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I'm totally digging how the movie apparently wasn't interesting enough to the poster artist, who gave us a U-Boat with windows, a modern-looking minisub in WW1, a couple of guys scuba-diving in swim trunks and welding masks and a giant laser manta ray. If I got this thing back I wouldn't be sure whether to fire the guy or give him a raise. Evil Tim 01:43, 5 October 2011 (CDT)

Actually back in the day, many movie poster artists were never given production stills. A lot of them were given the title and a brief page of descriptions. That's why so many horror or fantasy movie posters from the 1960s or 1970s seemed to exaggerate the elements of the film. The paintings (which took weeks BTW) were done months before the final special effects and many times the artists didn't even know what the miniatures looked like when they started their posters. The reason why some movie poster art was accurate was that the production took the effort to get their artists production stills and even stills of the special effects (miniature vehicles, craft, locations, buildings, monsters, etc.) ahead of time. MoviePropMaster2008 03:18, 5 October 2011 (CDT)

Oh yeah, I'm aware of that (and it's not even limited to the 60s and 70s, the writeup on the poster for Terminator was clearly written by someone who hadn't seen the movie) and this is a brilliant piece, it's just, well, silly. :D Evil Tim 03:43, 5 October 2011 (CDT)