Disappointing Catwoman Home Video Spine Cover Art

The Catwoman Blu-ray case cover art is similar to that of the DVD case cover art with the exception of one major flaw: the spine is missing the title. The Blu-ray release's spine has the Blu-ray and Warner Brothers logos, but no title, no "Catwoman". Instead, the customer is met with this black gap of "white space" on a titleless spine!

Disappointing Galaxy Quest Home Video Front Cover Art

While browsing Amazon, I noticed a significant change from the regular Galaxy Quest DVD cover art and the Galaxy Quest Deluxe Edition DVD and Galaxy Quest Blu-ray Pre-order cover art. The regular Galaxy Quest DVD cover art has Tim Allen in the middle, which makes sense since his character, Jason Nesmith, has the biggest role in the movie, but the Galaxy Quest Deluxe Edition DVD and Galaxy Quest Blu-ray Pre-order cover art show Sigourney Weaver in the middle, which is great if you're a huge Sigourney Weaver fan but doesn't seem to accurately portray the magnitude of Jason Nesmith's role in the film.

Disappointing Futurama DVD Box Set Case Door

I pre-ordered "Futurama: The Complete Collection 1999 - 2009" and had it picked up at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. It was a 19 DVD set housed in a hard plastic Bender bust, mostly cylindrical in shape. The bust came in a box in order to give the impression that Bender's head was preserved in a liquid-filled jar even though he is a robot.

In order to get the bust out, the back of this box had to be opened. Once opened, a curved piece of foam could be found attached to the inside of the back of the box, a rubber attachment in the shape of an antenna could be found in the top plastic keeping the top of the bust in place, a DVD booklet and a letter from the series developers could be found underneath the bottom plastic keeping the bottom of the bust in place, and a hand-numbered sticker could be found on the lower right corner of the door on the back of the bust (this is because it is a limited edition and only 500 were made). The door was a hard curved plastic piece, the hinge was on the left, and there were 3 plastic latches on the right to keep it closed. The bust had a niche aligned with the middle latch so that a finger could be inserted in order to pull open the door.

The door was already open when I opened the back of the box. I closed the door to help prevent any of the DVDs from falling out as I removed the bust from the box. After I closed the door, it wouldn't open again. The middle latch was fine, but the top and bottom latches were keeping the door closed as I pulled on it from the area of the niche. I finally had to insert nail files in the thin gaps of the top right and bottom right corners of the door in order to get it open. Not a user-friendly experience at all! DVD cases should be openable without the use of tools not included in the boxed set.

You Just Can't Buy Good Grammar Anymore

I had bought a green shirt at Sears this year. They had a few to choose from because St. Patrick's Day was the next upcoming holiday at the time. As much as I like it, it is grammatically incorrect:

Kiss me
im
Irish

The fact that the latter pronoun wasn't capitalized was not as bad as the fact that it was missing the apostrophe, so it didn't really say "I'm" Irish, it said "im" Irish. "Short" i, m. "im". It's not even a real word, it's just a syllable.

Disappointing HVD News Article

I stumbled across an HVD news article by Tudor Vieru on Softpedia. All it did was brag about how great the capacity of an HVD was compared to other optical disc drive media types. It mentioned NOTHING about the HVD's transfer rates being faster as well!