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Horribly photoshoped posters, keyart advertising etc
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Hurt and Scared
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This Brazilian BD cover:
This is the worst. By far. Sorry Takers.
Oh shit you guys are referring to her boobs getting bigger. I thought they just slid over Radcliff for the poster lol.
Bane and his massive army of cardboard cutouts with poor resolution.
Now that is truly a big guy.
Solid SOAP
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I'll see your Bane, and raise you a shitty Batman:Bane and his massive army of cardboard cutouts with poor resolution.
Seriously. The original version of this was awesome, this sucks
He is wondering which movie he is doing the poster for.
AHA-Lambda
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As bad as this is, and it gets mentioned all the time, I don't get why it's reached such infamy.
It's bad, it doesn't seem that bad. I'd argue that chef poster on the last page is worse.
NOTHING beats the atrociousness of the First Class posters
Whereas this...
Prinz Eugn
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Considering these posters were probably done in 15 minutes for $6 by some severely underpaid and overworked designers, they look okay.
NOTHING beats the atrociousness of the First Class posters
If these just had the silhouette and not that awful head in the middle then they would've been decent. But I imagine some exec saw that and said "hmm, audiences are too dumb to know the guy in the wheel chair is Xavier. How about we put his head randomly somewhere in there."
NOTHING beats the atrociousness of the First Class posters
These are legit?
Edit: Wow - these are actually real. Nobody is topping this.
Davey Cakes
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The First Class ones are beyond stupid.
They were not content with butchering a literary classic, they had to butcher the art too.
FUN FACT: Emily Blunt had to turn down the role of Natasha Romanov because of her prior filming commitments to this movie.
Good job, Emily.
Escape Goat
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All of those movies made a lot of money so I guess it doesn't matter.
lol your totally right
This makes it look like the movie is some sort of mecha anime styled story where Cage pilots a giant wickerman.
Rumblebones
Banned
NOTHING beats the atrociousness of the First Class posters
Forgot about these.
Lumpy Onion
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Love the dude on the bottom right. Must be full of brains.
Cosmo Clock 21
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Adding to the issues OP noted with HP4's poster, HP6 also has the same issues but also a really dumb title placement.
I mean, it's dead obvious it's a Harry Potter movie, but cmon.
It's pretty smart IMO; shows that they know public awareness of the logo is high enough that they don't need to include the entire thing in the poster for people to recognize it. It plus the DRAMATIC TILT helps to convey a sense of action in the poster.
On the other hand, the poster is god damn awful. Everyone looks weird and is just standing around in a field in front of London (?). Y Po deserved better.
StalkerUKCG
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There was an earlier version of the Takers poster that didn't even have the right skin tone on Paul Walker.
Paul's head 😂😂😂
This hot garbage.
This gets even funnier when you realize that Elijah Wood has two thumbs on the same hand.
This is the shot the poster designer appropriated, and in the process cut off part of Elijah's left thumb and moved it for no reason. You can see that part of the thumb remains in the original location in the poster.
This Brazilian BD cover:
wtf
Neither can we at that resolution.
CopperPuppy
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I'll see your Bane, and raise you a shitty Batman:
Seriously. The original version of this was awesome, this sucks
Also, here's Batman staring at a post, and those reflections make no sense at all.
And here's a 'Dark and Broody' version of the Adam West Batman
Exotoro
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okay this wins
FlashbladeGAF
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I like how it's the exact same monkey image but in different clothes in these posters.
I'd watch the shit out of this.
somecrazymember
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Haha nice
Lys Skygge
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I thought this was fine until I looked at their feet. Jesus that's bad lol.
(Prison Break)
This one works far better than the X-Men ones, because at least the space is filled and there's some energy to the silhouettes. The other ones just look like you randomly feathered off the rest of the photos and randomly plopped them into the black mattes.
And yeah, I think Harry Potter wins for worst franchise key art. I don't particularly think Struzan was the right fight for the franchise, either, but there's so much interesting imagery to pull from, even having the same marketing mandates of "have the leads look at the viewer" could have resulted in dramatically more interesting art.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens wins the kitchen sink award. Would be a much nicer piece if they didn't try to throw in every new character that's in the movie.
Looks like Mackenzie Crook in disguise.
NOTHING beats the atrociousness of the First Class posters
It's particularly heinous that they used those when they had another set of perfectly cool looking ones they made
wait the fuck up, there are other Dolittle movies?
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
When I was a kid, I had the weirdest dream thanks to the Shark Tale Poster.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Baroquemantic
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Oh my god, I can't breathe. Lmao.
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