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The Blu-ray for Benjamin Button comes in a standard blue case with a cardboard slip, not what Criterion usually does. Just an FYI. I'll post pics when I can but it shouldn't be too hard to picture.

Didn't Royal Tenenbaums & Life Aquatic come with the cardboard slips?

They did. And I was never a fan of that type of packaging. If it's a film that constantly gets revisited they get all mussed up by constantly pulling them in and out of shelving. Not that this one will ever be taken out of the wrapper or rescued from the bottom of my kevyip.

I just threw away the Wes Anderson slipcovers. Eric Anderson's art is much better than the crap Buena Vista insisted on.

When Chris said the slipcover is not what Criterion usually does, I think he meant in reference to their other Blu-ray releases

domino harvey wrote:When Chris said the slipcover is not what Criterion usually does, I think he meant in reference to their other Blu-ray releases

Yes, sorry. That's what I meant. The Blu-rays were at first slim digipaks, and now they went to clear keep cases. This release is a typical Blu-ray case with a slip cover.

domino harvey wrote:When Chris said the slipcover is not what Criterion usually does, I think he meant in reference to their other Blu-ray releases

Yes, I realize that, but packaging is packaging regardless of whether it's Blu-ray or not, and I think a slipcase over a digipack is preferable to this.

You certainly won't get an argument from me on the superiority of digipaks

cdnchris wrote:

domino harvey wrote:When Chris said the slipcover is not what Criterion usually does, I think he meant in reference to their other Blu-ray releases

Yes, sorry. That's what I meant. The Blu-rays were at first slim digipaks, and now they went to clear keep cases. This release is a typical Blu-ray case with a slip cover.

So, my understanding is that this "Benjamin Button" blu-ray is in the standard blue case that Paramount would normally use? Or, am I reading it all wrong, and a Criterion clear case is used just like for the standard DVD? Thanks.

CC

Look at the packaging photos.

I see the photos for the standard DVD, but just trying to understand the mumble-jumbled conversations above about the blu-ray. Is it a Criterion clear-colored case, or a Paramount blue-colored case?

CC

cdnchris wrote:Benjamin Button Blu-ray packaging

Thank you so much for the pictures! It's blue... now I know!

CC

Can someone point me in the direction of some identical replacement clear cases for the new(ish) single discers (I need replacements for Days of Heaven and Le jetee). Mulvaney pointed me towards Sleeve City, but $8 later and I have two opaque Amarays with logos on the spine.

Try USP.

Packaging for:

Wise Blood
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes
Pigs and Battleships
The Insect Woman
Intentions of Murder

Yay for individual cases for the Imamura!

Any chance of getting a picture of the box's spine?

Murdoch wrote:Yay for individual cases for the Imamura!

Agreed, Also want to thank that it isn't set up like the moral tales or Varda sets.

kinjitsu wrote:Try USP.

Thanks for that! I have about 15 DVDs I keep seperate because of the sticky shit left by 'SECURITY DEVICE ENCLOSED' stickers.

domino harvey wrote:Any chance of getting a picture of the box's spine?

Added

Thanks Chris! That'll look good stacked on a shelf next to everyone's Addams Family memorabilia

The Addam's Family is actually the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

cdnchris wrote:Packaging for:

Pigs and Battleships

When a boxset like this contains movies in individual cases, do they usually all have a individual booklets?

knives wrote:

Murdoch wrote:Yay for individual cases for the Imamura!

Agreed, Also want to thank that it isn't set up like the moral tales or Varda sets.

Too bad that it isn`t like the moral tales and Varda sets. Love those. Would`ve love to see the Imamura set being digipacks as well.
Ah well, looks good as it is though as well.