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

[spocker]

I'll have plenty of space for it then, since I mix the blurays and DVDs when sorting after sipine number. =)

[swo17]

Yikes.

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2968/536_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

EDITED BY MATT: Wow, what a great cover! Three cheers for the Criterion art department!

[Tribe]

I don't get it...and mind you, I have a very high tolerance when it comes to Criterion cover art.

[Peacock]

I like it!
Although I was hoping the thin red lion would make an appearance somewhere.

[TMDaines]

I thought I was in the Fake Covers thread at first.

[Duncan Hopper]

So is it company policy with Criterion now that all their covers have to look like modern paperbacks?

[Matt]

I love it. I love it so much that I'm going to edit everyone's negative comments about it to over-the-top raves.

[Flike]

I like it.

[zitherstrings]

I think it's perfect other than the line.

[swo17]

I kind of like how the text area feels like it's being sucked into a line-shaped wormhole, but then the bottom half of the image doesn't follow this same logic, and so it leaves the cover feeling like kind of a confused mess. Perhaps it will grow on me though.

[Tribe]

How come the line isn't red?

[stagefright50]

Not so sure about this one. The pic's page on Criterion's website has a section that says "Collector's Set Includes" and is blank. Any speculations?

EDIT: Nevermind... All the pages have this blank section now.

[zitherstrings]

Maybe it includes the novel...?

[TheGodfather]

Kinda like it. Not really sure about it yet. Would be fitting if they make it a digi

[Tribe]

Maybe it includes the novel...?

Yeah, it's rolled up into a scroll....

[stagefright50]

Or maybe it's a picture book and the cover's just a preview of it! The more I stare at it the more I don't like it. It's not making sense to me.

[TMDaines]

I kind of like how the text area feels like it's being sucked into a line-shaped wormhole, but then the bottom half of the image doesn't follow this same logic, and so it leaves the cover feeling like kind of a confused mess. Perhaps it will grow on me though.

Yeh it seems quite sloppy in that sense, because of that it looks like a prototype or half-finished.

[domino harvey]

I like it, but it pales next to the early art

[Ishmael]

That cover concept would make more sense for a movie like The Princess Bride, where the story is being told as it's being read from a novel. I get that Thin Red Line has a literary quality to it, but what real relevance does it have to make the cover look like the open title page of a book? OK, the fact that the title page is horribly misprinted fits the movie's theme, but that doesn't really explain the idea behind the cover. I'm thinking: good idea that doesn't even remotely work in execution.

[Tom Hagen]

It's like one of those old Mad Magazine fold-ins.

[Zinoviev]

I love the film, so I'd buy it even if they packaged it in a plain brown wrapper. But this cover looks to me like a big blue butt in the sky.

[bigP]

My first impression is that they're emulating a Time Magazine-esque article format more than the novel format. I actually really like the image chosen despite not seeing the whole nine yeards with the inclusion of the (off) center-fold.

[Alphonse Doinel]

Looks like a Vanity Fair spread. Not bad, but I would have prefered something more subtle.

[James]

Jesus Christ, how difficult would it have been to make the line red?

[Mikos Stenopolis]

It looks like an off center pic of a magazine article with the line being the spine. Font makes sense since it looks like the reader has not yet pulled apart the pages