I've Seen This 'Valentine's Day' Poster Before

You know how you can tell if your movie's cast is too big? When you need three columns on the poster to list them all. That's the curse of Valentine's Day, a movie we're not so much looking forward to. The film is quite obviously trying to appeal to every single female in the world, based on the talent assembled. It's not just Julia Roberts, Taylor Swift, Shirley MacLaine, the Jessicas and Jennifer, but also two of the Grey's Anatomy guys. So ordinarily, I probably wouldn't present a poster for a romantic comedy, but in and of itself it's interesting because I expected much more Photoshopping - these people almost have visible lines in their faces! - and the design is a neat way to tackle the problem of having more than a dozen principal cast members. Even on its own, though, that's probably not enough, but I noticed something about the poster most wouldn't, I think, if only because most people don't dig one-sheets from the old days of erotica. But check out the similarities between Valentine's Day and 1970's Come One, Come All. Probably not what they had in mind. Or then again, maybe it was.