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Gelf Magazine, curators of always-entertaining Blurb Racket,

Gelf Magazine, curators of always-entertaining Blurb Racket, list their picks for the worst blurbs used by movie advertisements in 2007. For instance, in reference to Live Free or Die Hard, film critic Jack Mathews actually said “the action in this fast-paced, hysterically overproduced and surprisingly entertaining film is as realistic as a Road Runner cartoon” but was quoted by 20th Century Fox as saying that the movie was “hysterically … entertaining”.