Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 3-D)

[zedz]

Nothing wrong with the image on this one (though this still works better in landscape format), but I find the
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Edit: had to add underscores because the forum couldn't handle the annoyance.

[klee13]

Nothing wrong with the image on this one (though this still works better in landscape format), but I find the
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So, they had Christopher Wool for an art director.

[Lemmy Caution]

The title and her pose also makes it look like she's riding the bike in reverse.
I thought Barbara was a pretty good film.
Think I wrote something about it in some thread -- will add a link if I find it.

[Gregory]

So the title is in large type, divided over two lines.

Can I just remind people what a genuinely bad DVD cover looks like?










All from the previous iteration of this thread. Y'all need to lift your game!

[Finch]

That Thor poster is actually fan-made and was put up by the theatre by mistake. Definitely would have gone to this gay version of the film though!

[RossyG]

Similarly, from an actual Shanghai movie theater...

I love how it says 'bona' at the top.

I wonder if that's supposed to be Polari or a reference to what Thor has in his codpiece.

[zedz]

So the title is in large type, divided over two lines.

Yes, as I explained when I posted the image, just after explaining that the cover was otherwise inoffensive. Your point?

[Gregory]

I didn't see anything really ugly or unusual about that kind of typography and thought, per the post of yours I quoted below that sentence, that the idea was to get back to posting genuine eyesores and ridiculous Photoshop disasters. I just meant it as good-natured teasing.

[Kirkinson]

[Lemmy Caution]

Actually, the cover I saw today was worse, but this isn't winning any prizes.

And while looking for the awful French edition cover, I stumbled upon this oddity:


It's a 2-fer, so those are two covers combined. Though at first glance i thought they were referring to a mixed race baby as a checkerboard.

I'm undecided which is worse, the top half for the Black Baby film, or the bottom for Checkerboard.

[Lemmy Caution]

I also spotted a pretty odd Virgin Spring Blu Ray cover today, but haven't been able to locate it yet. Maybe a European edition(?)

[colinr0380]

If you want to have a peek at "My Baby Is Black!", here's a Cinema Snob video on it.

[flyonthewall2983]

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[domino harvey]

I'm glad they included three different ways to not watch that film

[bamwc2]

I'm glad they included three different ways to not watch that film

You say that as if you weren't the parent of a four year old boy obsessed with Scooby Doo. Sadly, I can't say the same. Once he sees this in the stores, I'm done for.

[Lemmy Caution]

Fritz Lang's Clash by Night seems to inspire crappy covers:



which is actually better than this one that I picked up:



Though at least the latter atrocity gets the relationships right.
The first cover intimates a clash between Stanwyck and Monroe, however in the film they get along well and are allies.

[Lemmy Caution]

I'm glad they included three different ways to not watch that film

You say that as if you weren't the parent of a four year old boy obsessed with Scooby Doo. Sadly, I can't say the same. Once he sees this in the stores, I'm done for. :cry:

The upside of course is anything he's unwilling to eat you just represent as a Scooby Snack.

[bamwc2]

I've tried that, Lemmy. He's too damn smart to fall for it.

[manicsounds]

[domino harvey]

Taylor Negron above the title tells you how good it's going to be

[dx23]

This is a great video talking about why movie posters (and later DVD covers) have been atrocious for the past decade and it gives great examples on how lazily they are being produced.

[PfR73]

Reminds me about this Funny Or DIe video where we meet the man behind the floating heads.

[The Narrator Returns]

[domino harvey]

Fucking awesome