Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)
- Big Ben
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I still can't get over how it translates to HITMAN: DAY OF THE SOLDIER.
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- Feego
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I actually don't think that cover is too terrible, and it makes Stephen Root look uncannily like one of Mike Judge's animated characters.
- Brian C
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I like the illustration, and frankly, the old guy-covered-in-post-its key art was not that great to begin with.
But my goodness, there’s a lot going on textually with that cover.
But my goodness, there’s a lot going on textually with that cover.
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"creator Mike Judge" - I mean, huh? Plus the yellow is hideous, and yeah, whyyyy is anything else on it the way it is? I set myself up for another "this cover is fine" beatdown but in this case I figured it was impossible to justify and still do
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I don't know. I mean, I don't find it particularly awful, but there are things I can understand people could find tedious, like the number of different text fonts, "from creator Mike Judge" (creator ? of what ? this movie ? well duh, but otherwise ?), etc.
Having seen Battle of the Sexes recently, whose cover has a seemingly very similar yellow background, the color doesn't bother me so much, though it seems very agressive.
Having seen Battle of the Sexes recently, whose cover has a seemingly very similar yellow background, the color doesn't bother me so much, though it seems very agressive.
- Brian C
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“Creator Mike Judge” seems appropriate, since he also made the animated shorts that led to the movie. It’s a shorthand way to combine “directed by” and “based on characters created by.”
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I actually like these stupid films, but boy oh boy, did one of the producers' nephews paint this?
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Yet another unexciting but hardly terrible cover-- the streak is alive
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I'm going to scream, that Saw cover is horrendous
- soundchaser
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It looks a bit like those "make yourself into a CARTOON!" things Disney World had like fifteen years ago that would just turn up saturation and black levels as high as they could go. I'm really not sure that's the vibe the Saw films should go for, but...
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What other cover would you do for a Saw boxset anyway? The doll is pretty much the only thing that’s consistently in every one of those movies. Maybe the bear trap (which could make a striking cover as well, I suppose). It’s better than a generic still of Tobin Bell glaring at you, anyway.
- tenia
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You mean this ?
We also had this one, though :
We also had this one, though :
- mfunk9786
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I did a Google Image search thinking "surely they must have nailed this at some point" - but yeah, the marketing for these has always been pretty hideous. Cheeky, but hideous. Not sure I'd really go to bat for any Saw cover come to think of it. But this one just struck me as particularly boring and uninspired.
Luckily I already have all of them!
Luckily I already have all of them!
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Uh yeah....
- mfunk9786
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Why do people insist on redundantly posting Criterion covers in here
- Monterey Jack
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Just because it's a Criterion cover doesn't preclude it from being horrible.
- Mr Sausage
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No, but we already have a thread dedicated to complaining about them.
- domino harvey
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Also, mfunk should have posted it since it's not a bad cover
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Agreed, it's not
- Morbii
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Yeah, it’s merely horrendous.
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Some of the faces are scary.
- Feego
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Hordes of screaming fans are scary.
- Gregory
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If anything, the illustrator toned it down from the original poster designs. Eyes are no longer popping out of their sockets, and the characters look less like Wendy Torrance when she sees the man in the bear costume than the above.
I'm unable to guess why some here find this cover horrible.