MartinBlank

Watched The Departed a couple of weeks back and thought to myself, "Wow, what a crappy cover."



I thought about bringing it up here, but then I forgot...then I came across this today.

It always pisses me off when a flick has a sweet movie poster which gets crapped on for a more marketable, usually shitty photoshopped version.

Any others?

Michael T Hudson

JumpCutz

Yeah but the steelbook cover is sweet...this image deosn't really do it justice.

notkevinbacon

The first few that come to mind....



One of my favorites of the decade...
It's not the worst ever, but argh, the floating heads. Why the floating heads always?

Granted, I have the extended cut as well... which features better art.

I miss a lot of the VHS box art for a bunch of horror movies. For whatever reason (original art, less of a commodity), VHS was far superior when it came to cover art.

I love From Beyond, but I hated this updated cover...





The Departed steelbook art is a lot better... I'm happy I have it



Edit: JumpCutz beat me to it!

JumpCutz

Yeah I agree on Zodiac. One of my all time favorite films. They should have used the movie poster for the DVD cover (yeah like that was going to happen).

Meglos

Night of the Creeps DVD cover



I preferred the original poster:

islandclaws

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MartinBlank

Yeah, I think I dropped $50 on ebay for it...had to have it!

Weird thing about the "crappy" departed cover is that the slipcase to the set is a completely different image.

devilshalo

7Keys

For some dumb reason, it always bugs me when the put the actor's name over the wrong actor.

MrSmearkase

That's not a dumb reason, it irks me too.

Perkinsun Dzees

JumpCutz

JumpCutz

DVD cover art...



Compared to the great movie poster....

OldBoy

and to think this was a winning choice voted on by consumers, presumably fans of the cult classic.

hasslein

Should have been this - one of my favorite posters-




Also



Should have been -

Yeti4623

Most action coverart sucks. The 80's were the golden age of coverart.

project86

Mondo Kane

"Great" movie?

Libby

The garden state dvd cover comes to mind I hate the floating heads!

JumpCutz

Whoops.

Drexl

I'm not even going to mention movies that have gotten crappy DVD/BD covers. There are just too freakin' many of them.

Instead, I'll say that I don't think any of the Die Hard movies got good posters. (Although the "Mega Hard" poster for Die Hard with a Vengeance is cute.)

Obey The D

I was coming in here to post that same cover.

Robert

The Brave One. I didn't care for the movie but the DVD cover is dreadful. Jodie Foster looks like a zombie with a badly photo-chopped floating hand holding a gun. The theatrical poster is near perfect.

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