With all the money they throw at films these days, you'd think they could afford to shell out a few quid for a decent poster. Yet time and again they fail to create something remotely convincing. How many times have we seen a terrible poster that could have been solved simply by getting the cast to actually get together for a group photo, instead of letting some underpaid photoshop monkey to stick them together.
Let's examine the filmography of one Adam Sandler.
Everyone has seen this abomination of a poster (more than have seen the film at least). There's really nothing good about it. The two girls look like computer game characters. Look at the way the deck is a lazy mirror of itself. Now to be fair, the wildly different skin tones on Sandler's torso seems to be the rest of the scanning.
Here they've had another go, with limited results, apparently using the very same photo of Sandler's head as before. Note the wacky curvature of the surface of the Earth, which suggests that the planet is the size of Pluto.
The opposite problem is present in this film, which appears to take place on the inner surface of a doughnut-shaped world. I don't know what's in that bucket, but it sure as hell isn't water. Here we are introduced to the difficulties of setting people on grass. Poor Fairuza Balk, she's been removed from most other posters for the film.
Are the other players small, or far away? Once again humble grass wreaks havoc on the design.
In this Sandler-produced film the grass is slightly better, but not by much. Look at how badly that building on the left has been dumped on the ground, it seems to be emitting light from underneath.
Another lazy mirror-image job, especially visible on the lions. Let's not get started on the scale issues. And look at the view, those doors must open onto a sheer drop.
Another one of Sandler's mates. Where exactly is Rosario Dawson looking? At least whoever made this knew not to even try setting them down on an actual surface...
... which is more than can be said for the creator of this. The dreaded grass strikes again. If I was a photographer I'd just find someone's lawn and take the shot there. It looks like a straight-to-DVD knockoff, but this film cost $70 million (the same as
Inglorious Bastards and
War Horse, for example).
This one's really a game of two halves. On one hand they've done a really good job with the sand around Jennifer Aniston's feet, yet completely cocked it up with Sandler. A mixed bag.
Of course Sandler isn't in this one (he did the remake), but we'd be remiss to neglect it. It's a shame that during the entire filming schedule they never thought to take a photo of Burt Reynolds holding a football.
