10 Terrible Films That Tricked Us With Awesome Posters

5. Lady in the Water (2006)

The screenplay is read, its poster is blue -- but the movie's so bad that its viewers are, too.

€œFantasy€ 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 Shyamalan€™s 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 movie€™s 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.

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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.