Worst DVD covers! (1 Viewer)

[Chuck Mayer]

We have a winner. I agree. The cover to this is actively awful, as opposed to lazy or incompetent. I don't like the Black Hawk Down SE cover. Josh Hartnett's big noggin' doesn't exactly do the film justice.

Take care,
Chuck

 

[Kain_C]

You don't know that for a fact. You don't know that they "couldn't come up" with something. It probably was intentional, as in THAT is what they came up with. I think it's unique, stylish, and very representative of the different narrative threads within the film. But that's where we disagree and we can leave it at that.

 

[Kain_C]

Now this is my idea of lazy.

 

[Marvin Richardson]

That Real Genius cover is awful...but I don't know that it is as awful as this:

Oddly enough, Amazon still has the original cover displayed, but I bet that's not what you get when you order it! Luckily I have the original cover. I'd feel even luckier if they'd release all the Laserdisc Signature Series material onto a special edition. I'd hoped they'd do that when Lord of the Rings did so well, but all we got was a new sticker. Yee-haw!
I definitely think The Matrix Revolutions cover was lazy. It would have been cooler to have the cover be the picture on the booklet inside as the cover, the one with all the Smiths or even the picture of Neo running in the rain.

 

[Matthew-K]

I agree. It doesn't match the other two covers at all.

 

[Raasean Asaad]

Michael J. Fox looks like he's pinching a loaf on that cover

 

[Jay E]

Always hated this one, especially when compared to the original poster:

 

[Matt Czyz]

Some of the custom covers up at DVDcoverart for the Matrix:revolutions are 5,000 times better than the brain-dead effort by WB.

http://www.dvdcoverart.com/dvdcovera...od=and&iso=all

 

[Ravi K]

I don't like the DVD cover for Secret Window. Worst example of Big Head Syndrome I've seen yet.

 

[Tony Whalen]

Yup. I printed out this one and it looks SO much better than that crappy original.

 

[Michael Pakula]

Here a some awful DVD Covers

Secret Window


Underworld Unrated Extended Cut


The Gods Must Be Crazy


The Gods Must Be Crazy 2


The Out Of Towners


Batteries Not Included



-Mike

 

[Matt Czyz]

...I *like* that Underworld cover.

 

[BarryRR]

Yeah, what's so wrong with that one?

 

[ChrisBEA]

I too like that Underworld cover

Here's a bad one:

 

[Jeff Reis]

Well, obviously they had to use the big noggin cover on Gods Must Be Crazy--otherwise all those N!xau the Bushman fans who shop at WalMart would overlook it!

Apparently the Secret Window is hidden somewhere in Johnny Depp's gigantic eyeglass frames.

 

[Robert Ringwald]

The underworld cover isn't bad at all.

The covers for Friday the 13th 5-8...

Critters 3 DVD cover is just horrible...

 

[Jay Pennington]

Just about every home video cover for the last 15 years or so (laser and VHS included) for a Disney animated feature blows. They're always over-airbrushed and shadow-toned, using off-model designs. The characters on these covers bear little resemblance to the cel art in the movies themselves.

The Star Trek original series DVDs take the cake, though. Some designer apparently was "tired" of the long-established font style of the series and decided to invent a new one, with graphic blandishments to match. Ew.

Naw, wouldn't want to use the offical series logo for an official series DVD release or anything!

 

[JonBoriss]

The Cooler's poster art was fantastic, one of the best of last year. Wish they had kept it for the DVD.

 

[Shane_M]

Has anyone seen the artwork for the new Spider-Man Animated '67 series?

It's so painful. I can't seem to post a link or image (even though I have over 100 posts). So head to DVD Answers to see it.

 

[jason:g]

Apparently the new Underworld cover will be translucent. Interesting.