10 Fiendishly Clever Secrets Hidden In Famous Movie Posters

9. Legend (2015)

Legend Tom Hardy Tom Hardy
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Every movie gets bad, or mixed, reviews - it's just the way it is. It's impossible to please everybody, and even the most beloved of movies will have one or two less-than positive reactions on its critical record.

Legend - the 2015 crime-drama starring Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy - also received some bad reviews, but instead of reading them and crying, the movie's marketing team chose to put a sneaky, positive spin on one particular one, using it as fuel to make the movie look even more critically lauded than it actually was.

That's the Twitter account of Benjamin Lee, a writer for The Guardian. He reviewed Legend when it came out, and although the poster makes it look like his review was favourable, it wasn't - he gave it two stars out of five.

So, Legend's marketing team cleverly positioned those two stars to make it look like there were more stars hidden behind Tom Hardy's heads. Genius.

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