Apr 10 2009Amazing 'Moon' Poster Ruined by Horrible 'Moon' Tagline
"950,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face... is yourself"? That's terrible. From the trailer, I can piece together what they're going for, but still, unacceptable. A stylish, moody, sci-fi film shouldn't have a tagline that cues Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway to play in your head.
Reader Comments
1. Daniel - April 10, 2009 5:34 PM
No kidding, that is an awesome poster, I'd hang this on my wall MINUS that cliche, dumb ass lyric
2. Tooom - April 10, 2009 5:38 PM
The worst part is the "...," instructing us how to dramatically read it to ourselves.
3. Me - April 10, 2009 6:32 PM
it would have been awsome if there was no credits or taglines, and just the weird spiral and the title. It's called 'teaser poster', you stupid poster making people!
4. shiloh - April 10, 2009 6:40 PM
I saw this movie at a film festival and it was freaking fantastic. Also considering Duncan Jones directed it (David Bowie's son) and didn't use his father as a vehicle to promote it, he has more respect than any other superstar spawn.
5. poster fan - April 10, 2009 7:06 PM
I don't know how Kelly Clarksons song goes but I like the poster :)
6. Racer X - April 10, 2009 9:51 PM
Looks like Sunshine, but on the moon.
/I'll check it out
7. timmy the dying boy - April 11, 2009 12:08 AM
Exactly which moon is he on where he's 950,000 miles away?
8. steve - April 11, 2009 4:15 AM
I love Sam Rockwell, have you seen choke?....so good, although the book was better, as was fight club
click on my name
9. Jiakasuma - April 12, 2009 2:12 AM
Mis Ojos!!!!!!!!!! >.
10. @dean - April 12, 2009 3:51 PM
the moon is somewhere around 250000 miles (385000 kilometers) away from the earth.
so i'd like to know WHAT moon are they talking about? does nobody proofread/factcheck what these design/marketing pinheads push out?
let's hope the movie had better production than it's PR did...
11. Evil Ash - April 12, 2009 4:24 PM
Oh God, it's like Galaxy Quest all over again :O
12. dude - April 13, 2009 10:48 AM
Uh...fucking stupid hollywood.
the moon is 235,000 miles away
13. tissue - April 13, 2009 11:15 AM
i think the total distance includes the drive from atlanta to the launch site in florida. hence the apparent numerical tomfoolery. do the math people. do the math.
14. Republibot 3.0 - April 13, 2009 11:36 AM
Yeah, why would they make such a freshman mistake about the distance? "I think the moon is a million miles away, but I can't be bothered to check it..."
15. Frank - April 16, 2009 10:44 AM
That movie looks really cool, but I gotta say, HAL 9000 is not improved by giving him a stupid little emoticon face.
If I had to spend 3 years with that thing, you bet your ass I'd go insane.
16. astronomius - September 29, 2009 10:52 AM
i looked it up, too, and "dean" and "dude" are close enough: from the closest point (outer "edge"), the earth is about roughly about 226,000 miles away from the moon...
"950,000 miles from home"; where, then, did Sam Rockwell's character go if the distance listed on the poster is correct, hmmm? lack of research or a horrible spoiler, a dumb, marketing mistake either way.
i would have preferred no tagline at all.