Toho Studios gave Mothra his own movie way back in 1961, and the winged fella has since become one of the most popular kaiju in cinematic history. However, it seems as though something got lost in translation when they were coming up with the tagline for the movie's US release the following year. 'Mightiest Monster In All Creation!' is okay, if a little hyperbolic. It's the second part of the poster quote that scares me a little. I'm not sure if the Japanese marketing team were quite aware of how to use the word 'ravishing', and its made to sound as if Mothra has been traveling the universe and having some saucy adventures along the way. Then again; maybe he has, and who am I to judge what a giant monstrous insect will do in the name of love?
18. Paycheck (2003)
The movie that effectively ended John Woo's time in Hollywood is fittingly named for what was surely the main reason why everybody signed on to the project. This lazy adaptation of a popular Philip K. Dick short story published in the 1950s is also burdened with an equally lazy tagline. It shouldn't need to be pointed out that the future cannot be remembered for obvious reasons, although sci-fi taglines do tend to get a bit more leeway given the nature of the genre. Affleck's character doesn't even need to remember the future, he sees upcoming events via a machine and works backwards from there with no small amount of coincidence. A painfully generic tagline to advertise a similar product.
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