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ByMarkClark.com wrote:I gotta say that cover is way cooler than the Criterion.

This is one of the rare occasions where I prefer the Criterion.

The MoC cover is good but I prefer the Crit as well - had there been a Blu, I may well have gotten both but with so much else out before Christmas that I want to have, I'll pass on the MoC DVD.

The cover is great, but unless they announce many more extras, the Criterion clearly seems the way to go. Transfers will be identical, I guess.

my opinion on the covers:
(having only seen Touch of Evil, e.g. in a 720p last week on German/French TV)

Touch of Evil: (--) meehhh - what an ugly orange, furthermore it does not represent the film or a film noir in general
Silent Runner: (++) absolutely wonderful - will buy the disc only because of the cover
A Man Vanishes: (+) nice and interesting, the placing of the original and english language title is great
The Ballad of Narayama: (0) cant say if i like the cover or dont; depends probably what the film is like?
Island of Lost Souls: (--) where is the worst covers thread? is this really that bad? In additon, the Criterion is magnificent (++); and the CC is a Blu-ray. overall a small disaster for MoC IHMO

=> Not the best months for MoC covers...
When it comes to content, the Touch of Evil release is nevertheless a absolute lighthouse product for MoC, which emits highly positive to all other releases of them. Seems like a release every cineast should own.

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Mozart

Mozart wrote: Touch of Evil: (--) meehhh - what an ugly orange, furthermore it does not represent the film or a film noir in general

I think it looks absolutely wonderful!

I love the bizarre, abstract rating system. It's like in Arrested Development when Maeby got an alligator in Spelling.

>>Island of Lost Souls: (--) where is the worst covers thread? is this really that bad? In additon, the Criterion is magnificent (++); and the CC is a Blu-ray. overall a small disaster for MoC IHMO<<

Oh, lighten up. I think the MOC cover is perfect for a movie by Erle C. Kenton. The Criterion cover looks like it belongs BY BRAKHAGE, VOL. 3.

Mozart wrote:my opinion on the covers:
(having only seen Touch of Evil, e.g. in a 720p last week on German/French TV)

Touch of Evil: (--) meehhh - what an ugly orange, furthermore it does not represent the film or a film noir in general
Silent Runner: (++) absolutely wonderful - will buy the disc only because of the cover
A Man Vanishes: (+) nice and interesting, the placing of the original and english language title is great
The Ballad of Narayama: (0) cant say if i like the cover or dont; depends probably what the film is like?
Island of Lost Souls: (--) where is the worst covers thread? is this really that bad? In additon, the Criterion is magnificent (++); and the CC is a Blu-ray. overall a small disaster for MoC IHMO

=> Not the best months for MoC covers...
When it comes to content, the Touch of Evil release is nevertheless a absolute lighthouse product for MoC, which emits highly positive to all other releases of them. Seems like a release every cineast should own.

Best
Mozart

This post was awful enough as it was, and then you tossed in the annoyingly redundant signoff (the dumbest thing anyone can do on a message board - your name is right there already, jackass) to really top it off. Welcome to the shit list.

I thought he was saying the MoC cover for Mozart was the best

CSM126 just threw down!

Really, who the fuck SIGNS a post? The only thing that's even close to being as dumb is adding an intro to a post. Like that one guy who used to start every god damn one of his posts on here with "How do you do?". AND he signed them at the end. Dude, you're not writing a Civil War letter to your beloved. You're screaming into the internets in hopes that someone else will respond and validate your opinion that HAL would have been totally bitchin' sweet if he had laser guns. Or whatever. Let's not elevate this to some pompously grandiose level of formality by treating it like a handwritten farewell sent off on the pony express.

But at least most people who do it do it at the end of posts with substance of SOME kind. This d-bag signed off a post critiquing jpeg files on a DVD forum. It's absurd.

I'm imagining all of this being said by disappointed Devito.

And how does that ratings system work? It couldn't just be +/-? There need to be doubles? Are there in-betweens? Can I give something a (+-) or a (-+)? Whatever those would even mean? Would "good" and "bad" simply not have worked? Or here's an idea: just give us your thoughts and let us discern whether you approved or disapproved. This weird, pseudo-algebraic horse piss just confuses me. I've heard Steely Dan jazz odysseys that weren't this obtuse.

CSM126 wrote:Really, who the fuck SIGNS a post?

The european reviewer over at BD.com does. And every time I asked him exactly WHY he did this, he deleted my post.

Haha he used post here too and did the same thing. Just the worst

I agree re: Touch of Evil. Gotta get it? Yes. Cover that =/= the film? Yes. It's like Make Way for Tomorrow only not as "incorrect".

**post deleted to avoid continued pile-on**

domino harvey wrote:Haha he used post here too and did the same thing. Just the worst

Good thing he's busy power-trippin' on another forum.

guys, as I cleary said, only my opionion.
obviously some of you have another taste.....

Ha, Mozart, a beatdown!

I guess we all know that people can complain about covers being bad or not in their particular taste, but end up buying the product anyway, as the content inside is more important. I own 3 of the worst (in my opinion) Criterion disc covers, but it doesn't bother me that much.

I don’t see what’s so incomprehensible about Mozart’s rating system. “0” is clearly a mean (as in “cant say if i like the cover or dont”), and each plus or minus indicates a standard deviation in the indicated direction. Or you can think of the pluses and minuses as thumbs up and thumbs down, respectively. I don’t think that makes any less sense than assigning letter grades.

I'm not gonna defend anything else about that post, though.

We joke about "post of the year," but I think we really need to start voting on that for real.

^ yes

Mozart is the Roger Ebert of cover criticism...

Hail_Cesar wrote:Mozart is the Roger Ebert of cover criticism...

He is, after all, Mozart.

I'm only really enjoying this because I know we won't drop into this lack of decorum and civility again but I have to say I laughed for about five minutes reading these posts and seeing Danny Devito say them in my head. Mozart your only major mistake was signing your post like that it's no big deal. That said rant of the year by csm126.