Dr. Strangelove (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Best Buy Exclusive) [USA]

[snooloui]

Release date: November 23rd, 2014
Purchase link: Dr. Strangelove
Price: $14.99

Part of the Sony Catalogue Wave Best Buy Exclusive (16 titles)

 

[garabe]

The art for this is is pretty wonderful. This wave is interesting.

 

[Sounder]

Is the artwork that is shown a joke?

 

[dfoles]

Is the artwork that is shown a joke?

No, that is the artwork.

 

[zerox39]

This is my second favorite of the Sony series

 

[dfoles]

Back art:

 

[dfoles]

Just wanted to post this scan:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

[cooperkettle]

Still on the fence with this. Just doesn't really fit the film, IMO. I like it somewhat but for this film - I don't know.

 

[Hella]

It's not amazing art, but it's a better option than the printed-back digibook IMO, so I bit on it. Shame that they didn't properly align the title on the spine though, every copy of this that I've seen trends left/low as seen in dfoles' scan above.

 

[dfoles]

Shame that they didn't properly align the title on the spine though, every copy of this that I've seen trends left/low as seen in dfoles' scan above.

It also doesn't help that the spine itself isn't aligned straight on the plastic. When looking at the top, you can see it's more to the left.

 

[Hella]

Yeah, Scanavo's traditionally poor consistency when it comes to spine label alignment is especially noticeable with this wave, because the front and back covers for many share the same solid color as the spine, making the plastic gaps that much more obvious, especially when a shoddy glue job has left a much larger gap on one side, as you note. If anything, this particular steel fares well at masking the issue, because it's darker than say, Snatch, where the yellow creates a ton of contrast and makes a misaligned label look that much more terrible.

 

[Geek Tragedy]

Picked this one up today. Love the artwork. It is not really 100% fitting for the movie but it is cool art none the less and I never had this film in my collection before now.