Aww, how cute. Some kids designed movie poster art with paper cut-outs and craft supplies… Wait, hold on a second. You’re telling me these aren’t the work of children? These are actual Blu-ray cases designed by a studio marketing department and sold at retail? Oh, holy hell…
As spotted by poster Krawk in our site forum, the following Blu-ray reissues of MGM titles popped up at Walmart on May 20th featuring a bizarre and mostly inappropiate theme. All of the case art looks like it was either designed by grade-schoolers or drawn for the purpose of illustrating a children’s storybook. This is particularly jarring given that many of the discs are for R-rated movies with violent, scary or sexual content.
The only of these that I think look sort-of OK are ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World’, ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, ‘West Side Story’ and maybe ‘Spaceballs’. The rest…? Oh my dear lord, what was the studio thinking?
Do you like any of these more than I do?
Alex
They’re not all bad. I kinda dig Hang ’em High and West Side Story.
Shannon Nutt
I like the Hang ‘Em High one. 🙂
Wurms
Can’t wait for an unknowing parent to buy Robocop for there kid thinking it’s like transformer cartoon, muahahaha!
Daniel O'Reilly
Hang Em High is okay. Robocop, Platoon and Dances with Wolves are particularly hilarious. The Rocky cover looks like a boxing glove on a spring.
Junie
I kinda think they’re awesome. Not at all useful for retail DVD covers, but graphically awesome.
Drew
For some reason, I absolutely love the ‘Bull Durham’ case. I think it’s brilliant!
Dennis Lafontaine
The only thing I am thinking that would entice people to buy these horrible covered movies (except for a good laugh or a joke/prank) is that fact they’re selling at $9 each. Unless these movies already sell for less than that.
David Strohmenger
They’re not the actual covers. They are just removable cards shrinkwrapped over the original covers.