2007-10-30 Could Have Been So Good..

This is a book which will delight and frustrate at the same time. I have a number of these Film Poster books by Tony Nourmand and they're all in the same vein -some classic images that you can recognise straight away, some variations of popular poster art and then the totall ridiculous.

Here in this book we can delight at the 3 pages devoted to Star Wars, wollow at the many old 50's sci-fi posters with delight and then you cringe at some enteries -two in particular that this book features: RoboCop (features some obscure poster from Poland -fortunately the 1980's posters book has the original poster ) and Terminator (features a full page spread of an awful Polish poster which no one has ever seen -AND it even gets a full page spread in the 1980's poster book!)
The whole purpose of a book like this is to both take the reader down memory lane and to offer prints of old posters one may not have seen -not to feature some obscure versions of popular franchises.
You can see a great example of this on the Amazon pictures of the book at the top -the only 2 pages devoted to Star Trek are shown here and you'll know exactly what I mean!