Internet Fanboys Get Their Wish: Fountain DVD Gets New Cover

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

Humor me for a minute. Go to Google.com. Type in "Fountain DVD Cover Art." In addition to my posting on bad dvd cover art, you'll see LOTS of hate about "The Fountain" cover. It's palpable. When I ran the Google search, the hate almost jumped out of my monitor and rained down blows upon me. People detest the DVD cover, and with good cause.

But I was reading FilmJunk the other day and I saw this piece of news.

The Fountain DVD is getting new cover art! Here's the new art:


The revision was confirmed on Darren Aronofsky's MySpace blog:

"dvd... i saw that terrible art and i worked hard to get it changed. the studio wouldn't hire dan and jeremy, my vfx team, to do it but i got them to use the art from the international campaign which is pretty nice.

it's a very stripped down dvd and i do hope at some point to make a definitive collector's edition but that will be in a few years."

Is it as amazing as it should be? No. Is it a significant improvement? YES. Does it now make the DVD a much more appealing purchase? HELL YES. Many that I've spoken with/read would have preferred the use of one of the film's amazing one-sheets. But now's no time for negative thoughts. The collective bitching of the Internet has accomplished something! Go out, and toast to your influence.