A good trailer does NOT mean a good movie… nor a bad trailer a bad movie (just go watch the original Star Wars Trailer... oh good grief). That’s even more true for movie Posters. We all love seeing a kick ass movie poster… but that doesn’t mean the movie will be any good… it just means they had a good poster designer. And a bad poster doesn’t mean a bad movie (althought sometimes….).
So I came across this “Worst 10 movie posters” list over at Filmcynic (via Joblo) that I thought was pretty good (or pretty bad as the case may be).
The movie they list as the worst ever is Superman 3, and I whole heartedly have to agree with them. It is the poster that signaled the destruction of a successful franchise. Just look at that thing… it turns the stomach just to think about it. Who came up with that??? Worst of all… what executive saw it and said “Yeah… that’s our poster!!”.
Another one I’d have to add in here is the poster for Serenity. I loved that movie to death… but the poster looks like something some fan hacked together in Photoshop in about 3 minutes. Just horrible.
So how about you guys? What, in your opinion, are some of the absolute worst movie posters you’ve ever seen?
