My favorite thing about The Mummy from 2017 is the fact that, the first time they uploaded the trailer to TH-cam, there was no trailer music and almost no sound effects: all you could hear was the dialogue and yelling/screaming, and occasionally those big non-diegetic boomy sounds they use in all the action movie trailers.
@@concentratedcringe No. They owned the sound. And youtube can't remove layers from an already rendered track. I'm a bit confused as to what you think happened.
A dark version of red riding hood? Because the regular version of the story about a young girl being stalked by a wolf who then murders her grandmother and then wears her skin is so wholesome.
wat? didn't the wolf swallow her whole? then they were both saved by some hunter by cutting the wolf open? where did you get this version where wolf wears grandma?
You should look up the origin story of most fairy tales, a whole lot of them are genuinely terrifying and nothing like their modern counterparts. Maybe there's a channel out there that does this kinda thing?
The Tom & Jerry Christmas DVD is a mere collection of four episodes. Two of which aren't even Tom & Jerry! They are The Night Before Christmas (1941) & Mice Follies (1954). And the other two are The Captain's Christmas (1938) & One Ham's Family (1943). But then, you aren't going to read this, you're just going to look into that later, so there. ;P
Irish pantomime, well it's actually made by the BBC and filmed in Scotland (on a 3 wall set) But it was written by an Irish family about an Irish family. It isn't for everyone, it's typical British pantomime, lots of men dressing as women and saying doublentendre and swearing. Most episodes revolve around recurring characters with running jokes getting into trouble and their old "Mammy" finds some way to fix it (while breaking the 4th wall and making jokes to the audience) If you try to take it seriously you'd not like it, if you don't like crude humour you'd never like it, episodes do become quite repetitive after a while and usually end up parodying well known films or news stories (another feature common in pantomimes) The gimmick that sets Mrs Browns Boys apart from any other show is all (most of) the cast are related, father and mother, their kids and grandkids, etc AND THEY ALL TRY TO MAKE EACH OTHER CORPSE (laugh and forget their lines) AND LOTS OF AD LIB
There was also an original version of the series that was actually made in Ireland and was on Irish tv, like a comedy soap or something and they actually went outside and had some outside scenes or scenes in other places and sets unlike the BBC version and it had more plot as well, plus more focus given to the other characters in it, it ran for 2 or 3 seasons of 6 episodes I think or maybe just one
It's one of those brilliant Dada comedies that are not funny whatsoever. I've seen funnier fatal car incidents. When you watch people who cannot act, stumbling through a script written by a particularly bitter, angry, and homophobic nine year old drunk, then you know it's time to turn off the TV and reassess your life.
Home Alone 4 was a feature-length pilot for a Home Alone TV series that never happened. The kid on the front is supposed to be Kevin, but it doesn't look like him in any way. French Stewart was to play Marv. The story goes that Daniel Stern was asked to reprise his role, but after he read the script he told the writers that he thought the script was crap and didn't want any part of it.
When talking about 'Antz', I love that Ashens gave a perfect description of 'The Ant Bully', a light-hearted kids film. 'Antz', however, is a film with some genuinely terrifying scenes.
Yes, absolutely charming - they really capture Paddington's bear/toddler gait and the fact the humans are all in '2D', suggesting they are a bit staid and colourless was also inspired.
What I really like about this series is that it essentialy a video talking about a video format without showing any of the video the format contains. Also there are no official descriptions this time. Also Ashens did not seen all of the films so at times the video is just describing DVD artwork. I loved every second of it.
Good lord I HATED the double sided DvDs. I swear they were the most fragile discs I ever owned. You could leave them in their case and they'd scratch themselves to oblivion
Agreed😅, I still own a double sided Beetlejuice DVD (cardboard cover with a plastic insert of easily snapped teeth to hold it safe). Long movies with duel DVDs, I loathed most when "please insert Disk 2" appeared on screen.
agreed!!! my poor Coraline DVD was subjected to this as it was one of the DVDs with the film in 3D on the other side of the disc. thankfully it was on the side that was 3D but still.
My sister in law got very confused by the dvd of the "It" miniseries dvd,she actually rang me to ask if there was something wrong with the disc as it just stopped halfway through...she was also on a media course at uni at the time
For some reason, I got _Moby Dick_ confused with _Free Willy_ until Ashens started talking about the different versions. In my defense, they are both about whales and have a synonym for penis in the title.
Probably not gonna see this but that ghostbusters 2 is from a box set with 1 and 2 with a little book that talks about the movies and trivia! The discs also have a few episodes of the ghostbusters animated series! I have the set myself and i almost religiously carried it with me whenever i went out with my dvd player as a kid
I SAW IT!! Is that why it looks like it's pencil sketched on off white art pad paper? If you google "Ghost Busters 2 DVD Label" There is NOTHING that shows up like that.
By "early", how early do you mean, because I remember having Starship Troopers pretty much when it came out on a double sided disc and it was just the movie split into two parts.
Yeah. Pretty sure Beetlejuice is like that. Not pan and scan though as you see way more in the 4:3 version of Beetlejuice. (you see just as much to the sides, but more vertically)
@@AmartharDrakestone OH.... well not that early then. haha. My only experience of double-sided DVDs was the different ratio options. You must be more of an OG DVD user then me!
