Great Movie with a Crappy Poster/DVD Cover
 

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

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messa...069/326397.jpg

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?

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

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...YL._SS500_.jpg

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The first few that come to mind....

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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...

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The Departed steelbook art is a lot better... I'm happy I have it :)
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Edit: JumpCutz beat me to it!

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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).

http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/image...oviePoster.jpg

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Night of the Creeps DVD cover

http://i48.tinypic.com/2rzce1h.jpg

I preferred the original poster:

http://i50.tinypic.com/htzq6t.jpg

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<img src=http://iconsoffright.com/news/GATE-monstrousDVD.jpg alt=gate

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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.

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

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

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DVD cover art...

http://pittig.files.wordpress.com/20..._dvd-cover.jpg

Compared to the great movie poster....

http://www.kingroom.com/movies/2005/munich/poster.jpg

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

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http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_im...8/40167588.jpg


Should have been this - one of my favorite posters-


http://www.johnkannenberg.com/synest...vie_poster.jpg

Also

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106971...-cover-art.jpg

Should have been -

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-co...979-poster.jpg

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

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"Great" movie?

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

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Whoops. :blush:

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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.)

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I was coming in here to post that same cover.

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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.

DVD cover
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

Theatrical Poster
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/a...n/57/MPW-28685

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