dana martin
Senior HTF Member
Agreed. Their alleged Art Department produces covers that even their blindly loyal parents wouldn't hang on the fridge.Originally Posted by Luisito34
Sony seems to be the one studio that's always coming up with the ugliest covers.
GMpasqua said:/forum/thread/312686/the-official-worst-studio-cover-art-thread-post-your-worst-covers/30#post_3829684
The Hustler one-sheet looks very nicely period on first glance, but more like a '50s pulp novel cover than anything (hello? pool?) the film is about. Interesting.
Wow again, Greg. I'm afraid we will have to once more agree to disagree. To me the Blu covers all look the same and are interchangeable from each other unless one is very familiar with the individual films. True they are not as offensive as some other covers and have their own bland style, but compared to the original art, they are terrible. I thought the point of this thread was to contrast the original art with whatever reinterpretation has been imposed by modern commercial sensibility. By those standards I think the new covers are indeed unacceptable.Originally Posted by GMpasqua
The three Eastwood westerns also have nice art on their Blu-ray covers (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Few Dollars More, Fist Full of Dollars)
Don't really see how they are unacceptable
LOL. This is what makes horse racing. Totally agree about Camelot and the lack of imagination today, but we'll also have to agree to disagree about The Hustler. I think the blu cover represents the film better than either poster. The one's artwok and tag line makes it look like a color film about sexual hustling, and the other is just plain boring. At least the blu tells you you are in for a moodily photographed b&w film mostly set in pool halls. Yes, it lacks Piper, but most people I know when they think of the film think of Newman and Gleason and pool more than anything else.Originally Posted by Professor Echo
However, we completely agree on the CAMELOT fiasco.
To me, what is lacking in much of today's advertising is imagination. Study the art on the original posters we have been sharing here and you see the creativity and depth of talent that once existed in movie advertising. So much of the vintage art respected its audience even while it was huckstering to get you into the theater by any means necessary. How does an airbrushed big head of Paul Newman display any imagination or creativity? All it says to me is: This movie stars Paul Newman.