Godawful posters for godawful movies: the art of the Cannon Group

[palitoy]

http://io9.com/5589419/godawful-posters-for-godawful-movies-the-art-of-the-cannon-group/

[Werewolf]

There's nothing really wrong with the Masters of the Universe poster. The rest are pretty terrible.

[Hedji]

Yeah, that's a Drew Struzan... pretty funny one of his works would make a godawful poster list. I also like the New Year's Evil poster.

[Mikey]

Totally forgot about the Barbarian Brothers until now.

Thanks for tainting my beautiful 80's memories

[Godzilla]

God I love all of this badness.

[Gorn Captain]

I'm happy that the Pride of Belgium is so prominent in this list...

[Bruce Banner]

I like a lot of the movies in that list... the posters, too!

[enyawd72]

Masters of the Universe is one of the best movies ever made.

It has a kick*ss poster by Drew Struzan.
It has a Kick*ss score by Bill Conti.
It has Frank Langella playing the most bad*ss cinematic villain since Darth Vader.

[knight errant00]

It has Frank Langella playing the most bad*ss cinematic villain since Darth Vader.

I was re-watching it the other night, and it occurred to me that he was one steel mask away from being Dr. Doom! Someone should just hire him for whatever the next FF reboot is and show them how Doom should be done!

[Klosterheim]

Oh my goodness! The thing with Cannon, I am conditioned to perk up when I see their symbol at the start of the movie, I knew something good and interesting was coming!

With United Artists, even more so! Oh yes!

Revenge of the Ninja is a good poster, especially for VHS.

Nothing wrong with American Ninja either, aside from it being very plain.

{Did they do The Octagon? Now, I need to check.....}

[Brazoo]

I have a slight fascination with Cannon movies. From this list I actually liked Revenge of the Ninja quite a bit - great 80s video movie, and being mostly terrible is just part of the fun.

Here's a really cool 1 hour short on Cannon Group a friend recently posted:

[Brazoo]

Masters of the Universe is one of the best movies ever made.

It has a kick*ss poster by Drew Struzan.

To be fair, this list used a version with terrible typography. It might be the DVD release cover or something? The original poster with the proper type looks a lot nicer.

[palitoy]

I have a slight fascination with Cannon movies. From this list I actually liked Revenge of the Ninja quite a bit - great 80s video movie, and being mostly terrible is just part of the fun.

Canon group made the 80s fun, the documentary "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" is something you all have to see, it's really terrific.

I own a distressing amount of these films.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Don't forget, they gave us Superman IV: The Quest for Peace! Thanks for selling the rights, Salkinds!

Chris

[palitoy]

Don't forget, they gave us Superman IV: The Quest for Peace! Thanks for selling the rights, Salkinds!

I gave that a watch the other day because the batteries fell out of the remote. I still owe John Crier a punch in the crotch.