Maybe it's just because I've always disliked the film, but that Princess Bride cover is a real eyesore.
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I love all the covers so far
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I'm really happy with that new Sisters cover
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That new cover for Sisters has a seriously disturbing H.R. Giger vibe to it!
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Definitely the best of the month.
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One of your wrongest hot takes yet
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That Sisters cover is awesome, and agreed on the HR Giger vibe.
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The details for Princess Bride seems to indicate it is in a clothbound digipak?!
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I think it's just the text materialsPLUS: An essay by author Sloane Crosley and, for the Blu-ray edition, Goldman’s introduction to his Princess Bride script from the 1995 collection Four Screenplays, in a lavishly illustrated, clothbound book
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But the cover is clearly a hardback book. I think it will be like Say Amen, Somebody and be a book with a disc holder
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According to their press contact material, "This October, the beloved fairy-tale classic The Princess Bride will join the Criterion Collection in a clothbound storybook Blu-ray edition packed with special features."
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Sisters will be my only purchase. The cover is fantastic
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And yes, it appears only the Blu-ray will be cloth-bound. The DVD will not be.
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I stand corrected; sounds like a fun gimmick
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Will look great next to my condom-bound Spinal Tap
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The Princess Bride is one of those films I've sorta seen in patches, piecemeal across background television sets, and never linearly, but that's absolutely gorgeous packaging. It also seems shrewd for a film so widely disseminated to have such caring and unique packaging---to make it more tangible, if you will.
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Literally worried for anyone who can see that beautiful packaging and call it "hideous"
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Did we actually get a month where the covers were all good?
Eight Hours is so hilariously off-point that it's on-point (sunshiney, feelgood Fassbinder).
Shampoo is a simple, strong shot with great colour that they kept simple and strong.
The Princess Bride looked the weakest of the bunch at first, though obviously appropriate to the film, but the total package sells it like crazy.
Sisters is one of the best things they've done in a long while: successfully retro but not dated, appropriate to the film, and subtly disturbing, not just with the Rorschach / Giger effect in the middle, but with the uncanny mirror / not-mirror reflection of the faces. (It's a shame the film isn't as good as that cover.)
Eight Hours is so hilariously off-point that it's on-point (sunshiney, feelgood Fassbinder).
Shampoo is a simple, strong shot with great colour that they kept simple and strong.
The Princess Bride looked the weakest of the bunch at first, though obviously appropriate to the film, but the total package sells it like crazy.
Sisters is one of the best things they've done in a long while: successfully retro but not dated, appropriate to the film, and subtly disturbing, not just with the Rorschach / Giger effect in the middle, but with the uncanny mirror / not-mirror reflection of the faces. (It's a shame the film isn't as good as that cover.)
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While very pretty and fitting, I have a feeling that it'll be extraordinarily subject to wear and tear (and I say that as an ardent fan of digipaks).