10 Terrible Films That Tricked Us With Awesome Posters

by Sydney Zink

1. Max Payne (2008)

The poster for Max Payne draws upon the style, and likewise, all the positive reactions to Banksy's kind of street art: rebellious, cool, creative, independent, and uncompromising. However, comparing Max Payne's stellar video game to its following let-down film is like comparing such street art to poor crayon replications. Inspiringly bold material led only to a drab, practically insulting knockoff.

The poster for Max Payne draws upon the style, and likewise, all the positive reactions to Banksy's kind of street art: rebellious, cool, creative, independent, and uncompromising. However, comparing Max Payne's stellar video game to its following let-down film is like comparing such street art to poor crayon replications. Inspiringly bold material led only to a drab, practically insulting knockoff. I would almost rather idly watch a friend play the videogame for hours on end than have to face its film again. The poster is modern, appealing to teenage demographics, and brilliantly direct due to its superb artistic simplicity. Max Payne, given the hype that both its high-quality poster and its video game fame would warrant, was prime for success. It elaborately failed to its own notable degree of disappointment amongst other films that have made this list.

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Sydney is from Roswell, Georgia, where she takes pride in Georgia's growing film industry. She is a sophomore at Northwestern University with a minor in Film & Media Studies and a love for writing. Her life has unsuccessfully aspired to model a Keira Knightley period piece. Sydney is most likely to be found in an emptied theater viewing the credits and sipping her staple drink: all the theater’s sodas mixed together.