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Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:33 am**

tryavna wrote:Wow! This one really disturbs me. Maybe it's intended to drive you as mad as Ludwig himself....

It looks like something from one of Gilliam's Python cartoons. I'm expecting to see the head start flapping about.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:07 pm**

A world on fire * (Woman wearing a sheet + Woman with big sword + motorbike + Carradine) = Deathsport!

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:27 pm**

Looks like a good movie though.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:55 pm**

Kinsayder wrote:More floating heads...
FREEJACK

Those Freejack-floatyheads are extraordinarily horrible even in the long tradition of awful covers with floating heads. Maybe it's the background, maybe it's the fact that it has both Anthony Hopkins and Emilio Estevez on the same cover, but the end result is truly one of a kind.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:31 pm**

yep its clear Freejack is a superbly bad example of floating head syndrome. Absolutely hideous. If i looked at that cover too long i would get a headache. A useful tool for torturing anyone who appreciates visual composition.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:37 pm**

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:39 pm**

Fuck! It's Bride of King of Kings!

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:52 pm**

Happy thanksgiving, Matt!

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:44 pm**

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:10 am**

my god, what have they done to viridiana? i thought that was a photoshop joke at first.

The purple! ack! We can only hope this is a temporary abberation in the criterion art department.

PS that western one is really funny and horrible.

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:21 pm**

Another New Yorker atrocity.

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:29 pm**

N. W. wrote:
A world on fire * (Woman wearing a sheet + Woman with big sword + motorbike + Carradine) = Deathsport!

man, David Carradine has a nice rack!

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:36 pm**

The new cover for 13 going 30: Fun & Flirty Edition shows everything that it is wrong in the DVD industry today: Unnecesary double-dips, stupid nicknames, crap movies and bad photoshopping.

Here is a link with the cover art:
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/ ... n-305.html

Posted: **Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:34 pm**

Posted: **Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:42 pm**

dx23 wrote:

I'm sorry but not only is that good compared to other Media Blasters covers but hell that is one colourful and exciting picture.

Posted: **Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:43 pm**

That is how bad Science-Fiction covers should look like:

Posted: **Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:47 pm**

Does the dvd logo have to be that big, my god!

Posted: **Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:20 pm**

These DVD covers give a false impression of the violent cartoon Watership Down. Someone unfamiliar with the novel or film would think they were buying a Disneyesque bunny flick:

I personally prefer the original British poster artwork, but I can understand why the distributers might have done away with it:

Rumour has it that the whole idea behind the poster was to discourage parents bringing their younger kids to see it after the studio couldn't get a PG rating from the censors...

Posted: **Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:46 pm**

Poor Evelyne Bouix. She's all green and spelt wrong.

Posted: **Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:16 am**

peerpee wrote:
denti alligator wrote:The cover for Leaves from Satan's Book is so bad I'm considering cancelling my pre-order and just renting this one.
Look how they have "leaves" in the design! -- Real Maple leaves! --

I've owned this disc since it came out (had been waiting for years for a decent 35mm print disc for years, though far better exists-- se CC's MY METIER for a gorgeous clip from the Finnish episode of Leaves from DFI), and oh god... oh god... it's so funny I can barely see enough to write this, the tears are streaming down my face it's so goddam funny--

I never noticed T H E F U C K I N G M A P L E L E A V E S!!!!!!!!!!! That has got to be the funniest cover-sput on the face of the earth. The Young-College-Grad-ing of the corporatized creative arts strikes again. Oh... ohh... thats too fucking funny.

What's next? A Parchisi board game & instruction booklet lovingly rendered for the cover of Rules Of The Game? A sea lion beaming at the head of a line of six others receding behind him for THE SEVENTH SEAL?

Christ...

Posted: **Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:29 am**

matt wrote:

I'm with NARSHTY on this one. I haven't bothered to check the package design credits on KING OF... to match with Viridiana but this individual is so far out to lunch in cultural crayolaland on these covers.... I actually find the KING OF KINGS cover worse... at least the whole Hyper-Self-Reflexive, SuperSynthetic, Media Referential sarcasm of the lavender, sardonic graph lines of emanating "radiance" virtually mocking the idea of piousness or reverence-- at least this plasticity is sort've appropriate, with one eye closed, to Bunuel. But to KING OF...?

Posted: **Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:24 am**

Only Koch can produce bad DVD covers like this.

Posted: **Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:23 am**

Horrible cover for such a beautiful film. The "FAMILY FEATURE" (what the Christ does that mean?) has ruined many a Fox DVD. No extras, either for this brilliant, Oscar-winning, much-loved film.

Posted: **Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:24 am**

I think the cover is apt for what its selling, but I couldn't think of where else to post this!

Happy Christmas everyone!

Posted: **Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:59 am**

Jennifer Garner doesn't look good in purple.

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