Random Vignettes: Chef(ail)
You guys, the Mexican poster for Jon Favreau’s Chef is horrid.
In a world with so many gifted graphic designers, it baffles me that such an atrocity exists. They could’ve gone with one of the great-looking dishes featured in the film (so I’m told) or a decent picture of its even better-looking cast but they went with this.

Wow… PhotoShop nightmare…
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I know, right? Just awful. They just took random photos of the cast and stuck clich’ed chef hats on them.
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Haha! That’s appallingly hilarious! I thought posters were meant to entice you, not put you off!
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Exactly!
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Ha ha. I could do better and I have NO skills.
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Haha, same here! I could do a better one on Paint.
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Oh my goodness that is horrible. hahaha. I just assumed the yellow background one (the really cool one) was the standard international poster. . . .
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I would’ve thought so too! But apparently not.
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That is horrid. The U.S. one is way better and don’t understand why it couldn’t have been repurposed.
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I know, right?
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Haha,that is hilariously awful!
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So bad. Embarrassingly so.
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This, this is marketing brilliance right here. It’s like an artistic statement all on it’s own.
5.5/5
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LOL
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Besides the atrocious Photoshop, five of the six actors aren’t even chefs.
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Haha, I know!
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Ay caramba! It is ghastly indeed, Fernando. It’s too bad as it’s really quite a cast.
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I know! Especially considering the original poster is so pretty!
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Wow! Can’t believe they actually decided to use it….they should have just done it the way a movie like Rat Race did: https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/82/MPW-41186
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LOL! I know. Not that it looks great but at least you know it was on purpose!
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This poster is so terrible I’m surprised it wasn’t made in the U.S.
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LOL!
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That’s hilarious. If I was Dustin Hoffman I think I would sue. He looks ridiculous on this poster, well even more so than everyone else.
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It’s so horrible, right? And yeah, Hoffman somehow stands out in awfulness.
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Just watched this again and I’m dumbfounded by something else. Why did a Spanish poster leave off one of the stars that actually speaks Spanish?? – actor John Leguizamo!
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You’re right! Hadn’t noticed that. This keeps getting weirder.
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LOL!!!
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Horrible, right?
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