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#26 Post by Movie-Brat » Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:07 pm

He must be Tyler Perry's favorite stand up comedian then.

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#27 Post by bamwc2 » Sun Apr 20, 2014 4:11 pm

domino harvey wrote:I Googled "Comedian Bone" so I could see one of his routines, and to be honest, not only is he not funny, but the audience in his videos seems to agree with me. Maybe I should be a Christian stand up comic, it can't be very hard if this is my competition
Can you match the angry self-righteousness of Brad Stine?

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#28 Post by broadwayrock » Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:35 pm

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#29 Post by dx23 » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:22 pm

If you thought League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was bad, then you haven't seen this

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Also, what a horrible cover for this

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#30 Post by zedz » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:33 am

dx23 wrote:Also, what a horrible cover for this

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Twilight Time have perpetrated some truly abominable covers in their time, but I don't think they should take the blame for what's basically the original poster:
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Thought the image itself seems to be derived from the cleaner French poster.

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#31 Post by Minkin » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:58 am

broadwayrock wrote:Koch Media
That's absolutely hilarious. MASTERpieceS OF CINEMA. They even started a series of these things. At least they put the bluray logo/spine# on a different bar on the cover- making it totally different. This is nearly as awful as Kino's attempts to steal Criterion's old design (plus that blue circle sticker).

MoC really can't catch a break in terms of people stealing their logo/font/layout/style (what ever happened with that proposed lawsuit against that book company?) - though to be fair "Masters of Cinema" is rather generic - but yeah, those Koch bastards knew exactly what they were doing.

edit- They seem to have even copied/stolen MoC's Touch of Evil packaging/special features, (although the cover is a rather awful imitation of the wonderful MoC poster design)
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5 verschiedene Filmfassungen auf 2 Blu-ray-Discs, Originaltrailer, Audiokommentar, Featurettes, Bildergalerie

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#32 Post by tenia » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:19 am

Minkin wrote:edit- They seem to have even copied/stolen MoC's Touch of Evil packaging/special features (although the cover is a rather awful imitation of the wonderful MoC poster design)
For the content, I'm quite sure they haven't "stolen" them, but rather licensed them.

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#33 Post by Minkin » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:26 am

tenia wrote:For the content, I'm quite sure they haven't "stolen" them, but rather licensed them.
I meant the cover, which is a rather blatant copy of MoC's design. Isn't it an original design by Eureka/MoC? (or is it based on any poster?). Either way, its a rather bold move on Koch media's part (copying MoC's logo design + covers)

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#34 Post by tenia » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:49 am

Minkin wrote:
tenia wrote:For the content, I'm quite sure they haven't "stolen" them, but rather licensed them.
I meant the cover, which is a rather blatant copy of MoC's design. Isn't it an original design by Eureka/MoC? (or is it based on any poster?). Either way, its a rather bold move on Koch media's part (copying MoC's logo design + covers)
It seems indeed it's based on a new design from MoC, I don't think MoC used an existing vintage material.

By Special Features, though, I thought you meant the Bonusmaterial.

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#35 Post by Minkin » Thu Apr 24, 2014 2:31 am

tenia wrote:By Special Features, though, I thought you meant the Bonusmaterial.
My apologies, I worded everything rather confusingly. Basically, copying= bonus features (from Universal), stealing=cover (I put in too many "/"s).

That said, it is rather convenient that they include 5 different versions of the film as well (I'm guessing the three versions of the films with two of those versions in two different aspect ratios- which is strange, since MoC was originally going to do six, but then canceled one of them at the last minute for some reason). Also the MoC poster appears to be based on this. So Koch just decided to randomly go with the same cover scheme loosely based on that original poster :P

I wonder what MoC has to say about all of this (given that they were ready to go to court over that book publisher's use of "Masters of Cinema"). Perhaps this is like that Korean video company that randomly used the same designs/bonus features that Criterion used (that Make Way for Tomorrow dvd). Oh well.

BTW, these Koch covers are just awful:
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#36 Post by The Narrator Returns » Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:57 pm

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#37 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:15 pm

They've finally done it - they've created a compact, safe and reliable female repellent

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#38 Post by Zot! » Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:28 pm

It really does make you think how Hollywoodized the 40 year Old Virgin is. His toy collection is decidedly tasteful compared to some of the pre-pubescent "man-caves" you see on the internet with the wizard staffs and pewter casts of famous orcs and what have you. Who could possibly stand to have that thing in their home?

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#39 Post by Movie-Brat » Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:42 am

Yeah...Electro looks cool in the actual film and all (just from what I've seen mind you, it's not out in the US obviously) but I'll just stick with the regular Blu-Ray covers.

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#40 Post by domino harvey » Fri May 02, 2014 12:09 am

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VCI went the extra mile in screwing up the word "episodes" twice within a single word

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#41 Post by Movie-Brat » Fri May 02, 2014 1:21 am

Do they even have spellchecker? How do you miss that?

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#42 Post by Lemmy Caution » Fri May 02, 2014 5:13 am

The extra s's are for the extra stars ...

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#43 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue May 06, 2014 4:00 pm

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#44 Post by Movie-Brat » Tue May 06, 2014 4:29 pm

What is that, Saving Private Ryan?

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#45 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue May 06, 2014 5:41 pm

Weirdly, it's for Steel Magnolias

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#46 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue May 06, 2014 8:44 pm

No...(wait for it)...Jarhead 2: Field of Fire.

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#47 Post by domino harvey » Tue May 06, 2014 11:04 pm

Universal is really crushing it on covers lately:

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#48 Post by jindianajonz » Tue May 06, 2014 11:08 pm

domino harvey wrote:Universal is really crushing it on covers lately:

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Maybe they are hoping people will confuse it with Close-Up?

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#49 Post by sir_luke » Tue May 06, 2014 11:11 pm

To be fair, that's what the (just-as-dreadful) theatrical poster looked like.

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#50 Post by Movie-Brat » Tue May 06, 2014 11:44 pm

flyonthewall2983 wrote:No...(wait for it)...Jarhead 2: Field of Fire.
At first I thought you were joking but then I clicked on the link. I have to ask, what? The hilarious thing about that cover is that it's so bland, you can slap on any War movie title on it and just leave it at that.

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