That leaning pose on How to Lose a Guy fascinates me. I think *maybe* two people could stand in a stable position like that, but could they get out of it without one or both falling down.
Fun Fact: A quick search for the "Cleopatra 2525" TV series Ashens mentions reveals that it is about a stripper that gets cryogenically frozen after her boob job got botched, only to wake up in the year 2525 to go to war against flying knock off terminators.
I dunno what I expected from the name _Cleopatra 2525_ but holy crap, it was not that. It sounds freakin' awesome, lol! Now if only it has the Zager and Evans song in it...
The reason Ghostbusters 2 has a sketch on the disk is coz it’s from a box set of both movies, with a sketchbook of original designs from the movies included - so all the internals have a sketch theme (I own it!)
Apparently they stopped filming those due to Covid, so hopefully they'll be able to film another soon. Being that the Advent thing was in person again this year I'm guessing they should be able to. I think it does take them time to go through all of those to collect all the funny things though
@@yeggog for a second there I thought you were about to say they stopped filming pirate copies during Covid which tbf would also make sense being that the cinemas were shut
Fox debuted two science fiction shows in March 1995: _VR.5_ and _Sliders._ The network's executives had a great deal more confidence in _VR.5,_ which received a much larger marketing push. It was canceled in May, leaving three of its thirteen episodes unaired. _Sliders,_ conversely, was renewed twice and gradually destroyed by the same executives' meddling. Following its cancellation, its decaying corpse was paraded around for two low-budget seasons by its studio's sister entity, the Sci-Fi Channel (now called "Syfy"), with Cleavant Derricks as the sole remaining original cast member by the end. And there was much sadness.
Fox had a lot of 'gambles on new shows' in the 90s that they subsequently essentially sabotaged with no marketing, airing eps out of order, moving them around on the schedule so they never gathered fans, just preempting episodes for sporting events, etc. "Firefly" was just the most famous example - above has already mentioned "VR.5", but a few more examples are "Space: Above & Beyond" and "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.". This happened with such regularity, that my headcanon is that the VP in charge of Acquisitions (that purchased the new shows) and the VP of Scheduling (that aired the new shows) had personal animosity with each other, so Scheduling would bounce these shows around and not give them a regular time slot, as well as the other 'tricks' mentioned to force these shows to fail, so as to make Acquisitions look bad (keeps buying failures).
That Beetlejuice disc is probably from that brief period where movies were released as 4:3 and 16:9 on different sides of the same disc. As for "Where the wild things are", I've just checked and can inform you that I managed to get my cheap blu-ray copy out of the shrinkwrap. Haven't watched it yet though.
@@The_Farwall >the two different aspect ratios split across each side. That sounds like a kind of thing 20th Century Studios would do for a while when tube TVs were on their way out in the land of bald eagles and rising apple pies.
Ypres (pronounced Eep-ruh) is a town in Northern Belgium I would love to visit :-) British soldiers in the first world war called it Wipers. The Wipers Times was written up by British Soldiers in the trench for a laugh for the soldiers :-) the toip brass were originially not fans of this but the paper helped a lot with morale
Sadly Brits took over the French pronunciation of Flemish towns, we call it Ieper (Ee-pur). It was a very prosperous city during the Middle Ages and the Cloth Hall was for a while the largest civilian building in Europe. 4 years of British and German bombardment pretty much razed the city to the ground and Churchill wanted to keep it as a memorial to the sacrifices of his tommies... without bothering to ask the inhabitants first! Instead much of the city was rebuilt, including part of the Vauban-designed city walls with the addition of the Menen-gate where every night the Last Post is played to commemorate the over 50,000 Commonwealth soldiers whose remains were never found.
"pronounced Eep-ruh" if you speak french, which kinda no one does anymore in leper. Yes, it's actually pronounced Ee-per in dutch (Flemish if you want to be pedantic, which I do. :) )
@@alfje5492speaking as someone from Britain I was always raised to call it "ee-per" Although I think that is more from a lazy Anglophonic "that'll do it's foreign they make the letters sound a bit different" rather than any actual idea of how the people who live there pronounce it 😂
I saw Where the Wild Things Are in theatres when it came out. It starts out similar to the book (although, in the movie, it's more like Max runs off into the woods instead of Max's bedroom transforming into the monster forest the way it does in the book) but halfway through, it gets all existential and weirdly depressing. I'm not in any rush to revisit it. A Frank Sinatra movie that's somewhat interesting for reasons beyond the movie itself is 1968's The Detective. It has some mature themes for a 1968 film but the thing that's interesting from a retrospective standpoint is that it's based on the novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp, who wrote a sequel novel in 1979, Nothing Lasts Forever, that was adapted into Die Hard (although there are significant differences between the book and movie, not the least of which is how the detective character wasn't even named John McClane, he was Joe Leland, and the sequel book was also significantly different from the original The Detective novel, which was about investigating the murder of a gay man and did not have Detective Joe Leland crawling around ventilation shafts shooting vault robbers posing as terrorists). I like flipper DVDs with both the widescreen and "full-screen" (if your screen is 4:3 like old televisions) versions of the film but mainly if the full-screen version is "unmatted" instead of pan-and-scan. One flipper DVD I have is Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket, which I also own on Criterion Blu-Ray but I still value the bare-bones Sony Pictures Home Entertainment flipper DVD because the side with the full-screen version of the film is unmatted, so you get to see some small details at the top and bottom of the screen cropped out of the theatrical version of the film such as seeing that there's a McDonald's behind the motel. I found the Simpsons Movie underwhelming, with only the Alaska portion of the film being moderately entertaining. I do actually like some modern Simpsons episodes like last season's (33) "Boyz N The Highlands" with Bart, Martin, Nelson, and Dolph forced by juvenile court to go on a wilderness trek together and they save a goat from a weird cult. I have a licensed Old School Hot Wheels car from 2013 when Hot Wheels was just starting their premium "Retro Entertainment" line and featured vehicles from all sorts of unlikely TV shows and movies, unlike today, where "Replica Entertainment" is pretty much just repeats of cars from DC, Marvel, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and a handful of other perennial franchises. I also have both the "dream version" and "real world version" of Greased Lightning from Grease from the same Hot Wheels line.
