Worst DVD covers... ever!

Multi-Region · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:14 am

Crossfire (R-2UK): it's Jane Greer, yes... or no?

They really picked the worst cover art imaginable... :oops:

Steven H · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:18 am

Out of the Past isn't so bad. It reminds me of the R1 La dolce vita cover, which is also inoffensive. When I think of bad covers, I think of this:

JESUS CHRIST

david hare · **Joined:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 8:01 pm **Posts:** 5576

Quote:

Liberace peering down from the heavens. Nice touch!

Except it's Claude Rains (but you knew that didn't you!)

Dylan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:55 am

I like the "Out of the Past" cover, I don't see what's wrong with it.

...but that "Muriel" cover ranks with some of the worst on this thread. Somebody on these boards (like SncDthMnky) could probably design a better cover in ten minutes.

domino harvey · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7883

Out of the Past looks good, I don't get it

a.khan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:54 am

This one is hard to beat, at least Bowie got a credit.

domino harvey · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7883

that's a temp image, it means the final font hasn't been configured in time to give to retailers for a title's preorder

Matt · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:20 am

Steven H wrote:

When I think of bad covers, I think of this:

[Muriel]

I dunno, I kinda like that cover. It's bold and complex... [a] masterpiece.

Jeez. If the only pull quote you can find is one you have to hack up and mangle with ellipses and brackets, maybe it's just best to forgo a quote entirely.

a.khan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:51 am

domino harvey wrote:

that's a temp image, it means the final font hasn't been configured in time to give to retailers for a title's preorder

Here's the final blu-ray artwork. Standard DVD won't be much different I reckon.

colinr0380 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:54 am

Matt wrote:

Jeez. If the only pull quote you can find is one you have to hack up and mangle with ellipses and brackets, maybe it's just best to forgo a quote entirely.

Very true - the original quote could have meant anything. "Bold and complex, but muddled and incomprehensible....any other film compared to this would be [a] masterpiece!"

(Not making a statement about the quality of the film, just backing up Matt's statement on the usefulness of mangled quotes!)

skuhn8 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:53 pm

Matt wrote:

Steven H wrote:

When I think of bad covers, I think of this:

[Muriel]

I dunno, I kinda like that cover. It's bold and complex... [a] masterpiece.

Jeez. If the only pull quote you can find is one you have to hack up and mangle with ellipses and brackets, maybe it's just best to forgo a quote entirely.

Yeah, but it's hard to pass up praise from such a source as [the] Seattle Weekly.

Steven H · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:51 pm

Elliot Stein wrote:

A vampish young clotheshorse in Marienbad, Delphine Seyrig is almost unrecognizable in Resnais's bold and complex third feature, Muriel (1963), as a dowdy middle-aged widow attempting to revive an old love affair and incapable of living in the present. The double-stranded narrative (screenplay by poet and novelist Jean Cayrol) also involves her stepson, a veteran of the Algerian war tormented by his participation in the torture and death of a young Arab girl and obsessed with atonement. The director's masterpiece, Muriel is one of the rare French films to concern itself with the war crimes associated with the Algerian conflict. The setting is Boulogne, a town mostly destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in an ugly modern style. Resnais's camera leapfrogs brilliantly: Day and night shots of the same locations are alternated, evoking a ravaged city where everything and everyone seems in a state of flux.

There you go.

domino harvey · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7883

the Prestige, starring Scarlett Johansson as a joint.

King of Kong · **Posted:** Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:27 pm

miless · **Joined:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:45 pm **Posts:** 1435

it may not be that attractive... but the Barton Fink cover certainly does not belong in this thread. It does have a nice texture to it, though.

SncDthMnky · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:39 am

domino harvey wrote:

the Prestige, starring Scarlett Johansson as a joint.

I'd smoke that.

King of Kong · **Posted:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:31 am

miless wrote:

it may not be that attractive... but the Barton Fink cover certainly does not belong in this thread. It does have a nice texture to it, though.

It just looks a little cheaply done, I guess. Probably not the worst over, granted.

Jem · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:23 am

jon · **Joined:** Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:03 pm **Posts:** 245

Could the film have a more perfect title to go along with that artwork?

Jem · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:30 am

pianocrash · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:09 am

[screaming] WIDESCREEEEEEEEEEEN! [/screaming]

Steven H · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:05 am

RE: "I, Worst of All"

Lord've mercy!

colinr0380 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:22 am

Steven H wrote:

RE: "I, Worst of All"

Lord've mercy!

Aye, that's the worst of all! A real disservice to a great film.

At least they got a quote talking about lesbianism to put on the front cover - why didn't all the DVD companies that put out Black Narcissus do this?

pianocrash wrote:

WIDESCREEEEEEEEEEEN!

Is there a matching fullscreen cover of an army attacking from the opposite direction?

Lemmy Caution · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:39 am

Yeah, I thought that Casino Royale cover was really cheesy. But I aslo didn't like the other one with the woman's silhouette and lots of garish colors. I put off buying the Dvd for a while, because the covers were so ugly. After a month, I broke down and bought the one with the woman. Wish I didn't ... what a dull unfunny film that was.

Jem · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:59 pm

Push it, to pop it?

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