Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 3-D)

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#1526 Post by SpiderBaby » Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:57 pm

knives wrote:It looks like the cover to a NES cartridge.
ha, indeed.

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#1527 Post by zedz » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:00 pm

Jameson281 wrote:I remember a while back, there was a discussion about studios using original poster art for DVD covers, and I made a remark about how lousy UA poster art was in the 1950's. This is the original poster art, so I think this proves the fan adage that "original poster art is always best" is wrong.
Though to be fair they've very successfully optimised the awfulness by adding that atrocious shade of blue and creating all that dead space.

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#1528 Post by Cold Bishop » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:56 pm

The poster still isn't as bad as that cover. At least on the poster, the title is integrated better (with that 50's red strip we just don't see much of anymore), and the taglines hold the whole thing together. And yes, no awful blue.

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#1529 Post by Thomas Dukenfield » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:22 am

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How come Laura gets to keep her neck but Liam is denied? Also, I think the cover could stand to be a bit more "fiery". Maybe an anthropomorphic hot pepper wearing a sombrero, hiding behind the pillow.

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#1530 Post by Markson » Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:08 am

Terrible, terrible cover. I mean, it's (more then usually) clear that the folks who design these studio catalog covers don't give a shit, and that their supervisors (amazingly) must think that the job is at least adequate. But perhaps they're betting (rightly?) that those who would intentionally purchase Under Suspicion would likely do so no matter how the artwork looked? Incidentally, am I the only one who will forever view Laura San Giacomo as the Satan's-baby-momma from The Stand?

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#1531 Post by CSM126 » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:41 am

"This. Is. Hell!"

At least the names are over the right faces. You almost never see THAT done right, even on good covers.

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#1532 Post by domino harvey » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:47 am

Markson wrote:Incidentally, am I the only one who will forever view Laura San Giacomo as the Satan's-baby-momma from The Stand?
Better than than homely sitcom daughter to George Segal

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#1533 Post by mfunk9786 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:19 pm

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Or perhaps the best!

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#1534 Post by domino harvey » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:28 pm

Yeah, are you crazy, that rules

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#1535 Post by knives » Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:13 pm

I'll go with best.

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#1536 Post by mfunk9786 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:48 pm

This was the only place to put it, the 'best' thread is more packaging-based than actual coverart

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#1537 Post by domino harvey » Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:53 pm


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#1538 Post by mfunk9786 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:56 pm

Yeah, I know about it. See above

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#1539 Post by domino harvey » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:02 pm

The last two pages of that thread are all about covers. It's even in the title

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#1540 Post by mfunk9786 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:05 pm

I stand by my original statement because I'm a douchebag and refuse to give in*, but if a mod wants to move this, well, they can feel free!

*even though domino is essentially 100% right

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#1541 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:19 am

Maybe this should start the sequel to this thread --Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4-D)

Four Dimensions of Greta (3D)
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well it seems to be confused if it's 4-D or 3-D

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#1542 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:12 am

This is an odd cover:

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But it really needs a larger picture to capture the cartoony background nonsense.

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#1543 Post by dx23 » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:55 pm

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#1544 Post by domino harvey » Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:42 am

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#1545 Post by Forrest Taft » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:50 am

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#1546 Post by tarpilot » Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:05 am

Well, the Tony Scott versions would certainly be more interesting

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#1547 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:20 pm

I like the way that they use the only two explosions that take place during some of the very few action scenes to sell those films! (Clear and Present Danger is a favourite guilty pleasure - it does lots of scenes of bureaucrats talking intently in rooms very well, which works brilliantly when I'm in the mood for that sort of thing! And I've always liked the sequence that seems anticipatory of the Mission: Impossible films, in which Harrison Ford turns into a computer whizz to try and copy or print out incriminating information which the traitorous colleague in the other room is methodically deleting!)
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#1548 Post by cdnchris » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:22 pm

colinr0380 wrote:And I've always liked the sequence that prefigures the Mission: Impossible films, in which Harrison Ford turns into a computer whizz to try and copy or print out incriminating information which the traitorous colleague in the other room is methodically deleting!)
Honestly, this is one of my favourite sequences from a 90's film.

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#1549 Post by Forrest Taft » Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:06 pm

It is a pretty good sequence, and the moments Ryan spends looking for paper for the printer is wonderful icing on the cake. Surprisingly tense stuff. The movie is also a great reminder of the time when the underrated actor (and Alex Cox regular) Miguel Sandoval would appear in major movies on a regular basis.

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#1550 Post by Tom Hagen » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:01 pm

"Computer theft is a very serious crime, Jack."
"So are crimes against the constitution."

Classic stuff.

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