What's the most egregious example of a poster that misrepresents facts about the film? Or if you prefer, which presents a vision that the film fails to live up to?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
I'm interested by that answer Ryan - could you care to elaborate?
I'd say the Attack Of The Clones. Its poster seemed to advertise wholly different badly painted characters.
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
Actually my original question was going to more specificly about name positioning. I think someone over on ILE said that they always get annoyed with posters that have threee heads on them (an example is any of the three posters for A Guy Thing), where the names at the top are
Star1 Star2 Star3
because that's the order they're famous in, but for the same reason, the heads directly below are
Star2 Star1 Star3
What actually pushed me over the edge on this was the poster for 2 Fast 2 Furious, which lists five stars in the credits section, one of whom is female, but the five stars on the poster include two women, because tits means money.
A better example of the question I eventually ended up asking might be Ronin, one of whose prominent stars leaves really early.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
and a related topic could be when films use pull-quotes that arent exactly flattering.
plus one time i saw a video that claimed to have received three stars from some obscure newspaper. seemed like it was try to say "hey this movie is kinda alright!"
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
I saw a pull-quote once, I forgot what the video box was, but it said "Young, Likeable Cast!" -- name of obscure newspaper
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
"Dude Where's My Car" had a quote on the back reading "fitfully amusing". Presumably they were thinking it was saying you'd be in fits of laughter, that can't have been the best quote the movie got
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 3 July 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link