Friday, June 04, 2010

15 Grossly Misleading Movie Posters

#14.Lord of the Rings - Spain


From cracked, Europe loves depressing, hopelessly bleak tragedies about people dying slowly, or perhaps in a concentration camp. So when the movie promoted is roughly 270 minutes of dragons and elves screaming while running with swords, you're pretty well screwed.

Your only option is to promise the audience a black and white movie about a grandfather who hugs little boys and hope the Spanish don't have a word for "refund." This isn't an action movie, guys; it's an Oscar winning flick about hugs, sad goodbyes and eccentric old men with funny hats. Who probably dies of cancer in a concentration camp.

See them all here

2 comments:

Octopunk said...

I've actually been reading a lot of Cracked.com because my job has a silly amount of down time. Their articles have gotten a lot funnier since JPX first started posting them. It used to be the headline was the funniest thing: The 9 Worst Things about Camp or whatever.

My favorite of these movie posters is the Ice Age 3 poster in which the main character is inexpicably portrayed as a cyborg.

50PageMcGee said...

the bit about abducting a black woman (crocodile dundee) killed me.

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