11 Worst Movie Posters of the 80s (page 2)
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- "Body Rock" (1984) - This movie poster contains the most simultaneous '80s cliches of any poster from the entire decade.
The color scheme: Blue background with neon lasers and hot pink. (Not that I have any right to criticize hot pink, what with the design choices I made on my website, but whatever.)
Six people, each with an outfit more '80s than the person before them. Breakdancing. People talking about dreams of dancing. And, most importantly, Lorenzo Lamas.
All that's missing is Max Headroom drinking an Orange Julius.
- "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986) - This poster actually made me laugh out loud. Spock and Kirk ride the rainbow to San Francisco, where they look around bewildered at the gays... that's pretty freaking funny.
It's still a hideous, over-the-top, awful poster in every way... but, on some level, it makes me want to go watch "Star Trek IV" for its sheer hilarity. And I never watch "Star Trek" movies.
- "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) - Apparently, for the first Indiana Jones movie, they thought it might be a good idea to market Indy as a clean-cut sales rep or Gap shirt folder who happens to hold a whip. I've seen some other posters for "Raiders" that use the correct Indiana Jones font and at least show him wearing a hat... possibly after this early poster made people wonder when Han Solo had time to go yuppie.
- "Teen Wolf" (1985) - The corny double thumbs up is pretty bad. The pre-Photoshop cartoonish airbrushing is worst. But my biggest beef is with the marketing team having the audacity to say Michael J. Fox is better in "Teen Wolf" than "Back to the Future".
I mean, really. "Teen Wolf" is camp. It's funny in its absurdity, but it's not, by any account, a "good" movie. I'm not sure how any poster idea for "Teen Wolf" could have been any worse.
- "Teen Wolf Too" (1987) - I stand corrected. This one's way worse.
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