Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

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Cinephrenic · #526 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:36 pm

jbeall wrote:Not another digipak! They've been putting a lot of these out lately.

Are you kidding?

jbeall · #527 Post by **jbeall** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:06 pm

No, I'm not. They damage too easily and take up too much space. I'll grant that some of them really look superb (esp. the Mishima set, which I was down on until I received it--it's a gorgeous package), but I would've been content with an ordinary keepcase for most of the releases that have gotten a digipak in the last year or so.

godardslave · #528 Post by **godardslave** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:16 pm

Salo,
never has so ugly a film,
been packaged so beautifully.

jbeall wrote:No, I'm not. They damage too easily and take up too much space. I'll grant that some of them really look superb (esp. the Mishima set, which I was down on until I received it--it's a gorgeous package), but I would've been content with an ordinary keepcase for most of the releases that have gotten a digipak in the last year or so.

Dont know why your bringin up this old chestnut again.
There was even a big poll about it a while ago.

Bottom line is digipaks are beautiful.
Didn't you know Beautiful things are often fragile?

jbeall · #529 Post by **jbeall** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:39 am

godardslave wrote:Dont know why your bringin up this old chestnut again.
There was even a big poll about it a while ago.

Bottom line is digipaks are beautiful.
Didn't you know Beautiful things are often fragile?

Yeah, I shouldn't have...

But I'm seriously out of space, and all the criterion's I've bought lately have been digipaks. To put it another way, the keepcases blend right in, so my girlfriend doesn't know I've spent more $$$ on dvds, while the digipaks are more conspicuous in that regard.

#530 Post by **swo17** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:42 am

Might I recommend buying a new shelf. Or girlfriend.

kaujot · #531 Post by **kaujot** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:43 am

Get rid of the girl.

Magic Hate Ball · Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:11 am

My boyfriend wants to see Disaster Movie, what should I do with him?

That's some great packaging there. Criterion art is like LP art (half the reason you buy it, haha).

kaujot · #533 Post by **kaujot** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:14 am

Kill him.

aox · #534 Post by **aox** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:17 am

No sex for a week!

Cinephrenic · #535 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:19 am

Girl? Are you kiddin? Criterions are a whole lot cheaper and they just sit there on the shelf, all quiet.

My boyfriend wants to see Disaster Movie, what should I do with him?

Indoctrinate him into arthouse extravaganza or tie him up to a chair and play Salo nonstop. If you go with option 2, let me know so I come with the binoculars.

#536 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:19 am

aox wrote:No sex for 120 days!

jbeall · #537 Post by **jbeall** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:00 am

The forum has spoken. I'll miss her!

TheGodfather · #538 Post by **TheGodfather** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:46 pm

Excellent! good going, love the digi`s

fdm · #539 Post by **fdm** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:28 pm

TheGodfather wrote:...love the digi`s

Still thinking they suck. I want plastic.

[Damn that Vampyr cardboard monstrosity; same with Furies, still trying to get undamaged ones...idiot shippers keep insisting on sticking them on the bottom of the box, right in the fucking corner.]

(And no local copies anywhere either...)

Highway 61 · #540 Post by **Highway 61** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:51 pm

I hear you on the damaged digis. I've stopped ordering them online altogether. Instead, I visit every local Borders with my weekly 30% off coupon until I find one in a condition I'm satisfied with. I still take a hit on the price, but when you factor in online shipping costs, it's not that bad.

#541 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:00 pm

I just got a box of digipaks in a flimsy cardboard "box" from Amazon.co.uk and they're all in perfect condition. If I can get digipaks in perfect condition from across the ocean shipped with almost no protection, maybe your mailmen just hate you

rwaits · #542 Post by **rwaits** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:14 pm

I hate the digis so much--if Criterion insists on making them I wish they'd just package each film both ways and give the buyer the option.

kaujot · #543 Post by **kaujot** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:29 pm

rwaits wrote:I hate the digis so much--if Criterion insists on making them I wish they'd just package each film both ways and give the buyer the option.

That is the among the silliest financial decisions Criterion could make.

StevenJ0001 · #544 Post by **StevenJ0001** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:29 pm

Whenever people complain about digipaks being too easily damaged, I wonder what on earth they are doing with their DVD boxes. Hurling them around the room?

Keepcases are not aesthetically appealing, IMO; Blu-Ray cases are much worse, though!

jbeall · #545 Post by **jbeall** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:52 pm

domino harvey wrote:I just got a box of digipaks in a flimsy cardboard "box" from Amazon.co.uk and they're all in perfect condition. If I can get digipaks in perfect condition from across the ocean shipped with almost no protection, maybe your mailmen just hate you

I live in New Jersey. Everybody hates everybody.

The first--and last--time I let someone borrow a CC digipak, it came back a bit bumped and bruised. Now I keep an empty snapcase around in case someone wants to borrow a movie that's digipacked.

#546 Post by **swo17** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:08 pm

It always baffles me how little consideration others have for DVDs they have borrowed from me. I have found it is not entirely uncommon to get the case back with the discs missing even. (And you know if they aren't in the case, they aren't anywhere good.) I once found a naked disc from a loaned out Arrested Development set (after much searching) inside a magazine, in a pile of junk underneath my parents' entertainment center.

Of course, it goes without saying that digipaks are not for lending.

StevenJ0001 · #547 Post by **StevenJ0001** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:08 pm

jbeall wrote:The first--and last--time I let someone borrow a CC digipak, it came back a bit bumped and bruised.

Ahhhh, there's the problem. I never let anybody borrow my DVDs, and all my digipaks are mint.

exte · #548 Post by **exte** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:47 pm

I think the best packaging I've come across lately, the one that makes the most shelf sense, is the slip-cover type over amaray by WB. I love how perfectly they sit next to each other... Very neat yet strong.

rwaits · #549 Post by **rwaits** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:51 am

kaujot wrote:
rwaits wrote:I hate the digis so much--if Criterion insists on making them I wish they'd just package each film both ways and give the buyer the option.
That is the among the silliest financial decisions Criterion could make.

Hey, never said it was feasible! You know, my only real beef with the digis is how wide they are. I looked at The Furies and Vampyr at Borders today and side by side they're a good five inches. I don't need a book with every release and just wish Criterion wouldn't force it on me (and don't say I don't have to buy 'em, cuz I'm not passing up Vampyr after seven years of waiting!).

Cinephrenic · #550 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:05 am

StevenJ0001 wrote:Blu-Ray cases are much worse, though!

Why are studios using those small stupid blue cases anyway. Why do those have to be the standard. Just fucking release them in regular DVD cases and snap a logo or sticker on them. They are horrendous. Gosh, does anyone remember those Warner snaps?

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