Movie posters often pose questions at the audience related to the project, while Star Trek V instead poses an incredibly random question that has nothing to do with anything. Why are they putting seatbelts in theaters this summer? Simple, they're not. Did the marketing department hear a rumor about people falling off their seats and attempt to increase cinema safety, or is it just nonsense? Maybe they knew that the movie itself wasn't going to be particularly good, and hoped that they could strong-arm patrons into staying by physically attaching them to the seat. One of the strangest movie posters ever released, the baffling tagline is accompanied by a chair just haphazardly floating through space. Which only proves that putting seatbelts in theaters wouldn't work in the first place!
2. Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven update is without a doubt one of the greatest remakes in history, featuring an A-list ensemble clearly enjoying themselves in a movie that is as entertaining as it is cool. Sadly, the sequel forgot all of that and dialled up the smug self-indulgence, something that seeped into the marketing with a tagline that attempts to be hip, but fails miserably. In fashion, something is often described as 'the new something', which is fair enough given that trends are constantly shifting. However, these are numbers we're talking about here; they don't change. Twelve isn't the new eleven, it's the same old twelve its ever been! Instead of coming across as cool, it just makes it seem as though the marketing team need to brush up on basic numeracy.
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