Not really. Just because they had the squirrel room instead of the geese doesn't make it more accurate or better. The spirit of the book was better preserved in the older version.
As someone who read both Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and its forgotten sequel Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator and watched both movies lots of times, while Tim Burtons version is more accurate, I honestly prefer the original movie adaptation
Spike Jonzes's take on Where the Wild Things Are is anything but a laugh if Im being honest. Its depressing as all hell in some moments. A real solid film in its own right, just one that kind of scared me when I was a kid lol.
That guess about _The Wipers Times_ was either inspired or incredible. It's about some WW1 soldiers who found a printing press and put out a spoof-newspaper that became quite popular among the troops. The name is, indeed, a reference to how they originally expected the pages to finally be used.
I take it you aren't a fan of pantomime then... 😂 As a performer I quite like the gimmick of Mrs Browns boys being that they always ad lib and try to make each other laugh. The episodes do get repetitive though I'll admit
“Whoa, Carol, what is that?” “Oh, that’s just that dog. Don’t feed it, he’ll just follow you around.” That scene lasts a few seconds but it made it onto the disc. Wild. It’s an amazing film, btw.
So happy to see one of my most favorite channels still exists, when I first got into TH-cam ashens game console reviews, and other random shite kept me company, this is truly an og channel next to nigahiga and what happens if I microwave this lmao😂
Oh my god. That Disney Princess Stories gave me SO many memories from my childhood I used to hv all three volumes on a lil dvd boxset There were so weird, they were like Telltale Games where you the viewer could make like choices that impacted the story... The weirdest part was I vividly remember that Cinderella's and Snow White's stories weren't properly animated like it was like watching a crappy slideshow (They didn't even get a voice actress for Cinderella until her one singing part and even then it sounded nothing like her.) The rest were all 2D animated like their movies though. What a blast from the past.
I got one at a charity shop for my daughter and didn’t realise that it was a choice type of thing 😂 I had a Flintstones VHS when I was younger that had a choice bit in it and I was amazed
It's funny how companies don't even feel the need to label their DVDs clearly any more because they just assume they'll always be in a box. The very first one you pulled is a perfect example.
That extinction one is a found footage film with those big practical dinosaur suits that people used to use for pranks back in like 2014 It's honestly a fascinating watch
Looking at the designs, I'm assuming the Tom and Jerry thing is just a collection of a bunch of the old theatrical shorts, presumably with a Christmas/Winter theming.
Love the way you gushed over my comedy hero 'Alan Partridge', and then presumably threw the 'Mrs Browns Boys' DVD straight into the bin. Yes, I'm convinced you're my best friend.
I take it you aren't a fan of pantomime then... 😂 As a performer I quite like the gimmick of Mrs Browns boys being that they always ad lib and try to make each other laugh. The episodes do get repetitive though I'll admit
Kinda makes me sad that Dracula Untold seems to just be remembered as another failed attempt to launch the dark universe. I watched it on release with a bunch of fellow Dracula enthusiasts and we all enjoyed it greatly.
Weird coincidence, my cousin was one of the main CGI people on that, said he spent a year making bats for a but where Dracula turns into thousands of bats on a hill or something?
We need to figure some way to rig it that sometime in the future when Ashens does another one of these DVD episodes, a copy of The Polybius Heist is in the batch he receives. :)
8:35 Saw _Silver Surfer_ in a budget theater, where all the shots of Galactus menacingly approaching Earth were undercut by a cheap projector with poor contrast. To paraphrase _Red Dwarf:_ "Well, the thing about Galactus in this film -- his main distinguishing feature -- is he's greyish-black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is greyish-black. So how are you supposed to see him?"
I have that Beetlejuice release; it is very early and as a result predates all DVD players having aspect ratio options. One side is 4:3, the other is some form of widescreen ratio (can't remember which)
Fun thing with the Old School DVD is that if you put two of your fingers in the back of the center hole of the disc, it looks as though your fingers are the butt cheeks.
