ChuckM 1 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Take The Untouchables for example. This is one of my favorite movie posters (one of my favorite movies too, actually).Very clean and uncluttered. An almost perfect poster. The VHS stayed very close.But then the DVD release came along, and they changed the tint, and added completely unnecessary font effects to the title.Worse yet, for the Special Collector's Edition, they ran a bunch of bullet holes through it! Not to mention the red box and tacky frame.And thus is has stayed for the Blu-ray version, although at least they cleaned up the frame a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The Blu-ray book cover of Batman (1989) is comparatively ugly. I don't get why they took that shiny gold Bat emblem, arguably one of the most popular, iconic and recognizable movie posters ever, and made it appear as though it was colored in with crayons.Don't even get me started on pretty much everything Lucasfilm has released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,119 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The people who market home videos have zero clue. They think that paintings = "old" = poor sales.Some worst offenders:You gotta be kidding, right? Yeah, I remember my first day with Photoshop. A crime against humanity. I think I threw up in my mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 They're so modernized and ghastly. That's the key word. The current movie-going and DVD-buying public accept everything with frankly appalling poster art like J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. We think it's ugly because we grew up on masterpieces. This generation of nitwits must think a blurry out-of-focus shadow of a spaceship against a white background is a Van Gogh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Maybe some day, assuming physical media is still popular, the trend will become to take the crappy Photoshop abominations that are modern posters and upgrade them to classy hand-painted artwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Check out the 2006 Original SW Trilogy DVD covers for the complete opposite process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Share Posted June 3, 2010 Check out the 2006 Original SW Trilogy DVD covers for the complete opposite process.BeforeAfterYou're kidding, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Technically, the before is THIS:One the Photoshop version, it looks like Chewie is raping everyone's favorite protocol droid. Also, the Episode III Vader looks shrimpy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckM 1 Posted June 3, 2010 Author Share Posted June 3, 2010 Either way. The earlier versions were all so much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,119 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 No one paints with an actual paintbrush and physical media anymore. It's so... dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendal_Ozzel 36 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 One the Photoshop version, it looks like Chewie is raping everyone's favorite protocol droid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Wow the one for Terminator really is garbage. Ya a lot of the art work for movie releases really do suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Recent ones are Collateral, Minority Report, and Road To Perdition. Why can't they just keep the DVD art for the Blu? The MR one doesn't even look like Tom Cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demondm810 399 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Recent ones are Collateral, Minority Report, and Road To Perdition. Why can't they just keep the DVD art for the Blu? The MR one doesn't even look like Tom Cruise.LOL Minority Report is especially ridiculous. Collateral is indeed not far behind. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The blu ray cover for Near Dark sucked pretty hard core, I noticed. It's clearly inspired by the Twilight craze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 This isn't quite the same, but I wish they would have used the Strutzan drawings for the prequel DVD covers instead of the real people floating heads. Same for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,041 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 The Star Wars DVDs are particularly bad offenders. First day with Photoshop indeed!Granted, I don't particularly like some of the old posters. The fact of the matter is that some of them truly are dated. That doesn't justify making terrible attempts at modern versions, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 I can think of some that look better 'now'For example, the many posters and VHS/DVD covers for Lawrence of Arabia. My DVD of it (the 2 disc set) below. Functional, but rather dull and lazy in terms of effort.Yet there are later ones (as far as I know, they came later) which are gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 That second one is Australian! I can tell from the old classification text and sign at the bottom. That's a great cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy 4,119 Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 So many better choices... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Look at the Jaws original and the Jaws DVD release, one is striking the other strikingly ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Yeah, the Jaws DVD makes the film look like one of the many Jawsploitation movies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Universal allowing that always baffles me. They just don't appreciate their works of fine craft/art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melange 446 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Brigden 7 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 The art on the right isn't Universal, it's Fox, who have the Conan rights outside of the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Luke on the first ROTJ DVD cover looks like his head is pasted onto a little boy's body.The Ghostbusters DVD and BD covers are horrendous. They took the classic logo on black and put it against green and blue jello. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,041 Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Luke on the first ROTJ DVD cover looks like his head is pasted onto a little boy's body.Of course, in the original ANH art, he looks like his head is pasted on Arnold's body... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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