James Bond on Blu-ray/4K

Torgeirtrap

Agree, "Pop Art" might be the best way to describe these covers. I was thinking earlier today actually, that the DN one would look great as a big poster on my living room wall :D

mtm

Yeah, it's pretty stylish!

I guess the issue has been how to make them look like they're all part of the new series of releases. Just putting the poster art on the front won't do that as the posters are so varied. And putting them in some sort of holding device like a box or something is naff and does no favours to the original artwork. The 90s Special Edition covers were aiming to create a unified series of covers too, as much as I'm not keen on them with their weird little hands grafted on to everything. There were those ones in the early 90s or 80s where the posters appeared inside a sort of blue gunbarrel, I'm not too keen on those either.
I think these are possibly the most stylish and artistic set of covers we've had, but I sympathise with folks who would like a bit more action on there. I guess ultimately, these films are so old that you're not really trying to appeal to new buyers on the shelf, folks will either know the films or they won't so having the title big works for that.
I mean I watch the complete Blu Ray set, and that comes in completely white, blank covers! These new ones are much cooler.

MakeshiftPython

The covers would probably be fine as paperback novels, but for movies? I think uniform design could be done a lot better. It just bewilders me that they would not even use Connery’s image. I wasn’t crazy about the 2015 designs, but I think those could still work as the uniform design, preferably with better still images and retaining the original title font, with the 007 logo prominently displayed. Done in a way that can work perfectly as thumbnail images when scrolling on streaming services. I’m not sure the paperback style is ideal for grabbing eyeballs.