Best/Worst Film Poster Tag Lines
 

Two I like, for different reasons:

Tom Cruise (and Bryan Brown) play celebrity bartenders in "Cocktail", bringing in booming business.
The line on the poster:

"When He Pours, He Reigns"....:banana: :no: :yes: :D
Whoever came up with that one...should either be shot or get an award :thmbsp: (I'm rather amazed Morton's didn't sue.)

And "Alien", for entirely different reasons:
"In Space, Noone Can Hear You Scream".

I like the combination of simple scientific fact and one of the oldest lines in horror movies. Smartly done.

Any other that stick in anyone's minds?

C.

Probably no one we know
 

Who's Noone?

The huge mother alien at the end of the movie. You seriously didn't know that?

Any kin to Peter?
 

The alien is named Noone?

His first name is Peter. :D

And where does Mrs. Brown fit in?
 

So the alien is a "hermit"?

But the daughter was LOVELY....

I think the WORSE tag line I've ever seen was in "Motel Hell". The tagline was "It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent fritters" Absolutely hysterical! I would be in the subway in NY and see that movie poster and it would crack me up. It was a horror movie with western movie actor Rory Calhoun playing a guy that would kill guests at his motel and then he and his wife would make sausages from them. A real classic family film :D

I don't know if it counts as a tagline or not but years ago when I was in the Coast Guard in Milwaukee, I heard a radio spot for a movie called "Island of Lost Virgins."

Lusty, busty maidens dripping with the first fruits of desire.

Corky
"Smell the rubber burn. Hear the women scream."

A 1970s Stock Car racin' movie.

I haven't seen it but I understand it's pretty good.

Siam Sunset
"In the battle between man and the universe...back the universe.".

From the 1996 Arnold flick "Raw Deal"

"The system gave him a raw deal. Nobody gives him a raw deal."

The alternate tag line was even better: "His trigger has all the answers."

Ken

2001: A Space Odyssey--- "The Ultimate Trip"

The Warriors---- "These are the Armies of The Night. They are 100,000 strong. They outnumber the cops five to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors"

"Listen to the sound of love. Feel purple. Taste green. Touch the scream that crawls up the wall!" - from the 1967 Peter Fonda flick "The Trip."

I have read that, "The Ultimate Trip" was the tagline of later releases as they discovered that many were dosing up before seeing the film.

"It's terrific!"

- Citizen Kane

That has got to be the worst tagline ever. A 5 year old could have thought of that. :thmbsp:

Best taglines:

Star Wars: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

Blazing Saddles: Never give a saga an even break

Worst tagline:

Speed 2: As the stakes get higher, the ride gets even faster
(Actually the tagline was the best part of that movie)

I can see how that might stick in a guy's mind.

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show-A Different Set of Jaws"
Feh

I was only kidding.:D

This is the weekend they didn't play golf....
 

Here is a good one......:worried:

Back in the 70s, I picked up a few bucks voicing a radio spot for a straight-to-drivein flick called "1,000 Convicts and a Woman". Great copy:
"To (whatever her name was), prison was a giant playground...full of men. To take, to make..to break..to do with as she pleased. (Big ballz voice now) 1,000 Convicts and a Woman! Rated R...in theatres near you now."

Hey, John. Back in the 70's and early 80's, I was a commercial producer working out of Chicago and I did a lot of work in the Twin Cities.

I wonder if we know each other.

Mmmm...kinda doubt it. I worked in Mpls. from 1979 to 1987, but only was able to snag one agency spot. Even though I was AFTRA, theatre types and freelancers got the lion's share of agency work, with radio people pretty much shunned. The movie spot was done when I worked in Fargo. A guy had gotten the distribution rights for ND, SD, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska for that fine piece of film, and had booked it into a whole wad of drive-ins. Put together a radio campaign to pump up interest.

movie - whore II
tagline - "you only buy the fantasy"

on my dormroom wall, i left it when i flunked out.

I remember some of the Blaxploitation flicks of the '70s as being often unintentionally hysterically funny-sky-high Afros birds could nest in, improbable plot lines, the requisite Eldorado tricked out in full Pimpmobile regalia...and the taglines...Oh, Dear God.."Sweet Sweetback's a BADASS Dude..."

I loved the second tagline in Blazing Saddles:"From the studio that brought you "The Jazz Singer".