There's so much you could say about what's wrong with that show, but where to start? It'd fill a video in itself. Best just pretend we didn't see it and then frisbee it into the nearest bin.
@@stingersplash I know some friends of mine find it hilarious for some reason, the uncultured swines 🤣 glad to know others have better taste in entertainment
23:39 George Sampson won Britain's got talent back in 2008 doing his little roboty dancey dance. According to his Instagram, he's now doing a bit of panto
The double sided one is from the era before double density DVDs which we use now. Now both layers are on one side. The bottom one is accessed by using a different frequency laser I think
12:04 - "This is the story where Paddington gets decapitated." Well if Winnie The Pooh could get a horror movie I'm sure Paddington will too some day XD
The newest home alone is absolutely bizarre because the burglars are actually a down on their luck couple trying to get back a valuable doll they think the little kid stole or something??? It’s very “fuck the poor” for no explicable reason
Serenity always came across to me as the creator being like "FINE, enough already! Stop asking." Then he makes a movie that ensures the TV show can never come back, just to spite the fans.
I saw Serenity in the theater not knowing it was part of Firefly and having never seen Firefly. I was lost and didn't get a lot of what was going on. I need to revisit the universe.
Oh man, the 2012 version of The Sweeney. I was on holiday in Switzerland visiting a friend that summer, and where he lives in Lugano, we took a trip to Locarno on the opening night of the yearly film festival, and this was the movie they had as their premier film, about a month and a half before it was released in the UK. I remember two things - nearly losing my hearing because the person they had on stage singing opera before the film played hit so many high notes that it was deafening, and that pretty much the whole audience broke into applause at the end of the climatic fight scene. I thought the film was ok, I've seen enough of the classic series to know that was better, but the film was just about ok.
Sharknado and it's sequels are so bad they come out the other side shining. Katie price getting crushed by a great white will live in my memory forever.
I think they were supposed to be bad though, right? I only saw a few minutes of the first one. When things “try” to be bad they generally aren’t any fun, either haha
4:23 - There's literally a high chance it's one of the *many* compilation DVDs where it's a mixed bag of the classic "Tom and Jerry" shorts as well as episodes from the 'Tom and Jerry Tales' series from 2006-08 (though some will just have one or the other). I actually have four of them (three mixed compilations and one full of classic shorts) in my own DVD collection plus one of the direct-to-DVD films Warner produced.
Hearing the name Bruno brought back this horrific flashback of when me, my dad and my brother were watching the scene in the film when he was at the hotel handcuffed to his partner and the various belts and straps they had used for... mounting each other to one another and my mother walked in and thought we were all watching some gay porno (although to be fair the movie kinda was a porno).
Re: Fantastic Four movies. During the 90s, they got Roger Corman to do a FF movie (FF is also what it would receive as grades in school) in order to retain license; they only barely released it. Having seen it, it's delightfully bad in a very Roger Corman sort of way. It's a guilty pleasure for me.
I take it you aren't a fan of pantomime then... 😂 As a performer I quite like the gimmick of Mrs Browns boys being that they always ad lib and try to make each other laugh. The episodes do get repetitive though I'll admit
Was? The BBC are, for whatever reason, still commissioning it. Mrs. Brown's Boys makes Carry On films look like [insert top tier film of your choice here].
My name is Caroline. My dad got it for me as a Christmas present when I was a kid because of how similar it was to my name lol I'm glad he got it, because it was awesome
One of my favorite short term tv series from the 90s was Nightmare Cafe, only 6 episodes but very interesting sci-fi/horror type show by Wes Craven staring Robert Englund. I taped every episode when they aired and was so disappointed when it was suddenly cancelled.
You have to be one entertaining ass fellow and good with improv to just LOOK AT DVDs that you haven't seen and somehow still make it fun to watch. and yet it is!
I remember that Disney Princess DVD I believe its just a compilation of animated shorts and episodes all put into one disc. I think it also had games on it as well.
Just when I'd resorted to rewatching some old Ashens videos, Stewart rises from the ashes like the glorious phoenix he is and uploads a nice new video. Thank you sir.
It's an orangutan, not a chimp. But I suspect you knew that, and said it just so people like me would type messages like this in the comment section. It worked! All hail the algorithm!
You're right about The Dark Below when it comes to genre it falls very much under horror/thriller, little off on what it's about - it's certainly an interesting watch 🙂 Always loved Hook, regardless of how Spielberg felt, I felt it was a great addition and intriguing twist on the Barrie story. By the way I burst out laughing when you briefly paused on the Mrs Brown's Boys dvd and then just threw it aside, that was perfect 😂
My favorite thing about The Mummy from 2017 is the fact that, the first time they uploaded the trailer to TH-cam, there was no trailer music and almost no sound effects: all you could hear was the dialogue and yelling/screaming, and occasionally those big non-diegetic boomy sounds they use in all the action movie trailers.
That Tom Cruise scream is not memed enough. It's so funny.
Ooopsie
That’s seemingly pretty common nowadays funnily enough
I'm guessing TH-cam nuked the sound because of copyright?
