Overused Movie Poster Cliches

[AB Editor]

Afternoon,

Stumbled across this: http://www.booooooom.com/2013/07/30/over-used-movie-poster-cliches/

It's a rather excellent collection of overused movie poster cliches, here's some of my favourites:






Funny how similar they are!

[jno]

very good. I hadn't realised just how often ideas like that get reused.

A lot of kids' films posters in particular suffer from having the entire cast's heads crammed in

http://www.theguide2surrey.com/Media/TG2/Main-Media-Library/Whats%20On/WHATS%20ON%20BLOGS/Film/2013/05%20May/Epic_%282013_film%29_poster.jpg

http://www.canadianlutheran.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-movie-poster-1020616430.jpg

http://funkidslive.com/wp-content/uploads/Spy-Kids-4-All-The-Time-In-The-World-Movie-Poster-203x300.jpg

http://dgeiu3fz282x5.cloudfront.net/g/l/lghwr1255.jpg

http://fun.familyeducation.com/images/The_Hobbit_V.jpg

[anaxcrosswords]

One thing that always puzzled me is the apparent requirement that every film trailer has to start with the words "This year..."
I've already made the assumption that we are indeed in 'this year'. I mean, when else would it be?