I wonder if the person who made that one has even seen the film, sure it's an iconic line but there's got to be other quotes better suited to a DVD cover
but those seem to fit right with the zoomer mindset. they will put a song and listen literally to the 8 sec chorus then stop it, or skip to another song chorus.
I think that happened with girls at my school but because the girls liked to sing the chorus together.
For me I can hardly listen to music with spoken lyrics unless their voice is particular
Maybe they had the red pill quote on there and had to replace it atthe last second because le right wing maymay, they panicked and in their rush choose the worst possible replacement
If it can't be red pill personally I would put something from the chicken conversation
Yeah I think what they were hoping is that kids will see the quotes and recognise them - at least some of them - and think "oh this is that famous movie I should buy it and watch it". As if zoomies buy movies lmao.
>"This is my rifle" >picture of a helmet
Damn. Bongs are so cucked they can't even shoe pictures of guns. (Yeah yeah. I saw the Goodfellas cover and Matrix bullet.)
Actually reminds me of how even app icons have become simplified and homogenized in the past few years. It's like they're going out of their way to make everything utterly souless and ugly.
I should add, they are just post cards that slide out and you can send to people with generic as frick covers underneath. A bit disappointing but I just trimmed them up and slid that back in
>most iconic image/object from film >most commonly quoted line from film >minimalist presentation
This is Reddit fan poster shit and was already stale a decade ago. Who the hell decided to make this a real thing?
These seem like they’re for people that don’t actually watch movies but are so obsessed with pop culture that they feel compelled to own them anyway due to their popularity
I’ve met someone like this. Owns tons of movies but never watches them. He also will watch a 15 minute youtube review/synopsis and then lie about having seen it. I guess because ADHD, but who knows.
I hate these globohomosexual covers that you only see at walmart or target. >lets make all these covers thematically identical despite having nothing to do with eachother
Frick off. Death to all israelites.
It's not in this pic but the Goodfellas one is the worst
You'd think they'd go for the obvious and do the shinebox with the quote but it's the garlic getting cut with the razor blade for whatever fricking reason.
Surely we can go deeper? I mean look at this. All objects of focus are still in frame, even the random seagull. Far too hacky and corporate, personally.
Both shitty AND soulless. Impressive but not what I'm looking for. I want a poster made by an auteur with nothing to him but big dreams and effort, like he just learned how to use photoshop THAT day.
1) The package insults the consumer's intelligence by offering up a direct quote of the film's famous line, together with some prominent prop/macguffin. Such designs presuppose famialiarity with the film, they're made for 80 IQ people who have already watched the movie and know the famous things in it. The pleasure of watching a movie for the first time consists to a large degree in picking out the neat things that you like for yourself. These might be plot points, a certain shot, a well-delivered line, or simply the way that the actors move in a shot. To a certain point, "spoilers" are a valid concern when consooming a new movie.
2) Updated covers are almost always worse by default, for the simple reason that they're not the original visual emblem of the film. At their worst, they're excuses for the designer to insert themselves into the production, often creating a "contemporary" look which is anachronistic and out of place with the vintage of the film itself.
I disagree with point 1. These variants are cheap supermarket variants of highly popular normie cinema. I think its completely appropriate for target market. Would suck if you were a cinephile and that version would be the only one available in your market (europe/region2) lmao. But I strongly agree with you on point 2. I buy a lot of boutique blurays. I fricking hate Vinegar Syndrome’s art style. Arrow Video can be hit or miss, but they always include the original art on a reversible cover.
A handful are alright but most of the quote choices are awful, and even most of the alright choices had better options I would have picked
For the images the only thing that really stood out to me as an awful choice was the blade runner one being the fricking unicorn.
Sure, there's a lot of terrible box art out there, but have you ever bought something because it was so bad it was good? I bought pic related out of a clearance bin a couple weeks ago entirely due to the absurdity of someone thinking that a film like FMJ needed a "Patriotic Heroes!" banner.