@@concentratedcringe No. They owned the sound. And youtube can't remove layers from an already rendered track. I'm a bit confused as to what you think happened.
A dark version of red riding hood? Because the regular version of the story about a young girl being stalked by a wolf who then murders her grandmother and then wears her skin is so wholesome.
wat? didn't the wolf swallow her whole? then they were both saved by some hunter by cutting the wolf open? where did you get this version where wolf wears grandma?
You should look up the origin story of most fairy tales, a whole lot of them are genuinely terrifying and nothing like their modern counterparts. Maybe there's a channel out there that does this kinda thing?
The Tom & Jerry Christmas DVD is a mere collection of four episodes. Two of which aren't even Tom & Jerry!
They are The Night Before Christmas (1941) & Mice Follies (1954).
And the other two are The Captain's Christmas (1938) & One Ham's Family (1943).
But then, you aren't going to read this, you're just going to look into that later, so there. ;P
I remember Mice Follies but not the others.
Is MIce Follies considered a Christmas episode? I always thought it was just a regular one.
@@martinputt6421 I guess the ice skating makes it kind of "Christmassy". It is a bit tenuous though.
@@GreyHulk2156 I'd categorise Mice Follies at the very least a winter-related short, not exactly under Christmas.
I knew it
Whatever Mrs. Brown's Boys is, it must be amazing as it left Ashens speechless!
Irish pantomime, well it's actually made by the BBC and filmed in Scotland (on a 3 wall set)
But it was written by an Irish family about an Irish family.
It isn't for everyone, it's typical British pantomime, lots of men dressing as women and saying doublentendre and swearing.
Most episodes revolve around recurring characters with running jokes getting into trouble and their old "Mammy" finds some way to fix it (while breaking the 4th wall and making jokes to the audience)
If you try to take it seriously you'd not like it, if you don't like crude humour you'd never like it, episodes do become quite repetitive after a while and usually end up parodying well known films or news stories (another feature common in pantomimes)
The gimmick that sets Mrs Browns Boys apart from any other show is all (most of) the cast are related, father and mother, their kids and grandkids, etc AND THEY ALL TRY TO MAKE EACH OTHER CORPSE (laugh and forget their lines) AND LOTS OF AD LIB
There was also an original version of the series that was actually made in Ireland and was on Irish tv, like a comedy soap or something and they actually went outside and had some outside scenes or scenes in other places and sets unlike the BBC version
and it had more plot as well, plus more focus given to the other characters in it, it ran for 2 or 3 seasons of 6 episodes I think or maybe just one
It is, 5/5. Watch it and you won't regret it!
It's great! The main character, Mrs. Brown, is played by a dude but plays the role so well you don't even notice most of the time I feel.
It's one of those brilliant Dada comedies that are not funny whatsoever.
I've seen funnier fatal car incidents. When you watch people who cannot act, stumbling through a script written by a particularly bitter, angry, and homophobic nine year old drunk, then you know it's time to turn off the TV and reassess your life.
Home Alone 4 was a feature-length pilot for a Home Alone TV series that never happened. The kid on the front is supposed to be Kevin, but it doesn't look like him in any way. French Stewart was to play Marv. The story goes that Daniel Stern was asked to reprise his role, but after he read the script he told the writers that he thought the script was crap and didn't want any part of it.
When talking about 'Antz', I love that Ashens gave a perfect description of 'The Ant Bully', a light-hearted kids film. 'Antz', however, is a film with some genuinely terrifying scenes.
Honestly, I was that one kid who liked Antz better than A Bugs Life. It just stuck with me more.
@@doglover12345andfr me too
@@doglover12345andfrme too
I only watched a bug's life as a little kid but I watched antz more recently and it's 1000x better
I absolutely adore the old Paddington Bear stop-motion cartoons. The art style is still fascinating to watch.
And the excellent narration by Michael Horden.
the newer show on Nick is fairly good style wise too for modern computer animation. Of course nothing can be the old stop motion.
Yes, absolutely charming - they really capture Paddington's bear/toddler gait and the fact the humans are all in '2D', suggesting they are a bit staid and colourless was also inspired.
I have the complete series of that Paddington series on DVD. I remember watching it when I was very little.
I'm more of a Nelvana Paddington Bear kind of guy... never saw the shorts.
What I really like about this series is that it essentialy a video talking about a video format without showing any of the video the format contains.
Also there are no official descriptions this time.
Also Ashens did not seen all of the films so at times the video is just describing DVD artwork.
I loved every second of it.
Good lord I HATED the double sided DvDs. I swear they were the most fragile discs I ever owned. You could leave them in their case and they'd scratch themselves to oblivion
Agreed😅, I still own a double sided Beetlejuice DVD (cardboard cover with a plastic insert of easily snapped teeth to hold it safe). Long movies with duel DVDs, I loathed most when "please insert Disk 2" appeared on screen.
agreed!!! my poor Coraline DVD was subjected to this as it was one of the DVDs with the film in 3D on the other side of the disc. thankfully it was on the side that was 3D but still.
