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Hey, Jenna Lewis is in it... I wonder if disc 2 houses her sex tape?

justeleblanc wrote:

King of Kong wrote:Makes you wonder what De Niro is doing on the centre cover...

isn't that the bukake scene from cape fear?

It certainly is. I'm surprised they haven't gotten into trouble for this.

Regarding Scorned:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475382/plotsummary
Sounds too bad to be true, I can't even believe this got made.

Can't remember if anyone's posted this one before. If so, it really deserves to be reposted, as I laughed at it once again when I came across it in a bargain bin recently. The dog in the lower left-hand corner looks like he's high....

Which one's James Coburn?

snow dogs, huh? now THATS a bad cover. =D> (although it doesnt quite top "born to win").

they all look like their high, including Cuba.

D Tramp:
Fine, fine job on Born to Win.
If you had just told me that other covers were worse, I wouldn't have believed you.

That one with the super-straining DeNiro, and Karen Black trapped in plexiglass (and melting?) is truly bad and bizarre. An all-time worst.

The dark one with the large head of young DeNiro is pretty bad. And the plot description is queer. We only see the large head of DeNiro, but the synopsis says something like: 'He was a cop who forced a junkie to bring Mr. Big to him." But DeNiro isn't the cop. He's not even the junkie (that'd be George Segal). DeNiro is more like the junkie's flunkie.

Actually I think Born To Win is a pretty good "smaller" film. And after your expectations have been sufficiently lowered by the Dvd cover, most should be pleasantly surprised. It's similar in theme to Panic in Needle Park, but IMO Born To Win is a better film.

Lemmy Caution wrote:D Tramp:
Fine, fine job on Born to Win.
If you had just told me that other covers were worse, I wouldn't have believed you.

That one with the super-straining DeNiro, and Karen Black trapped in plexiglass (and melting?) is truly bad and bizarre. An all-time worst.

The dark one with the large head of young DeNiro is pretty bad. And the plot description is queer. We only see the large head of DeNiro, but the synopsis says something like: 'He was a cop who forced a junkie to bring Mr. Big to him." But DeNiro isn't the cop. He's not even the junkie (that'd be George Segal). DeNiro is more like the junkie's flunkie.

Actually I think Born To Win is a pretty good "smaller" film. And after your expectations have been sufficiently lowered by the Dvd cover, most should be pleasantly surprised. It's similar in theme to Panic in Needle Park, but IMO Born To Win is a better film.

You're right: Born to Win is quite good, and George Segal is superb!

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61083

Awful, just awful! Ben Gazarra seems like he has his schlong out on this one...

Annie Mall wrote:http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61083

Awful, just awful! Ben Gazarra seems like he has his schlong out on this one...

Awful? That's fuckin' hilarious. Gordon's right--it is Bukowski. I think it rather captures both the spirit of the movie and the original poster art in the best light. Again, a DVD cover that doesnt fit the criteria of really REALLY bad art.

It truly does look like his bracciole is dingling out his zipper though.

dx23 wrote:Words can't describe this atrocity:

I just thought I'd let everyone know I purchased this, and then gave it to my friend, a shatner nut. But it was absolutely worth the entire $1.88 plus tax that I paid for it.

You should have got the full Shatpack:

oh my... If I saw that, I would have purchased it instead... well, as long as the cost wasnt more than double what I paid for just splaat attack.

more monkey movies......

manicsounds wrote:

more monkey movies......

That monkey does really look like President Bush.

manicsounds wrote:more monkey movies......

Oh, now we're knocking KOKO?!?

Now if someone would photoshop that downturned banana into a more appropriate place, we might have a twin to Ben Gazzara on the cover of TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS... Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm....

manicsounds wrote:

more monkey movies......

Which one is Emma?

Aside from Katt looks like a Baywatch babe inna morning, pre-makeup, I like the true-to-the-era-of-release "70's cheeseball" look of these covers. Like some were unhappy w some of the cheesy old 40's & 50's bijou posters used for some of Warner's upcoming releases (i e Ford/Wayne), I like it much... original innocence preserved.

Yes, those covers look very appropriate to the releases contained therein.

I think some folks think really bad movie = bad cover, and therefore post it here. Chuckling over a bad film is different than retching over some piece of photoshopped glop by a brand new School of Visual Arts grad who knows nothing about the tone of a classic film, or the art of composition, or the basic notorious sins of box-covers (bad fusing of a head onto a disproportionate body via digital airbrushing, floating heads, etc)

This is a pretty bad cover:



I just finished watching the movie, and basically nobody on the cover is recognizable.
Also, NYC is such a big part of the film, and that could be any sketchy little city tucked far in the background.
And what about the head popping around the side of the Naked City lettering.
And how silly all of the writing on the cover is. ("Terrifically told by Manhattan's modern O. Henry")
Not to mention that out of a "cast of 8 million New Yorkers," there's only one black person, a maid who gets a few seconds of screen time.

Blame original poster

Yes that is an original lobby card/poster art from the debut. I think I have it on the back of my VHS.

More importantly-- what company has released this on DVD? This is a DVD cover?

Image. It's out of print