As you can see the poster is just a version of the movie’s logo awkwardly crammed down to fit horizontally, with no other art whatsoever.
A more typical poster is one of the first three here:
At a minimum I’d expect a poster to have the silhouette above, filling the poster, and the text below.
I’ve already fixed this on my Plex server, I just figured I’d report it in case any staff want to take a crack at improving the quality of metadata offered by Plex.
Since I already have 4 threads open for various poster misfires I’ll try to wait a while before opening another, but I’ll just note that The Painting (2011) has the same problem as The Prince of Egypt – the poster art is just a logo awkwardly shrunk in the middle of the poster
Son of the White Mare, probably the most famous Hungarian movie ever made (maybe second after some of Béla Tarr’s stuff like Werckmeister Harmonies), is also an example of this:
It gets rid of the gorgeous hand-painted original and then renders the title in a weird and non-matching font centered in the middle of the poster. The background of the text is, I guess, supposed to be a cutout of something from the movie but I can’t recognize it at all. Nothing about this poster has anything to do with the movie it’s attached to.
Again this is considered a crown jewel of Hungarian national cinema so having it have incorrect poster art is kind of insulting. Also, it doesn’t even achieve the purpose of trying to dodge copyright infringement because the page’s background is the art from the actual poster…
If you care about artwork then just don’t let plex manage it. They announced a while ago Movie artwork updates the outsourcing of movie posters to gracenote so plex themselves have walked away from artwork and are letting them manage the defaults.
Oh yeah I am 100% going to do local assets going forward. I already had a homemade exporter (that’s one of the ways I’m identifying the worst of the worst posters from the lot – by comparing a previous export to what the DB picked after the migration, which also makes it easier to re-import). Thanks again for the suggestion.
