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10-15-08, 03:18 PM
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Ugliest/Worst Blu-ray cover art
I just watched the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Blu-ray which is probably the worst picture quality I have seen in the format to date. Of course 90% of that had to do with the source material, but what struck me more was how ugly the cover art was. I guess it fits the tone of the film, but it is just plain ugly!
Aside from the brutal Touchstone/Miramax swoosh artwork, what is the worst you've seen? Just for fun!
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10-15-08, 04:58 PM
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 Anyway, the answer is clearly Hancock. That cover nearly blinded me.
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10-15-08, 05:04 PM
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I don't think you can top THE QUEEN for sheer awfulness...
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10-15-08, 05:22 PM
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10-15-08, 05:24 PM
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Hancock.
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10-15-08, 05:30 PM
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Oh, I also forgot about "The Mist". They changed it to that awful monochromatic crapfest. L.A. Confidential was going to be changed, but they thought the better of it, thank goodness.
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 HERETIC!!One cover image that I've never been fond of was "Pan's Labyrinth". To me it just looks like a Rush album cover or something. Not that there's anything wrong with that . . .
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10-15-08, 06:35 PM
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The new standard art for Wanted.
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10-15-08, 06:55 PM
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How about "Daredevil"? The movie was highly criticized for both its ridiculous S&M take on the Daredevil costume and its ridiculous Ben Affleck, prancing about in said costume. Apparently the marketing strategy behind the Blu-ray cover was to provide audiences with a better look at both, so we could all see just how wrong we'd really been. They should get extra credit, too, for the totally bizarre inclusion of the "Jon Favreau Cameo" sticker.
 "Transformers". Hundreds of millions of dollars to make and market the movie and all they could come up with for cover art was a big robot head? They had, like, 287 different posters for this thing, and that's the image they chose??  And "Dark City". Because nothing says "darkness" like a predominantly white cover featuring Daredevil's great-grandfather . . . 
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10-15-08, 06:58 PM
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This thread sucks without pics.
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10-15-08, 10:49 PM
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The cover for the SE of Stranger than Fiction is pretty bad:
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10-16-08, 01:23 PM
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 It's the same artwork as the Sept. 26th 2006 DVD release. I like the artwork, but the Oct. 14th 2003 DVD release was more simpler. I prefer the newer artwork, though. |
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10-16-08, 01:59 PM
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Is there any real point of mentioning releases that are identical to their SDVD counterparts?
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10-16-08, 04:55 PM
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Default answer: Any cover that has the "swoosh" that crops out 1/3 of the cover art.
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