I like to imagine that there were at least a few literal boomers out there who thought they were buying some "America, hell yeah!" war film and were completely blindsided.
>Patriotic Heroes
Which is funny because I find seeing the horrors that US soldiers went through in Vietnam and the training before hand does make them seem like American heroes to me. Tragic heroes, to be sure, but I find heroism in facing a completely fricked up war like that. I had a granduncle who served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. After what he saw in Nam, he retired.
Though, yeah, that tone deaf marketing is not going for that.
>when simplistic cover memes gone too far
This seriously looks like something Cinemaphile would design as a joke and everyone would reply how shit it is.
I can't decide which the worst one is. I thought 101 Dalmatians would win (but I'm biased because I'm in love with Perdita) but then North by Northwest after that. I've actually never seen NNW, but I'm assuming it doesn't actually have anything to do with directions? I just know that plane scene is from it.
That aesthetic doesn’t make a lot of sense for most of those, and what is depicted says almost nothing about the film. The final destination and chucky ones may as well be covers for comedies
The zoomers instinctively know that our culture and everything it produces has become a joke. The only proper reaction to clownworld is to paint everything with bathos:
Who the frick is David Mills. If it's Brad Pitt's character's name, that's malpractice. Only one name gets on that box and its an unrecognizable fictional character. this seems like the sort of things you can sue over
explain to me why you are buying dvds in the year 2022
Please, make me understand. I have not purchased physical media in over a decade. Not because I'm a streamtard, but because there's ways to download whatever movie you want to watch in 1080p or 4k and it's not that hard to do.
They aren't actually watching them, so they get DVDs because they come in better-looking cases without any of the blu-ray coloring or branding tacked on.
Blu-Ray transfers get butchered by noise removal and other post processing shit occasionally (Predator and T2), also I think there's ones like Menace II Society and Team America that just arbitrarily censor/cut graphic footage from the (otherwise superior) Blu-Ray releases that are included on DVD versions.
I assumed he meant blu rays because otherwise he may as well have said "explain to me why you are buying VHS in the year 2022". Also the OP's picture is clearly labelled as a blu ray.
I buy them used from pawn shops and shit because I like having no compression (blu-ray rips are usually fine but the average reencoded DVD rip is dogshit compared to the uncompressed file off the disc with makeMKV) and extras/commentary tracks.
You could probably join a private tracker or whatever that has remuxes and all that readily available but I don't have the patience or uploading bandwidth to get into one of those.
The earliest example I can remember of a push for minimalist designs like this is when Universal released their "Iconic" line of steelbooks. I think this was the second line of steelbooks they made after the comic book cover design.
me
trump
holy shit who designed that
me
Obama
this is legit one of the worst cover I've ever seen this has to be a joke
It's 100% real
Jesus Christ.
The quotes are the worst part of this.
cringe as frick
>”what do you mean i’m funny”
>300
>"THIS IS SPARTA."
I wonder if the person who made that one has even seen the film, sure it's an iconic line but there's got to be other quotes better suited to a DVD cover
"tonight we dine in hell" for example and was even a maymay too
He wasn't even wearing the helmet when he said it
i simply cant believe it.
but those seem to fit right with the zoomer mindset. they will put a song and listen literally to the 8 sec chorus then stop it, or skip to another song chorus.
>they will put a song and listen literally to the 8 sec chorus then stop it, or skip to another song chorus.
This can't be true, I refuse to believe it
I think that happened with girls at my school but because the girls liked to sing the chorus together.
For me I can hardly listen to music with spoken lyrics unless their voice is particular
Demolition Man predicted so much of zoomer 'culture'
Out of all the quotes in the Matrix they picked "Dodge this"
Maybe they had the red pill quote on there and had to replace it atthe last second because le right wing maymay, they panicked and in their rush choose the worst possible replacement
If it can't be red pill personally I would put something from the chicken conversation
Well, it seems like by avoiding the red pill quote, they dodged a bullet there.