My sister in law got very confused by the dvd of the "It" miniseries dvd,she actually rang me to ask if there was something wrong with the disc as it just stopped halfway through...she was also on a media course at uni at the time
@@LocalTorchwoodIntern I rebought the film from cex it's the one with the old 3d cardboard glasses.
The guy who made the puppets for Paddington teaches stop motion model making at NUA in Norwich. He's a lovey bloke.
My respect for Ashens when he launched that Mrs Browns Boys disc 📈
Deserved to be launched across the room
@@therunawaykid6523🥏
Best thing I remember about DVDs is my big girl calling them "divvy-doos" when she was little
For some reason, I got _Moby Dick_ confused with _Free Willy_ until Ashens started talking about the different versions.
In my defense, they are both about whales and have a synonym for penis in the title.
Probably not gonna see this but that ghostbusters 2 is from a box set with 1 and 2 with a little book that talks about the movies and trivia! The discs also have a few episodes of the ghostbusters animated series! I have the set myself and i almost religiously carried it with me whenever i went out with my dvd player as a kid
I SAW IT!! Is that why it looks like it's pencil sketched on off white art pad paper? If you google "Ghost Busters 2 DVD Label" There is NOTHING that shows up like that.
The early double-sided DVDs usually featured widescreen on one side and 4x3 pan & scan on the other.
By "early", how early do you mean, because I remember having Starship Troopers pretty much when it came out on a double sided disc and it was just the movie split into two parts.
Yeah. Pretty sure Beetlejuice is like that. Not pan and scan though as you see way more in the 4:3 version of Beetlejuice. (you see just as much to the sides, but more vertically)
@@AfterBurnerTeirusu Open matte
@@AmartharDrakestone OH.... well not that early then. haha. My only experience of double-sided DVDs was the different ratio options. You must be more of an OG DVD user then me!
@@FigureFarter Yup. It's one of the better open matte titles. Especially on laserdisc.
That leaning pose on How to Lose a Guy fascinates me. I think *maybe* two people could stand in a stable position like that, but could they get out of it without one or both falling down.
Ah yes the classic dumbass romcom pose ilk
The magic of high tech Photoshop movie posters! No studio appearance necessary!
Fun Fact: A quick search for the "Cleopatra 2525" TV series Ashens mentions reveals that it is about a stripper that gets cryogenically frozen after her boob job got botched, only to wake up in the year 2525 to go to war against flying knock off terminators.
Loved that show
Why was that the premise and not Egypt in the future?
@Tommy Deonauth's Archives because it was the 90s, and nothing offended everyone like today.
I dunno what I expected from the name _Cleopatra 2525_ but holy crap, it was not that. It sounds freakin' awesome, lol! Now if only it has the Zager and Evans song in it...
So it's 40K related lol
Ashens banter is so entertaining which is why this video type is one of my favorites.
4:53 From what I can tell it's 4 episodes revolving around christmas from the early cartoons put onto a DVD.
I was so young when Hook game out I absolutely loved the movie. Still has a place in my heart for being one of the favourite movies of my childhood.
Its kinda scary that what feels like "fairly recent" is in fact already 10-15 years ago..
I'm fairly certain free birds is a movie that heavily references American thanksgiving so it only makes sense you haven't heard of it.
And Chucky cheese… no wonder it was so shit😂😂
Its the movie where they "go back in time to the first Thanksgiving to take turkey off the menu". A modern masterpiece
i've always known it as the movie where they go back in time to the first thanksgiving to take turkey OFF THE MENU
I saw free bird in theaters but I've never heard of Ribbit
possibly inspired by the relative success of "Chicken Run" - which I enjoyed as a kid but was also terrified by
The reason Ghostbusters 2 has a sketch on the disk is coz it’s from a box set of both movies, with a sketchbook of original designs from the movies included - so all the internals have a sketch theme (I own it!)
Good knowledge.
There’s something hilarious about how the silence for the Mrs Browns Boys discs triggered the adverts to play
Any chance on another episode of bootleg dvds? You guys reading the crazy Chinese descriptions is so funny
Sadly the market for bootleg dvds is kinda dead. Online piracy is the thing now and physical dvds are rare nowdays
Stursl Uttle 3!
Apparently they stopped filming those due to Covid, so hopefully they'll be able to film another soon. Being that the Advent thing was in person again this year I'm guessing they should be able to. I think it does take them time to go through all of those to collect all the funny things though
@@yeggog for a second there I thought you were about to say they stopped filming pirate copies during Covid which tbf would also make sense being that the cinemas were shut
Fox debuted two science fiction shows in March 1995: _VR.5_ and _Sliders._ The network's executives had a great deal more confidence in _VR.5,_ which received a much larger marketing push. It was canceled in May, leaving three of its thirteen episodes unaired.
_Sliders,_ conversely, was renewed twice and gradually destroyed by the same executives' meddling. Following its cancellation, its decaying corpse was paraded around for two low-budget seasons by its studio's sister entity, the Sci-Fi Channel (now called "Syfy"), with Cleavant Derricks as the sole remaining original cast member by the end. And there was much sadness.
