MTV’s Movie Blog has posted the official one sheet for their satellite film branch’s Iraq War drama Stop-Loss. Starring Ryan Phillipe, Timothy Olyphant and Abbie Cornish, the film is also notable for lead roles played by Brick’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum. One wonders if the movie will end up being remembered more for starring two guys from G.I. Joe (Gordon-Levitt is confirmed, Tatum is rumored) rather than for making an important statement about the struggles of modern day U.S. soldiers.
Back in October, we posted the trailer, which has the unfortunate soundtrack of Drowning Pool’s “Bodies (Hit the Floor),” but offers a new angle compared to recent war films: that of a young solider refusing a “stop-loss,” a real-life mandate that suddenly orders a soldier to once again return to battle after completing required deployments. Think of it like being told “no summer break” when you were in high school and multiply it times an inferno.
While the film, set for March 28, is directed by Boys Don’t Cry’s respected Kimberly Peirce, the poster shares far too much similarity with MTV’s 1999 teen football-and-hormones drama Varsity Blues. Compare the two after the jump.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
When I saw the trailer before Juno, I was sickened to see studios cashing out on our troops.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
ugh….
i would be fine never hearing that song again in this lifetime. This will not be a film on my shortlist. Tatum is a viciously bad actor. Gordon-Levitt is about the only thing this movie has going for it, but not enough for my cash.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 am
Wow. Bad poster.
Take out the MTV Presents thing.
Change it to only the main character and not the other teen character stars.
Do NOT make it look like it is directed to teens with the stars that are teens because then they will just bash the film online how much it sucks.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
Aside from the fact that they’re all sitting on a 4-wheeled vehicle, I don’t really see the comparison between the two posters :-\
January 25th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Enrique I agree with you, I don’t see how or why they would be compared at all. I think the cast is pretty good, I think Channing Tatum is not a bad actor at all and with his latest movies he has proven himself capable to hang with the big dogs.