The Worst Movie Taglines

[That-Guy]

I often wonder how some people get a job in marketing. You would think that you'd have to have a pretty impressive resume for a movie studio to put a major film production in your hands. And yet, all to often, I hear some of the most pathetic catch phrases of all time in advertisements for movies.


The worst (and probably funniest) one I've ever heard, was in a TV spot for this movie:

"ACTION GETS LONG. HOWIE LONG."

Considering how old this movie is, and the fact that I never even bothered to see it, should tell you just how awful that tagline is. I can STILL remember it after all these years, because it's hilarious. I wish they would have put it on the DVD cover. I would buy it just for that.


A more recent example was in a TV spot for that film Gamer.

"The last time Gerard Butler kicked this much ass... WAS 300 YEARS AGO!"

So apparently the Battle of Thermopylae was in 1709.

 

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"The last time Gerard Butler kicked this much ass... WAS 300 YEARS AGO!"

that can't be real

 

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I remember SUSPIRIA and its hilarious tagline..

"The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 92!"

!!

 

[That-Guy]

What the hell? That's atrocious. Wow.

And I assure you, the Gerard Butler one is real. Epic history fail.

 

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Here you go..

 

[Octoberist]

I looooove Susperia!

 

[AlteredEgo]

I often wonder how some people get a job in marketing. You would think that you'd have to have a pretty impressive resume for a movie studio to put a major film production in your hands. And yet, all to often, I hear some of the most pathetic catch phrases of all time in advertisements for movies.


The worst (and probably funniest) one I've ever heard, was in a TV spot for this movie:

"ACTION GETS LONG. HOWIE LONG."

Haha, this reminds me of Bangkok Dangerous, because everytime any ad for that movie came on one of me or my friends would always have to go, "This summer... Nicholas cage gets dangerous... BANGKOK DANGEROUS!"

A more recent example was in a TV spot for that film Gamer.

"The last time Gerard Butler kicked this much ass... WAS 300 YEARS AGO!"

So apparently the Battle of Thermopylae was in 1709.

I remember seeing that tv spot. I felt doubly insulted for being lied to. First for them telling me that the Battle of Thermopylae took place 300 years ago, and second for telling me that Gerard Butler kicked ass in Gamer.

 

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I looooove Susperia!

Me too -- but this thread is about taglines

 

[Octoberist]

welll well well, it's [a] the thread dictator!

 

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welll well well, it's [a] the thread dictator!

I told you because you said I love susperia (sic) but no one said anything bad about it, so.. there

 

[Octoberist]

fine fine! fair enough

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I always loved the tagline for Fear starring Mark Whalberg as an obsessed boyfriend.

"Together forever. Or else."

 

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Saw this a while ago..

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Daredevil's "Take the Dare" was pretty horrible

Although the remake of Clash of the Titans "Titans will Clash" is probably the worst I've heard.

Studio head to marketing director "So the best tagline you could come up with was to reverse the main words of the title?!?! I think that's brilliant! You're getting a raise!"

 

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More classic stuff..

 

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Win?

 

[Bim]

Saw this a while ago..

Win!

 

[AlteredEgo]

Yeah, it must be opposite day or something, because these tag-lines are awesome.

 

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Maybe they're so bad they're good..?

 

[CELTICPRED]

Leprechaun In The Hood: EVIL'S IN THE HOUSE
Leprechaun: Back 2 the Hood: EVIL HAS A WHOLE NEW RAP

 

[That-Guy]

Haha, exactly.

I have to say that the "Holmes for the Holidays" tagline for the new Sherlock Holmes movie is cringeworthy.

 

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I have to say that the "Holmes for the Holidays" tagline for the new Sherlock Holmes movie is cringeworthy.

Yeah, what is that? Is there a play on words I'm missing because enlgish is not my mother tongue..?

 

[That-Guy]

Well, "Home for the Holidays" is a typical phrase used (at least in the U.S.) referring to families gathering together around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. In fact, there it was even the name of a movie that starred Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.

But doing a play on words with "Holmes" just because they're releasing the film at Christmas time is just dumb. However, I guess it's better than that "CRIME WILL PAY" tagline they put on the Watson poster.

And on that note, how about "SLAM EVIL!" from that awful Billy Zane Phantom movie?

 

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Well, "Home for the Holidays" is a typical phrase used (at least in the U.S.) referring to families gathering together around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. In fact, there it was even the name of a movie that starred Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr

The one directed by Jodie Foster, right..?

But doing a play on words with "Holmes" just because they're releasing the film at Christmas time is just dumb. However, I guess it's better than that "CRIME WILL PAY" tagline they put on the Watson poster

Yup, pretty weak thanks for the explanation

 

[That-Guy]

Yep, that'd be the one. It's a pretty good movie, for the most part.