Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
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Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol. 7
I can see how it could be a problem if you buy them on Ebay or Amazon Marketplace but is it really such a big deal if you get them through the Criterion site or B&N?
- Morbii
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If you’re purchasing as a collector/investor, it is. Not to mention the dubious question of legality of selling as new something that isn’t technically new any longer. I’ve learned to live with it, but my form of OCD (cleanliness) really hates it. That’s a unique condition, though. It likely wouldn’t really bother me personally otherwise.
- fdm
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
I've mostly see these sorts of discussions around the b&n sale timeframes (in store and online purchases). With some legitimate obvious examples, some probably legitimate less obvious examples, and lots of likely just being paranoid (a sticker is missing, or per the point of my initial post the kind of shrinkwrap that was used (on even the brand newest just released titles)).
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
I can’t imagine they’re all rewraps either at such a volume (I think around 20-30% from one spree I had of nearly 100), but the fact that some unquestionably are is enough to foster some kind of “conspiracy theory”. Think of what some people will come up with without any evidence!
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
I was so used to cellophane wrapped import blu-rays that now I suspect anything from over there that's not wrapped that way. They get pretty melty about it too, so best of both worlds for my usual quibbles.
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Why is the inside artwork for Baal just a blown-up image of the front cover?
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If I were to buy discs based on art work I would buy King of Jazz in a NY second. That is an excellent design and color scheme is quite beautiful. I love the whole thing. But I have no interest in buying for film.
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That Bowling for Columbine cover is an all-time worst, so is Manila. Swimminghorses lives!
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I'm not prone to complaining about covers, but oof. These are uniformly terrible. Only Female Trouble comes close to working.
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Columbine gets a cheap and obvious visual pun for a cover. It's actually perfect.
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If Female Trouble had a "good" cover I'd actually be mad. I want it awful.
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
All the more frustrating after you read Dave Cullen's Columbine and find out they never actually bowled!
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I believe the artwork for Female Trouble was taken from the opening credits, but I love how it emphasizes the fact that Divine was the inspiration for Ursula in Disney's The Little Mermaid!
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Fantastic book, by the way, especially if anyone's interested in a close look at the psychological and media dynamics around this specific case.Drucker wrote:All the more frustrating after you read Dave Cullen's Columbine and find out they never actually bowled!
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Very brave of the cover artist to emphasize how the film is both by and for Michael Moore
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Soooo.... you all do realize this is from the movie poster for Bowling for Columbine, right?
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
Bowling for Columbine is obvious, but still (kinda) works.
I liked El Sur at first, but then I looked at the black border. And then the floating head.
I liked El Sur at first, but then I looked at the black border. And then the floating head.
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
A big visual theme of El Sur is the light entering dark spaces through windows, which I'm sure is what they were going for.
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
I like El Sur. There's a whole floating torso in there.
- Morbii
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
I like El Sur too.
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Re: Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.
I think the BFI cover does it better.
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As seen on Twitter, the Blu-ray only edition of Scanners keeps the digipak.