>The Goonies
>”Hey you guys!” Instead of the infinitely more recognizable quote “Goonies never say die”
Now I’m mad
HMV? miss those homies a lil bit
>t. leaf
>that inception quote
Good lord what is this garbage
wow these are awful
>"what do you mean I'm based"
kek
Walmart has Blu-rays with a cover like that. Bland as shit. Who buys that crap?
kek
>dont give him any water
jesus christ, oh i just noticed the pound currency.
bongbros, whats going on over there
It's just the best picture I could find, unfortunately Warner Brothers have foisted these atrocities on everyone.
>Uno De Los Nuestros
Do gallegos really?
God I fricking hate minimalist posters
>tdkr
>I'm a big guy for you
>Morbius
>"Its morbin time!"
This is for zoomers, right? The marketing department was thinking about zoomers while making these.
Yeah I think what they were hoping is that kids will see the quotes and recognise them - at least some of them - and think "oh this is that famous movie I should buy it and watch it". As if zoomies buy movies lmao.
Go to Cinemaphile (don't) and you'll see that most don't know how to torrent.
man i cannot believe how fricking far Cinemaphile has fallen.
I can because I work in the industry. The only thing that happens when you get a large group of Indians together is complete mental moronation
>everything bad is because of le zommers
Just admit you hate the current year because you're a social reject and get it over with.
Only criminals and perverts are accepted in today's society. If society rejects you, you're doing something right.
Zoomers have no interest in those films. That shit is for millennials.
Iconic moments? More like iconic items.
>"This is my rifle"
>picture of a helmet
Damn. Bongs are so cucked they can't even shoe pictures of guns. (Yeah yeah. I saw the Goodfellas cover and Matrix bullet.)
this is one of those ideas that sounded better in the meeting
I see these in Walmart all the time. Truly the gayest shit ever for moron funko pop collectors
They look like those social media "quote of the day" posts.
Ah yes, the iconic pills from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Classic.
the plot of true romance is a shirt
society is collapsing
>not the love quote for interstellar
The correct choice would have been "Do not go gentle into that good night"
This is fricking hilarious
>the dark knight rises
>”you don’t get to bring franz”
>the dark knight
>”I’m amanda mywerd”
kek
Why do they all look like app icons? This is a war crime
Actually reminds me of how even app icons have become simplified and homogenized in the past few years. It's like they're going out of their way to make everything utterly souless and ugly.
My favourite
FRICKOFF
>not posting the original
my sides
Not part of this line, this one is
It's even gayer than I could have imagined.
>c-beams were just unicorn ropes of cum
i need more life FATHER!
shudders and gives up on movies
aahhh save me blade runner man
Quintessentially British
This is the most concentrated soi that can be squeezed together. There’s a limited carrying concentration to reality there must be
i know that 99% of the people buying the shining would already know everything about it but that quote is a spoiler lel
>didn't go with "Argo frick yourself"
cowards
>they hired the redditors making the "minimalist" posters from those meme threads
>gremlins cover shows a clock
>the quote is about the water rule
I refuse to believe this. Its just too gay. Is it like a gay exclusive order for a specific store?
Nope, its "Warner Brothers' Iconic Moments" collection, on sale in the UK, USA and Spain. Probably elsewhere too but definitely in those 3 at least.
jfc what is wrong with this timeline
Don't worry anon none of this is real; you're just in an oxygen deprivation induced dream due to your brain shutting down.
Oh thank god.
But where's the Blade Runner one though?
Did they even watch the film?
Oh thank god. We finally have more material for minimalist movie poster threads. I was getting sick of seeing all these sames ones.
Is this loss?
I'd be embarrassed to own those. I bought these the other day, looked pretty cool
Did you collect them all?
those are sick bro
I should add, they are just post cards that slide out and you can send to people with generic as frick covers underneath. A bit disappointing but I just trimmed them up and slid that back in
Pretty much it is Warners repacking old stock.... kinda like how this shitty new Batman movie is just Nolan shit repackaged... aaaayyyyyyooooooh!
Terrible.
