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Thanks! I thought it was Peter Strauss on Donald Pleasance.

A sentimental favorite from my Albany, NY library days - this one used to brighten my morning every time it crossed the front desk. Master P is already a legend within the bad DVD art crowd, but this takes the cake for me. That shot of him holding the phone to his ear is so half-assed, so clumsily staged - it looks like they snapped it in the hallway as he was heading into the studio to add some rhymes to a Gutta Boyz track.

..."a truckload of cellphones... turns into a boatload of cash... which turn into a shitload of bargain bin dvd's..."

Leo, the copycat? I wonder how Disney didn't sue the shit out of Leo.

dx23 wrote:Leo, the copycat? I wonder how Disney didn't sue the shit out of Leo.

You are being ironic, I hope.

Tezuka's classic Kimba the Lion series (retitled Leo the Lion -- for some odd reason -- in the US) was the source that Disney Inc. "borrowed from" when creating its "The Lion King".

Michael Kerpan wrote:You are being ironic, I hope.

Tezuka's classic Kimba the Lion series (retitled Leo the Lion -- for some odd reason -- in the US) was the source that Disney Inc. "borrowed from" when creating its "The Lion King".

Yeah, I'm being ironic. The sarcasmotron is not working today. Still, it was bad to copycat the Lion King cover when Kimba's producers were criticizing Disney for copying the story.

And people thought Rafi was annoying:

dx23 wrote:Yeah, I'm being ironic. The sarcasmotron is not working today. Still, it was bad to copycat the Lion King cover when Kimba's producers were criticizing Disney for copying the story.

I thought you MUST have been intending irony -- but one never can tell.

Actually, I think the mimicking of superficial elements of the Disney cover really highlights just how much Disney appropriated more essential aspects of Tezuka's creation.

And I got things backwards above -- apparently Leo WAS the original name of Tezukas' character -- and the first US distributors changed it to Kimba. Apparently the name is now reverting back to its original form. ;~}

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COLLECTOR ' S EDITION looks subversively similar to COLLECTOR SEDITION.

Is that a subliminal anti-piracy message? Or am I just getting paranoid about my Chinese Dvd collection. Or, is something more sinister at work ...

Something far more sinister than Something More Sinister...

Some more gems:

Wow. Lady Snow Blood. That cover is a masterpiece. Is it just me or is her hand not so much holding the knife as stretching and morphing into a knife. And that look on her face: "Here Kaji, just hold this sharp stick thing. Higher. Higher. There you go. Now just hold that for a minute."

But for whatever shortcomings this film may have they are more than compensated for by featuring a song that appeared in another film by someone famous. Well, if that just doesn't make you want to watch it. If I ever make a film I'm just going to advertise it by pointing out that my intro music is in the same key and tempo as the opening music for Doctor Zhivago--that should put me in the same pantheon as David Lean, Omar Sharif and Julie Christie.

Just like to say that after a smattering of so-so covers it's nice to see this thread return to truly "worst DVD covers". Though that Beach Boys cover seems ok.

I actually like WAR IN SPACE... appropriately cheeseball in a MYSTERIANS kinda way.

Bad cover, worse title.

For a second there I thought that was an alternate cover for "Scarlet Diva," but..."Orgasm Torture in Satan's Rape Clinic?" That sounds like one of the jokes from the John Carradine segment of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex..."

Barmy, I'm going to have to sincerely disagree with you there: Cool cover, absolutely BRILLIANT title!

I literally laughed out loud at that title. Orgasm Torture In Satan's Rape Clinic...it's a classic.

Why use some crappy photoshopped cover when you have these to play with...

^For shame.

Now this is a cover! If you are in the video rental shop there is no way you are walking past it without picking it up. Check out the substitution of a full moon for an O! Awesome!!



Makes the shitty list due to nasty 'Gold Edition' border and weird 'REST IN BEAST' tagline.

Children of Men is literally the worst cover I think I have ever seen. How was the movie? The original posters gorgeous, especially in comparison.

The tagline makes the movie sound kind of silly though.

Napoleon wrote:Makes the shitty list due to nasty 'Gold Edition' border

Perhaps they are trying to copy the packaging Universal used to use for their DVDs!

jon wrote:Children of Men is literally the worst cover I think I have ever seen. How was the movie? The original posters gorgeous, especially in comparison.

The tagline makes the movie sound kind of silly though.

The movie is a lot better than the cover.

It's actually one of the best Hollywood films of the year, and has one of the most fully realised worlds that I have ever seen. It feels more like a documentary in parts than a fiction film.

Some more posters...

that's a good slogan there ("last to die..."), now if only someone could put it to good use in some decent art...

I can't think of any possible way to justify this cover in the context of the film. I don't even know whose breast it's supposed to be.