Fox had a lot of 'gambles on new shows' in the 90s that they subsequently essentially sabotaged with no marketing, airing eps out of order, moving them around on the schedule so they never gathered fans, just preempting episodes for sporting events, etc. "Firefly" was just the most famous example - above has already mentioned "VR.5", but a few more examples are "Space: Above & Beyond" and "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.".
This happened with such regularity, that my headcanon is that the VP in charge of Acquisitions (that purchased the new shows) and the VP of Scheduling (that aired the new shows) had personal animosity with each other, so Scheduling would bounce these shows around and not give them a regular time slot, as well as the other 'tricks' mentioned to force these shows to fail, so as to make Acquisitions look bad (keeps buying failures).
Can confirm sadness.
Sliders started off as such a fun show. Such a shame how it went so awry.
That Beetlejuice disc is probably from that brief period where movies were released as 4:3 and 16:9 on different sides of the same disc.
As for "Where the wild things are", I've just checked and can inform you that I managed to get my cheap blu-ray copy out of the shrinkwrap. Haven't watched it yet though.
First DVD I ever bought was a double sided disc of the South Park movie and yeah, that has the two different aspect ratios split across each side.
@@The_Farwall Some films also have special features on the opposite side like the Wrong Turn DVD.
Wonder if that could have a slight quality advantage over the anamorphic method
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>the two different aspect ratios split across each side.
That sounds like a kind of thing 20th Century Studios would do for a while when tube TVs were on their way out in the land of bald eagles and rising apple pies.
You can see on the border text that it says 4:3 on one side, so it's definitely a dual aspect ratio disc.
ashens is going back in time to get free birds OFF the menu
Ypres (pronounced Eep-ruh) is a town in Northern Belgium I would love to visit :-) British soldiers in the first world war called it Wipers. The Wipers Times was written up by British Soldiers in the trench for a laugh for the soldiers :-) the toip brass were originially not fans of this but the paper helped a lot with morale
Sadly Brits took over the French pronunciation of Flemish towns, we call it Ieper (Ee-pur). It was a very prosperous city during the Middle Ages and the Cloth Hall was for a while the largest civilian building in Europe. 4 years of British and German bombardment pretty much razed the city to the ground and Churchill wanted to keep it as a memorial to the sacrifices of his tommies... without bothering to ask the inhabitants first! Instead much of the city was rebuilt, including part of the Vauban-designed city walls with the addition of the Menen-gate where every night the Last Post is played to commemorate the over 50,000 Commonwealth soldiers whose remains were never found.
"pronounced Eep-ruh" if you speak french, which kinda no one does anymore in leper. Yes, it's actually pronounced Ee-per in dutch (Flemish if you want to be pedantic, which I do. :) )
Definitely go if you can. The last post at the Menin Gate is something to behold
The Belgians are really nice too
@@alfje5492speaking as someone from Britain I was always raised to call it "ee-per"
Although I think that is more from a lazy Anglophonic "that'll do it's foreign they make the letters sound a bit different" rather than any actual idea of how the people who live there pronounce it 😂
Eep
I saw Where the Wild Things Are in theatres when it came out. It starts out similar to the book (although, in the movie, it's more like Max runs off into the woods instead of Max's bedroom transforming into the monster forest the way it does in the book) but halfway through, it gets all existential and weirdly depressing. I'm not in any rush to revisit it.
A Frank Sinatra movie that's somewhat interesting for reasons beyond the movie itself is 1968's The Detective. It has some mature themes for a 1968 film but the thing that's interesting from a retrospective standpoint is that it's based on the novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp, who wrote a sequel novel in 1979, Nothing Lasts Forever, that was adapted into Die Hard (although there are significant differences between the book and movie, not the least of which is how the detective character wasn't even named John McClane, he was Joe Leland, and the sequel book was also significantly different from the original The Detective novel, which was about investigating the murder of a gay man and did not have Detective Joe Leland crawling around ventilation shafts shooting vault robbers posing as terrorists).
I like flipper DVDs with both the widescreen and "full-screen" (if your screen is 4:3 like old televisions) versions of the film but mainly if the full-screen version is "unmatted" instead of pan-and-scan. One flipper DVD I have is Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket, which I also own on Criterion Blu-Ray but I still value the bare-bones Sony Pictures Home Entertainment flipper DVD because the side with the full-screen version of the film is unmatted, so you get to see some small details at the top and bottom of the screen cropped out of the theatrical version of the film such as seeing that there's a McDonald's behind the motel.
I found the Simpsons Movie underwhelming, with only the Alaska portion of the film being moderately entertaining. I do actually like some modern Simpsons episodes like last season's (33) "Boyz N The Highlands" with Bart, Martin, Nelson, and Dolph forced by juvenile court to go on a wilderness trek together and they save a goat from a weird cult.
I have a licensed Old School Hot Wheels car from 2013 when Hot Wheels was just starting their premium "Retro Entertainment" line and featured vehicles from all sorts of unlikely TV shows and movies, unlike today, where "Replica Entertainment" is pretty much just repeats of cars from DC, Marvel, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and a handful of other perennial franchises. I also have both the "dream version" and "real world version" of Greased Lightning from Grease from the same Hot Wheels line.
