Movie Posters are not just advertisements. They unfailingly grab our attention, influence our expectations and nourish our unrelenting sense of intellectual curiosity. Most of them are not merely designed as effective marketing tools. Certainly, they always communicate a focused or specific concept, but they also boast many of the same qualities or characteristics that you would look for in any other traditional work of art – allure, harmony, poignancy, timelessness, technical accuracy. As you look at a particularly snappy movie poster, there will always be a 70 percent probability that you’ll be tempted to watch this or that movie. The reason is simple: they’re unarguably amazing. In the last two days we’ve taken a look at our favorite records and movies from 2011. Now it’s time for our independent (or unofficial) movie poster art roundup, a gallery of our picks for the best unofficial movie and tv show posters of 2011. Just for the record, we’ve decided to consider all those unofficial posters designed for movies hitting theaters within the year 2011. Click through the gallery to see the images and don’t forget to share your opinions with us. Read the rest of this entry »