The "cover-art" that Amazon has up for the item looks more like a screenshot of the movie than anything that anyone would consider being cover-art...the width is that of a still, and the picture of the back cover-art is not that width (regular rectangle...). Plus, the design just looks weird.
I recently ordered the movie on basic DVD from Sears.com and ended up with the same thing I was trying to avoid by choosing the basic DVD over the "deluxe" or "special" (can't remember) edition DVD that came out around 2008 -- a really dump picture standing in my home(!!!). Seriously, if you're gonna mock the movie that's being bought why even bother with the business of cover-art? It's got Number 5 (aka Johnny 5) doing a Saturday Night Fever - era John Travolta impression, while standing, alone, on what appears to be some kind of pile of rocks, not unlike Mac from MAC & ME (1988)'s home planet. Seriously! - who disco dances when nobody's around and the weather is so hot, you're seeing fuscha(sp???) break out and the ground beneath you is rocky like a hurricane?!!!
For the visualizationally impaired and/or those who don't know what the heck I'm talking about b/c you aren't big enough of a fan to keep track of every re-issue of this movie that comes out,
above is taken from Amazon, although it seems to be a UK pressing, evident by the PG-logo in the right hand corner (if the triangular PG logo isn't there, that means the image source has been modified and I'll have to edit this post.....), it's still the same exact cover-art otherwise.
Here's the screenshot posing as cover-art I mentioned, as well -
Yeah, now does that scream "front cover" material to any of you? (Yeah, like I'm talking to anyone other than you, right?)....
Here's the glorious original cover, which is essentially a re-sizing of the 1996 VHS cover-art, which was essentially a re-coloring of the 1986 VHS cover-art:
A sad reality is it's amazing they kept this classic cover-art on the shelves as long as they did. A lot of the early DVD pressings did simply re-size the VHS cover-arts, but were shortly after re-issued with inferior cover-art. Take John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) of Wes Craven's THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991) for instance. In the case of GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), there's never been a cover-art worthy of the franchise on DVD. The 2009 blu ray release came close, however...the original black background w/ no-ghost insignia front and center was the best. The 1994 VHS re-issue was cool, b/c it had stark white lettering with kind of a botanical-ish font, declaring "BILL MURRAY DAN AYKROYD, SIGOURNEY WEAVER" and beneath that it said "GHOSTBUSTERS", with the no-ghost insignia nestled firmly inside of it, and the big whopper no-ghost insignia below it. The font sizing was different for the 1985 VHS, which called for the same wording and font to be put under the no-ghost sign instead of above it, and the "main credits" were also on the early VHS cassette front cover, which meant the no ghost insignia wasn't as big....you may not notice these things, but unless you spend more hours looking at some screen projecting your copy of the movie than having the box-art of your copy of the movie standing in your den, I declare the movie industry is forcing trash upon you (and I) and owning trash is not acceptable. If you have trash on your floor or on your book shelf, find someone who considers it treasure and give/sell it to him or her or throw it away!!! Satan has been given the power to meddle into our daily lives, but we don't have to let him win!!!!!
above is taken from Amazon, although it seems to be a UK pressing, evident by the PG-logo in the right hand corner (if the triangular PG logo isn't there, that means the image source has been modified and I'll have to edit this post.....), it's still the same exact cover-art otherwise.
Here's the screenshot posing as cover-art I mentioned, as well -
Yeah, now does that scream "front cover" material to any of you? (Yeah, like I'm talking to anyone other than you, right?)....Here's the glorious original cover, which is essentially a re-sizing of the 1996 VHS cover-art, which was essentially a re-coloring of the 1986 VHS cover-art:
A sad reality is it's amazing they kept this classic cover-art on the shelves as long as they did. A lot of the early DVD pressings did simply re-size the VHS cover-arts, but were shortly after re-issued with inferior cover-art. Take John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) of Wes Craven's THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (1991) for instance. In the case of GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), there's never been a cover-art worthy of the franchise on DVD. The 2009 blu ray release came close, however...the original black background w/ no-ghost insignia front and center was the best. The 1994 VHS re-issue was cool, b/c it had stark white lettering with kind of a botanical-ish font, declaring "BILL MURRAY DAN AYKROYD, SIGOURNEY WEAVER" and beneath that it said "GHOSTBUSTERS", with the no-ghost insignia nestled firmly inside of it, and the big whopper no-ghost insignia below it. The font sizing was different for the 1985 VHS, which called for the same wording and font to be put under the no-ghost sign instead of above it, and the "main credits" were also on the early VHS cassette front cover, which meant the no ghost insignia wasn't as big....you may not notice these things, but unless you spend more hours looking at some screen projecting your copy of the movie than having the box-art of your copy of the movie standing in your den, I declare the movie industry is forcing trash upon you (and I) and owning trash is not acceptable. If you have trash on your floor or on your book shelf, find someone who considers it treasure and give/sell it to him or her or throw it away!!! Satan has been given the power to meddle into our daily lives, but we don't have to let him win!!!!!
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