For a long time I've been researching a large number of movie/tv-series titles I'm interested in (hopefully one day) purchasing on DVD or BluRay or something! One thing that keeps cropping up in my research for a few (UK-DVD) titles are quite often just how plain / weird / boring / awful some cover sleeve artwork designs are (at least in my opinion). With some titles (seems like a lot of them are family movie titles), more often than anything the cover artwork designs seem to be a closeup of the head of one of the main characters in the film (taking up most the sleeve cover), against a single colour or relatively plain background. Anyone else find these kinds of sleeve cover designs incredibly lazy?
Well anyway, these designs annoy me somewhat so I'm always HOPING! that maybe they have a REVERSIBLE SLEEVE with a much better design (possibly original movie poster design or something) on the other side. Trouble is, there is simply no way of knowing if so-and-so title has a reversible sleeve cover until you get a copy of it (no online stores or anywhere else show any indication). I've seen here DVDCOMPARE some titles are sometimes listed as reversible-sleeve, but there are so many re-issue titles it's hard to keep track of them all and not all necessarily noted in this site database. *NOTE: If I were to try to purchase a title with a "better" artwork design, *on Amazon for example*, there is still no guarantee of what would be received would be the better design - since companies and sellers tend to list all same re-issue titles together in the same section*
The following below are few titles I'm aware of (from my own research list) that are prime examples of these poor artwork designs, I hope and wonder if anyone knows if they happen to have REVERSIBLE SLEEVES, I'd really like to know! NOTE: I know there are multiple re-issues of titles over the years, so there are bound to be multiple DVD sleeve artwork designs (some much better were available at some point) + possibly variations in artwork across the world and BluRay often have designs all their own too (sometime even worse!), but I will focus primarily on (mostly more recent re-issue) UK DVD titles for now...
(Babe)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Babe-DVD-James ... words=babe
(Casper)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Casper-DVD-Chr ... rds=casper
(Land Before Time)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Before-Ti ... efore+time
(Muppet Christmas Carol)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Muppet-Christm ... tmas+Carol
(Daylight)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daylight-DVD-S ... s=daylight
(Zulu)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zulu-50th-Anni ... words=zulu
(All most recent-ish re-issue James Bond movies - I won't list them all)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-No-DVD-Sean ... A383381011
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russia-Love-DV ... A383381011
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldfinger-DVD ... goldfinger
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thunderball-DV ... hunderball
https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Only-Live- ... live+twice
(These are a little different, but ultimately come back to a similar problem with "plain" sleeve designs - this case being somewhat misleading in terms of what the DVD title is actually called):
(Cliffhanger)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cliffhanger-DV ... liffhanger
(Edge Of Tomorrow)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Die-Repea ... f+tomorrow
These are just a few from my own personal (UK-DVD) research-collection that I know of. Anyone know of anymore? Frustrating how the companies feel the need to change the artwork of movie/tv-series titles every few years...
Also another thing slightly off topic - in recent years it seems like there have been more and more titles released that include a CARDBOARD SLEEVE COVER over the plastic-box. What is it with companies doing this anyway? Seems a waste...
(Here are a few CARDBOARD SLEEVE COVERS ONLY titles I know of which ironically also have poor / plain artwork IMO. By the way, I know the DVD-cover-sleeves for the plastic-boxes underneath don't use the same plain artwork as the cardboard designs, but still it's another example of laziness IMO
):(Empire Of The Sun)
https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/dvd/empire-of-the-sun
(The Goonies)
https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/dvd/the-goonies
(Gremlins)
https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/dvd/gremlins
(All/most classic-to-modern Disney movies)
http://www.toppfem.no/wp-content/upload ... assics.jpg
Undoubtedly there are plenty more not so great designs that I don't know of out there for DVD, BluRay etc, and all over the world probably. Anyone else got any ideas thoughts knowledge (rants
) on this subject? Would love to hear more from anyone if anyone knows more on this subject or has similar feelings about media artwork etc - and maybe you can post your own titles you know of that have designs that are "not so great"...