Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

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#1776 Post by Monterey Jack » Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:41 pm

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#1777 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:43 pm

We need to get WKW in there to stretch that dog's face back to normal

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#1778 Post by soundchaser » Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:44 pm

There are lots of covers posted in this thread that are bad, but that might actually be one of the all-time worst.

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#1779 Post by tenia » Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:08 pm

This looks like one of the simplest cheapest quickest photoshop montage ever for a cover.

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#1780 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:00 pm

I think it's funny that they chose to throw this together in seemingly two minutes, complete with a toddler's house drawing and accidentally giving the titular dog a hint of birth-defect health issues with the sloppy symmetry, yet someone still took pause to make that line in the "A" a little fancy. Priorities!

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#1781 Post by Brian C » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:42 pm

Haha that dog has the CinemaScope mumps

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#1782 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:22 am

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#1783 Post by MichaelB » Sun Nov 29, 2020 12:22 pm

This one is objectively terrible regardless of the content of the picture...

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...but if you're a Londoner (or familiar with the place in general), you'll doubtless be wondering why a film set in 1962 apparently features an ultra-modern building (Portcullis House) that didn't even begin construction for another thirty years and wasn't opened until 2001. And that bus is a vastly more modern design - back in 1962 it would have been a Routemaster.

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#1784 Post by JSC » Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:16 am

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#1785 Post by Pavel » Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:20 am

Obviously a terrible choice for a 2001 cover, but I think something similar would work pretty well for something like Forbidden Planet.

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#1786 Post by Feego » Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:53 am

I love how the font used for "The Ultimate Trip!" makes it look like an ad for a vacation spot.

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#1787 Post by CSM126 » Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:17 am

Feego wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:53 am
I love how the font used for "The Ultimate Trip!" makes it look like an ad for a vacation spot.
I assume that’s the idea and that this might be part of a series of such covers, but I’m not masochistic enough to research that. Ugh.

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#1788 Post by JSC » Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:18 am

I love how the font used for "The Ultimate Trip!" makes it look like an ad for a vacation spot.
Well... we do know that the hotel has all the amenities (towels, king-size bed, full room service, and panel-lit flooring)!

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#1789 Post by JSC » Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:28 am

by Pavel » Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:20 am
Obviously a terrible choice for a 2001 cover, but I think something similar would work pretty well for something like Forbidden Planet.
They did.
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#1790 Post by TheKieslowskiHaze » Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:52 am

I actually think that 2001 cover is pretty cool.

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#1791 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Dec 12, 2020 1:41 pm

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It's like Godard thew in the towel and sold out.

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#1792 Post by Gregory » Sat Dec 12, 2020 7:21 pm

What's the Godard connection?

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#1793 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Dec 12, 2020 7:37 pm

The font, color and layout

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#1794 Post by TraverseTown » Sun Dec 13, 2020 6:34 am

The 2001 cover is fine, it's the tagline that's strangely off-tone.

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#1795 Post by Feego » Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:27 am

That tagline was featured on 2001 posters back in the 60s, but it was clearly a reference to an LSD trip, not a vacation, as the film became a hit with young people who went to see it after dropping acid.

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#1796 Post by Boosmahn » Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:57 pm

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This might be the worst placement of the "Certified Fresh" icon I've ever seen.

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#1797 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:47 pm

Boosmahn wrote:
Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:57 pm
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This might be the worst placement of the "Certified Fresh" icon I've ever seen.
They should have put it under the mirror, like an air freshener.

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#1798 Post by eerik » Fri Dec 25, 2020 10:28 am

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#1799 Post by jazzo » Sat Jan 16, 2021 11:30 pm

I pulled this out to show my kids tonight, and was dumbstruck at how truly awful the design of this DVD set is.

The movie, by the way, went over like gangbusters with my 7 & 9 year-old.


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#1800 Post by Emm » Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:09 pm

hearthesilence wrote:
Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:47 pm
Boosmahn wrote:
Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:57 pm
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This might be the worst placement of the "Certified Fresh" icon I've ever seen.
They should have put it under the mirror, like an air freshener.
Late to this particular party but sweet lord are the ‘Certified Fresh’ icons part of the cover image or simply a sticker on the removable outer wrap? Agreed too the placement here seems to be almost mischievously, deliberately placed in the most offensive part of the empty space possible.

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