>I'm CIA
>most iconic image/object from film
>most commonly quoted line from film
>minimalist presentation
This is Reddit fan poster shit and was already stale a decade ago. Who the hell decided to make this a real thing?
>Silence of the Lambs
>”why won’t those lambs speak?”
>suicide squad
>"what, we some kinda suicide squad?"
sovl
what an absolute massacre
>Europe
it all makes sense now
Leave it to millenials tumblr homosexuals to be in charge of art
These seem like they’re for people that don’t actually watch movies but are so obsessed with pop culture that they feel compelled to own them anyway due to their popularity
I’ve met someone like this. Owns tons of movies but never watches them. He also will watch a 15 minute youtube review/synopsis and then lie about having seen it. I guess because ADHD, but who knows.
christ
a woman did this
I hate these globohomosexual covers that you only see at walmart or target.
>lets make all these covers thematically identical despite having nothing to do with eachother
Frick off. Death to all israelites.
If some midwit ever tells you that soulless is a buzzword that doesn't mean anything, post this picture
So THIS was the last hurrah of the DVD....
Dear God what is this.
>Booger darling
Lol wut?
I hate these so fricking much, they're like the Funko Pops version of Blu Ray covers
Fortunately it's just a slip cover, you can take it off and throw it away, the real cover is underneath
>True Romance at the bottom right
should have been a picture of an eggplant
i never heard of these cereals
kino
never hire an artist from their work on reddit
The Matrix one makes sense. The north by Northwest its only missing Cary Grant
>full metal jacket
> quote is not “steers and queers”
Do Britoids really?
I knew I should have picked one of the American pics to stop the filthy mutts from thinking this isn't happening in their fetid country too.
Seething lol
when will britbongs realize we're both mutts in different cages
Put me in the screenshot
If brokeback mountain was there..
Would the pic of a prolapsed bunghole fit with the motif?
So this was a limited run with minimalist designs like they sometimes do with books?
Odd
It's not in this pic but the Goodfellas one is the worst
You'd think they'd go for the obvious and do the shinebox with the quote but it's the garlic getting cut with the razor blade for whatever fricking reason.
Graphic design is my passion
dystopian
These are the worst covers ever made.
I'm not gonna lie when I first saw this image I thought they were all film novelizations being sold
this is like extremely bad.
my wife wonders why I have a nvidia shield and stopped buying discs
zero soul in the artwork
>someone bought all of these
the fight club one makes me seethe because that original art was never on the bluray release. and now they make a shitty deadpool edit of it.
For everyone sperging over this, these aren't the actual DVD cases, they're just cardboard covers that you can dispose of.
>this will sell our movie
>legit one of the worst cover I've ever seen
Oh you haven't seen shit anon
The fact they actually went with this makes it kino.
Is there a point at which something becomes too kino?
Surely we can go deeper? I mean look at this. All objects of focus are still in frame, even the random seagull. Far too hacky and corporate, personally.
Are you sure you'd like to go deeper?
Both shitty AND soulless. Impressive but not what I'm looking for. I want a poster made by an auteur with nothing to him but big dreams and effort, like he just learned how to use photoshop THAT day.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
what is he shooting at? god?
Shouldn't wrath be the last one on the list
>WHAT'S IN THE BOX ?
>Sins aren't even in the right order of the movie
>litteraly spoils the ending
yeah and by the time they get to the box they should all be crossed off
Listen to Steven Adler interview with Eddie Trunk
The military semi automatic weapons complex.
wow...
Jews
Came here to read this reddit post.
>is that a shitty dvd cover help im being genocided
pseudo nu-males
me
>University of Arizona bfa graduates get a design gig and wow you with le minimalism
whatever happened to america, bros
way to spoil the climax of the movie, fricking zoomziggers
Minimalist poster disease. As always Reddit is to blame
this is kino though
What's wrong with it? Do you spend your evenings looking at box art?
