It's bad enough that they can't position the floating heads under the proper names, or the lighting/perspective/anatomy/line of sight is always off on the Photoshopped art... How hard is it to fact check plot summaries (howbout watch the movie?) or information/blurbs you decide to print on the cover or, I don't know, use stills or pics of your star from the actual movie you're selling?
Some perps that I've noticed of late:
- HOWLING 4 DVD (US Release only): every screengrab on the back is from Howling 3.
- Jules Verne's MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND (Fox/MGM Midnight Movie Double Feature): "Based on a story by the legendary Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days)..." Wrong! The story it's based on is Verne's "The School of Robinsons". Unless you were just listing Verne's credentials for the uninformed.
- DARK CRYSTAL (25th Anniv. Edition): "From the brilliant imagination of Jim Henson, this masterpiece of animation..." Um, last I checked, they were puppets.
- Both ALIEN 3000 (AKA Unseen Evil 2) and WAR of THE PLANETS use a monster pic from an unrelated (and superior) flick called BREEDERS ('98)
on their cover.
- NIGHT SHADOWS ('84 AKA Mutant) is still mistakingly using pics from the other flick titled MUTANT ('82 AKA Forbidden World) on its cover (back) as it did on its vhs release.
- STONE COLD: "The FBI'smost hot-headed agent (Bosworth) goes undercover to infiltrate a drug-running biker gang and becomes John Stone, a street-wise thug. To gain membership to "The Brotherhood" Bosworth must kill a man, a feat which he apparently pulls off with no hesitation. But when the dead man later shows up alive, his cover is blown and his life is in the hands of a crazed madman. When The Brotherhood takes a judge hostage in order to free one of their men, the action gets faster, the bikes get louder, and Stone gets a whole lot colder."... He's not an FBI agent, and that's not why the Brotherhood takes a judge hostage, but thanks for killing the suspense with incorrect spoilers all the same!
EDIT: Before someone tries to use a similar joke... WHITE CHICKS is not the "funniest movie of the year!" as the blatantly wrong DVD cover would lead you to believe.
Some perps that I've noticed of late:
- HOWLING 4 DVD (US Release only): every screengrab on the back is from Howling 3.
- Jules Verne's MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND (Fox/MGM Midnight Movie Double Feature): "Based on a story by the legendary Jules Verne (Around the World in 80 Days)..." Wrong! The story it's based on is Verne's "The School of Robinsons". Unless you were just listing Verne's credentials for the uninformed.
- DARK CRYSTAL (25th Anniv. Edition): "From the brilliant imagination of Jim Henson, this masterpiece of animation..." Um, last I checked, they were puppets.
- Both ALIEN 3000 (AKA Unseen Evil 2) and WAR of THE PLANETS use a monster pic from an unrelated (and superior) flick called BREEDERS ('98)
on their cover.- NIGHT SHADOWS ('84 AKA Mutant) is still mistakingly using pics from the other flick titled MUTANT ('82 AKA Forbidden World) on its cover (back) as it did on its vhs release.
- STONE COLD: "The FBI'smost hot-headed agent (Bosworth) goes undercover to infiltrate a drug-running biker gang and becomes John Stone, a street-wise thug. To gain membership to "The Brotherhood" Bosworth must kill a man, a feat which he apparently pulls off with no hesitation. But when the dead man later shows up alive, his cover is blown and his life is in the hands of a crazed madman. When The Brotherhood takes a judge hostage in order to free one of their men, the action gets faster, the bikes get louder, and Stone gets a whole lot colder."... He's not an FBI agent, and that's not why the Brotherhood takes a judge hostage, but thanks for killing the suspense with incorrect spoilers all the same!
EDIT: Before someone tries to use a similar joke... WHITE CHICKS is not the "funniest movie of the year!" as the blatantly wrong DVD cover would lead you to believe.
