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The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Poster: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd dangle above a rolling police car like a couple of really weird looking Peter Pans.
Worst Detail: Points for getting that awesome car chase sequence onto the poster, but this entirely fails to capture any of the whizz and drama of that scene.
The Green Mile (1999)
The Poster: Disturbing for all the wrong reasons - it seems Tom Hanks wasn’t available for the Green Mile poster, so they shipped in his Madame Tussauds waxwork instead.
Worst Detail: Hank. After his success with the Toy Story films, he seems to have decided to look like wood in every ad from now on.
On The Waterfront (1954)
The Poster: A frankly bizarre arrangement of artist’s impressions, one of which seems to have been nicked from a low-grade comic book.
Worst Detail: Brando appears to have fallen asleep in some mustard (it’s plastered all over his forehead), and forgotten to remove the blusher…
Young Adult (2011)
The Poster: Charlize Theron grimaces at her audience, and looks all, well, blurry around the edges thanks to a little horrible photoshopping.
Worst Detail: It looks more like a pap shot than a poster. Which may be the point, but doesn’t stop it from being awful. The faux book cover poster was a thousand times better.
The Matrix (1999)
The Poster: Moody stares and shades all round as Keanu, Laurence, Carrie and - randomly - Joe do their best action poses.
Worst Detail : If we didn’t know this was one of the coolest films ever, this poster wouldn’t convince us. Photoshopped smoke? Bondage attire and shades? Weird drippy symbols? Wrong.
Magnolia (1999)
The Poster: A flower, with some blurry, barely visible images of actors superimposed onto the petals.
Worst Detail: We know PT Anderson likes to do things differently, but if you're going to leave your biggest star off the poster, it might be an idea to at least let us make out the images of the actors you've decided to go with. Nice idea, poorly executed.
The Fighter (2010)
The Poster: A barely-recognisable Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg chill out, demonstrably NOT fighting, despite this film being called The Fighter.
Worst Detail: Low-key the film may be, but if you’re advertising a film called The Fighter, you sort of want a little action, right?
Star Trek IV: Voyage Home (1986)
The Poster: Kirk and Spock touchdown in San Francisco - you can tell it’s San Fran because there’s a tram, a Golden Gate bridge and members of The Village People.
Worst Detail: It looks like Spock and Kirk have made friends with some leprechauns. And they’re not happy about it.
The Kings Speech (2010)
The Poster: For such a grandiose and gorgeous film, it beggars belief that they bothered to throw something this horrible together when a still from the film would’ve sufficed.
Worst Detail: Almost impossible to pick just one, though Helena Bonham Carter’s scare-hair is pretty horrific.
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
The Poster: Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal enjoy a chat. While standing in a miniature version of New York.
Worst Detail: Terrible photoshopping, especially on Meg Ryan. It makes it look like this is really a monster movie in which innocent New Yorkers are crushed by giant, hopeless romantics.
