Inept film posters

[Bad Ambassador]

Yeah i watched it and the effects are shite. Thing i hate about the poster is the white border around the actors. Looks like an MS Paint job. The light sources are different for all three elements. And it looks like a normal sized puppy with two tiny people.

Also, that hashtag is glaringly open to abuse.

[Famous Mortimer]

"Mr Berenger, can you pose for five seconds in your outfit and hat so we can take a photo of you for the movie's publicity? No? Alright then"



I presume this movie is about these two guys being really annoyed that their face transplants were hideously botched.

[Pink Gregory]

Keir Starmer and who?

[thecuriousorange]

Vinnie Jones

[mothman]

And the poster is even inadvertently (actually deliberately) racist too, in that the top-billed star Cung Le isn't even ON the poster.

There's a discussion to be had regarding what happened to Tom Berenger's career. Was he just a character actor who suddenly briefly made it big and has been trying ever since to reclaim/retain that star billing?

EDIT: Looks like LeBeau did indeed do him: https://lebeauleblog.com/2013/11/04/what-the-hell-happened-to-tom-berenger/

[Keebleman]

There's a discussion to be had regarding what happened to Tom Berenger's career. Was he just a character actor who suddenly briefly made it big and has been trying ever since to reclaim/retain that star billing?

He looked too much like Ted Bundy. 

To be less glib, for all his handsomeness there is something very cold and unendearing about him.  He was very well cast in Platoon.

[Famous Mortimer]

Does she have extremely big hands or extremely long arms? Who's she shooting at? Are covers like this made bad on purpose so idiots like me will mention them?

[mothman]

That's a - heh - surefire way to break both wrists, right there.

[phantom_power]

What's a concrete blonde?

[kalowski]

"Let's bomb Russia!"

[Glebe]

Berenger's head is about my standard of photoshoppery!

[Jim Bob]

"Let's bomb Russia!"

...with love.

[mothman]

Also, you know you've hit rock bottom when you're in a film with Eric Roberts.

[MojoJojo]

I think the obvious explanation is they got Ricky Gervaise to take the photos.

[Gulftastic]

Does she have extremely big hands or extremely long arms? Who's she shooting at? Are covers like this made bad on purpose so idiots like me will mention them?

I remember reading somewhere that they are allowed to show people holding guns on movie posters, but they cannot be pointed at anyone. Perhaps this was a last minute photoshop tweek to stop the guns pointing at the viewer?

[AsparagusTrevor]

I remember reading somewhere that they are allowed to show people holding guns on movie posters, but they cannot be pointed at anyone. Perhaps this was a last minute photoshop tweek to stop the guns pointing at the viewer?

John Wick disagrees, and says it's just a simple shit Photoshop job

[Glebe]

[dissolute ocelot]

I remember reading somewhere that they are allowed to show people holding guns on movie posters, but they cannot be pointed at anyone. Perhaps this was a last minute photoshop tweek to stop the guns pointing at the viewer?

Posters for Clive Owen ironic actioner Shoot 'Em Up were banned for glamorising violence: one featured Paul Giamatti (who's never glamorised anything) holding a phone while pointing a gun, but not pointing it at anyone. There were also around the same time bans on a poster for shit Angelina Jolie/James MacAvoy action movie Wanted, which may have slightly more claim to be glamorous. These were in 2007 and 2008 and seemed to reflect a moral panic at the time about gun violence. It doesn't seem to matter what you do with the gun, but maybe they made the Concrete Blonde poster intentionally terrible so they couldn't be accused of glamorising anything.

[Leej88]

I hate posters that has a man and woman side by side back to back arms crossed is so cliche.

[Kelvin]

[mothman]

I can see what they're going for there, but it does look rather cheap and shoddy. I wonder if they've dialled back on the wacky/psychedelic early promotional material after The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Harlequin Hufnagel, or whatever it was called, didn't do as well as hoped?

[St_Eddie]

Fucking Gulliver cunt!

[greencalx]

Are covers like this made bad on purpose so idiots like me will mention them?

My guess is that they probably have no idea what the poster is going to look like when shooting the stills, so just take a bunch of random photies and hand them over the the poster design people who then have to make the best of a bad job. Probably a lot of aggro from agents insisting their client is marginally larger / more glamorous than the rest of the cast.

[Mister Six]

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[idunnosomename]

Bit on the small side

[dissolute ocelot]

My guess is that they probably have no idea what the poster is going to look like when shooting the stills, so just take a bunch of random photies and hand them over the the poster design people who then have to make the best of a bad job. Probably a lot of aggro from agents insisting their client is marginally larger / more glamorous than the rest of the cast.

It'll all be focus grouped and market researched, so their initial terrible ideas will all be rejected and they'll have to throw together something new (but still shit) out of on-set stills, old publicity photos, and lookalikes. Fashion and superstition and outright copying. Once you've shot a film, you're not going to get all the cast in one room, and even while it's shooting, there's no guarantee - especially when the most famous person in the cast who you want on all the posters is only on set for 2 days.

[holyzombiejesus]

I can see what they're going for there, but it does look rather cheap and shoddy. I wonder if they've dialled back on the wacky/psychedelic early promotional material after The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Harlequin Hufnagel, or whatever it was called, didn't do as well as hoped?

Yeah, I quite like the general look but it's a bit of a mess. If you too the promo stuff and logos off it and shifted the title across a little bit, I think it'd look quite nice.

[thecuriousorange]

[Alberon]

That head on the right seems totally detached and just propped against the pregnant woman.

[Famous Mortimer]

Isn't that directed by Bob Odenkirk too?