18 Real Movie Posters That Are Amateurish Crap (And Why)
How is it possible that movie posters are still this terrible?
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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:
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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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/4/3/661343.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/4/7/661347.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/4/4/661344.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/4/0/661340.jpg?v=2)
![GO FORTH AND PART THE BORING RED POSTER!!! RED SPARROW](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/4/2/661342.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/6/5/9/661659.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/2/8/661328.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/3/6/661336.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM THEY YAGE HOME NOT SURE, MAYBE A RTTE M PINBALL? THEY TRANE ED BACK WHERE 23RD NTURY MAN HAD NEVER E BEFORE TO A CRAZY. OUTRAODUS TIME. AR](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/3/0/661330.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED.COM ANEW VISION FROMTHE PRODUCERS OFTHE ORIGINAL CLASSIC THE MOST NON-DESCRIPTIVE AND SENSATIONALIST TEPRIFOING TAGLINE FILM YOU WILL EWER EXP](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/2/6/661326.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/1/6/661316.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/2/4/661324.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/2/2/661322.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/1/8/661318.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/1/7/661317.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/3/4/6/661346.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/4/4/5/661445.jpg?v=2)