Worst movie poster ever

[G2KMaster]

Scares me!

http://cgi.ebay.com/GHIDRAH-THE-THREE-HEADED-MONSTER-Org-65-Pak-1-SH_W0QQitemZ160296421430QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Defa ultDomain_0?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

[Scorpion13mk2]

Speak for yourself, dude. I love it.

[Mecha74]

I've seen soooooooooooo much worse than this.

[Godzillakamper]

This is an inacurate poster. Gigan wasn't in Ghidorah the three headed monster. Phail

[Mecha74]

This is an inacurate poster. Gigan wasn't in Ghidorah the three headed monster. Phail

This is nothing new, almost every film poster for showa era films outside of Japan and the U.S. were notorious for that.

[Godzillakamper]

This is nothing new, almost every film poster for showa era films outside of Japan and the U.S. were notorious for that.
True True:cool:

[LizardKing]

http://www.godzilla.stopklatka.pl/godz-pl/megal2.jpg

This is up there in terms of phail-ness. I mean if Megs and G were in new york that'd be cool, but did Jet Jaguar's size changingness rub off on those two?
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[Gojira2000]

I find it odd that the first poster linked in this thread features a real Godzilla and Gigan but not a real Ghidorah.

And true, Gigan was not in GTTHM, and that's the MegaroGoji design, and Ghidorah looks like an older film version of Orochii the 8-headed dragon.

And why does the poster say "battle for the lost continent?" Ghidorah never fought in Mu, Seatopia, Atlantis, or anyother sank-beneath-the-waves-city. What were these people thinking, seriously?

So MY question is not so much of "why?" as: "so which movie were they actually showing?!" Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster? Atragon? Godzilla vs. Gigan? Godzilla vs. Megalon? The Little Prince and the Eight-Hedaed Dragon? Or was it a double-double feature that day? What?!

Judging by the evidence, it seems to boil down to two main contenders: GTTHM and GvsML.


But I've seen wrose posters. One poster's title was "Gamera vs. Godzilla", featuring GINO fighting showa Gamera. It included stills from Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, read a synopsis for Godzilla vs. Mothra, but the actual film was in fact Godzilla vs. Biollante in disguise!

I feel so sorry for all the people in Europe who undoubly suffer great headeaches from such posters... it would certainly drive me mad...

[godzillamoviemaster]

That megalon one was always hilarious. Even if they were that small- how did they get up there?
haha

[Gojira2000]

That megalon one was always hilarious. Even if they were that small- how did they get up there?
haha
Megalon flew/building-hopped and Godzilla climbed?:sly:

[Godzillakamper]

This is up there in terms of phail-ness. I mean if Megs and G were in new york that'd be cool, but did Jet Jaguar's size changingness rub off on those two?
Haha phail is catching on:darklord:

[King-Goji]

One thing is for sure, whether intentionally or unintentionally that auction is false.

They say it's an original 1965 poster, yet it pictures Gigan, who the world did not even see until 1972. :confused:

A very interesting poster though.
An odd Ghidrah, what definitely looks just like Daisenso-Goji ('65-'66), Gigan, and what appears to be a picture of Seatopia and an Easter Island head in the lower right hand corner.

It would be very interesting to know exactly which film they were showing, while using this poster for advertisment.

Pretty cool.

[G2KMaster]

One thing is for sure, whether intentionally or unintentionally that auction is false.

They say it's an original 1965 poster, yet it pictures Gigan, who the world did not even see until 1972. :confused:

A very interesting poster though.
An odd Ghidrah, what definitely looks just like Daisenso-Goji ('65-'66), Gigan, and what appears to be a picture of Seatopia and an Easter Island head in the lower right hand corner.

It would be very interesting to know exactly which film they were showing, while using this poster for advertisment.

Pretty cool.

It is a legit poster for GTTHM, just that like Monster Zero here in the US, was released 5-10 YEARS after the Japanese release. This is also true with the french photobistura for Godzilla vs. Hedorah which shows Godzilla vs. Hedorah vs. YONGARY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kpa]

http://www.godzilla.stopklatka.pl/godz-pl/megal2.jpg

This is up there in terms of phail-ness. I mean if Megs and G were in new york that'd be cool, but did Jet Jaguar's size changingness rub off on those two?

A movie poster's main job is to be eye catching and help sell the film, and the American GODZILLA VS MEGALON poster does that. The movie was released in the US in 1976 several months before Dino Delaurentiis' KING KONG remake which featured the famous poster of Kong astride the World Trade Center. The MEGALON poster was an homage/parody of the KING KONG poster... distributor Cinema Shares wasn't going for accuracy but something that got people people talking.

