Digg: “Why do good films with great movie posters get awful DVD Cover Art? This post discusses the question and compares some recent examples of this disturbing trend.”
My comment: Although I don’t judge what movie I buy solely based on the DVD cover, it does help to attract your attention. I don’t understand why a lot of movies don’t just use the movie poster as the DVD cover. One cover I actually like is The Departed 2-disc version cover art. The regular one is not as good. I see far too many covers displaying pretty much the same content: 2 or 3 of the actors’ heads, their names at the top, and maybe a quote from a critic at the bottom. For the most part, they don’t even try to be creative. The designers just follow the same formula and don’t do anything different. Casino Royale had an especially crappy DVD cover with the gray background and the silhouette of a random woman with a car jutting out of Bond’s side. I like the Last King of Scotland’s cover, it made me laugh with the “Whitaker triplets”.
