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you really can't talk too much about how terrible the Eclipse boxes are though.

i just was hoping they were going to change the eclipse packaging.
I cant imagine what benefits the good folks at criterion think this packaging has.

Its ugly, annoying and cheap looking.

godardslave wrote:Its ugly, annoying and cheap looking.

That's why my cardboard sleeves go straight into the bin and the discs get shelved by their individual titles.

Has it been determined how Criterion chooses which titles get digipaks and which ones just get the figure-8 Amrays? I actually like both, but it seems odd to me that even the digipaks aren't standardized (for instance, the Double Life of Veronique packaging vs. the Third Man packaging).

patrick wrote:Has it been determined how Criterion chooses which titles get digipaks and which ones just get the figure-8 Amrays? I actually like both, but it seems odd to me that even the digipaks aren't standardized (for instance, the Double Life of Veronique packaging vs. the Third Man packaging).

I assume this is up to the producer.

I doubt it would ever be standardized, I can think of many things that would be a factor... internet buzz, pre-orders, projected sales based on similar dvds in the collection and similar works from the same director or actor, availability of print quality artwork/imagery (it takes much more to cover a digipak than an amaray, for example). That's my inexperienced assessment, so there is probably much more...

I am not sure how it works for DVDs but when you are producing digipak CDs, the price is so cost-prohibitive already and then on top of that it costs a lot more for represses than with jewelboxes, you have to be sure of the sales.

If it's so cost-prohibitive, why even bother? It can't be for any aesthetic standards a company holds, save perhaps Criterion. Does it simply make bootlegging harder?

I like digipaks and so do many other people, I think they feel "special," for whatever reasons, probably just because they're different without being too different from the ordinary case packaging. I will say this, when I reviewed music and had publicists sending me handfuls of CDs daily by unknown bands, digipak releases always got listened to first.

kekid wrote:Every time I get a new Eclipse title I am reminded of how poor the pckaging design is. (I am refering to the cardboard sleeve). At a minimum, the packaging should protect the discs from gravity. These sleeves do not. When picking up the set from the shelf I need to squeez the sleeve, else the contents slide off. In my opinion this is sub-standard. Even cheaper labels do better than this.

How hard is it to use a blade to cut out the top of the plastic wrap so the discs slide out only through the top

eez28 wrote:

kekid wrote:Every time I get a new Eclipse title I am reminded of how poor the pckaging design is. (I am refering to the cardboard sleeve). At a minimum, the packaging should protect the discs from gravity. These sleeves do not. When picking up the set from the shelf I need to squeez the sleeve, else the contents slide off. In my opinion this is sub-standard. Even cheaper labels do better than this.

How hard is it to use a blade to cut out the top of the plastic wrap so the discs slide out only through the top

If a consumer is expected to come up with the solution to a company's packaging problem, guess what

domino harvey wrote:If a consumer is expected to come up with the solution to a company's packaging problem, guess what

You visit a nerd forum and get help?

hammock wrote:

domino harvey wrote:If a consumer is expected to come up with the solution to a company's packaging problem, guess what

You visit a nerd forum and get help?

The Jarmusch covers sure don't seem very imaginative.

I take it that for Robinson Crusoe they were trying to go for that old quasi-Frank Frazetta look. And they didn't get it. Awful, awful cover.

Tribe

Alonzo the Armless wrote:The Jarmusch covers sure don't seem very imaginative.

Agreed. And the scary thing is that they'll probably be better than the eventual cover for the Martha Graham set. An off-month for Criterion, IMHO.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the cover for The Threepenny Opera!

I love the Jarmusch covers...
I really like Roberto Benigni on Night on Earth.
But I really love the cover for Stranger Than Paradise. minimal and grey (with a touch of humor, in the form of 'welcome to Florida') that seems to encapsulate the film perfectly. It looks like the cover of a book.

Musashi219 wrote:LOVE LOVE LOVE the cover for The Threepenny Opera!

I like it a lot as well. For that matter, the Robinson Crusoe on Mars does a really nice job of capturing the pulpy sci-fi paperback feel. Those two are easily my favorites from the past couple of months (although that's not really saying much, as I haven't really liked too many since the April releases).

Tribe wrote:I take it that for Robinson Crusoe they were trying to go for that old quasi-Frank Frazetta look. And they didn't get it. Awful, awful cover.

I don't think so, looks like an old sci-fi novel, and it is beautiful. This is what Frank Frazetta's work looks like. All these covers are great, Jarmusches are fitting and I can't wait to get them.

A monkey in a spacesuit is going to move a lot of DVDs.

Love the Robinson Crusoe. Similiar to the original poster (in which I love). Threepenny Opera almost looked like a Hausman painting, but it's not dada ofcourse. The others are just plain ok.

Why don't I remember the really hot cannibal chick from Trouble Every Day in Night on Earth?

justeleblanc wrote:Why don't I remember the really hot cannibal chick from Trouble Every Day in Night on Earth?

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