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I was browsing the used section and saw the spine for "American Pop" - The Ralph Bakshi 1980 movie which I've always wanted to see after seeing the trailer many years ago. Then I looked at the cover....



I was almost convinced it was a bootleg.or it was cheapo music clips compilation. The artwork that is clearly not drawn by Bakshi, and the character standing on a large CD? For a 1980 movie it is completely anachronistic. Looks more like something from K-Tel.

Flipped to the rear cover and shocked to see the Columbia and Image Entertainment logos...

"Featuring the music of Jim Morrison" ... a little baffling and disrespectful to the rest of the band that whoever designed the cover didn't just write "The Doors" instead.

domino harvey wrote:

"Well? Where's the rest of me?"

mother sky wrote:"Featuring the music of Jim Morrison" ... a little baffling and disrespectful to the rest of the band that whoever designed the cover didn't just write "The Doors" instead.

Technically, the cover gets it wrong in regards to Joplin as well - the song included in the film is by her group Big Brother & The Holding Company.

If they referenced Ronnie Van Zant instead of "Lynyrd Skynyrd", they could have had a clean set of artists who all died in their late 20s.

I thought this was a feeble effort:


3 players all with basketballs shooting in random directions, a gauzy fake impressionist crowd, a small basket in the distance at a random angle. [For any hoops fans, that's Arvydas Sabonis, whose son is an NBA rook this year, Sarunas Marciulionus, and another guy ...]

This poster is also rather bizarre:


Believe it or not but the dunking Lithuanian skeleton and the team members in tie-dyed t-shirts were the result of the Grateful Dead helping to sponsor the Lithuanian national team.

It's supposed to be a good film.

I've seen it, it's not bad.

The other guy looks like a tall Jared Leto in that Other Dream Team cover.

This one annoys me. Westworld had a great movie poster yet WB used this crap

Men and wome?

swo17 wrote:Men and wome?

Maybe the 'robot men and wome' need to be programmed to take on the artwork as well.

calculus entrophy wrote:

swo17 wrote:Men and wome?

Maybe the 'robot men and wome' need to be programmed to take on the artwork as well.

"...nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...except for the artwork."

Coincidentally, I just ordered the Westworld Blu-Ray and watched it with a group of friends this weekend (we'd been watching the HBO show together, and many of them had never seen the film). The actual Blu-Ray does not have the "wome" typo, it correctly says "women." That image is probably the original press art and the typo was caught & corrected.

EDIT: However, I just noticed the back cover misspells producer Paul N Lazarus III's name as "Pal." #-o

Is that a losing entry in a "who can do a better DVD cover in five minutes in MS Paint" competition?

I'm not sure. Look how well organised the pictures are. And they're all the same size exactly (seemingly) !

What's wrong with that? I'm pretty sure it has been the art for the history of the film.

Yeah, that's the original poster art with some elements squished to fit on a BD cover.

It almost looked like Brendan Fraser was trying to hang himself...

I'm aware this is just a port, but it's of an especially terrible poster:



Hopefully this will really catch the eye of any fans of Sad Robert Mitchum out there.

So that's why I was always warned against breaking a snow globe-- it might become infested with Billy Bob Thornton

Ribs wrote:I'm aware this is just a port, but it's of an especially terrible poster:



Hopefully this will really catch the eye of any fans of Sad Robert Mitchum out there.

I don't know the movie more than by name, but that's a pretty awful poster. I'm not sure if I'm more bothered by the weird seemingly-random composition of the partial shotgun on top of the faces-bloodsplatered katana (but everything else is perfectly clean) or if the very small sad Mitchum clipart (it looks like the size of a desktop icon) is just the icing on the cake.

I haven't seen it in years but I remember finding it the weakest of the films in the Mitchum Signature box

Yeah, I remember the same thing. It's leagues ahead of other attempts at utilizing martial arts from the era (I'm looking your way Peckinpah), but even by Pollack's standard it was rather middle of the road.