Worst DVD covers... ever! (Part Deux)

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StevenJ0001 · #826 Post by **StevenJ0001** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:19 pm

kaujot · #827 Post by **kaujot** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:05 pm

I fucking hate Strand.

StevenJ0001 · #828 Post by **StevenJ0001** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:52 pm

I know the feeling.

CSM126 · #829 Post by **CSM126** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:27 pm

Just think...they could have justifiably plastered an "Academy Award Nominee!" banner on this cover...

...and they didn't

Also, they really should have put "Featuring Starship!" somewhere on this cover. That's a bigger selling point than the films themselves, which is saying something considering how awful that song was.

flyonthewall2983 · Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:07 pm

Who was nominated?

CSM126 · #831 Post by **CSM126** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:22 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Who was nominated?

Mannequin was nominated in the Best Original Song category for the truly wretched "Nothing's Gonna Stop us Now" by Starship. I dunno if that doesn't count because someone says 'it was really the composer and not the movie that was nominated' but if I was producing this disc believe me I'd throw that "Academy Award Nominee" banner on there. Anything to move a few copies of something you just know ain't gonna sell so hot (well, except to me because I can't resist bad cinema).

#832 Post by **domino harvey** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:25 am

Mannequin was one of my mom's favorite movies and I'm sure I saw it fifty times growing up.

#833 Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:35 am

domino harvey wrote:Mannequin was one of my mom's favorite movies and I'm sure I saw it fifty times growing up.

When I was in the sixth grade in 1989, I started a school newspaper. My little girlfriend wanted to write movie reviews, and turned in a review of Mannequin. She had clearly invested a great deal of time writing a lengthy essay about a movie she had probably just watched on video with her parents. I said, "Do you seriously expect me to run a review for a movie that came out two years ago?" She cried. Good times.

Cash Flagg · #834 Post by **Cash Flagg** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:33 pm

Steven H · #835 Post by **Steven H** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:49 pm

Flames *and* a big "O"... to quote Childcare Action Project "attention to crotch, twice".

sidehacker · #836 Post by **sidehacker** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:59 pm

kaujot wrote:I fucking hate Strand.

Seriously. They might as well have thrown a Tarantino quote in.

#837 Post by **domino harvey** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:09 pm

sidehacker wrote:
kaujot wrote:I fucking hate Strand.
Seriously. They might as well have thrown a Tarantino quote in.

bunuelian · #838 Post by **bunuelian** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:02 pm

That's it, domino wins the thread.

jbeall · #839 Post by **jbeall** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:28 am

bunuelian wrote:That's it, domino wins the thread.

Maybe Strand should hire domino?

colinr0380 · #840 Post by **colinr0380** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:29 am

For the full effect though we should change the text at the top to "From the internationally acclaimed director of Reservoir Dogs and Death Proof"

Then under the title - "Strand Releasing, in association with Quentin Tarantino presents a film by Tsai Ming-Liang (aka some guy or other).

dx23 · #841 Post by **dx23** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:37 am

what constitute today as programming on VH1.

Kinsayder · #842 Post by **Kinsayder** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:03 am

bjeggert82 · #843 Post by **bjeggert82** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:19 am

Kevin Spacey has got a bad case of squishface there.

Murdoch · #844 Post by **Murdoch** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:10 am

I'm guessing it's gonna be sink, not swim.

Antoine Doinel · Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:53 pm

bjeggert82 wrote:Kevin Spacey has got a bad case of squishface there.

Although the designer kindly gave him a lot more hair.

skuhn8 · #846 Post by **skuhn8** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:01 pm

Murdoch wrote:

I'm guessing it's gonna be sink, not swim.

Isn't that one of the guys from the Beastie Boys?

tryavna · #847 Post by **tryavna** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:12 pm

I can't decide whether these are terrible or brilliant, but there are definitely some problems of scale in the second one.

UbuRoi · #848 Post by **UbuRoi** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:07 pm

tryavna wrote:I can't decide whether these are terrible or brilliant, but there are definitely some problems of scale in the second one.

Ahhh, I'm assuming you have not seen the glory that is "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon", for if you did...

Spoiler

...you would surely know that the Megalodon is so freakin' huge, it swallows a life raft full of people whole. Twice.

The movie also features the greatest exchange in film history, which I cannot write in mixed company, but I'm sure is on the imdb quote board.

Barmy · #849 Post by **Barmy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:42 pm

#850 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:45 pm

No movie could ever live up to a title that good.

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