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

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

#1651 Post by domino harvey » Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:41 pm

Brian C wrote:"Aspect Ratio: Widescreen"

Seeing that, I'd expect it to also say "Running Time: Too Long".
Props to calling your production company "Visual Entertainment" too

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#1652 Post by Thomas Dukenfield » Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:00 am

Matt wrote:Nice to see this is where an Oscar gets you now: in a barrel on the cover of a DTV Eddie Griffin vehicle with your name nowhere to be seen.
If she doesn't roll down a hill at some point I'm asking for my money back.

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#1653 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:08 pm

Or go over a waterfall.

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#1654 Post by knives » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:05 pm

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#1655 Post by feihong » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:14 am

Is the type for "The Lawless" made out of wood?

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#1656 Post by George Kaplan » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:57 pm

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When Lazy Editors Attack! (And rely soley on IMDb):

Not such a terrible cover, actually; but the true star of the film, along with Conrad Veidt, the sublime Esther Ralston, too forgotten as it is, becomes further obscured through the insensitive impartiality of "alphabetically" correct cast listing, - the fate of Lena Smith? - while bit-player Muriel Aked is promoted to Star.

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#1657 Post by Feego » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:41 pm

The worst part of that cover is the Variety quote: "... one of the best feature pictures ever made anywhere." While I guess it's real, it sounds like the summation of a 14-year-old after seeing the latest Twilight installment, and it doesn't do the film any favors.

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#1658 Post by Ishmael » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:51 am

Lifeless eyes. Like a doll's eyes.

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#1659 Post by The Narrator Returns » Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:04 am

Is it just me, or does that cover look a lot like the cover for Criterion's Lady Vanishes reissue? They both have giant floating heads over a shot of a speeding train.

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#1660 Post by Minkin » Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:45 pm

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#1661 Post by Gregory » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:32 am

Anyone have examples of reviews manipulated or even misquoted for DVD cover pull quotes?
Here's one:
The Good Times Video cover of Earthquake:
The picture is swell... an entertaining marathon of Grade-A destruction effects... —Pauline Kael
The phrasing of Kael's actual review:
L.A. gets it. The picture is swill, but it isn't a cheat; it's an entertaining marathon of Grade-A destruction effects, with B-picture stock characters spinning through it.
...and she goes on to say other negative things about the film.

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#1662 Post by zedz » Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:10 pm

Feego wrote:The worst part of that cover is the Variety quote: "... one of the best feature pictures ever made anywhere." While I guess it's real, it sounds like the summation of a 14-year-old after seeing the latest Twilight installment, and it doesn't do the film any favors.
I just assumed that the pull quote was entirely bogus, and was actually wondering if this company stuck it on the front of all of their DVDs!

That Kael Earthquake example is doubly ridiculous because the authentic part of the pull quote is surely the selling point, and the recommendation "this picture is swell" is so mild and fogeyish it sounds more counter-productive than anything.

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#1663 Post by Jeff » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:14 pm

zedz wrote:
Feego wrote:The worst part of that cover is the Variety quote: "... one of the best feature pictures ever made anywhere." While I guess it's real, it sounds like the summation of a 14-year-old after seeing the latest Twilight installment, and it doesn't do the film any favors.
I just assumed that the pull quote was entirely bogus, and was actually wondering if this company stuck it on the front of all of their DVDs!
Looks like it's real. I dug up VCI's sell sheet for a batch of Rank titles licensed from ITV (Besides Rome Express, there is a Blu-ray of J. Lee Thompson's Flame Over India/North West Frontier and few Carry On films). Here is the pertinent Variety quote about Rome Express:

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Sounds like it's from an English bureau (?) of Variety, and the quote is even sillier in context!

"The technique is Continental."

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#1664 Post by zedz » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:06 pm

I have a sneaking suspicion that "the technique is Continental" is going to become my go-to meaningless critique.

(And was there in fact an English bureau of Variety, or is this quote from an entirely unrelated British magazine of the same name?)

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#1665 Post by tarpilot » Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:54 pm

I can't find a link, but I distinctly remember some kind of promotional art for the 1997 That Darn Cat displaying a pull quote from Dennis Miller calling it "...a gas!", when what he really said was he'd "rather die in a gas chamber" than sit through the movie again

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#1666 Post by CSM126 » Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:29 pm

I'm recalling the time A Series of Unfortunate Events was released on tape with a "Two Thumbs Up!" pull quote when from Ebert and Roeper, who actuallyg ave it thumbs down. They even called it out on the show.

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#1667 Post by thatobscurecharm » Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:41 pm

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#1668 Post by knives » Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:48 pm

That elicited some audible laughter. I guess they still don't know how to market this easy to market film.

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#1669 Post by domino harvey » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:19 pm

Is he really on the cover twice

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#1670 Post by Gregory » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:24 pm

No, the cover depicts Kitsch, in costume, walking up to a poster for his film and becoming very upset about it.

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#1671 Post by dx23 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:33 am

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#1672 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:57 am

Here's another sort of inexplicable concept/spoof:

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The steer skull as jockstrap is rather bewildering.

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#1673 Post by eerik » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:25 am

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#1674 Post by The Narrator Returns » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:04 am

There are times when minimalist is better.

Then there's this.

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#1675 Post by Feego » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:11 pm

Oh my God, that three-legged man is on fire!

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