Eternal Engrish of the Bootleg DVD

Xeni Jardin 8:32 pm Wed Jun 8, 2005

It's only 24 hours old, but our little "Crappy Bootleg DVD Covers" photo pool on Flickr already overfloweth. Screengrabs, box art, all kinds of illicit, Dada-tastic sludge scooped from the bottom of the black market sea. What's the difference between these dirty gems and a moment of Worth1000 / somethingawful / Fark photoshoppery? These are real. Above, detail from an illegal copy of Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (full-size pic). The DVD cover pull quote: "Too self-absorbed to fully connect with an audience." Evidently, these warez vendors didn't pass their ESL courses, and must not have understood the user-submitted comments they copied and pasted from IMDB.com. Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far!

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Reader comment: Andrew Tonkin says, "The Eternal Sunshine quote you highlight is in fact a (hilariously negative) review from Ty Burr of the Boston Globe: Link. End of the third paragraph."

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