'dumb' posters

[movieposters]

over many decades there's been many bad posters but there are a select group one could classify as simply dumb.  You could make a case that almost all recent posters fall into this category.   Dumb images/captions/design/color schemes/layouts.  Posters that 'should' always miss the mark with attempt to lure large audiences.  

Here's a few...

Tingler, The - Vincent Price...really?  Lousy attempt to lure audiences who now go to Halloween Horror/Freight houses



Dick Tracy -one I'll never figure out as long as I live - there's demand for this.  Often goes over 2 bills - HA reflects someone spent over 5.   Who are you out there that would waste perfectly good $$ for a 1990 cartoon drawing of Madonna?    



Furry Vengeance - many dumb posters similar but picked this out for personal reasons.   With young children, our life has become limited to going to theaters that only play animated and CGI films.   Walking out of the theater after seeing this - I was pissed off.   Wasn't the loss of $8.50 for an adult ticket I was upset about but the fact I invested 90 minutes of my life, time I'll never get back.   Movie was so bad Brooke Shields or Brendan Fraser should go into seclusion and never show their faces in public again.  

[CSM]

I postulate that all posters are dumb in that they cannot speak

[Chop-Top]

Mod, please move to the Genre sub-forum. 

[movieposterodyssey]

I actually don't mind the Tingler poster.There has been far worse,dumber.
Madonna was recalled cuz of the tag....thus the demand.

I would've started this off with Corky Romano...can't go wrong with that one.

Anthony

[paul waines]

I'm with Anthony on this one, I like the Tingler poster also. I think it would not do a bad job of getting people into a cinema..

[erik1925]

over many decades there's been many bad posters but there are a select group one could classify as simply dumb.  You could make a case that almost all recent posters fall into this category.   Dumb images/captions/design/color schemes/layouts.  Posters that 'should' always miss the mark with attempt to lure large audiences.   


Furry Vengeance - many dumb posters similar but picked this out for personal reasons.   With young children, our life has become limited to going to theaters that only play animated and CGI films.   Walking out of the theater after seeing this - I was pissed off.   Wasn't the loss of $8.50 for an adult ticket I was upset about but the fact I invested 90 minutes of my life, time I'll never get back.   Movie was so bad Brooke Shields or Brendan Fraser should go into seclusion and never show their faces in public again.   

I would imagine that Brendan Fraser felt about as dumb as the poster makes the movie look, while he was filming it, too.

 

[guest4955]

"dumb" squared!

http://www.slashfilm.com/sherlock-gnomes-poster/