In yesterday’s post, I mentioned a few “bad” movies that had really cool posters. For the second installment of this feature – you may have guessed – I decided to make the polar opposite observation. Now I am taking a look at posters that are an assault on the eyes, but the film itself was quite enjoyable.
To get things going, here are a couple of films that meet the criteria for me:
I am especially intrigued by the poster for The King’s Speech. Helena Bonham-Carter and Geoffrey Rush seem to be in a period comedy of manners (think Noel Coward), while Colin Firth is in an entirely different movie. As for Star Trek IV, it is simply an 80’s nightmare. As for X-Men First Class it looks like someone was on a deadline and had to produce something really, really quick.
These designers could probably take a lesson from Simon C. Page.
While we are on the subject of movie poster artwork, I thought I would show you a quite lovely poster about a film I know very little (must less seen):
But I digress …. What awful posters can you think of which do not accurately represent the quality / your enjoyment of the motion picture they are charged with promoting?
I so dislike a bad movie poster. Somehow I can’t understand how that happens. I mean, I KNOW, but I can’t understand. I admit I don’t pay as much attention to newer movie posters as I do to vintage.
Your examples are perfect. I loved THE KING’S SPEECh and couldn’t find a single good poster to add to my blog list. So I grabbed the least bad one.
The King’s Speech poster is insane. I keep thinking what do HBC and GR have to be so smug about; are they LAUGHING at His Royal Majesty?
This one is a little better: http://thefilmstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/the-kings-speech-poster-2.jpg although his pores are quite visible. And the maize-ish color does no one any favors.
P.S. I also loved Star Trek THE VOYAGE HOME, but what a tacky poster!! Yegads. And really, it’s quite a wonderful movie.
I can’t think of any bad poster/good movie combos at the moment. Maybe later…
Solid list. I don’t think the X-men poster was THAT bad. Not that original or thought-provoking, but passable. The Star Trek one was one for the ashes. LOL
It just seems like a rush job – like something I would mock up on the way to getting to a final design. Also did not feel like it was evocative enough to draw you in.
The more I look at the ST one the more fault I find with it. It is quite hilariously awful.
Ahaha that X-Men poster is comically bad. I’m not even sure what it’s supposed to mean 😀
You should check out Perfume. It’s a odd little French movie that’s really all sorts of crazy.
Hi Castor. All I know is that Dustin Hoffman was in Perfume and that it took a while for the translated source material to be published (at least I think that is the story :))