Worst movie posters

How in the name of all that is fucked can you people get so stuck in an era? Does the world completely pass you by at this point?

Sorry, R1, are movies not made anymore? Are we in the post-movie poster era?

Talk about bringing a bizarre agenda to the thread, r1.

Fucking unclench.

OP, that was the poster they had done by that great 70s movie poster artist Richard Amsel, and it recalls the posters he did for Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. You're right it has little to do with the actual flavor of the film, but it looks like they were trying to promote this as medieval Agatha Christie story.

I agree, OP. The image should have been my anus.

This movie poster was important R6???

Girls, can we please get back on topic?

R7 is a little confused about what this site is about.

There is a style of poster that I find tiresome. It is the blown-up head shot of the star and the title, sometimes with a tagline. But there is no artwork, no real feel for what the movie is about, no creativity.

This seems to be the standard for many current movie posters.

This is probably a DVD cover, not an original poster, but it's still awful. Check out the awful photoshop job on Sarah Jessica Parker's head.

R1 really frightened me. Such randon venom.

A friend of mine who works in independent film distribution says that today's movie posters are designed to look good as thumbnails. Gone are the days when they were designed to attract passers-by to old movie palaces. Now they're designed to catch your eye as you're surfing Netflix or Amazon. Hence the simplified graphics and forms. They've gone from artwork to clickbait.

Recently the poster for PHILOMENA struck me as pretty bad. Looked like one from a bad May December romance.

This is probably slightly off-topic, but I love the misleading movie posters from the 1930's. For instance, here's what Paul Muni looks like on the poster for The Life of Emile Zola:

[quote] Recently the poster for PHILOMENA struck me as pretty bad. Looked like one from a bad May December romance.

I liked it.

And here's how he actually looked in the movie. If something like this happened today some frau would probably file a false advertising lawsuit.

This polish poster for Gone With The Wind is a hoot.

[quote]This seems to be the standard for many current movie posters.

Like the poster for that current Johnny Depp film, about AI or robots or something - who know, the poster doesn't tell me anything. It's just a an excuse to show off Depp's giant face.

But I guess I understand now, like the previous poster said. These images are meant to be seen in small formats now.

Movie posters in the US are a dead artform. It's all character posters, bad puns, and 3 word tag lines. Nothing creative about any of it.

Any poster where the cast is awkwardly splayed out like a full-house poker hand. Half these people have no legs, and look awkward.

OP, I love Connery's sassy stance. haha

"Recently the poster for PHILOMENA struck me as pretty bad. Looked like one from a bad May December romance."

You beat me to it. I thought the same thing.

R20, THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL did something similar. The movie takes place in 1911 in anticipation of King George V's coronation, yet Marilyn and Olivier look very modern (well, modern for 1957). If I didn't know better, I would think that it was about a playboy prince who romances a Vegas showgirl, but the movie's nothing like that.

I mean, fuck me, this is appalling. No surprise why this charming little movie was a surprise flop on initial release.

They eventually released a second poster featuring the other attractive cast members.

As much as I loved the movie, I was never very fond of the poster.

How To Be.