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Journey to the Center of the Earth is sold out.

BYE BYE BIRDIE cover art has been revised:

SurrealisticPillow wrote:BYE BYE BIRDIE cover art has been revised

Nope, that's the booklet artwork.

eerik wrote:

SurrealisticPillow wrote:BYE BYE BIRDIE cover art has been revised

Nope, that's the booklet artwork.

Are the blu-rays already out? If so does anyone have any scans of the booklet's contents. Not a fan of that pink cover at all.

eerik wrote:

SurrealisticPillow wrote:BYE BYE BIRDIE cover art has been revised

Nope, that's the booklet artwork.

Can I still add it to the Worst Covers thread? Good god is that ugly as sin.

They're all carrying weirdly-shaped iPods!

I sure hope it's the booklet artwork, the original was approximately a hundred thousand times better.

To be released September 11th, 2012

Those are indeed images. Yep, I've never seen an image as image-y as that, lordy.

knives wrote:Those are indeed images. Yep, I've never seen an image as image-y as that, lordy.

If you'd like, I could tweak them a bit with Photoshop to make them seem more like reality.
Also, since they are set up as a stereoscopic pair, you might try putting on a good pair of 3D glasses.

Don't worry. I was just teasing the ugly blandness of both.

Yes, they are really making "an effort" with their cover art lately.

What was it Shakespeare said about sound and fury...?

[Twilight Time on the phone to cover designer]:

You can use the image from the Steel Magnolias poster, but I'd like you to alter it in some way so nobody can tell that the movie stars Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Field, Dolly Parton... The thing is, this release is going to cost thirty dollars... No, I said thirty dollars, right. But its for that huge and growing blu-ray market of female consumers aged forty and up who shop for movies on specialized websites and will rebuy new editions of movies they already own. We can only press 3,000, so we don't want to make it sell out overnight by putting any recognizable images of people on the cover.
Also, can you take that poster image and somehow make it scream "ad from a 1980s back issue of Redbook magazine"? Okay, thanks.

Steel Magnolias was performed at my high school my senior year. My high school had a better poster for the production than that cover.

I am a little worried at the way that, for a film celebrating the diversity and uniqueness of women, that the cover has scrubbed off the faces and signified the variety of 'women' by hairstyles, bodyshapes and types of shoes.

It does have the look of an animated Kotex ad that would play Whitney Houston's recording of "I'm Every Woman"

I was thinking Ipod ad. Any other masochists actually going to pick up the Ritt?

Just now catching up with the TT Art School after discovering the appallingly misguided new cover for LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the Olive thread. Nothing to add in the way of "prescriptive" criticism of STEEL MAGNOLIAS as Gregory, colinr and mfunk have nailed it solidly, but as a dedicated fan of the Worst Covers thread I gotta ask: What are these people thinking?

Interior booklet art:

So that's where the heads from the Steel Magnolias cover went!

Has anyone looked at the Facebook comments on this most recent pair of covers? Several people seem to agree that they're very "Criterion-esque." I mean, I know it's Facebook, but really? Are they thinking of the same Criterion?

Yes.

knives wrote:Any other masochists actually going to pick up the Ritt?

I certainly will. I have never seen it (it's not on DVD and apparently never even had a VHS release), and as a Faulkner admirer, I relish the opportunity to see this most infamous of literature adaptations. The included Alex North score in lossless should also be a welcome bonus.

As much as I don't agree with TTs pricing scheme, this is exactly the type of film they should be releasing all the time. The releases I don't support are those that have already been released on a decent DVD (with extras and a proper transfer) by the studio, and their contemporary releases, which are absolutely nonsensical--I simply don't understand the logic of much of anything from post-1980 coming from this label.