10 Terrible Films That Tricked Us With Awesome Posters
5. Lady in the Water (2006)
Advertisement
Fantasy is too flattering a word to describe Lady in the Water, despite its genre label. The most blatant relevant fantasy is the belief that this movie would ever serve its promotional art justice, not to mention Shyamalans blinding ego that wrongfully drove this film. The poster is overwhelming and coldly blue, plus saturated with tangles and harsh eyes gaze; so, too, describes the movies colossal letdown. The difference is how pleasingly intricate, engrossing, and busy the images appear in the poster in stark contrast to how offensively passive the actual movie and its developers come off as in treating viewers. The poster for Lady in the Water is prettily abstract and artsy to the point of inspiring a poem, but don't consider it fan material: The screenplay is read. Its poster is blue -- but the movie's so bad that its viewers are, too.