The Shrug, and Other Crimes Against DVD Covers

Too Much Photoshops

Covers that use Photoshop to reduce humans to plastic creatures with no necks or joints.

Why You Gotta Change Things?!?

Why would anyone abandon the iconic, compelling original designs on the left in favor of the generic, pointless redesigns on the right?

Red + White = Hilarity

We’re not sure why blocky sans serif type on a white background is supposed to be so funny (see also: the aforementioned Old Dogs… actually, don’t).

So readers, what DVD cover cliche drives you up the wall?

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  • walkeriszoesfriend

    What John Travolta's doing is less of a shrug and more of a 'Price-Is-Right-Girl-Take a-Look-at-This' gesture.
    Either way, it's not the appropriate reaction when somebody in front of you is mortally endangered by a gorilla.

  • http://sodapopjournal.com Robert Cortez

    I can't tell what the shrugs are supposed to actually say. “What the hell?” or “Why not?” or “Who had the steak platter?” Then again, I guess that's what's so offensive about them.

    And I can't believe you didn't include any of American Pie covers in there. That's like the granddaddy of bold red text cover design.

  • http://twitter.com/twobitme twobitme

    I have to agree with the shrug, except for Larry David's. For some reason, I can't imagine him doing anything BUT the shrug.

    If I had my DVD collection near me, I could spend hours rattling off cover art that offends my design degree sensibilities. I do remember really hating the single disc art that came out for Fight Club though.

  • wintersweet

    The top shrug is the least awful to me–his shrug appears to be having the effect of parting the waters, which is mildly amusing. (I haven't seen the movie, though.) Now, of course, I'm double-parsing these as the Bleh Comedy Shrug *and* the Kanye Asshat shrug…Ugh! Movie posters and DVD covers in general are so bad these days that it's amazing when they DON'T show up on the Photoshop Disasters blog. :/

  • wintersweet

    The top shrug is the least awful to me–his shrug appears to be having the effect of parting the waters, which is mildly amusing. (I haven't seen the movie, though.) Now, of course, I'm double-parsing these as the Bleh Comedy Shrug *and* the Kanye Asshat shrug…Ugh! Movie posters and DVD covers in general are so bad these days that it's amazing when they DON'T show up on the Photoshop Disasters blog. :/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Bacon/607685936 Jason Bacon

    Uh, Larry Charles directed “Religulous”, Scott.

  • http://www.sodapopjournal.com/ Scott Howard

    Uh, what the hell is wrong with me?? Fixed. I just couldn't contain my excitement for seeing that sexy little bald man just a little further down.