12 Stupid Film Posters That Totally Spoiled The Movie

5. Pompeii

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It€'™s in the history books: everyone who gave the tiniest of hoots during history lessons knows the story of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that destroyed the city. So, we know it's gonna explode. What an opportunity to overlay (as James Cameron did with Titanic) a new fictional story, create solid characters, and maybe even try and throw in some time travel or something.

Okay, maybe not. The one sheet for Pompeii pretty much guarantees that the two leading characters, having an embrace-snog, are about to be encased in hot melting magma, which is exactly how the film ends. And regardless of the fact that history had already spoiled the resolution of their home's story, there could have been every possibility that one of the pair wasn't there the day the sky rained hot molten rock and everyone was obliterated. Stranger things have happened after all. But thanks to the poster, any hope of an unlikely escape was completely ruined.

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