Am i the only one who hates gaudy spines?

[chickflickdick]

Am I the only one who dislike overly gaudy and colorful spines on my bluray cases.

It looks so trashy when placed on the shelf.

compare these moc



with

[WilsonBros]

I know! Bloody Rhodesian Ridgebacks...

Anyway, spines are never going to align, but I love them not conforming, as it goes wonderfully with my not storing them alphabetically, and really pisses off the Missus when she's trying to work out presents!

[MarioG280]

I hope the US never goes to the huge rating emblem all over the artwork either. Looks especially annoying on the spine to me.

[Naiera]

Is the top image the one we don't like?

[chickflickdick]

The rating emblem needs to go. Cant they make an obee strip or something like that?

My favorite spines are are the kino spaghetti western rainbow collection.

[chickflickdick]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Is the top image the one we don't like?

no i like that one. I dislike the one whith all of the traditional mainstream films. Lots of rating symbols, different colors, different fonts. It looks cool on an individual level. But when you have lots of them it just looks cluttered.

Criterion generally have toned down spines, even though they dont have a standard font/look they still look nice.

[Naiera]

I think that's just the nature of the beast. Individual releases from different publishers all want to scream for your attention from the shelf at the store. Older releases tend to be placed spine-out on the shelf.

We agree that it's not great, but I don't know what to do about it. Your example for comparison isn't fair, I think, because they're all from Eureka! and they obviously have control over all their own releases.

One thing I've done to limit the madness on my shelves is to convert everything to 11 or 12.5mm covers. If there's no specialised cover (like Eureka releases) and there's not too many discs, of course, like with TV series.

[chickflickdick]

Yea that is true.

overall.. i like when the spines are muted.

[Richard1485]

I hate spiny gourds. Does that count?

[MifuneFan]

Gaudy Spines sounds like the name of a ringleader of a shady circus.

[chaosmonkey]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Gaudy Spines sounds like the name of a ringleader of a shady circus.

That's what I though when I saw it! Something Wicked This Way Comes 2!

Mr. Spines just heard about what happened to his brother Mr. Dark.

Your childhood is over. AGAIN.

As for the spines, I organise by genre, so the spines don't gang up one me...

[Se.Vero]

Originally Posted by chickflickdick

no i like that one. I dislike the one whith all of the traditional mainstream films. Lots of rating symbols, different colors, different fonts. It looks cool on an individual level. But when you have lots of them it just looks cluttered.

Criterion generally have toned down spines, even though they dont have a standard font/look they still look nice.

First of all, thanks for choosing pics from my collection. 😏 Looks different now though...
Anyway, the second pic does not show traditional mainstream films, but different cult movie labels like 88 films, Code Red, Shout factory,... Some have more uniform spines, others don't. So your two chosen pics do not really show your point. 😃

[Bugg]

I just hate the Artificial Eye spines that have the text printed in the opposite direction of every other disc on my shelf. I suppose I could put the things on my shelf upside down so they would look right, but I would know the disc was actually upside down and it would bother me.

[JKPhage]

Eh, it's a mixed emotion for me. I have a very strong fondness for minimalist design, so those European Criterion cases looks absolutely amazing to me, but at the same time I feel like it would be kind of difficult to distinguish films at a quick glance if I was just scanning over my library to pick out something to watch. I don't dislike the so-called "gaudy" spines either. It helps me pick out a film I might be watching for and helps each individual film pop out from the masses so I don't just subconsciously sweep past a movie that might have been just what I was in the mood for because it happens to look almost exactly like the three to either side of it.

In the long run I think I'd prefer the design aesthetic of the minimal cases if it was a situation of being able to simply buy one or the other as you like, but since that isn't the case, I'm more than happy to have my splash of rainbow carnage across the bookshelf to make the collection look a bit livelier.