Best and Worse Packaging/DVD case cover art

[DVD addict]

Best:
Band of Brothers = Best case ever because it is strong, and has awsome artwork on it.

LotR: FotR: Extended Edition. It is cool material and looks like a book.

Fight Club. Sturdy cardboard.

Worst:
Windtalkers Director's Edition. The damn damn cover is so slippery that the disc carrying case slips out and falls on the floor, thus almost destroying my discs. Thank god for carpets.

All of Warner Bros. "snapper cases". Stupid things look so dumb on my DVD rack.

Cover Art: I love it when I buy a special edition DVD, and the cover art is different from the poster or earlier DVD's. Examples:

Se7en: Platinum Edition. Simple, yet cool.
In the Line of Fire: Special Edition
Speed: Five Star Collection. Keannu Reeves is wearing that cool S.W.A.T. vest. I want one!
Reservoir Dogs: Tenth Anniversity Edition: all of them
Alien Legacy: That alien is so bad ass looking.
Band of Brothers: The artwork rocks.
The French Connection: Five Star Collection. Just plain cool, like the colour.
From Dusk Till Dawn. Cool, part 2

These are all the one's I own, that look cool.

[larphillips]

Best:

I loved the Anchor Bay tins
Evil Dead: Book of the Dead was way cool
The lunchbox for the Educational Archives
Basic Instinct was a neat idea, although a pain to store
Nightmare On Elm Street Box (although it contained the dreaded snapper cases)
The new slimcases for Futurama, King Of The Hill, etc make great use of the space
The Wickerman box (although another pain to store)
and although I don't own it, the Battlestar Galactica box looks simply amazing!


Art:

Near Dead
Fear and Loathing (Criterion)
Traffic (Criterion)
The Stunt Man (limited)


Worsts:

I know a lot of you feel that a disc without an insert is no big deal, but for asthetic value, it looks so empty and generic. It makes a big argument for clear plastic keep cases with two sided art.

Snappers suck... and god forbid you break any of the teeth on your spindle.

The cardboard accordian cases in some boxed sets also wear poorly and scare the hell out of me. Again, if something were to happen to the packaging, you are screwed.

[Paul.n3w]

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