Is This Poster What Bodes For Percy Jackson & The Olympians?

by Dan

Because if it does, this movie is going to suck.

Movie posters (one-sheets) are a tricky thing. As part of a film’s marketing head of steam, the poster needs to eye-poppingly convey the tone and gist of the film it’s advertising. Sometimes they succeed as art, sometimes they succeed at stoking interest and other times, well… they don’t (I’m looking at your lazy attempts, floating heads).

Not that I’ve been anticipating the upcoming winner of “Bloated title of the Century”: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief (I won’t be retyping that again, BTW), but this poster with a bunch of painted snakes weakly Photoshopped on Uma Thurman’s HUGE head is awful. Awful.

I may be a nitpicking bastard, but when I see dollar store crap like this plowing the way for a pretty sizable release, I can’t help but smell a tepid The Seeker or The Spiderwick Chronicles sized opening for Harry Potter vet Christopher Columbus’ next foray into the fantastical. For shame, Fox 2000 and Midnight Oil Creative. For. Shame.

Click to biggefy the travesty.

6 Comments

  1. Carmina003
    06 January 10, 7:13pm

    Damn. This poster sucks. >.< But this series is soooo good, I really don't want the movie to suck! The snakes on her head really are really badly Photoshopped.

    Some of the other posters aren't too bad though..

  2. 06 January 10, 11:12pm

    Honestly, how does something this shoddy make it past QA at the studios? Craptastic to say the least.

  3. Jenny
    07 January 10, 9:52am

    Wait, legend of the seeker? Is that the CW tv show you are talking about?

    Not that I'm interested. . . .

  4. Dan_V
    07 January 10, 10:50am

    There is the tv show… I'm talking about The Seeker: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484562/

    Got my Seeker's mixed up.

  5. zury
    07 March 10, 4:50pm

    i saw the movie and it was great so please shut up!!!!!!!!! losers

  6. Dan
    08 March 10, 9:27am

    Zury- Nice job on seeing the movie.

    This poster still sucks.

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