Two things:
1) The package insults the consumer's intelligence by offering up a direct quote of the film's famous line, together with some prominent prop/macguffin. Such designs presuppose famialiarity with the film, they're made for 80 IQ people who have already watched the movie and know the famous things in it. The pleasure of watching a movie for the first time consists to a large degree in picking out the neat things that you like for yourself. These might be plot points, a certain shot, a well-delivered line, or simply the way that the actors move in a shot. To a certain point, "spoilers" are a valid concern when consooming a new movie.
2) Updated covers are almost always worse by default, for the simple reason that they're not the original visual emblem of the film. At their worst, they're excuses for the designer to insert themselves into the production, often creating a "contemporary" look which is anachronistic and out of place with the vintage of the film itself.
I disagree with point 1. These variants are cheap supermarket variants of highly popular normie cinema. I think its completely appropriate for target market. Would suck if you were a cinephile and that version would be the only one available in your market (europe/region2) lmao. But I strongly agree with you on point 2. I buy a lot of boutique blurays. I fricking hate Vinegar Syndrome’s art style. Arrow Video can be hit or miss, but they always include the original art on a reversible cover.
https://arronbarnett.com/2021/01/25/iconic-moments-list/
A handful are alright but most of the quote choices are awful, and even most of the alright choices had better options I would have picked
For the images the only thing that really stood out to me as an awful choice was the blade runner one being the fricking unicorn.
Also the mama Mia one is a line from a song that existed well before the movie did, should have been we dot dot dot
The only close to decent ones are Empire of the Sun and North by Northwest, which are really just their normal posters missing other elements.
Who the frick thought that Jaws cover was good?
Sure, there's a lot of terrible box art out there, but have you ever bought something because it was so bad it was good? I bought pic related out of a clearance bin a couple weeks ago entirely due to the absurdity of someone thinking that a film like FMJ needed a "Patriotic Heroes!" banner.
I like to imagine that there were at least a few literal boomers out there who thought they were buying some "America, hell yeah!" war film and were completely blindsided.
lol this kinda fits in an ironic sense. I like it.
kek.
>Patriotic Heroes
Which is funny because I find seeing the horrors that US soldiers went through in Vietnam and the training before hand does make them seem like American heroes to me. Tragic heroes, to be sure, but I find heroism in facing a completely fricked up war like that. I had a granduncle who served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. After what he saw in Nam, he retired.
Though, yeah, that tone deaf marketing is not going for that.
this one is too funny to be bad
there was a box in seven?
sesevenen
My friends make fun of me because I never really liked it 🙁
proliferation of graphic design degrees
diversity
collector gays
memes
idk and I dont care
does it make your feelings hurt?
I seethe, therefore I seed.
Okay, thats cringe.
What the frick kind of name is sesevenen? Is this a Norwegian movie?
More importantly, who is Wassin Nebocks?
>when simplistic cover memes gone too far
This seriously looks like something Cinemaphile would design as a joke and everyone would reply how shit it is.
>SETEN
What the frick does that even mean?
By the time the box is delivered the only sin left is Wraith.
BOTTOM TEXT
Lol that this is believable as a real cover now
Does anyone remember when Redbox somehow had to use generic stock images because they couldn't use the official dvd covers for some reason?
No that's funny though
I would have though that was that movie about those 2 tiger cubs
I like art that makes you think, too bad most of Cinemaphile is too dumb to understand these...
I can't decide which the worst one is. I thought 101 Dalmatians would win (but I'm biased because I'm in love with Perdita) but then North by Northwest after that. I've actually never seen NNW, but I'm assuming it doesn't actually have anything to do with directions? I just know that plane scene is from it.
Film is ok but yeah, nothing to do with the directions and those covers are hideous.
I hate it so much. Why would someone do this
They're kind of interesting in a way, but godawful as actual covers
Similarly, they re-marketed a bunch Buffy novels to the Twilight crowd.
Going through old photos, I also found a pic of these DVDs that came with... MP3s! Technology! All the kids love those MP3s!
SOVL
Is it not a special edition box with extra goodies in it?
