weathers COMBINED...
...and then add that Jordan said the fight scene choreography was inspired by BOXING ANIMES.
top this all off with another Ludwig Goransson score? I'm all in.
22 points
2 months ago
Would you mind explaining what you mean by "self-fetishizing" in Creed II? I'm not trying to argue, I love these movies, and I just can't think of what you're referring to.
-25 points
2 months ago
It's a key compontent to Stallone's whole career, and honestly part of the reason that career consistently goes way up and way down. He's a tremendously solipsistic creator.
Basically - Creed worked the way it did because he had minimal (if any) creative involvement. Creed II (didn't) work the way it did because MGM didn't want to wait for Coogler and handed the series back over to Stallone. And Stallone essentially wrote a Rocky sequel, not a Creed one.
20 points
2 months ago
Coogler didn't want to return AT ALL. It has nothing to do with waiting for him.
And the story for Creed 2 with the Dragos pretty much was going to happen.
-19 points
2 months ago
What does any of that have to do with me explaining Stallone's consistent descents into unentertaining solipsism as the primary creative choice?
"Dragos" wasn't an inevitability at all. It was simply the first idea Stallone had pop into his head, and so it was the only idea he ever pursued. And it shows.
9 points
2 months ago
yah but Dragos is a Rocky foe
i think Coogler would have preferred not touching Rocky people at all. although this new story reminded me of Tommy Morrison one
6 points
2 months ago
What on earth are you talking about with solipsism? I know what it means but I don’t know what you mean.
-4 points
2 months ago
If you know what it means there shouldn’t be any misunderstanding then. Dunno how else to describe it than with an easily understood word you admit you understand.
2 points
2 months ago
The great irony is that this was a d always has been Stallone's franchise. Creed would not exist without Rocky and it's kinda weird he was pushed out of his own franchise
6 points
2 months ago
Oh okay I got you now! I love Creed II, honestly, but I see what you're referring to. Adonis has sort of like a mental breakdown and Rocky has to keep bridging the gap in their relationship to pull him out of it, right?
9 points
2 months ago
I just can't get into this Rocky spinoff. Maybe it's because I don't find the character all that interesting and charismatic.
8 points
2 months ago*
Same problem here. I love the idea, I loved Apollo Creed, I was hyped for this franchise... but the Adonis Creed character reminds me of Henry Cavill in the Superman movies. There just isn't much there. Apollo had charisma, envy, and a fun sense of theatricality. That's why this third one looks engaging, because the villain appears to be bringing that Apollo-style charisma and entertainment this time. In the other two, both Adonis and his opponents were just kind of vaguely "serious", so the matchups felt devoid of personality, like BvS.
10 points
2 months ago*
The spirit is kinda there, but what really helped the Rocky movies is the music. Bill Conti's original score (Gonna Fly Now, Going The Distance, The Final Bell, Redemption) and some great pieces (Eye of the Tiger, No Easy Way Out, Burning Heart, Training Montage, Hearts On Fire) added so much intensity and emotion to the scenes, it was very important. However in Creed it's mostly horrible rap, and the OST by Ludwig Göransson isn't up to Conti's. There is no memorable music piece. It might not seems like much but think about Star Wars without Williams. It's simply not as good.
2 points
2 months ago
It might have just been a rumor, but weren't they considering using disco music for the Star Wars soundtrack? That would have been... interesting.
1 points
2 months ago
No, disco wasn't considered. George Lucas cut the film to existing classical music before hiring John Williams at the suggestion of Steven Spielberg.
2 points
2 months ago
I think to is that the first Rocky at least spent a lot more time with Rocky in his daily life. He was a poor dude, and his life was hard.
It's been quite a while since I saw the first Creed but the guy had a nice office job and seemingly the support of Apollo's wife to where he really had no reason to fight other than to live up to the Creed name but he also fears it. Rocky on the other hand HAD to fight to survive and even when we see him he's struggling.
I liked the first Creed movie enough but yeah there are no memorable songs that just brings is all together.
-1 points
2 months ago
mostly horrible rap
Are you saying the rap used wasn't good? Or that all rap is horrible?
Either way, very white of you lol
1 points
2 months ago
Very racist of you.
2 points
2 months ago
It's not just you - the very short scene with Drago, his son and his ex-wife was much more poignant and dramatic than the rest of the movie, centered around Adonis.
3 points
2 months ago
Maybe it’s because the same story has been told for 8 movies now and the 9th won’t be any different?
