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#51 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed May 07, 2014 12:09 pm

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#52 Post by jindianajonz » Wed May 07, 2014 12:18 pm

It could be worst- at least they left the teal out of it.

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#53 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed May 07, 2014 12:59 pm

There's been so much interesting artwork done for this film, and if they wanted to use a screengrab, why only include one of the Jakes?

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#54 Post by criterion10 » Wed May 07, 2014 3:29 pm

At least the cover for the Blu-Ray will be better:

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#57 Post by McCrutchy » Wed May 14, 2014 9:48 pm

Original temp cover:

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New updated cover:

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#58 Post by domino harvey » Tue May 20, 2014 9:59 pm

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#59 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue May 20, 2014 10:00 pm

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#60 Post by Ashirg » Wed May 21, 2014 12:04 am

Separate Tables cover is based on Danish poster

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#61 Post by sir_luke » Wed May 21, 2014 12:38 am

Doesn't make it less ugly.

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#62 Post by Cold Bishop » Wed May 21, 2014 4:34 am

I think it would be fine if it wasn't so... digitized? It doesn't have that pulpy one-sheet texture that a color scheme like that requires.

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#63 Post by McCrutchy » Wed May 21, 2014 2:39 pm

Just try to recognize anyone in this image without going to Amazon.co.jp and looking at the huge version:

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#64 Post by knives » Wed May 21, 2014 2:46 pm

That's not terribly different from the American version.

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#65 Post by McCrutchy » Wed May 21, 2014 2:59 pm

knives wrote:That's not terribly different from the American version.
It's actually the original poster art. Doesn't stop it from being absolutely horrendous, though. It looks like wax figures of wax figures.

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#66 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed May 21, 2014 4:41 pm

I guess an intentionally ugly/goofy cover:

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#67 Post by Lowry_Sam » Wed May 21, 2014 8:15 pm

McCrutchy wrote:Just try to recognize anyone in this image without going to Amazon.co.jp and looking at the huge version:
I thought it might be Colin Farrell x3....., but no, not one of them is him.

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#68 Post by domino harvey » Wed May 21, 2014 8:24 pm

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#69 Post by colinr0380 » Thu May 22, 2014 8:28 pm

Especially when Annabella Sciorra is in there instead! (Is this the point where I realise that I'm getting old, when I get more excited for the older supporting actors, sighing wistfully whilst remembering Sciorra in Whispers In The Dark, Romeo Is Bleeding and any number of 90s Abel Ferrara films, than having any interest in the youthful leads that the advertising is telling me to get excited about?)

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#70 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Thu May 22, 2014 8:58 pm

Lemmy Caution wrote:I guess an intentionally ugly/goofy cover:

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Goofy yes, ugly is a bit of a stretch. Definitely unoriginal.

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#71 Post by Movie-Brat » Fri May 23, 2014 2:20 am

Check this baby out.

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Trying to make it look modern apparently. What's the matter, the original poster wasn't even good enough as a Blu-Ray cover?

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#72 Post by Altair » Fri May 23, 2014 9:41 am

Apologies if this has been posted before, but there are just too many damn pages over the three previous threads...

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The cover tries to make Cimino's film look like a direct-to-DVD action film from the past five years (made all the more plausible by Mickey Rourke's presence), instead of it being a film of the 80s.

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#73 Post by PfR73 » Fri May 23, 2014 3:33 pm

Movie-Brat wrote:Check this baby out.

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Trying to make it look modern apparently. What's the matter, the original poster wasn't even good enough as a Blu-Ray cover?
A crummy film deserves a crummy cover! Congo was the first film I remember having developed enough critical thinking to be able to label it my first "Worst Film I'd Ever Seen." I was in middle school and, as a Crichton fan, had been so excited for the film. My best friend & I went on opening day and hated it.

I do love Bruce Campbell's bit about it, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmFCMhAKeU

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#74 Post by Movie-Brat » Fri May 23, 2014 4:23 pm

PfR73 wrote:A crummy film deserves a crummy cover! Congo was the first film I remember having developed enough critical thinking to be able to label it my first "Worst Film I'd Ever Seen." I was in middle school and, as a Crichton fan, had been so excited for the film. My best friend & I went on opening day and hated it.
You know a film sucks so badly when even someone who was in middle school calls it crap.

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#75 Post by Minkin » Sat May 24, 2014 8:10 am

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This fucking thing retails at $140.

-Edited this three years later as it looks like Kino wanted to bury the existence of this thing. So I fixed the dead image.
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