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T<\/span>his phenomenon seems to happen so often I’m going to start keeping track of it. Movies that have stylish, attractive, even innovative posters get the blandest, most boring and same-old DVD covers. The latest offender goes from a Saul Bass-esque throwback that’s eye-catching and intriguing to a cover that looks like a straight-to-video reject from the ’80s, right down to the italicized cast names and tagline. I just don’t get why they go to the trouble of getting really nice poster art and then throw it away for the DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This phenomenon seems to happen so often I’m going to start keeping track of it. Movies that have stylish, attractive, even innovative posters get the blandest, most boring and same-old DVD covers. The latest offender goes from a Saul Bass-esque throwback that’s eye-catching and intriguing to a cover that looks like a straight-to-video reject from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2112,837,2113],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/VS-Mechanic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":366,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/film-anthologies\/","url_meta":{"origin":21558,"position":0},"title":"Film Anthologies","author":"Jandy","date":"April 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"You know, I wonder if there are any textbook-like film anthologies. Not anthologies of writing about film, but of actual film. 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