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

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

#1426 Post by Brian C » Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:09 am

It's funny, I remember watching that as a kid. How that particular memory stuck with me, I can only wonder.

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#1427 Post by dx23 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:27 pm

Technically, the cover isn't that bad, but the packaging is utterly expensive and ridiculous. MSRP is $999.99 and Amazon is selling it for a cool $700.99.


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#1428 Post by Ashirg » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:31 pm

It's for rappers!

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#1429 Post by knives » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:31 pm

You know that somebody is going to buy that at MSRP. Some stupid, stupid guy.

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#1430 Post by Murdoch » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:36 pm

I think spending $700 on a DePalma movie justifies the phrase "careless with money."

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#1431 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:37 pm

Buying this is the new burning money to show you don't give a fukk

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#1432 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:52 pm

Gonna buy the hell out of that when it's $14.99 as an Amazon Deal of the Day, though

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#1433 Post by Gregory » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:55 pm

If Pablo Dylan is good this year, I'll bet he'll get it for Xmas.

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#1434 Post by bigP » Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:25 pm

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#1435 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:53 pm

I've just received the Nicholas Philibert Collection - strangely the photo of Philibert on my copy is not garish fluorescent green with a colour photo of a smiling Philibert, but instead a more easy on the eye sky blue background with a grey and pensive Philibert in the circle - i.e. this is the final one:

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However unfortunately the back cover of the copy I have received repeats the description of La Ville Louvre in the space under Back To Normandy! And gets the date of production for Back To Normandy (saying 1990 rather than 2007) and Un animal, des animaux wrong (saying 1990 again, rather than 1996). Though in both cases the running times of the films are the correct ones, so it presumably cannot be something just as simple as a copy and paste error.
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#1436 Post by bigP » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:10 pm

colinr0380 wrote:Even worse than the cover is that the back cover of the copy I have received repeats the description of La Ville Louvre in the space under Back To Normandy!
Oh dear, what a goof! Is the text at least more legible on the set than it is in the image here? I'm not sure what happened with this one; I felt AE had been recently putting some thought into their artwork of late and not just taking random screencaps, but I can't work out what they were thinking here. It's probably the least appropriate box artwork to director match I've yet seen.

Edit: Ah, just seen your update colinr0380, that does look far less nauseating now.
colinr0380 wrote:However unfortunately the back cover of the copy I have received repeats the description of La Ville Louvre in the space under Back To Normandy! And gets the date of production for Back To Normandy (saying 1990 rather than 2007) and Un animaux, des animaux wrong (saying 1990 again, rather than 1996). Though in both cases the running times of the films are the correct ones, so it presumably cannot be something just as simple as a copy and paste error.
I'm guessing this was a rush job then. Am I right in thinking that the set was advertised for a long time as being without Back to Normandy? I don't remember this being listed before so may at least part explain why things went haywire if artwork had and to be re-jigged etc.
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#1437 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:16 pm

Yes, the Wally Hammond quote is much more legible when not on top of an eye searing green background!

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#1438 Post by Feego » Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:46 am

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Not a great movie, and not really a travesty of a cover either, but I hate how EVERYTHING that has anything to do with vampires is immediately TWILIGHT-ized.

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#1439 Post by dx23 » Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:48 am

Feego wrote: Not a great movie, and not really a travesty of a cover either, but I hate how EVERYTHING that has anything to do with vampires is immediately TWILIGHT-ized.
Funny you say that because while at Barnes & Noble I noticed that they have now a huge section named Teen Paranormal Romance, which is Twilight and everything other copycat or shitty book that have a cover similar to the series. Really, Teen Paranormal Romance is a genre?

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#1440 Post by Gregory » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:00 pm

Yes, and its an extremely big genre in the young-adult market. I noticed that section at B&N last holiday season. It's hilarious and sickening at the same time. It'd be different if they also had a decent selection of literary and independent press stuff in addition to that stuff.

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#1441 Post by matrixschmatrix » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:40 pm

I saw copies of Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice with Twilight-esque covers at B&N one time. The Romeo and Juliet had the play and also a novelization of the play.

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#1442 Post by Murdoch » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:45 pm

Someone posted those in this thread, but I'm too lazy to look them up

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#1443 Post by HistoryProf » Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:04 am

Apparently, the three were chosen because they are "Belle's favorite novels!" puke.

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#1444 Post by Mr Sausage » Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:11 pm

Looks like a series of gardening books.

Oh well. There are worse things than tricking teenagers into reading Emily Bronte and Jane Austen.

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#1445 Post by Peacock » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:40 pm

Serious deja vu here.....

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#1446 Post by David M. » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:57 pm

HistoryProf wrote:Apparently, the three were chosen because they are "Belle's favorite novels!" puke.

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I'm far from the most literal person ever (most of what I read is technical manuals, not fiction)... but there is something really despicable about that.

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#1447 Post by domino harvey » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:25 am

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#1448 Post by Feego » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:32 am

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Warner Brothers has been updating the covers on several of their classic releases, replacing the terrific original poster designs with this really tacky photoshop dreck. Here are a few others:

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#1449 Post by tarpilot » Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:47 am

Howard Hawks's The Upside of Anger

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

#1450 Post by dx23 » Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:52 am

So Warner Brothers has become the new Paramount with these cover changes?

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