Are Blu-ray packages getting ugly? And can we lose the blue now?

[MasterKaga]

Hello, this is a forum for discussing why the packaging on BluRay movies is so garish? I was wondering if it was just me or do any of you feel that the blue cases and color schemes of Blu-ray covers themselves are tiresome.

I was looking at the Disney BR's and thought about how ugly it was all becoming. WALL-E, Sleeping Beauty, Narnia, Pinocchio, all of them have predominately blue packaging. Not just blue, but the same shade of Blue. This morning I see that Snow White will be released on BR in October and... would you look at that?... it also will be blue. Can we please stop this trend now before they ruin the cover to Lion King Blu-Ray. I just can't see a Lion King that boasts proud orange and brown and defiant red... and that same stupid blue strip on top. And imagine The Jungle Book? I'm loathing the idea of cracking open the packaging and seeing the discs sitting in that tacky blue case.

I was happy to hear that Amadeus and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest would be bucking the trend by releasing the movies in digibook cases. But when I finally got them, I was disappointed to see that same blue friend of mine sitting right on top; a blue strip that throws the cover's color scheme off.

Criterion (always a company with a proper eye for art) has forsaken the overpowering blue cases for clear trays and digipacks, a move I applaud. And The Incredible Hulk has ditched his blue cage in favor of a Green one. Very nice.

Can we lose the Blue packaging now? Or maybe companies can make it somehow removable, or a good solution would be to start coloring the cellophane plastic blue and leaving the movie inside untouched.

Seriously, we as a consumer get it. Blu-ray is here to stay and we look for the higher quality version on instinct. We don't need a neon sign to point us in the right direction and as most of us on the internet know, we buy our movies online anyway, so it doesn't matter how bright the packaging on the store shelf is.

Blu-ray manufacturers have to know that this trend is close to pointless now and we must start up a new way or else the "sameness" will become a liability and detriment to future releases. Maybe someone high-up will read this thread and dream up a better way.

If anyone else agrees please chime in. What movies look unforgivable in BluRay packaging? (Godfather comes to mind) Which ones look good? How can we change? Do you want a change?