Looks like the same slipcase image has been used before on the DVD collection ...
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... and the steelbook art from the France advance poster for the 2010 film:-
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interesting, thanks.
it does make you wonder who puts these together - i deliberately did not say 'designs.'
for examples, even though i don't always like the artwork used for Cine-Museum releases, they usually try and use or commission something different and unusual from artists for the release of (often) a much loved classic. MantaLab (at least until recently) have an unswerving dedication to doing justice to the film(s) with the final product and artwork. even working heavily within studio constraints, companies like blufans do their best to create something that stands out and adds something to the film in question.
ok, you say, but they're all premiums. alright - i recently picked up some older zavvi releases, like first release
Snow White, and also original
Finding Nemo and
Roger Rabbit (thanks again,
@Jango). the level of detail, embossing, artwork, and care the studios invested in the artwork for those releases is mainly unmatched these days. but they (studios) can do it, as the new
It chapter 1 & 2 via zavvi shows. they just don't usually bother.
and
this - the OG for a series of films loved and followed for
decades, cobbled together from multiple,
wrong sources, aimed at an audience of fairly knowledgeable fans
who will know this, makes me wonder - who puts these together? focus groups? executives? finance directors? whoever they are, they aren't fans.
there are far greater, way more concerning and fundamental issues happening in the world right now than artwork for a film release.
i guess i am just channeling my anger at that here. rant over.
