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jazzo wrote: Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:30 am I pulled this out to show my kids tonight, and was dumbstruck at how truly awful the design of this DVD set is.

Spoiler

To quote Crow T. Robot, "Great, dinner's a Duraflame log."

Not sure if this was ever posted (came out in 2015) but good lord: a Sims-version of Roger Moore de-aged a couple decades!

Pretty sure that's the original cover art

therewillbeblus wrote: Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:18 pm Pretty sure that's the original cover art

Yeah that cover is just one of the posters. But it's a bad poster, one for the "Oddly Non-Prominent Title" Hall of Fame.

I feel like “MEL & GOLDIE” was a much more effective marketing hook 30 years ago than it is now.

Ditto “He’s every woman’s dream”!

That hair tho

Eh, I think that cover is exactly what it needs to be for that film. Also, it's a kind of a cute parody of the Lethal Weapon poster:

I never noticed how convoluted Lethal Weapon's tagline was until now

Speaking of convoluted taglines, I discovered this poster for Written on the Wind over the weekend and, despite having seen the film, had to create a mental flow chart to understand what it was saying!

The Mel & Goldie line has me feeling nostalgic for when stars would sell movies alone. Alas.

Luke M wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:48 pm The Mel & Goldie line has me feeling nostalgic for when stars would sell movies alone. Alas.

Agreed. Its baffling to me how franchises sell more than movie stars now.

dustybooks wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:17 pm Speaking of convoluted taglines, I discovered this poster for Written on the Wind over the weekend and, despite having seen the film, had to create a mental flow chart to understand what it was saying!

"P is the father of Q and S is the son of R. T is the brother of P and has a daughter U. If R is the sister of P, then what is the relation between U, Q and S?"

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Parent of Q is P.
Parent of U is T.
Parent of S is R.

This means that T is P is brother and R is P is sister.

Thus, U, Q and S are cousins.

(From the BRiddles site)

You like them enough to put them out, but this is the cruel back of the hand the art department metes out, Film Movement?

"Whaddya wanna watch tonight, Honey? Something green?"

"Mmmmm... I'm in more of a yellow mood to be honest."

"Whatever. As long as it doesn't have subtitles."

Culture Shock just hinted that they're releasing THE DEATH COLLECTOR on blu, which is Joe Pesci's first film. Here is the UK DVD cover:

He looks more like he's mildy confused about something on the street corner.

Can't stop laughing at that tagline

I kinda admire that they're not revealing anything by it at least, I can't think of a better idea for cover art (not that this is good)

I remember liking one of the posters...

EDIT: This one, which would be much better, and removing the tagline would keep the mystery intact:

That's a pretty good poster, but it feels more misleading than the admittedly worse one which at least gets the underlying tone right. However, part of the fun of the film is being unprepared for its mood shifts, so yeah, I'd take it. The studio is clearly trying to sell it as a more serious dramatic awards contender, so I wonder if that helps inform the decision to release the current stripped-back empty one.