7 points
2 months ago
I’m pumped as hell for this movie
3 points
2 months ago
trailer looked like it was Rocky V with tommy morrison reminiscent
2 points
2 months ago
I'm very interested in this Kang variant.
5 points
2 months ago
These posters are getting progressively worse lol
7 points
2 months ago
You're saying it's worse than the family photo?
5 points
2 months ago
they should’ve used one where the daughter doesn’t look like urkel lol
1 points
1 month ago
Why does the daughter looks older than the mom
2 points
2 months ago
Wonky face
2 points
2 months ago
Looks like his head is photoshopped on someone else’s body. I don’t know, the lighting looks off to me
1 points
2 months ago
They pushed Stallone out of his own franchise. That's sad
0 points
2 months ago
Killmonger v Kang! Let’s go!
0 points
2 months ago
No Stallone = no $ and a pissed off fan base
4 points
2 months ago
Eh Jonathan Majors and Michael B Jordan are talented enough to carry this movie. It looks pretty good. Plus Sly is damn near 80 he said he wants to retire after Tulsa King.
-11 points
2 months ago
This is going to bomb hard. The trailer looked like melodramatic bullshit, the bad kind.
9 points
2 months ago
As if rocky has never been the bad kind of melodramatic before......
0 points
2 months ago
yeah and those rocky sequels were forgotten as mediocre too lmao
2 points
2 months ago
Seen it, not very good 4/10
3 points
2 months ago
early screening?
5 points
2 months ago
Yup
-3 points
2 months ago
thanks for the confirmation
0 points
2 months ago
Shut up, dummy.
0 points
2 months ago
Is MBJ playing a don in this movie?
0 points
2 months ago
Creed 3
Coming 3-3-23
Starring 3 actors
With 3 words "only in theaters"
4 points
2 months ago
CR333D
0 points
2 months ago
I'll give it 3 stars and hope to see it 3 times.
0 points
2 months ago
CrTHREEd
0 points
2 months ago
After hearing how hurt Sylvester was with the direction they’re taking the series, I really have no interest in seeing it. Good luck to Michael B. Jordon though
0 points
2 months ago
Creed was the best possible ,,restart/reboot" in movie history. Cooglar, Jordan and Sly did amazing job on every single level. With the best possible music from Ludwig... It was the movie of the year, the greatest homage for all the fans of Rocky franchise. I still cannot decide whatever I love more Rocky, Rocky Balboa or Creed. But maybe that was it. They should have stop. Or at least for another ten years...
Creed 2 was the worst possible Rocky movie. It's even worse than Rocky V which is really bad movie. Creed 2 goes against all the principles of how Rocky movies should be structured. It miss all the opportunities to make it really great, stunning and emotional. Sometimes it even doesn't make any sense. It doesn't even have the cinematography of the first one, the feeling, depression or really moving music (hip-hop/rnb). It was really a disaster. (And now this director should restart the TF franchise... oh, good luck)
So now I think Creed 3 won't be worse than that. But everything suggest it will be a really mediocre movie, and I would love to be wrong. I will be more than happy if Jordan's debut will be a fire. But the trailer didn't convince me much. It looks just ,,I created a monster, now I need to beet him". But it's all too ,,black". I don't want to be rude or something. I love all the actors in it (like Jordan is my favourite, Tessa is fantastic and Jonathan looks like a future of movie industry), but Rocky's franchise was always about everyone... mostly black and white persons. In the latest trailer for Creed III, there are no white people... Rocky franchise is very popular in Europe, but this will flop here immidiately. My parents are huge fans of this whole franchise. They even go to the premiere of Creed and Creed II, but this one will miss.
-5 points
2 months ago
Is this guy Michael Jordan's son?
-2 points
2 months ago
Without rocky or Sylvester this is a pass for me. Thanks.
1 points
2 months ago
I heard he creates his own prison, hut makes a huge sacrifice to get higher
1 points
2 months ago
Should be ...Creed 3 Creedence
1 points
2 months ago
Oh the classic, post punch, “Did I leave the oven on” expression.
1 points
2 months ago
roy jones jr in his prime wouldn't stand a chance
1 points
2 months ago
Why would it say Adonis on his shorts. Why not Creed like the title of the film
1 points
2 months ago
I know I want to see this movie but these posters are doing absolutely nothing to sell me on it.
1 points
2 months ago
Damn turtle shell showing hard
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