Worst DVD covers... ever!

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King of Kong · #351 Post by **King of Kong** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:17 am

I didn't know they celebrated Christmas in Eternia...

Nihonophile · #352 Post by **Nihonophile** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:16 pm

I love the bizarre symmetry in that cover, even the swords had to be crossed.

HerrSchreck · #353 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:05 am

Nihonophile wrote:I love the bizarre symmetry in that cover, even the swords had to be crossed.

I could be rehashing something that's already been commented upon on this thread already, but... anybody cop a glance at CC's MOST DANGEROUS GAME?

An unexciting image shown as a barely visible, mostly incomprehensible neg? No wonder the price drop on the fuckin thing (it has a commentary, remember?).

Gregory · #354 Post by **Gregory** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:05 am

I always thought that was a bold and attractive cover design. Anyway, for trivia's sake, I think the price started out at that slightly-lower-than-normal level, probably because it's such a short feature and not even one that would be in high demand.

richast2 · #355 Post by **richast2** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:19 pm

Gregory wrote:I always thought that was a bold and attractive cover design. Anyway, for trivia's sake, I think the price started out at that slightly-lower-than-normal level, probably because it's such a short feature and not even one that would be in high demand.

and, I believe, it's public domain.

mikeohhh · #356 Post by **mikeohhh** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:54 pm

King of Kong wrote:I didn't know they celebrated Christmas in Eternia...

Clearly someone has never seen He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special!

HerrSchreck · #357 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:03 am

Gregory wrote:I always thought that was a bold and attractive cover design.

(Tongue in cheek here, Greg, because I like your mindset and nod when reading 90+% of your posts):

You're a cheap date dude.

Gregory · #358 Post by **Gregory** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:27 am

Probably so, when it comes to DVD covers, simply because most are so foul it's hard to maintain high standards. Even the corporate music labels seem to show a better knack for cover design than their home video counterparts. The latter probably see it as a different type of marketing, i.e. design doesn't matter as long as film's title, tagline, names of stars, and pictures of stars' faces are visible from across a wide store aisle or from a thumbnail image on the net. Any deviation from that mindset is at least a good start.
I certainly don't think the Most Dangerous Game cover is anything great, and it's not appropriate to the film. Possibly the only reason I like it is because I associate it with Man Ray's solarized and inverted photos and the like.

HerrSchreck · #359 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:47 am

Gregory wrote:Probably so, when it comes to DVD covers, simply because most are so foul it's hard to maintain high standards. Even the corporate music labels seem to show a better knack for cover design than their home video counterparts.

Very true. Interesting that the non-visual (music videos aside) medium of music places such heavy emphasis in image/appearance and (what is intended in the eyes of the producers to be perceived as) super-top-notch photography for their covers, whereas films' home vid releases can be put out with the commonest slop photoshopped out by interns.

Also, I wasn't serious when I suggested that the cover art was the reason they dropped the price on MOST DANGEROUS... just a bit of sardonic goofing at the usually gaffe-free CC.

King of Kong · #360 Post by **King of Kong** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:16 am

mikeohhh wrote:
King of Kong wrote:I didn't know they celebrated Christmas in Eternia...
Clearly someone has never seen He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special!

Could Jesus have been an Eternian?

King of Kong · #361 Post by **King of Kong** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 9:44 am

davidhare wrote:If only I had photoshop. Imagine a cover for She-male vs. Ra, uncut non rated, Christmas Version special. I'm swimming there now (and this is my first post on this beleaguered thread.)

Weren't they meant to be twin brother and sister?

HerrSchreck · #362 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:33 am

davidhare wrote:And no doubt everyone else must be asking what a bunch of losers we all must be still talking about the movies on this holistic, I mean holiest of days. Cheers!!)

Hey, if they're asking they must be noodling thru the site without participating, which is even lamer (unless you mean folks at home observing you guys online... in which case I'm sort've excused because I'm trying to keep myself awake completely alone running a deserted network/studio command center on a 12 hour midnite-noon shift-- after my family get-together. And hey, dysfunctional family gatherings pretty much require those occasional Escapes To Solitude in your room!)

Fuckem if they can't take a smoke.

Jem · #363 Post by **Jem** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:16 am

HerrSchreck · #364 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:51 am

Jem wrote:

Is that a fucking closed-lid coffin with xmas flowers on top of it behind him?

Lord help me. So many visible reasons why "Paul Todd" should no longer be permitted to live it boggles the mind. You a) look at that picture and say b) "Yes! that's just the look I wanted for myself", you thereby should c) be put to sleep immediately.

Astroman · #365 Post by **Astroman** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:27 am

Isn't that one of Rick Moranis' characters from SCTV? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it. (I know, it was Gerry Todd, but it sure looks like Rick circa 1982.)

godardslave · #366 Post by **godardslave** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:22 am

er.....this has a bad dvd cover in it. but really i just wanted to post the link because the video is really funny.
dance like a white guy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0595414198

Gordon · #367 Post by **Gordon** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:33 am

godardslave wrote:er.....this has a bad dvd cover in it. but really i just wanted to post the link because the video is really funny.
dance like a white guy:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0595414198

Why is that guy dressed as a Mounty?! Idiota stupido!

As for that Paul Todd geezer, I always wondered who inherited Michael Bolton's hair. It must have been on Ebay with a "Buy Now!" option. Damn.

These are the End Times.

Galen Young · #368 Post by **Galen Young** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:10 pm

courtesy of Amazon

I can't stop laughing at that tagline...

flyonthewall2983 · Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:39 am

wtf...

Cinéslob · #370 Post by **Cinéslob** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:32 am

And yes, it looks even worse in the flesh...

Kinsayder · #371 Post by **Kinsayder** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:08 pm

OK, if we're posting pictures of dildos:

Gigi M. · #372 Post by **Gigi M.** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:27 pm

Ouch!!!!

Lino · #373 Post by **Lino** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:39 pm

Dorff is wondering why they switched the names above them...

htdm · #374 Post by **htdm** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:45 am

Galen Young wrote:I can't stop laughing at that tagline...

"First he nails you, then he NAILS you!" ???
Bwaaahaahaahaaaa!

Everything about that is so wrong!

dx23 · #375 Post by **dx23** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:58 pm

I don't know what is worst; the cover of the DVD or the fact that this piece of crap gets a 2-disc DVD set at a pretty low price, while I have to pay a premium for Special Editions of Jarhead and Ray

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