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Matt
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#1601 Post by Matt »

souvenir wrote:Digipaks it seems for The Double Life of Veronique (which is crushed a little on top even in the display picture!) and Pandora's Box, as seen on Barnes & Noble's site

It's nice to know that even retailers have to deal with crushed, dinged, and dogeared digipaks even before they pass them on to their customers.
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#1602 Post by CSM126 »

I'll say it again: I must be living in some bizarro universe, because I've never had a digi dinged or crushed, whether I bought it online or in a brick n mortar store. Meanwhile, I have to deal with discs falling off the spindles in my regular cases.
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#1603 Post by Matt »

Yeah, you must. I almost never get floaters in regular cases, but every Criterion digipak I've gotten so far has been at least slightly crushed.
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#1604 Post by Anthony »

CSM126 wrote:I'll say it again: I must be living in some bizarro universe, because I've never had a digi dinged or crushed, whether I bought it online or in a brick n mortar store. Meanwhile, I have to deal with discs falling off the spindles in my regular cases.
Sounds like you're batting about .1000, huh? That's pretty good if your a ball player.
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#1605 Post by CSM126 »

Anthony wrote:Sounds like you're batting about .1000, huh? That's pretty good if your a ball player.
I wish I understood that reference. :?
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#1606 Post by toiletduck! »

Anthony wrote:Sounds like you're batting about .1000, huh? That's pretty good if your a ball player.
Well-veiled snarky comment or misplaced decimal, Anthony? The people wanna know!

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#1607 Post by Anthony »

toiletduck! wrote:
Anthony wrote:Sounds like you're batting about .1000, huh? That's pretty good if your a ball player.
Well-veiled snarky comment or misplaced decimal, Anthony? The people wanna know!
Both.
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#1608 Post by Lemdog »

CSM126 wrote:
Anthony wrote:Sounds like you're batting about .1000, huh? That's pretty good if your a ball player.
I wish I understood that reference. :?
batting 1000
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#1609 Post by Steven H »

I've only gotten one digipack that looked bothered by travel at all, while I've gotten a number of alpha packages with weird warped plastic issues (almost like it had been in extreme heat from some time) and floating damaged discs. I really don't care either way, but digipack is fine with me. It seems that this is a pretty evenly divided issue, maybe a poll would clear up how the silent people feel about it? It's been a while since we had one (a poll, that is.)
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#1610 Post by Matt »

Steven H wrote:It seems that this is a pretty evenly divided issue, maybe a poll would clear up how the silent people feel about it? It's been a while since we had one (a poll, that is.)
Hooray for polls!
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#1611 Post by jon »

I can't wait to see a Le Corbeau-style cover with the new CC logo.
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#1612 Post by Cinesimilitude »

jon wrote:I can't wait to see a Le Corbeau-style cover with the new CC logo.
what makes you think that will ever happen?
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#1613 Post by Theodore R. Stockton »

I forgot about the previous disc-on-disc action because I switched the case for the normal double kind.
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#1614 Post by CSM126 »

SncDthMnky wrote:
jon wrote:I can't wait to see a Le Corbeau-style cover with the new CC logo.
what makes you think that will ever happen?
You don't think they'll ever have another hand-drawn/painted cover? Seems almost inevitable they will.
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#1615 Post by Napoleon »

CSM126 wrote:
SncDthMnky wrote:
jon wrote:I can't wait to see a Le Corbeau-style cover with the new CC logo.
what makes you think that will ever happen?
You don't think they'll ever have another hand-drawn/painted cover? Seems almost inevitable they will.
I think death monkey means they will never again use a cover that has been hand drawn by a young child.
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#1616 Post by jon »

Napoleon wrote:
CSM126 wrote:
SncDthMnky wrote: what makes you think that will ever happen?
You don't think they'll ever have another hand-drawn/painted cover? Seems almost inevitable they will.
I think death monkey means they will never again use a cover that has been hand drawn by a young child.
blasphemy!

I'm more hoping that CC isnt too in love with the new design so that they might try out a hand drawn logo.
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#1617 Post by Cinesimilitude »

Napoleon wrote:
CSM126 wrote:
SncDthMnky wrote: what makes you think that will ever happen?
You don't think they'll ever have another hand-drawn/painted cover? Seems almost inevitable they will.
I think death monkey means they will never again use a cover that has been hand drawn by a young child.
Word.
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#1618 Post by jon »

Oh noes, i guess Criterion won't be employing me to create a new hand drawn cover by my child slaves that live in my sweatshop under the Chinese Resteraunt.
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#1619 Post by magicmarker »

Covers for the Monsters and Madmen individual disks are up.

Image Image Image Image

Really love the First Man in Space and Haunted Strangler. But all are among the most visually striking covers in recent memory.
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#1620 Post by godardslave »

magicmarker wrote:But all are among the most visually striking covers in recent memory.
Yes, but the question is does visually striking = good?
i dont think so, personally.
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#1621 Post by toiletduck! »

I like 'em all, but Corridors of Blood rocks my face off. These are gonna be a blast in hand.

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#1622 Post by Cinephrenic »

Some of the best! :D
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#1623 Post by domino harvey »

that First Man into Space cover is terriffic
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#1624 Post by CSM126 »

Oh my goodness. Absolutely excellent, all of them. These are some of the most beautiful covers I've yet seen on Criterion releases. =D> As far as the best horror film covers in the collection, these come pretty dern close to dethroning Equinox.
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#1625 Post by jon »

All of them are so wonderful. The Atomic Submarine and Corridors of Blood are my favorite. It looks like a lot of time went into these covers. Great job Criterion (i know you are looking, criterion spies).
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