dvd cover ruination zodiac dvd cover

DVD Cover Ruination: Zodiac DVD Cover Smothered With Floating Heads

[This post is part of a weekly series. Click here to see the rest of

the series. Click here to see my original rant against DVD cover art.]

One of my favorite directors of all time is David Fincher and one of

my favorite films of the past year was "Zodiac." Not content with

being just an ordinary serial killer thriller, "Zodiac" reached for

much higher goals and ended up being a masterpiece about obsession and

the need to know. I just wish that David Fincher would make some more

movies; though I love each and every one of his films (even "Panic

Room" has its pleasures, although I wasn't as much a fan of "Alien

3,") he is not what you would call prolific.

Check out "Zodiac's" great poster art:

It's mysterious - a simple, a foggy shot of the Golden Gate with a

delicious punny tagline: "There's more than one way to lose your life

to a killer."

Now comes the floating head DVD cover art:

Although they've retained a different angle of the original shot, it

has now been plastered with the zombie-like heads of the stars, a

one-liner review from Peter Travers, and a headline informing us that

it's by "the Director of Seven and Panic Room," which replaces the

original tagline.

It's a thinking person's film. Why not retain the more elegant cover

art rather than shoot, yet again, for the lowest common denominator?

P.S. If you're thinking about getting the DVD, don't yet. There's a

huge special edition coming out next year.