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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#301 Post by dx23 » Mon May 11, 2015 9:15 pm

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#302 Post by domino harvey » Wed May 13, 2015 7:45 pm

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Why are all five of these actors looking in different directions? Is this how one HACKs THE PLANET?

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#303 Post by manicsounds » Thu May 14, 2015 10:35 am

Someone hacked photoshop

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#304 Post by tenia » Thu May 14, 2015 12:35 pm

:shock:
Sometimes, I stumble across some meh stuff on this topic, and this is truly awful and I don't know what's worse : the desaturated look of the actors slapped on Matrix style background (not desaturated, the painting effect (Jonny Lee Miller looks like James van der Beek), the actors all watching in different directions, or the overall composition.

It's Takers bad.

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#305 Post by Werewolf by Night » Thu May 14, 2015 12:52 pm

Look at the bottom left corner. Someone actually signed their name to this.

EDIT: This guy, apparently. He's clearly very talented but either the expectations for this cover were very low or he was not given a lot to work with. Probably just given a couple of stills and told to make an illustration out of them.

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#306 Post by richast2 » Thu May 14, 2015 4:42 pm

Werewolf by Night wrote:Look at the bottom left corner. Someone actually signed their name to this.
swimminghorses can't even spell his own screen name, apparently.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#307 Post by manicsounds » Mon May 18, 2015 7:37 am

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#308 Post by tarpilot » Mon May 18, 2015 3:44 pm

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#309 Post by domino harvey » Mon May 18, 2015 3:47 pm

"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"Uh, floorboard, officer?"

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#310 Post by naersjoen » Mon May 18, 2015 3:57 pm

At first glance I thought this was a Swedish release... "Floorboärd".

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#311 Post by Zot! » Mon May 18, 2015 4:31 pm

Is that British vernacular?

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#312 Post by pzadvance » Mon May 18, 2015 8:34 pm

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How 'bout that clever tagline though?

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#313 Post by d-less » Mon May 25, 2015 4:19 am

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When did Arnold start looking like Tommy Lee Jones? The laurel makes a nice bolo tie. Is our national obsession with zombies over yet?

Edit: I guess not!

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Have to admit I'm intrigued. It won't be as good as I'm imagining, though. Why didn't Mel Brooks make a zombie movie?

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#314 Post by bottled spider » Mon May 25, 2015 7:19 pm

He looks as though a gnat just flew up his left nostril, but he is heroically resisting the temptation to stick his finger in there.

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#315 Post by tarpilot » Mon May 25, 2015 8:20 pm

tenia wrote:the actors all watching in different directions
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If I was them Duke boys, I'd be gettin' Mama back to rehab before that shitty filter sets to 'er like Fat Aunt Bea on a Frito pie

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#316 Post by Gregory » Mon Jun 08, 2015 6:05 pm

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Alpha continues to love putting tacky bright blue or purple eyeshadow on seemingly all actresses on their covers, even Louise Fazenda's country girl character.

Also, most redundant title since Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo?

They've thoughtfully filled the disc with a whole 66 minutes of public domain Keystone comedies.

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#317 Post by Gregory » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:48 pm

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I guess that even a black man "to smart for his own good" must accept that, even though he plays the protagonist, he's kept off the cover art in order to make room for two lousy-looking images of Pierce Brosnan.
And as always, an impressive 3-star rating from the Maltin guide is a major feather in one's cap!
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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#318 Post by CSM126 » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:39 am

They couldn't even spell "too" correctly.

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#319 Post by Minkin » Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:39 pm

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This shitty cover is limited edition too! Collect them all:

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Here is what the non-limited edition cover looks like (the blu-ray will look like it once the limited edition "sells out"):

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#320 Post by merzbau » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:51 pm

So here's a thing. Every six months or so, I check the titles on my "WHY IS THIS OUT OF PRINT" Amazon list to see if they've gotten a decent reissue, and I was excited to see a new listing for Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue.

This is the relatively classy, well-designed cover for the ancient 1999 Anchor Bay disc:
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And this is what the new rightsholders, an outfit called "United American Video," have done with it:

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In conclusion, Dennis Hopper is a land of contrasts.

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#321 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:56 am

I doubt that company ever had any legitimate rights to the film. Out of the Blue is one of those odd titles that's been treated as public domain when it's really not (there's almost no way it could be, given that both the U.S. and Canada awarded copyright automatically by the time it was made). The notorious PD label Madacy issued their own DVD of the film just a year ahead of the United American edition.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#322 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 14, 2015 5:34 pm

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#323 Post by Randall Maysin » Tue Jul 14, 2015 6:06 pm

"Erin Brown stars as two different but equally unattractive women with whom an unshaven Elmo lives in a state of decrepitude. Great chemistry between two screen legends." or something.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#324 Post by Randall Maysin » Tue Jul 14, 2015 6:08 pm

also why is Elmo's nose bleeding?

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4)

#325 Post by dx23 » Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:19 pm

Isn't Erin Brown the one and only Misty Mundae, star of such amazing films like:

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