We toil, we slave, we burn the midnight oil in several different time zones to bring you meaty features (like all our Best of 2014 coverage), instant news reports, big-name interviews, and a multitude of reviews and what thanks do we get? The average ‘Hunger Games’ character poster will get many times the clicks of our labors of love and craft. But before you get out your tiny violins, this year, we’ve decided if we can’t beat the pressures of corporate promotional activity, we’re damn well gonna rank them.
Movies posters can be among the crassest, most blatant, down-and-dirtiest marketing tools available. We die a little inside each time there’s a new hullabaloo over the latest comic book movie teaser which is—inevitably—the title of the movie against a black background looking as though it’s been embossed in brushed steel and/or someone inadvertently firing out a fart explosion. (I mean, we run it, of course, because we’re enormous hypocrites, but we still die a little.)
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