Balls Are So Huge Right Now

The movie posters for new release Balls of Fury and mid-September’s Mr. Woodcock demonstrate that there’s no hotter trend in one-sheet design than testicular imagery that subtly reinforces the “ballsiness” of either a movie’s concept or its characters. In the case of Mr. Woodcock, however, we assume that this was the studio’s fallback version; while the MPAA let the Balls marketers go forward with their nonthreatening wooden phallus, they probably were never going to allow the public to see Billy Bob Thorton dangling a more conceptually appropriate, 34-inch Louisville Slugger between his legs.

[Images: Rogue Pictures/New Line]

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