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We’ve brought you the best of movie poster-dom, and now we thought you might be ready for the worst. Heck, it’s summer blockbuster season, and more money is being spent on theatrical release advertising than on foreign aid to Africa. (Er, maybe. But the numbers are huge.) What better time to celebrate the film industry’s foibles? A few of these were inspired by a post from filmcynic. The rest, by my nightmares.






wow, that last poster kind of answers its own question.
posted by jill on 4-30-2007 at 12:18 pm
Hey, any poster with Dolly Parton pictured on it can’t be half bad.
posted by Sandy on 4-30-2007 at 1:49 pm
maybe theyre bad because the movies themselves were. I haven’t seen any and probably won’t based on these.
posted by nathalie on 4-30-2007 at 5:43 pm
I’ve seen Man of the Year and I liked it. Also I like the poster but everything else is bad though.
posted by Christopher on 4-30-2007 at 7:11 pm
You know you’ve probably been overexposed to the american film industry when 3 of the four spoof posters you’ve just been shown have you saying “Wait, what was the plot to that one again?”.
posted by Me-ah on 5-1-2007 at 1:13 am
Why do I keep thinking Hall and Oates starred in Rhinestone?
posted by Jeff on 5-1-2007 at 7:31 pm
At first I thought the Justin and Kelly Poster of “The tale of two American Idiots”
posted by Jenni Robinson on 3-13-2008 at 7:39 pm