GODZILLA VS MEGALON had a surprsingly successful US theatrical run and became the first and only Toho Godzilla movie to get a nationwide network TV primetime premiere so Cinema Shares obviously did a good job promoting the film.

[Gojira2000]

So Keith, what about those illogical European posters that said things like "King Kong vs. Frankenstien" but hosted the poster for Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) but the actual film was in fact War of the Gargantuas? How does something like that even add up???

[G2KMaster]

So Keith, what about those illogical European posters that said things like "King Kong vs. Frankenstien" but hosted the poster for Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) but the actual film was in fact War of the Gargantuas? How does something like that even add up???

One, I can tell you that they are actualy not posters but VHS covers from germany. I could tell because the Gamera vs. Godzilla one was one I remembered. Don't worry. Crap like this happened all the time. Cinemamassacre on youtube said that Germany included Frankenstein into alot of the plots of the Goji/Kaiju films from the 60's and 70's when dubbing the films for the germans.

here's a site that has a whole gallery of stuff like that:

http://www.mechagodzilla.de/

[Godzillakamper]

http://www.godzilla.stopklatka.pl/godz-pl/megal2.jpg

This is up there in terms of phail-ness. I mean if Megs and G were in new york that'd be cool, but did Jet Jaguar's size changingness rub off on those two?

I don't know man I personaly love this poster it's my second favorite Godzilla poster of all time

[King-Goji]

It is a legit poster for GTTHM, just that like Monster Zero here in the US, was released 5-10 YEARS after the Japanese release. This is also true with the french photobistura for Godzilla vs. Hedorah which shows Godzilla vs. Hedorah vs. YONGARY!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this is based on.....

We all know that Godzilla movies were released later in other countries, than they were initially in Japan. That's pretty much a "duh" type thing.
Many Godzilla movies were also released under different titles. Much like "Godzilla 1980" in the UK. Which was really just Godzilla vs. Megalon. Or when Godzilla vs. Gigan was released under the title "War of the Monsters".
And that's not to mention all of the name changes we are all familiar with in the US, Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster (Ebirah: Horror of the Deep), Godzilla on Monster Island (Godzilla vs. Gigan), Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (Invasion of Astro Monster), ect.

Unless you can provide solid proof as to which movie this poster was used to advertise in Pakistan, and which year, I still question which film it was actually for. It could very well be a poster from the late '70's or early '80's advertising Godzilla vs. Gigan. Or with all of the other oddities out there, it could've been for The Terror of Mechagodzilla, for all we know.

However the main point of my original post still stands. The seller has listed false information for that poster. It could not be from 1965 when Gigan did not exist until 1972. Let alone the fact that Pakistan did not have the movie "Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster" in theaters, the same year it was released in Japan, IF this poster was really used for that film.

One, I can tell you that they are actualy not posters but VHS covers from germany.


They are not just VHS covers, there most certainly are movie posters as Gojira2000 described. Many of the pictures in the link you posted are actual movie posters, not just VHS covers!

There are more pictures here:
http://store.fortytwotradingco.com/german-movie-posters-f-g.html

[G2KMaster]

The guy may be copying off another data base. Just because the person is selling it doesn't mean they know about the film. You see the glass half empty, I see it half full.

And while some of the posters gojira2000 described were posters, others were VHS tapes. I never dobt they were posters.

[King-Goji]

The guy may be copying off another data base. Just because the person is selling it doesn't mean they know about the film. You see the glass half empty, I see it half full.
One thing is for sure, whether intentionally or unintentionally that auction is false.
I don't think you even pay attention to the glass... So please don't presume to tell me how I see it. K? Thanks


And while some of the posters gojira2000 described were posters, others were VHS tapes. I never dobt they were posters.
I can tell you that they are actualy not posters but VHS covers from germany.
Yeah, okay :sarcasm:

[G2KMaster]

[quote=King-Goji;308960]I don't think you even pay attention to the glass... So please don't presume to tell me how I see it. K? Thanks


No. It is not ok. I was just stating why it could Not be false. I was not stating how you looked on things.

The other thing, ok that was an error on my part.

[King-Goji]

No. It is not ok. I was just stating why it could Not be false. I was not stating how you looked on things.


The guy may be copying off another data base. Just because the person is selling it doesn't mean they know about the film. You see the glass half empty, I see it half full.


Again, yeah, okay. :sarcasm:
Apparently you don't even pay attention to what you say.

You were "stating why it could NOT be false"?!?! The poster has a picture of a character that did not exist in 1965. Therefore IT IS FALSE to state that it is a "vintage 1965 poster", as the seller did. I made no insinuations whether or not the seller knew this, if they were ignorant, or being deceitful on purpose. I made absolutely no assumptions of the sellers motives or methods. I stated a plain FACT.