This is an odd combo.
I guess this is how Brain Candy finally made money.
This is an odd one.
Is that the shaggy dog
Then there is the grey Hong Kong movie market.
I had the Halloween one of these
holy frick this is bad! someone needs to be fired
The ones at Wal Mart are legit good.
That 50shades one is random as frick
The rest look good though
god awful, what the frick are you talking about? Why are they all focused on buildings? lmao
That aesthetic doesn’t make a lot of sense for most of those, and what is depicted says almost nothing about the film. The final destination and chucky ones may as well be covers for comedies
>The Matrix
> 4-film collection
animatrix is a thing
It's either Animatrix or Matrix 4.
Yeah, that was my point. Who the frick would want to buy a Matrix boxset with 4 in it?
look good? theyre like invisible, like the eyes dont register that crap, looks like literal wallpaper tones and design.
what a fricking trash
>collect them all
Frick you.
Nightmare on Elm St is the only decent one
>American Pie 9-film collection
Jesus Christ. The price makes sense, to get rid of the bargain bin spinoffs, but still. Jesus Christ.
I like the aesthetic but it really doesn't fit many of the films.
Gwyneth never looked better
David Fincher actually designed this particular boxart
The zoomers instinctively know that our culture and everything it produces has become a joke. The only proper reaction to clownworld is to paint everything with bathos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathos
that "cultural reaction" shouldnt come from globohomosexual itself, dont you think?
this looks like it would appeal to redditors.
Who the frick is David Mills. If it's Brad Pitt's character's name, that's malpractice. Only one name gets on that box and its an unrecognizable fictional character. this seems like the sort of things you can sue over
The only target audience I can think of is Deano trying to fill up the empty shelf in his telly stand.
explain to me why you are buying dvds in the year 2022
Please, make me understand. I have not purchased physical media in over a decade. Not because I'm a streamtard, but because there's ways to download whatever movie you want to watch in 1080p or 4k and it's not that hard to do.
1. Better quality
2. Special features
3. I can afford it
4. Piracy is cringe to women
5. CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK whoopsie all gone
But why DVDs instead of Blu-Ray at the very least, or 4k blu-rays?
They aren't actually watching them, so they get DVDs because they come in better-looking cases without any of the blu-ray coloring or branding tacked on.
Blu-Ray transfers get butchered by noise removal and other post processing shit occasionally (Predator and T2), also I think there's ones like Menace II Society and Team America that just arbitrarily censor/cut graphic footage from the (otherwise superior) Blu-Ray releases that are included on DVD versions.
I assumed he meant blu rays because otherwise he may as well have said "explain to me why you are buying VHS in the year 2022". Also the OP's picture is clearly labelled as a blu ray.
1. wrong
2. who cares
3. good for yeeeeewwww
4. who cares about women
5. only if you're a spaz
>bro just "don't be a spaz" that'll stop the inevitable failure of hard drives
embarrassing
I imagine most people do it for decorative purposes.
I buy them used from pawn shops and shit because I like having no compression (blu-ray rips are usually fine but the average reencoded DVD rip is dogshit compared to the uncompressed file off the disc with makeMKV) and extras/commentary tracks.
You could probably join a private tracker or whatever that has remuxes and all that readily available but I don't have the patience or uploading bandwidth to get into one of those.
>ack
>ack
>ack
Would be funnier if they used the "We come in peace" line
This one is actually okay-ish because the movie is a comedy so you could take it as a joke. The rest are deeply cringe though.
Absolutely soulless
Highly overrated film, I thought it was kind of shit, oooh head in a box big deal.
The earliest example I can remember of a push for minimalist designs like this is when Universal released their "Iconic" line of steelbooks. I think this was the second line of steelbooks they made after the comic book cover design.
not just the design, its actually a spoiler
It's just a carboard slip over unsold copies.
Murray kino
>Seven "Her Pretty Head" Edition
>Fight Club "Because We're the Same Person" Edition
>Parasite "Mom and I had no idea where Dad was" Edition