Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

#2126 Post by domino harvey » Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:54 pm

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#2127 Post by therewillbeblus » Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:15 pm

Weird way for Marvel to announce their long-awaited Hawkeye movie has finally arrived

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#2128 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:34 pm

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#2129 Post by JSC » Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:47 am

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I realize this is shooting a fish in a barrel, but this cover manages to be both lame and, paradoxically,
quite succinct in describing the overall film. Also, of all shots of the director/actor, why that one?
It looks like he's having an ice-cream headache... as well as resting his cheek against the Golden
Gate Bridge.

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#2130 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:56 pm

Oh man, I think that's a brilliantly horrible cover - smooshing his face into waves to make it look somehow even stupider, like he did to the movie. His name bolded and stretched (only in the other direction!) across the silver panel at the top (doesn't that typically go to the studio/distributor?) kinda seals it

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#2131 Post by furbicide » Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:06 pm

Graphic designer: “um, wouldn’t copyright information usually go somewhere on the back cover?”

Wiseau: “sorry, it’s non-negotiable. And please don’t forget the trademark symbol after the title; my lawyer tells me it’s very important to have that.”

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

#2132 Post by TechnicolorAcid » Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:33 pm

The funniest thing is that The Room wasn’t even considered trademarked in 2013 because according to the official Patient and Trademark Office website, it was deemed abandoned and thus invalid during the Summer of 2005. Of course Wiseau could’ve applied for another Trademark but this was the only trademark I could find under Wiseau’s name/company. So the decision to trademark the title is just honestly odd. The rest of the cover is pretty good though, don’t know what could be bad about it.

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#2133 Post by JSC » Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:58 pm

Well... "Can you really trust anyone?" is not really a tagline. More of a paranoiac's lament.

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#2134 Post by JSC » Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:29 am

So, once again Paramount blesses us with ugly cover art for the upcoming 4k release of Chinatown with a vaguely
AI-ish looking Nicholson and Dunaway and keeps the original superior promotional art as an insert... not to mention
throwing in a blu-ray of The Two Jakes as an afterthought.

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#2135 Post by Monterey Jack » Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:47 pm

I'll be putting my gorgeous Blu slipcover over that...

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(mine's the U.S. one sans the UK ratings symbols on the spine)

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#2136 Post by therewillbeblus » Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:59 pm

It looks like they took the original font and made it a bit Comic Sans for the 4K, because that makes sense. I expect to see a title appear that way on the cover of a kooky kids’ Halloween movie, not arguably the greatest.. movie.

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#2137 Post by pianocrash » Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:20 am

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#2138 Post by The Curious Sofa » Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:35 am

I knew this was about Catholics, but not that Tracey Ullman is possessed by Pazuzu.

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#2139 Post by Randall Maysin Again » Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:26 am

Really, she looks like one of those Burmese neck-ring women.

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#2140 Post by Randall Maysin Again » Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:27 am

Is having a plate behind your head supposed to indicate one's sainthood? Odd.

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#2141 Post by DRW.mov » Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:30 am

The playing cards are the most egregious thing to me. You couldn’t go buy a deck and photograph them at a closer angle to this? You really only had enough time to use a stock footage image of one and repeat it and warp it every time. It looks crazy. The back left one isn’t even on the table.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

#2142 Post by CSM126 » Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:29 pm

Maybe the rights to the poster were even harder to get than for the film itself.

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#2143 Post by zedz » Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:13 pm

pianocrash wrote:
Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:20 am
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This is really remarkably awful. It looks like every element of the composition has been separately, and badly, photoshopped roughly into place. Nobody's head seems to belong to their neck; nobody's neck seems to belong to their body; nobody's body seems to belong to their arms. It's like a post-modern visual deconstruction of 'Dem Bones'.

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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

#2144 Post by domino harvey » Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:41 pm

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Any photoediting software will tell you if your text is off center, I don't even know how this could happen so badly to the title

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