There is no way that this poster is from 1965. PERIOD. There is no way to argue against that, yet you are now "just stating why it could Not be false"...

Most likely they did just look up the name "Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster" and used the release date for that film. But in no way shape or form, does that make it ANY LESS FALSE. Nor does it mean that I am looking at anything with a "glass is half empty" point of view. Sheesh... :sarcasm:

[G2KMaster]

Again, yeah, okay. :sarcasm:
Apparently you don't even pay attention to what you say.

You were "stating why it could NOT be false"?!?! The poster has a picture of a character that did not exist in 1965. Therefore IT IS FALSE to state that it is a "vintage 1965 poster", as the seller did. I made no insinuations whether or not the seller knew this, if they were ignorant, or being deceitful on purpose. I made absolutely no assumptions of the sellers motives or methods. I stated a plain FACT.

There is no way that this poster is from 1965. PERIOD. There is no way to argue against that, yet you are now "just stating why it could Not be false"...

Most likely they did just look up the name "Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster" and used the release date for that film. But in no way shape or form, does that make it ANY LESS FALSE. Nor does it mean that I am looking at anything with a "glass is half empty" point of view. Sheesh... :sarcasm:

First, I was usuing a comminly used phrase. That counts for crap. And it is false to state that it is a 1965 poster but that means the statement is false. It does not mean the poster is false. It just means that the statement is false. That the person is false. I may say that a TE 2005 Godzilla figure is from 1985, but it doesn't make the figure false. The poster is most probrably legit but the comment is not.

[Gojira2000]

G2KMaster, I do not believe that King-Goji was insinuating that the movie poster was a "fake" poster, that "it was never used to promot [some] film". Instead, he agrees that it WAS a movie poster for one Godzilla film or another (maybe for Ghidirah, maybe for Gigan, maybe for Yog [who knows???]). What point KG was trying to get across is that the poster IS NOT a legit printed-in-1965 poster--it was obviously a poster made sometime after 1972, REGARDLESS of which film it was meant to repressent. (Besides, GTTHM came out in '64, btw.)

I think you two are both accepting the same truth but misunderstanding each other's statement of that fact. Maybe this poster was later used for a VHS copy of the film, but the one up for auction is a real movie poster, not box art. Honestly it doesn't suprise me that the auctioneer has his facts wrong--everything else about the poster is just plan screwy anyhow.

So do we see then what we are all agreeing on here? Let's put it in simple language (no point fighting over something so petty):

1. This movie poster was PRINTED AFTER 1972
2. It was ORIGINALLY used for the promotion of a film in THEATERS.
3. It may or may not have been used for a VHS title.
4. Regardless of what film it actually promots, it is NOT as old as the seller suggests.

Any questions? No? Then everyone shakes hands and cool off. This poster is so utterly silly that it doesn't even deserve to be dignified with an arguement. :P

[G2KMaster]

G2KMaster, I do not believe that King-Goji was insinuating that the movie poster was a "fake" poster, that "it was never used to promot [some] film". Instead, he agrees that it WAS a movie poster for one Godzilla film or another (maybe for Ghidirah, maybe for Gigan, maybe for Yog [who knows???]). What point KG was trying to get across is that the poster IS NOT a legit printed-in-1965 poster--it was obviously a poster made sometime after 1972, REGARDLESS of which film it was meant to repressent. (Besides, GTTHM came out in '64, btw.)

I think you two are both accepting the same truth but misunderstanding each other's statement of that fact. Maybe this poster was later used for a VHS copy of the film, but the one up for auction is a real movie poster, not box art. Honestly it doesn't suprise me that the auctioneer has his facts wrong--everything else about the poster is just plan screwy anyhow.

So do we see then what we are all agreeing on here? Let's put it in simple language (no point fighting over something so petty):

1. This movie poster was PRINTED AFTER 1972
2. It was ORIGINALLY used for the promotion of a film in THEATERS.
3. It may or may not have been used for a VHS title.
4. Regardless of what film it actually promots, it is NOT as old as the seller suggests.

Any questions? No? Then everyone shakes hands and cool off. This poster is so utterly silly that it doesn't even deserve to be dignified with an arguement. :P

Oh... I feel like that one sketch from MadTV...

[Gojira2000]

I wouldn't know what sketch you're refering to, but I'm assuming it signals a feeling of stupid embarassment. (No offense. ;) )

I just want to make sure we're all on the same page here.

[Godzillakamper]

I have to say this is becoming somewhat comedic

[G2KMaster]

I have to say this is becoming somewhat comedic

Thank You, I feel better since if you actualy met me in real life, I would try to get that said about moi.