Why are movie posters so generic and boring nowadays?

[Samus Aran]

It's almost like the studio heads hire their lazy, talentless, unemployable slacker sons to Photoshop the DVD and Blu-ray covers because 1) nepotism is king, and 2) no one else would ever hire them. There seems to be a lot of Photoshop activity just for the sake of doing something, as if it can't possibly be any good until you get your fingerprints all over it.

Why take the Rain Man poster and replace the entire background with a fake-looking one for the Blu-ray cover?





Why take one of John Cusack's legs and flip it to be the other leg on the Say Anything cover when he already had two legs before?





They also had to make Adrian Pasdar look like a Twilight vampire for the Near Dark cover.