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I go one step further. I don't buy a Blu unless an effort was made into the packaging. I got all my collection stolen, so in getting it back, piece by piece, I'm more choosy. Steelbooks are nice. Cheap package = no buy. I already have seen the movies, it's only a case of collecting them.
 

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Ron, not only do I completely understand your reaction, I sympathize with it and support it. For me the covers are often the breaking point in purchasing an expensive, relatively bare bones release such as the ones you see with Olive and Twilight Time. If they use the original poster or ad art it moves more toward my likely to purchase point, but if it's just some slapped together photoshop toy cover, forget it. I canceled my order for TT's SWAMP WATER once they made it look like an 80's straight to video horror pic. I've got extras filled Blus to spend my money on, not some ridiculous limited edition that can't even get the cover right at least.

And I DO display covers in my office as a kind of poor man's 1-sheet, so it does matter to me.
 

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Gee the thing to complain about with Universal about The Blu of Animal House ,was the fact they have a excellent Making of Doc which they included
in their DVD big Box set,Its nowhere to be found on the Blu Ray

For Universal
someone please tell them what resume play is,and how to make it that when you freeze frame on a disc ,that stupid timeline bar should go away and
not stick on the frame
 

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I tend to go with extras as the "all things being equal" tiebreaker over covers, though one of the reasons I don't like importing is how the other reasons muck up their packaging with huge ratings logos.I'm handy enough with photoshop that if I really care that much I'd just make my own cover, but I don't usually even go that far. One of the joys of Criterion collecting, the spines (at least the current design) looks so fantastic all lined up in order...
 

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I'm just tired of all those clichéd Zardoz 'floating heads' we seem to see on the covers of every other studio release. Just about anything that shows a bit of creative enthusiasm for the subject - any genuine attempt to visually express the 'vibe' of the movie - is pretty cool with me. Which is why I almost always prefer Criterion and Twilight Time's more 'interpretive' covers...at least someone put a shred of thought into what the movie actually means to us...or should mean to us...then and now.

As an aside to Fox Home Entertainment: just because you're releasing a film on Blu-ray does not mean you have to hammer that point home *literally* via your covers...the visible human spectrum does include other colours. For example, it boggles the mind how your art department arrived at this cover from the film that Elia Kazan actually made:

cover_wild_river_blu-ray_.jpg


Fascinating movie and terrifically mastered disc, yet bafflingly flipped-off via dullest 'My Blue Hell' cover of the year.
 

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There have been times when I've been torn when one Blu edition had better cover art than the Blu edition I was going to buy, but in the end it's not a deal breaker for me. There are plenty of DVD/Blu cover art websites out there when I can download and print out a better cover. I've done this a few times, mainly when consolidating discs (Kill Bill into one case, same with the Toy Story trilogy, moving all four discs into one case)
 

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This reminds me that I once bought a blu-ray that I didn't think I'd like, because of the cover. It was Criterion's Godzilla. That original art on the cover makes bigfoot look better than he ever has (in my eyes).

I have never cared for the Godzilla movies, I have a dislike for "the guy in the lizard suit" effect. I had seen it on tv a few times and never got it's attraction for so many others. So I'm in BB with a xmas gift card and I see Godzilla and I had already read how good the blu-ray was. That ol' scaly was restored (mostly) to his original glory. The cut was the japanese version with nary a future Perry Mason in sight.

I watched (with subtitles) and I still don't get it. I think the movie sucks. But it looks great on the shelf.

I would never not buy a movie I knew I wanted because of the cover art, at least the situation hasn't arisen, and there's plenty of bad covers out there. Ron, I suspect that if you had no choice of cover art and you knew you wanted the movie, you would have bought it anyway.

However, if I'm on the fence about a movie, cover art that bad would make me wonder about the quality of the disc and I'd probably leave it on the shelf.
 

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There is no movie that I want enough that I would own it, but that I also want so little that any poorly-designed disc cover could ever dissuade me.
 

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I've hung onto standard DVDs because I liked the covers more than the Blus. At some point when I'm less anal about having Blus in their little blue cases, I will put them in the old standard ones with the great cover art.

This is particularly true for many of the WB Blus in my collection. Compare the beautiful two disc SD cover of THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE to the "Hey, look, a movie about homeless people!" cover of the Blu.
 

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Generally, I think covers like, "Best of the 70s" are done for themed shelving at Walmart and Target. I'm surprised even to see it online.
 

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Whenever possible, I want the original movie poster. One of the best ones if there were several variations.

Those movie posters are like time capsules of an era. They transport me into the time of the movie just by looking at them.
 

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Ideally, a cover should either make, or at least enhance the desire to view that title. The MANHUNTER cover doesn't do either for me!

That said, for a title I already know that I want to see, a bad or inappropriate cover won't dissuade me.

Oddly enough, I have a precise example of one I picked up on Amazon Canada awhile back:
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I had ordered the above as a companion piece to my BATMAN: THE COMPLETE TV SERIES Blu-ray set (Which has Italian Back Labelling, so I'm really not that picky!), but I really hate the fact that there's nothing visual (The cast names alone don't count, in my opinion!) on the front cover to distinguish the movie as featuring the main cast of the 1966-68 TV Series from the latter day "Dark Knight" cinematic features!

CHEERS! :)
 

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When I don't like the Blu-ray cover art, I just cut down the DVD art (you need a paper cutter for it to look good), and use that instead. There hasn't been one yet where I lose anything important (usually just tech specs and some dead space around the edges).
 

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Apparently the original Manhunter art is included on the reverse side. Fine, but first impressions count.
 

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Apparently the original Manhunter art is included on the reverse side. Fine, but first impressions count.

Yeah, Shout Factory is usually pretty good about including the original poster art on the reverse of their custom covers. I love that! It gives you a choice. Some of their custom art, I quite like. In other cases, I just flip it around.
 

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