18 Real Movie Posters That Are Amateurish Crap (And Why)

How is it possible that movie posters are still this terrible?
18 Real Movie Posters That Are Amateurish Crap (And Why)

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Movie posters are one of the last holdouts from print-based graphic design. Because of that, you'd think artists would do a better job on them. You'd be thinking wrong. We're constantly subjected to terrible Photoshop jobs, cookie-cutter layouts, and just plain amateurish-looking crap.

So we asked our readers to point out, with diagrams, how blatantly awful these official movie posters are. The winner is below, but first, the runners-up:

18 Real Movie Posters That Are Amateurish Crap (And Why)

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What are they looking at? Actor's OWEN FD IK KATT TER VNG CHRISTOPHER GLENN WILSON HELM SIMMONS WILLIA S BRAD RHAMES WALKEN CLOSE heads taken from dif
GRACKED What is this, a weather report? Focus on the characters! No names on the poster -they're either not famous or embarrassed about the film. X-ME
CRACKED.COM pamela anderson denise richards White smoke on ground. Only the front end of the car was added to the photo. BLOLDE BLONDER and Golf bag i
DRACULA UNTOLD COPYING BATMAN BEGINS CAPE OF BATS THE LEGEND Is BOMN BNLE CANE OMES OLDMAN FREEMN BATMAN B EGINS DRACULA UNTOLD COMING SOON JUNE 17 Di
GO FORTH AND PART THE BORING RED POSTER!!! RED SPARROW
1 -JOHN TRAVOLTA'S NAME SEEMS TO BE THE MOST DISTINCTIVE TRAIT ABOUT THIS FILM JOHN TRAVOLTAI 2TERRIBLY PHOTOSHOPPED BOBBLEHEAD 3-OUT OF PROPORTION FA
Take a bunch of screened characters and a logo, and place them on top of a city background. + AyENEERS MARVEL BOOM! You just made a Marvel poster. AIN
Where is she 0 swear his head isn't even looking touching at? that woman's (or somebody's)arm JON CRYER Someone's HIT BY too lazy touse SOHTNING the p
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CRACKED.COM ANEW VISION FROMTHE PRODUCERS OFTHE ORIGINAL CLASSIC THE MOST NON-DESCRIPTIVE AND SENSATIONALIST TEPRIFOING TAGLINE FILM YOU WILL EWER EXP
Gritty reboot? Dial the filters up to eleven. CRACKEDCON Don't like the actress's real neck? Photoshop it to look like a dinosaur's! Female lead? You
The bullet holes looks terribly photoshopped. what is he doing with this arm? It looks like he was supposed to be holding NICOLAS O something but it F
B A PAUL LEVESQUE TRIPLE H IS THE CHAPERONE C D E Her dad did time... now he wants quality time RLRCT THEATERE FEBRUARY 18 UIMTET CON A. Shouldn't be
TRULY The UNFORTUNATE MOVIE POSTER Rubbery body and difficult pose? We know it's Jim Carrey but COME ON. JIm CARREY LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES UNFORTUN
BASE D Based on the kind of photo you'd delete right away. A blurry image is not always arty or impressionistic. Alternating Script with CAPITAL BLOCK
CRACKED A Guide to Movie Posters (regardless of genre) Step 1: Take Matt Damon's face. YO U KNo w Step 2: Put text on HIS the face. N A M E JASONBOURN
A long time ago in a galaxy for, for OWOY... Omnipresent VUm father figure judging. Light isn't a liquid. That's clearly not how lightsabers work. The
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