Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:10 pm
"The Siege And Bruce Willis" is one of my favorite movies.dx23 wrote:What is it with the studios and the fucking stupid names! If they just concentrated the effort in more productive things.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:07 am
Having worked at Blockbuster, I gotta million of these.
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:23 pm
Region 1 DVD cover of Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem! Yikes!
The altered lighting, tagline and completely irrelevant convent background make that look like a cheap, straight to video, horror flick, which is definitely not. The only thing that they missed is the "inspired by the exorcism of Emily Rose" line...
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:44 pm
I see that one of her eyes is glowing red. Does that mean she is truly evil, or is it just her soul showing through?
A pretty mediocre cover for what I've heard is an excellent film.
A pretty mediocre cover for what I've heard is an excellent film.
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:28 pm
She is obviously the Terminator. Sent back through time to kill monks.colinr0380 wrote:I see that one of her eyes is glowing red. Does that mean she is truly evil, or is it just her soul showing through?
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:45 pm
Is that Chloe from 24? what a terrible looking film.
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:14 am
No matter how horrible the cover is, that shouldn't stop you from watching the film, if you haven't already. It's great and Sandra Huller's perfect performance has nothing to do with glowing red eyes... In my opinion it's one of the year's best films. I even think of buying it...well, maybe I'll wait for the region 2 disc.
Did I say that it's NOT a horror film?
Did I say that it's NOT a horror film?
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:15 pm
Tell that to the fangoria quote. Is that really the only one they could come up with?
-Toilet Dcuk
-Toilet Dcuk
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:37 pm
I imagine horror movies get rented far more than art house films, I can see why the distributer would try to pull a fast one. Doesn't mean I approve of it, but makes sense
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:37 pm
Well, it is if they want to spin it as a horror movie...toiletduck! wrote:Tell that to the fangoria quote. Is that really the only one they could come up with?
-Toilet Dcuk
For a while I had the maddening job of putting packaging elements together for another indie label, which of course included researching quotes. You'd be amazed by the great quotes that were turned down in favor of bad quotes that pushed the title more firmly into a genre it only loosely belonged in. Foreign dramas with one scene of male nudity could be spun as gay and comedies with a handful of guns and some incidental blood could be spun as horror, all with the right quote...
...and the wrong people making marketing decisions.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:58 pm
Jesus H., man. I thought only the shit movies got "Fun and Flirty" editions. Fuck you, Universal. I wonder what F. F. Fletch has to say about this one...
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:11 pm
What the hell happened to the gun pointed at him from the original cover? Did Spielberg or Lucas do this one?
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:10 pm
Can't you see that little walkie-talkie pointed at him in the corner?
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:56 pm
I think that the Region 1 cover of The Fountain is pretty bad (understatement)
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:51 am
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:02 pm
Yeah, it sucks ass. The colors are heightened to a cartoonish level. Ugh. I think I'll hold on to my DVD artwork from the previous release and use it instead.Schkura wrote:
Jesus H., man. I thought only the shit movies got "Fun and Flirty" editions. Fuck you, Universal. I wonder what F. F. Fletch has to say about this one...
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:46 pm
That cover is fucking TERRIBLE!! What happened to the awesome poster art? Looks like I'm going to have to wait even longer to grab this one on DVD...TheGodfather wrote:I think that the Region 1 cover of The Fountain is pretty bad (understatement)
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:59 pm
Yeah that`s what I thought as well. I`ll wait for a 2 disc set to come out, maybe that`ll have a better cover than this one...soma wrote:That cover is fucking TERRIBLE!! What happened to the awesome poster art? Looks like I'm going to have to wait even longer to grab this one on DVD...
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:22 pm
The distributors really didn't know how to package this one at all. We have 2 independent cinemas here in Melbourne that get all the foreign / cult / arthouse releases and it was offered to neither. It played at Europa, a small arthouse-geared side-arm of Village (the largest / most commercial cinema chain in the country) for 2 sessions a day, for 2 weeks only. Nor did it have any kind of marketing whatsoever, and the only people at the cinema were obviously people who had been following its progress on the net. In other words it got severely shafted. Even after several sell-out sessions it was removed promptly from the big screen.
Upon enquiring about its handling, a manager informed me that "it did poorly in the US", hence its treatment here - which is even more offensive. Despite the fact a huge amount of Australians are open to and watch subtitled films, in fact dubbing here is fairly rare and basically non-existent at cinema level, we are to be considered a lesser, but no more receptive market than the US.
My hopes of this achieving some kind of successful, word-of-mouth cult status on DVD have been nastily cut short with that cover though. You could add Kevin Costner in tights and it wouldn't be much worse.
Upon enquiring about its handling, a manager informed me that "it did poorly in the US", hence its treatment here - which is even more offensive. Despite the fact a huge amount of Australians are open to and watch subtitled films, in fact dubbing here is fairly rare and basically non-existent at cinema level, we are to be considered a lesser, but no more receptive market than the US.
My hopes of this achieving some kind of successful, word-of-mouth cult status on DVD have been nastily cut short with that cover though. You could add Kevin Costner in tights and it wouldn't be much worse.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:46 pm
Jim Carrey in style:
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:13 am
A row of ugly bums...
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:12 am
2 rows
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:37 pm
Not the worst, but definitely cheap looking.
I also like the incredibly generic description below the title:
Now this is bad.
I also like the incredibly generic description below the title:
Now this is bad.
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:50 pm
"Um...Mr President. Don't look behind you but I was wondering, just out of curiosity, did you leave the oven on when you left the White House?"
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:05 am
Ah, the tradition of mismatching actors' names and faces lives on.Lemmy Caution wrote:Now this is bad.
I love how, as your eyes move down over this cover, the explosions get larger and stupider. First the White House is blowin' up like something out of ID4; then the squadron of planes is trying (And seemingly failing) to outrun a giant fireball; and then the very Earth itself is being ripped apart. Apparently the aftermath of the Rapture is less "Jesus rules over Earth" and more "Jesus activates every nuclear warhead at once".
If they had promoted that angle a little harder I might have paid better attention in church when I was little.