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Isn't it snooker balls on the Offence cover rather than oranges? (I don't know if it makes the cover better or worse whatever they are!)

Who knew Lot wore blue contacts? But I'd like to think that Sodom and Gomorrah are the "heroes" referred to in the title.

That box of cereal looks delicious.

pianocrash wrote:That box of cereal looks delicious.

Be warned: that's not sugar on the flakes, it's salt.

Well, it's a John Wayne collection alright.

SoyCuba wrote:Well, it's a John Wayne collection alright.

Hilarious (you really did make me laugh out loud)! More John Wayne in one rectangle box than anyone should be expected to handle.

Its a good thing that bible story DVD is hosted by Heston. He really gives it a sorely needed air of authenticity (he seems to be awkwardly straining, one too many egg and cheese biscuits perchance).

I like the way they've tried to make the Greatest Heroes cover look faux-official by giving it gilt corners and a spine!

Heston pops up occasionally in the film, always in the bubble as on the cover, as Lot's conscience, occasionally regailing him with stories about being God's representative on Earth (and asking him if he wants to buy a gun! )

Not knowing much about the bible, is this the story where Lot is having trouble keeping up mortgage repayments on his house in Gomorrah, and in an attempt to claim on the insurance he burns his house down but accidentally torches the city as well?

I'm assuming that is Lot in the middle telling the people behind him in a cockney gangster style: "You ain't seen nothing, right?"

colinr0380 wrote:I'm assuming that is Lot in the middle telling the people behind him in a cockney gangster style: "You ain't seen nothing, right?"

Steven H wrote:

SoyCuba wrote:Well, it's a John Wayne collection alright.

Hilarious (you really did make me laugh out loud)! More John Wayne in one rectangle box than anyone should be expected to handle.

I believe that a group of John Waynes is generally referred to as a "pilgrim" -- just like a group of geese is known as a "gaggle."

Steven H wrote:Its a good thing that bible story DVD is hosted by Heston. He really gives it a sorely needed air of authenticity (he seems to be awkwardly straining, one too many egg and cheese biscuits perchance).

From now on I'll always think of Sodom when I see his happy straining face.

foggy eyes wrote:

Person wrote:As I said previously, don't diminish the Welsh, as they are a fiesty people who are deeply proud of their sons and daughters!

Why thank you, Gordon (tongue firmly in cheek). I wonder whether I'm the only 'indigenous' Welsh poster on this board...

You're right - it isn't my place to stand up for the Welsh. A curious suggestion of the use of the word "indigenous", I agree!

colinr0380 wrote:Welsh contributions to film culture:

late 50s and 60s: Richard Burton
70s and 80s : Anthony Hopkins
90s: Catherine Zeta-Jones
late 90s: Rhys Ifans and Iaon Gruffudd
2000s: the Dirty Sanchez boys

I think this timeline speaks for itself!

(Having said that, I really liked the Welsh film Leaving Lenin!)

You're leaving out Peter Greenaway and Christian Bale

miless wrote:You're leaving out Peter Greenaway and Christian Bale

Shhh! You are spoiling my (borderline racist) timeline of the decline in Welsh culture by drawing people's attentions to the talented young actors and giants of art cinema that I left out!

colinr0380 wrote:

miless wrote:You're leaving out Peter Greenaway and Christian Bale

Shhh! You are spoiling my (borderline racist) timeline of the decline in Welsh culture by drawing people's attentions to the talented young actors and giants of art cinema that I left out!

well, those are the only two I could name.

This isn't a DVD cover, but this poster for a Lucio Fulci film seems to include all the no-nos that we talk about: cut out figures and strange relationships between them (the lady seeming to point at the couple opposite!). I particularly like the incongruous flower placed to cover over Edwige's exposed nipple!

colinr0380 wrote:This isn't a DVD cover, but this poster for a Lucio Fulci film seems to include all the no-nos that we talk about: cut out figures and strange relationships between them (the lady seeming to point at the couple opposite!). I particularly like the incongruous flower placed to cover over Edwige's exposed nipple!

yeah, but there's a (very thin) line between crap and camp.

True, we could call it an example of "cramp"!

This seems poorly slapped together. It looks as though an early arty cover concept was added in at the bottom, perhaps as a last minute attempt at salvaging the overall cover design. There's also nowhere for your eyes to focus upon, except for a white background patch, blurred and indeterminate. Of course they also went with the tried and true formula of having the names and faces reversed.

Yes, but bare breasts always outway any crap.

ROTLD SE's cover looks like The Grabage Pail Kids with all the joy that that cover had to offer sucked out of it, a double negative that I find hard to fathom. Bravo, MGM/Fox, for not letting complacency in the field of DVD-cover art crapulence get you down!



EDIT- The interior cover is even more Garbage Pail-esque, but I couldn't find an image of its awesomeness, unfortunately.

Could they find no higher-resolution caps of Travolta? He's so fuzzy that it makes this hokey cover look even worse. At the very least, couldn't they have softened the background to match Travolta? Ugh.

CSM126 wrote:Could they find no higher-resolution caps of Travolta?

Surely that's temp art. Look how jaggy the title typeface is and how plain the typeface for Travolta's name is. Plus, there's no "A bona-fide classic" or some other bullshit quote on the front. No way would Paramount put out a DVD without a pullquote on the cover.

it's real and the mirror ball in the background is the face of the DVD.