Madame Web Poster Looks Like A Parody Of Superheroes

A long time ago, before the internet was a thing, the main way to advertise an upcoming film was with an eye-catching poster. The posters for the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, for instance, were fully painted masterpieces depicting a main character or two as the central image and surrounding them with scenes from the film. At some point, however, studios got lazy and cheap and started commissioning movie posters like Madame Web, where it’s just a bunch of faces stuck haphazardly in a rectangle with the movie’s title above them.

Even worse, someone somewhere in the mid-’00s got the idea that all movie posters should be primarily blue and orange. That led to posters like the ones for Spider-Man 2, The Bourne Identity, Night at the Museum, Cowboys VS. Aliens, and every other fire and ice monstrosity that plagued movie theaters throughout the 2000s and 2010s. At least Sony had the decency to make the Madam Web posters a more pleasing combination of red and black.