Worst DVD covers... ever!

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tavernier · #951 Post by **tavernier** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:10 am

Well, that's why they made these important films -- to finally teach the likes of us lapsed Catholics the truthiness of the Apocalypse.

Shrew · #952 Post by **Shrew** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:58 am

I picked up a free promotional poster of the Left Behind cover a year ago. I gave Kirk Cameron an eyepatch.

King Crimson · #953 Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:03 pm

Here are some new bad ones...

#954 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:09 pm

King Crimson wrote:Here are some new bad ones...

I just checked my wallet and yes there she is, how did I not notice Jamie Lee Curtis on the $50 Bill before now

tavernier · #955 Post by **tavernier** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:34 pm

Better Jamie Lee than Dubya!

Barmy · #956 Post by **Barmy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:37 pm

NOOOO!

tavernier · #957 Post by **tavernier** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:40 pm

Uh-oh....I woke someone up.

Kirkinson · #958 Post by **Kirkinson** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:00 pm

As if the covers and the stupid edition names weren't bad enough on their own, I love the fact that American money didn't even look like that when Trading Places came out.

#959 Post by **Matt** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:22 pm

Say what you will, but I desperately want to live in a world where Don Ameche is on the $20 bill.

Cinesimilitude · Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:58 pm

Matt wrote:Say what you will, but I desperately want to live in a world where Don Ameche is on the $20 bill.

Amen.

Steven H · #961 Post by **Steven H** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:11 pm

Wow. I'm sure it's been brought up before, but this is awful. Is the bed on the side of the road?

jorencain · #962 Post by **jorencain** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:42 pm

Steven H wrote:Wow. I'm sure it's been brought up before, but this is awful. Is the bed on the side of the road?

That one truly is one of the worst ever.

skuhn8 · #963 Post by **skuhn8** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:28 pm

Every element in the design of that cover is completely disturbing: colorization of a black and white film, layout (really, bed at the side of the road), title--but what I really love is the alliteration worthy of Daffy Duck's spittle: "Suspense as startling as a strangled scream". Do these DVD producers actually hate the films they work on? Honestly, it seams intentional at times.

TheGodfather · #964 Post by **TheGodfather** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:33 pm

TheGodfather wrote:I think that the Region 1 cover of The Fountain is pretty bad (understatement)

They were listening and changed the cover:

HerrSchreck · #965 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:10 am

Steven H wrote:Wow. I'm sure it's been brought up before, but this is awful. Is the bed on the side of the road?

Nice post. I love the godzilla type lightning bolts thwacking the fucking car coming up the road. What the fuck..?

Not to mention that they just dumped the ending right out on the floor for everyone to see, with the cord wrapped around savage's neck.

tavernier · #966 Post by **tavernier** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:15 am

HerrSchreck wrote:Not to mention that they just dumped the ending right out on the floor for everyone to see, with the cord wrapped around savage's neck.

So much for all that startling suspense...

Poncho Punch · #967 Post by **Poncho Punch** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:29 am

Though, to be fair, they do admit that it's only as startling as a strangled scream.

Kinsayder · #968 Post by **Kinsayder** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:58 pm

Julien Duvivier's Bollywood horror cartoon...

Knappen · #969 Post by **Knappen** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:31 pm

Julien Duvivier's Bollywood horror cartoon...

Ha ha

#970 Post by **Matt** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:49 pm

I think we can lock this thread now. That's got to be the worst cover ever, never to be bested. Though I do like how it looks like a big box VHS cover from back in the day.

Cinesimilitude · Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:52 pm

Matt wrote:I think we can lock this thread now. That's got to be the worst cover ever, never to be bested. Though I do like how it looks like a big box VHS cover from back in the day.

It was posted in this thread early on.

patrick · #972 Post by **patrick** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:23 am

Sadly, I'll probably be picking up the "Soul Glow" edition of Coming To America. I can't believe I don't already own that movie.

#973 Post by **Matt** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:19 am

SncDthMnky wrote:
Matt wrote:I think we can lock this thread now. That's got to be the worst cover ever, never to be bested. Though I do like how it looks like a big box VHS cover from back in the day.
It was posted in this thread early on.

I probably said the same thing about it then, too.

EDIT: I didn't have to, skuhn8 said it for me:

skuhn8 wrote:I think this thread can be closed: this is definitely the winner. How the hell could something like this go into production? Just package it in a brown paper bag instead a la Zep's In through the Out Door

Although now that I've looked back through this thread to find the first time it was posted, I think this is really the absolute worst.

HerrSchreck · #974 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:15 am

Ahhh.. God Raquel oversees the floating riders in the sky:

LIBERTY VAL: John Wayne is about to blow his own head off from the jaw up, and Jimmy Stewart is about to shoot some cat in the balls or thigh.

I love the time lapse in the middle French cap: Stewart is about to blow away those pesky hallucinated mini-indians about to gallop onto his shoulder with his upside down gun... while holding back a bad meal it keeps repeating on him... later, those indians he couldn't blow away over his shoulder, he whips around to face square on.

Lemmy Caution · #975 Post by **Lemmy Caution** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:58 pm

Actually I saw a different Dvd cover for Stallone's Over The Top (made between Rambo's II and III), which I thought deserved an appearance here. It had Sly and another fake tough guy arm-wrestling, or holding hands or whatever, with a small silver truck behind them. Cheesy and bland. I can't find an image for that.

But this cover might be worse, and is certainly a mess.
Personally I get rather angry when a wrecked car impales my abs.
Of course, you still have to watch out for the attack of the giant hood ornament.

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