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Mr Sausage wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:17 am

furbicide wrote: Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:25 am I looked up a trailer and can confirm that this is, in fact, a live-action film and not a feature-length early 2000s videogame cutscene.

Link? A youtube search turned up nothing for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXQivv90LQ

Looks suitably crap but maybe kind of fun?

Zavvi exclusive Leon. Not really an issue with the art, but some of the items included in the box

dwk wrote: Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:13 pm Zavvi exclusive Leon. Not really an issue with the art, but some of the items included in the box

Pure fug, and obnoxious in the extreme.

I love the irony of how much planning went into delivering a surplus of 'creative ideas', but the contents of which could not have been made with less effort. I mean, they're practically advertising that the grenade pin is made out of a barely-bent paper clip

Cover for the new reissue of Fun City’s Morvern Callar. Apparently referencing an old VHS cover for some reason? But boy am I glad i nabbed that first edition slipcover

pzadvance wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:50 pm
Cover for the new reissue of Fun City’s Morvern Callar. Apparently referencing an old VHS cover for some reason? But boy am I glad i nabbed that first edition slipcover

Slipcovers were always meant to be thrown away, as MVD proves time & again. ALIENS was a great movie, though.

Wow, that’s a steep slide from the sublime to the ridiculous.

It’s apparently based on the VHS cover for Christiane F. Apart from some superficial common elements (a young woman finding her way in life, drugs, and a cracking soundtrack), I don’t understand the connection.

I don't know... for some reason this made me laugh. I guess the cover implies he's
trying to look dangerous or something, but it looks more like he's pouting that
someone stole his favorite cup.

Well... maybe they were going for some sort of David Hockney or Edward Hopper-eqsue
style image here, but it doesn't really suit the film.

They attempted a Hopper-esque look with the Mulholland Drive artwork before and just as unsuccessful. At least the French cover doesn't have the star ratings that the UK branches seem to think they have to have on their covers.

I am getting more irrationally irritated than I should be just by the way that events that take place in different locations are getting smooshed together into one single image in that Contempt cover, especially the idea that Bardot is relaxing nude in Frtiz Lang's living room!

I actually like the SC Mulholland Dr. art, but this is pretty weak (and that spacious vantage point of the apartment layout feels antithetical to the blocking of fragmented space that makes the famous scene taking place in there so thematically effective!)

What, no room for Dodson on the cover...?

I don't recall Laura Dern looking quite that...swollen.

I like the way the dinosaurs are presented as if they were actors with speaking parts.

Why do all the actors except Attenborough look like they just realized they stepped in dog shit

He realizes but he likes it

More like dino poop.

bottled spider wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 4:41 pm I like the way the dinosaurs are presented as if they were actors with speaking parts.

domino harvey wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 2:21 pm Why do all the actors except Attenborough look like they just realized they stepped in dog shit

Does this mean we're also getting T-Rex and Raptor's reactions to stepping in dino-poop ?
(It truly is a hideous cover, though it does look like the dinos are presented as main cast).

Rayon Vert wrote: Sun May 14, 2023 3:07 pm More like dino poop.

Monterey Jack wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 5:01 pm What, no room for Dodson on the cover...?

Dodgson is already adequately posed for his 4K MAD Fold-In debut:

Looks like a 2D cardboard cutout of Ferris put in a cartoon car, awkwardly at a 90degree angle with the slanted direction of the car. Plus, of all the locations to place his iconic laid-back posture... Watch the road!

I think this would have been slightly better if it was the passenger seat or especially the back seat since that work best for his position. I think the idea was to convey the idea that Ferris (and by extension us) drives their own live, or something, but it’s just how it’s executed that doesn’t work.

It would be really funny if someone put that much thought into a thematic allegory, and then had their third-grader photoshop two images together to execute it

I’m trying to give people the benefit of the doubt. There has to be a reason why they were hired, right?