This goes way beyond our normal fanboy bitching. These are genuinely inexcusable covers. If Wes and Eric Anderson wanted to make the cover for Bottle Rocket as horrible as it turned out, that is their choice. But someone deserves to be fired for the other three.
mfunk9786 wrote: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is just so bland. It's not a terrible photo to use, but the text just makes it certifiably boring and amateurish.
It really looks like they spent five minutes making that cover. What a truly dreary work. The banality of it is almost crushing.
Then they've really captured the spirit of what John La Carre was trying to do.
I don't mind that. I will say this though: You know who is having a good month? Whoever designed the Fanfan cover, because the heat's off! Any other month and we'd be tearing it to shreds, but by virtue of its proximity, it's both horrible and the best cover of the month
domino harvey wrote:I don't mind that. I will say this though: You know who is having a good month? Whoever designed the Fanfan cover, because the heat's off! Any other month and we'd be tearing it to shreds, but by virtue of its proximity, it's both horrible and the best cover of the month
I think it falls more into the "so bad it's good" category, particularly if you look really closely at Gérard Philipe's face.
Klaylock wrote:I think it falls more into the "so bad it's good" category, particularly if you look really closely at Gérard Philipe's face.
What are those sheets of painted wood that people stick their faces through at fairs and carnivals called? Because that's what this cover reminds me of most of all.
swo17 wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if there turns out to be some sort of sleeve over that Bottle Rocket cover, like there was for Tenenbaums and Life Aquatic.
I believe they only did that because of licensing agreements.
domino harvey wrote:Chungking Express and the Spy Who Came in From the Cold are especially bad-- two minutes tops were spent on their design, and that's being generous.
I completely disagree, I really like those two covers (especially by finally managing to do something appropriate with Chungking's wacky C)! Bottle Rocket fits the Eric Anderson style, even if I don't like it.
