Worst movie poster of all time

Grab All Association

Here's my submission



The Snapper USA movie poster.

Ireland/UK poster shows her drinking with her mates. The family in the film were lower middle class Dublin skangers.

This movie poster gives the impression it's a film set in an upper class part of Chicago. I'm not even sure that's Tina Kellegher pictured.

e_e

Two surreal and psychological dramas that were made to look like Saw or Hostel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKOPh5ZEciQ

TheIrishGrover

This has been done to death but basically any Rom Com and/or lean-against-eachother and/or Matthew Perry poster:











But.... Probably this.....

PirateShampoo

Harry Palmr

Bad film posters are like bad album covers, the more you look the more you find and the worse they get. This one is not offensive - its merely completely at odds with the tone and texture of the film its promoting. There is another one for the American market that looks worse again but I can't find it



How it should look - the European Quad




The Driver like many old films has also been subjected to the re-imaging horror as DVD and streaming publicity updates the artwork with these creative miseries

Faith+1

They really don't try anymore. They're all the same useless, generic sh*te that we've all seen before. Now the poster from Taxi Driver is beautiful.....

e_e

Nah there's plenty of beautiful posters still being made. Just stroll through the corridors of the IFI or Lighthouse.

ThisRegard

Grab All Association wrote: »

The family in the film were lower middle class Dublin skangers.

Lower middle class?!?! Try working class.

MadDog76

I thought this thread was going to be about slagging off other posters who post in the Film Forum ......... so disappointed!!! :mad:

TheIrishGrover

I actually quite like the first Driver one. At least it's not just another photoshop (Or collage I suppose, given the time) of stills from the movie. Mondo are doing a successful line in releasing retro-style posters for modern movies.

TerrorFirmer

What I don't get are the ones that are terrible and painfully obvious photoshop jobs. Look at this for example - how an earth was this approved?

WatchWolf

Chris_Heilong

That first Driver poster is great, very confused why it is considered bad, the 2nd driver poster is a complete composition mess and it just gets worse from there.

moonlighting

Really starting to hate the blue and orange themed posters.


this guy sums it up well

Ralf and Florian

Grab All Association wrote: »

Here's my submission



The Snapper USA movie poster.

Ireland/UK poster shows her drinking with her mates. The family in the film were lower middle class Dublin skangers.

This movie poster gives the impression it's a film set in an upper class part of Chicago. I'm not even sure that's Tina Kellegher pictured.

An upwardly mobile satelite suburb of Reno Nevada surely?

Duggy747

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

What I don't get are the ones that are terrible and painfully obvious photoshop jobs. Look at this for example - how an earth was this approved?

I didn't realise they went back to "improve" it :pac:

razorblunt

Any recent poster starring Diane Keaton, pretty sure its the same shot used in each one they just move her head around.
That new Coopers movie is another one in the "smile and look off camera" thing she's doing.

goose2005

this one always annoyed me because it's so obviously two different photos comped together.


also this abomination


or this

bnt

Behold the Power of Photoshop:



edit: I didn't kill the thread, SJP's modified mug did that ...

Bozo Skeleton

The one for the Italian version could be funny/offensive/bad or all three.
First the German version, for comparison.




The Italian version:



Bonus point for using the word Spudorato, which actually means shameless in Italian!

You know what is interesting? When you type un poliziotto da happy hour into Google translate, it genuinely translates it to "a The Guard".

cowboyBuilder

Worse in Spanish it's called

"El Irlandesa"

The Irishman

wtf ??

Nerdlingr

I see the 'rom-com' sh*te poster has been done in another post ... but this is my personal favourite :



Two very punchable heads on 'em there, but I think its him pointing at her that annoys me the most.

Duggy747

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Two very punchable heads on 'em there, but I think its him pointing at her that annoys me the most.

It looks like she's wasted and he's going to take advantage of it :pac:

ohnonotgmail

bnt wrote: »

Behold the Power of Photoshop:



edit: I didn't kill the thread, SJP's modified mug did that ...

Surely the worst part of that has to be the PS job done on Kim Cattral. At least the others are recognisable, even SJP.

Welsh Megaman

bnt

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Surely the worst part of that has to be the PS job done on Kim Cattral. At least the others are recognisable, even SJP.

I think SJP's so recognisable because they turned her in to a cartoon caricature of herself.

TerrorFirmer

bnt wrote: »

I think SJP's so recognisable because they turned her in to a cartoon caricature of herself.

Looks like they tried to turn her into Chloe Grace Moretz.