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Is this the worst movie poster ever or what

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Zakalwe

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The poster in the OP is terrible. Messy design that's more confusing than interesting, lazily layered diamond icon, everything feels far too bunched up in the center.

It's the kind of thing someone starting out would produce while they're experimenting with styles.
 

Dereck

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This poster always pissed me off

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Which one of these people is Steve?

And since people have said it but haven't posted it, take a look at it.

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Ether_Snake

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Can someone explain to me why they always put the actor's name above another actor? It's consistent in pretty much every poster.
 

Brakke

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Can someone explain to me why they always put the actor's name above another actor? It's consistent in pretty much every poster.

Yeah it always bugs me. I think the order in the billing is controlled by SAG or something? But why don't they just compose the poster to fit the bill?
 

Coreda

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And since people have said it but haven't posted it, take a look at it.

BROIGuI.jpg

I'll never understand why this is considered among the 'the worst ever' in these threads. Sure it's a head swap but you see this in all kinds of media all the time, it's far from the worst compositing.
 
Wait, wait wait wait....i never took the OP poster in enough....


...Bruce Willis is doing a movie with Zack from Saved by the Bell? wtf? Does Willis have Nic Cage levels of debt or something?
 

platakul

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Wait, wait wait wait....i never took the OP poster in enough....


...Bruce Willis is doing a movie with Zack from Saved by the Bell? wtf? Does Willis have Nic Cage levels of debt or something?
Apparently. He's done like 50 awful movies in the past five years
 

A-V-B

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God, that precious cargo poster actually has that transparent diamond graphic on it, too. I thought it was literally a watermark from the site the image was from.
 
Can someone explain to me why they always put the actor's name above another actor? It's consistent in pretty much every poster.

Order of importance: we read from left to right, but we see an image first from the center, then the sides.

So the most important actor has the name on the left, but usually is put in the middle of the poster.
 

okno

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Can someone explain to me why they always put the actor's name above another actor? It's consistent in pretty much every poster.

Just has to do with contractual obligations on credit billings. Many actors stipulate in their contract where their name must be placed on a poster/promotional material, even going so far as to demand the size of their name. That's why names don't line up oftentimes.
 
How about this one?

I dunno I kinda want to see this now

Kirk Cameron saves Christmas with a magical Christorb? Oh hell yeah. I suppose it's too much to hope he impales a mall Santa on that giant candy cane

Edit: He plays himself??? Has Lionel Mandrake reviewed this movie?
 
Yeah it always bugs me. I think the order in the billing is controlled by SAG or something? But why don't they just compose the poster to fit the bill?

I am pretty sure it's intentional. It forces you to spend more time reading the poster, which is what they want.
 

Kinyou

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While it's not really bad on an artistic level, this one stuck out to me as probably the most boring poster imaginable.


There's nothing going on. Nothing. Why would I want to see this?
 
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