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7/21/05 at 4:36pm
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Another nominee!
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A dysfunctional family heading home for the Christmas holidays is a familiar cinematic theme (think The Family Stone as a recent American example), and this scenario forms the basis of Arnaud...
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Studio: Acorn Media Group Rated: NR Film Length: app. 468 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (enhanced for 16:9) Audio: English DD 2.0, English DD 5.1 Subtitles: English SDH MSRP: $59.99 Package: Box with...
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Toshiba enters the Blu ray world with their first player. Toshiba with universal had gone with HDDVD a few years back and lost. now they are here with the first blu ray player. I had a Toshiba HD-a2...
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7/22/05 at 6:12am
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7/23/05 at 4:11am
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I object to the cover used for most recent DVD of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN.
It doesn't fit the "floating head" mold of the great bulk of this thread, but that cover art just doesn't represent "the movie" to me. It's just all wrong.
It doesn't fit the "floating head" mold of the great bulk of this thread, but that cover art just doesn't represent "the movie" to me. It's just all wrong.
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A fugitive moves on, through anguished tunnels of time, down dim streets, into dark corners. And each new day offers fear and frustration, tastes of honey and hemlock. But if there is a hazard, there is also hope. - Closing narration to THE FUGITIVE, "Death Is The Door Prize".
A fugitive moves on, through anguished tunnels of time, down dim streets, into dark corners. And each new day offers fear and frustration, tastes of honey and hemlock. But if there is a hazard, there is also hope. - Closing narration to THE FUGITIVE, "Death Is The Door Prize".
7/23/05 at 6:23am
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The Andromeda Strain cover is nice art, but based on my memories of reading the book a decade ago (haven't seen the film), I can see what you mean. I cannot think what that art is supposed to represent.
Most offensive to me, however, is the horrible mangling of the spelling of "Jurassic Park". I mean, honestly. Jurrasic Park? Do they bother spell-checking these things?
Most offensive to me, however, is the horrible mangling of the spelling of "Jurassic Park". I mean, honestly. Jurrasic Park? Do they bother spell-checking these things?
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100 Laughs - 24 to go - last seen: The Freshman
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7/23/05 at 7:05am
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I don't see what's wrong with the About Schmidt cover. It's the same design they used for the theatrical posters.
7/25/05 at 12:15pm
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The Fly 2: Collectors Edition
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7/25/05 at 12:27pm
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I always liked the About Schmidt art myself. I think it really represents the tone of the movie.
I don't care for modern films. All crashing cars and close-ups of people's feet.
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7/26/05 at 8:53am
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I was going to say it looked like my paperback cover, but it looks like the Terminal Man cover not the Andromeda Strain.
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7/26/05 at 9:18am
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i like the fly 2 art better than the fly se art i hate the star wars ep 3 art tho
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7/27/05 at 8:16pm
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i always thought the art for that one looked like a kno...
never mind.
7/28/05 at 11:29am
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Eh, alot of these movies, such as Van Damme and Seagal movies, are crap anyways so their bad covers do not bother me.
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7/28/05 at 12:25pm
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7/28/05 at 6:10pm
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Dumbest cover - MAN CALLED PETER
There is something about the picture o this cover that has been bugging me for weeks, but I couldn't put my finger on it till now.The film ia about pastor Peter Marshall.
He is a pastor, not a Roman Catholic priest, yet Fox DVD cover has him in the white collar of a priest - something he never appears in , in the film.
Oye.
7/29/05 at 3:11am
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7/29/05 at 4:22am
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Thanks for putting up the cover of Man Called Peter, I have no way of doing such things.
Anyway, this cover is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Anyway, this cover is wrong, wrong, wrong.
7/29/05 at 6:49am
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Canadian cover of "Hostage".
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Chris
Gotta love Alliance Atlantis.
Chris
7/29/05 at 7:58am
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I like Blue Underground just as much as the next guy, but sometimes their covers aren't that great. (Quotes, etc).
7/29/05 at 1:23pm
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I think the Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, And Spring cover is nice. Sure it could use less quotes, but regardless...
7/29/05 at 8:26pm
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What graphics design major came up with these turds?
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7/29/05 at 8:39pm
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look at the original http://daw.dyndns.org/images/movies/...0rocketeer.jpg
original
http://daw.dyndns.org/images/movies/...0adventure.jpg
7/30/05 at 7:09pm
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7/31/05 at 6:22am
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The Japanese DVD of The Reflecting Skin:
Yech. The U.S. VHS box art is much better.
Yech. The U.S. VHS box art is much better.
7/31/05 at 10:12am
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You're crazy Jeremy, that T2 cover is one of the best I'm seen - and it's metal.
8/5/05 at 7:32am
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The Ladyhawke picture would be fine without the smirking picture of Broderick...
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8/8/05 at 12:41pm
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Looks like he's making flatulence sounds with his armpit.
8/8/05 at 1:37pm
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I think I can see a pattern here of why bad covers are just bad. Not using the theatrical poster art is one. Not using the original font or color scheme of the initial marketing campaign is another. Alot of these studios don't get it. If a movie is succesful and is popular don't try to reinvent it with some rushed new look for the product, because 99% it looks like garbage and is unappealing to everyone.
Now I say the Panic Room SE works though. The font and 2 color scheme grab your attention from all the visually busy covers that might be on the shelf around it. This also worked for a lot of laserdisc box sets. Seven, The Game, T2, Robocop. All you needed was the movie logo and some themed texture around it. Laserdiscs sure were classy back then:
Bad reimagined DVD cover art:
Now I say the Panic Room SE works though. The font and 2 color scheme grab your attention from all the visually busy covers that might be on the shelf around it. This also worked for a lot of laserdisc box sets. Seven, The Game, T2, Robocop. All you needed was the movie logo and some themed texture around it. Laserdiscs sure were classy back then:
Bad reimagined DVD cover art:
8/8/05 at 2:40pm
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