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Posted: **Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:36 am**

Pitchfork wrote:Pitchfork: Speaking of changing the cover, am I imagining things, or did they change the Once poster when it got released on DVD? They changed what you're wearing.

GH: Oh, man. They fuckin' killed it. You're right. They have us holding hands, which we never do in the film! Those legs aren't mine. Those legs are like three times longer than my legs. It's a completely new body. They literally just used my face. I'm wearing a hat in the original picture, so they Photoshopped my head. If you look at my head, my head looks totally weird, because whoever did the Photoshop job was shit. My head looks really weird, they took my hat off, and they gave me an entirely new body. It's completely bizarre. And they made Mar much taller than she really is. You can look at the original cover and then what they did to it and spot all the crappy differences. It's awful. It's a real shame. But at a certain level you've got to let this shit go. I designed the original poster and the cover of the DVD myself. Myself and John like to do things ourselves, and I do a bit of design for the Frames. I designed all the Frames album covers. So I put together the DVD cover and the poster originally. And then they took it and fucking bastardized it. Instead of walking down a street, they stuck us walking down a big guitar.

Pitchfork: Again, it's a different world. The music industry is sketchy enough as it is, but the movie industry is 100 times that.

GH: Yeah, it's just blatant. They don't give a fuck. They want you to look at the DVD cover and get everything from that. It's the opposite of what someone like Criterion would do. They create wonderful art. With a Criterion DVD, you just want to buy it for the box. They do it right. With the bigger-time DVDs...they could have done such a nicer job. But I'm just complaining from a design point of view.

Posted: **Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:39 pm**

Glen Hansard wrote:It's awful. It's a real shame. But at a certain level you've got to let this shit go.

Let us know if and when you reach that level, Glen.

Posted: **Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:20 pm**

A cover is born.

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:41 am**

Urk ... urk .. urk .

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:31 pm**

Don't tell me that nobody has heard of Dublin's famous guitar streets? It can be a little bumpy for buses and trams (especially when they hit the bridge) but is the best traffic calming measure they have yet come up with!

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:38 am**

Here is everything that wrong with the US:

And what pisses me more is that the "nottie", Christine Lakin, is the one that is damn hot.

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:25 am**

dx23 wrote:And what pisses me more is that the "nottie", Christine Lakin, is the one that is damn hot.

I won't watch it, but I'd bet the farm that the nottie becomes a hottie, and they cast her for that reason.

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:37 am**

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:54 am**

I love that quote at the bottom of the Just Looking cover... a little innuendo, anyone?

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:55 pm**

dx23 wrote:Here is everything that wrong with the US:

Not quite everything:

There--THAT'S everything that's wrong with the US (apologies for the crappy Photoshopping).

Posted: **Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:12 pm**

So which one is the hottie?

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:07 pm**

What is it about The Long Good Friday that causes DVD companies to try and out do each other in crappiness?:

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:08 pm**

I never knew it was a horror film!

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:14 pm**

At least Bruno Lawrence and Klaus Kinski are providing the proper pained reactions to their covers!:

While this is just silly!:

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:00 pm**

I fucking love all those covers! I think Cult Fiction should be commended for their clear mastery of Photoshop templates and filters...

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:55 pm**

You have to commend them for trying, at first, but as they just cut and pasted into that particular template, you just want to cry. I did think these were UK titles at first, but I guess that's the rorschach doing its work. Boo!

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:03 pm**

It's depressing that they're trying to sell good films as bad films.

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:09 am**

domino harvey wrote:It's depressing that they're trying to sell good films as bad films.

Well, there is a much bigger audience for bad films. Doesn't make it any less depressing, though.

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:41 am**

By the way is anyone else seeing what looks like a giant, flaming Miss Piggy behind Hoskins looking as if she is reaching up to pull him into Hell in the Long Good Friday cover?

(Either that or its my muppet-phobia coming to the fore again!)

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:57 pm**

These are DVD covers? They look more like cheesy, dog-eared paperback novelizations. Hoskins expression makes me think he's just entered the wrong bedroom in an Italian sex farce. Or maybe it's his first sight of Jessica Rabbit.

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:47 pm**

colinr0380 wrote:By the way is anyone else seeing what looks like a giant, flaming Miss Piggy behind Hoskins looking as if she is reaching up to pull him into Hell in the Long Good Friday cover?

hahah oh my I do see it now

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:22 pm**

I know it's based on the poster, but still.

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:00 pm**

not to mention that that scene in the movie seems so fake.

Posted: **Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:22 pm**

At least the nipple is telling me where to look.

Posted: **Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:52 am**

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