Lethal Weapon (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]

[altermann]

Release date: December 1st, 2014
Purchase link: Zavvi (Live Sunday 9/28)
Price: £14.99
Notes: Ultra Limited to 2500 copies. Debossed Title Treatment with Embossed Bullet and Smoke Trail with Matt Varnish Finnish.

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[Lone Crusader]

Hrm, a little plain isn't it? Kind of wish they had put more thought into some better artwork.

 

[Heche1981]

Yet another plain black artwork with just a title... LAZY DESIGNERS!

I would have expected a SteelBook to have had the whole series of films included, or a run of matching SteelBooks at a budget price like Mission Impossible, Batman, or the Alien series. I'm afraid it's the same issue with Beverly Hills Cop, Highlander, and RoboCop, where we only get the first entry in a series and have to buy the subsequent films as separate Amaray editions. I'm convinced that people who work for these companies are retards.

 

[themanfromunkle]

Is it just me or does it make no mention of it being the Director's Cut on Zavvi? If they're just re-packaging the original release, that just had the Theatrical Cut didn't it?

If it is-as with Clerks-then it's a miss

 

[Ashcroft]

This is laughably bad.

 

[wyatt03]

This reminds me of the Armageddon and The Rock steelbooks a few years back!

 

[Lester]

I take it there is no design department anymore? Or only one person is in it and he's a chimp? They could have done so much with these. I was expecting lazy, but I was I expecting the old dvd/blu ray covers and that would make the four films easy and each different. I'l have to think about this now and I love the quadrilogy.

 

[Robsonmonkey]

Every bloody time

Crap/Average films are given fantastic artwork...yet old time highly rated classics like this are given boring artwork like Scream, The Graduate, The Rock, Armageddon or Sin City.

Into the Storm and Hercules have better artwork, let that sink in for a minute.

I know, I know it's different studios and manufacturers but Lethal Weapon should of been picked up by the Entertainment Store.

 

[yoannjuan]

Tell me this artwork is some kind of joke, right !?

 

[D4vem88]

You nearly had my money at "Lethal Weapon Steelbook". But after the artwork reveal, I think I'll stick to my box set. Maybe if it goes to under £10. Maybe.

 

[snooloui]

This needed to be something special to justify a purchase with the amaray edition and complete boxset being so cheap. I think it's safe to say Warner have completely failed.

I know, I know it's different studios and manufacturers but Lethal Weapon should of been picked up by the Entertainment Store.

What difference would that have made?

 

[Scary Hair]

@Sooloui

Could a little more thought have been put into the artwork maybe ? . Diffrent finish ? . Just SUCH a letdown BIG STYLE .

 

[sanjeebdeb]

slightly plain artwork but hopefully they will change the artwork and come out with the other three...

 

[Andycadle84]

There's no way whatsoever that Zavvi will change the artwork for this due to unpopular demand, no??! It's a shame, was looking forward to this release as I'm sure many more of you were but they seem to have messed this up big style...

 

[JackRegan]

I take it there is no design department anymore? Or only one person is in it and he's a chimp? They could have done so much with these. I was expecting lazy, but I was I expecting the old dvd/blu ray covers and that would make the four films easy and each different. I'l have to think about this now and I love the quadrilogy.

I must protest most strongly at your singling out Arthur the senior art editor at Warner Brothers.

He is an exceedingly well-mannered chimp and will work dilligently all day with his crayons and pad for just a handful of bananas and a pat on the head

Hang your head in shame

 

[Robsonmonkey]

This needed to be something special to justify a purchase with the amaray edition and complete boxset being so cheap. I think it's safe to say Warner have completely failed.

What difference would that have made?

Urm...a lot

ES have done some fantastic steelbooks mainly because the artwork is pretty great but unfortunately their recent line up have been crap/average films.

Hercules, Need for Speed, Transformers (when there's already one coming out)

 

[altermann]

This is funny. Everyone blames Zavvi when they release a rubbish Steelbook yet credit the studio when they release a good one.

This needed to be something special to justify a purchase with the amaray edition and complete boxset being so cheap. I think it's safe to say Warner have completely failed.

I blame Zavvi

 

[snooloui]

Urm...a lot

ES have done some fantastic steelbooks mainly because the artwork is pretty great but unfortunately their recent line up have been crap/average films.

Hercules, Need for Speed, Transformers (when there's already one coming out)

So you think this would have had better artwork if this had been an Entertainment Store exclusive? I think that's unlikely. The last time Entertainment Store released titles from Warner's back catalogue, we got Corpse Bride and True Romance which aren't great Steelbooks by any means, especially the latter which is actually pretty awful.

 

[Robsonmonkey]

So you think this would have had better artwork if this had been an Entertainment Store exclusive? I think that's unlikely. The last time Entertainment Store released titles from Warner's back catalogue, we got Corpse Bride and True Romance which aren't great Steelbooks by any means, especially the latter which is actually pretty awful.

I disagree, most of their Steelbooks have been great and the Corpse Bride was pretty decent.

In the end they would of easily made something better then this.

 

[JackRegan]

I disagree, most of their Steelbooks have been great and the Corpse Bride was pretty decent.

In the end they would of easily made something better then this.

As far as my understanding of this goes, the final decision on artwork lies with the studios, not the distributors. It is, after al,l their 'intellectual property'.

 

[satanclaus]

Ok, yes it's pretty plain...but I think I might be the only person who quite likes it?