Fun fact: The Tim Burton version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is more accurate to the source material then the 70’s version
Not really. Just because they had the squirrel room instead of the geese doesn't make it more accurate or better. The spirit of the book was better preserved in the older version.
As someone who read both Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and its forgotten sequel Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator and watched both movies lots of times, while Tim Burtons version is more accurate, I honestly prefer the original movie adaptation
I love watching epic movie with the audio description on it makes it so good
That way, you don't have listen to most of the movie.
You've got Wipers Times pretty much spot on, Michael Palin is in it too. Worth a watch.
Nice! 43 minutes of Ashens on my sunday is a welcome surprise. Love these DVD videos.
Spike Jonzes's take on Where the Wild Things Are is anything but a laugh if Im being honest. Its depressing as all hell in some moments. A real solid film in its own right, just one that kind of scared me when I was a kid lol.
That guess about _The Wipers Times_ was either inspired or incredible. It's about some WW1 soldiers who found a printing press and put out a spoof-newspaper that became quite popular among the troops. The name is, indeed, a reference to how they originally expected the pages to finally be used.
The Mrs Browns Boys non review was great
Immediately exiled to trash compactor's dimension!
I take it you aren't a fan of pantomime then... 😂
As a performer I quite like the gimmick of Mrs Browns boys being that they always ad lib and try to make each other laugh.
The episodes do get repetitive though I'll admit
“Whoa, Carol, what is that?”
“Oh, that’s just that dog. Don’t feed it, he’ll just follow you around.”
That scene lasts a few seconds but it made it onto the disc. Wild. It’s an amazing film, btw.
Most of those DVDs would make great coasters for a jungle-themed retrogaming vegan bar in Norwich.
Now that everything is going on streaming and streaming is censoring lots of things, you might have got an actual treasure with all those DVDs
So happy to see one of my most favorite channels still exists, when I first got into TH-cam ashens game console reviews, and other random shite kept me company, this is truly an og channel next to nigahiga and what happens if I microwave this lmao😂
Oh my god.
That Disney Princess Stories gave me SO many memories from my childhood I used to hv all three volumes on a lil dvd boxset
There were so weird, they were like Telltale Games where you the viewer could make like choices that impacted the story... The weirdest part was I vividly remember that Cinderella's and Snow White's stories weren't properly animated like it was like watching a crappy slideshow (They didn't even get a voice actress for Cinderella until her one singing part and even then it sounded nothing like her.) The rest were all 2D animated like their movies though. What a blast from the past.
I got one at a charity shop for my daughter and didn’t realise that it was a choice type of thing 😂 I had a Flintstones VHS when I was younger that had a choice bit in it and I was amazed
Pal Joey was based on a musical and also starred Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak.
It's funny how companies don't even feel the need to label their DVDs clearly any more because they just assume they'll always be in a box. The very first one you pulled is a perfect example.
That extinction one is a found footage film with those big practical dinosaur suits that people used to use for pranks back in like 2014
It's honestly a fascinating watch
Looking at the designs, I'm assuming the Tom and Jerry thing is just a collection of a bunch of the old theatrical shorts, presumably with a Christmas/Winter theming.
Love the way you gushed over my comedy hero 'Alan Partridge', and then presumably threw the 'Mrs Browns Boys' DVD straight into the bin. Yes, I'm convinced you're my best friend.
I take it you aren't a fan of pantomime then... 😂
As a performer I quite like the gimmick of Mrs Browns boys being that they always ad lib and try to make each other laugh.
The episodes do get repetitive though I'll admit
Kinda makes me sad that Dracula Untold seems to just be remembered as another failed attempt to launch the dark universe. I watched it on release with a bunch of fellow Dracula enthusiasts and we all enjoyed it greatly.
Me too. Still enjoy it on every re-watch
Weird coincidence, my cousin was one of the main CGI people on that, said he spent a year making bats for a but where Dracula turns into thousands of bats on a hill or something?
We need to figure some way to rig it that sometime in the future when Ashens does another one of these DVD episodes, a copy of The Polybius Heist is in the batch he receives. :)
8:35 Saw _Silver Surfer_ in a budget theater, where all the shots of Galactus menacingly approaching Earth were undercut by a cheap projector with poor contrast.
To paraphrase _Red Dwarf:_ "Well, the thing about Galactus in this film -- his main distinguishing feature -- is he's greyish-black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is greyish-black. So how are you supposed to see him?"
Why is this so damn compelling? I could watch this for hours.
I have that Beetlejuice release; it is very early and as a result predates all DVD players having aspect ratio options. One side is 4:3, the other is some form of widescreen ratio (can't remember which)
16:9
I actually have one or 2 DVDs like that!! That's totally fo' realz! They used to do that!! Bonkers.
Me: "hmm, Ashens seems quiet lately"
Suddenly Ashens: Massive DVD Mystery Box Thing 6
Me: "Ah..."
He has been quiet. Didn't even get a Valentine's Day tat special this year.
I'm assuming it's because pickings were too slim this year.
Fun thing with the Old School DVD is that if you put two of your fingers in the back of the center hole of the disc, it looks as though your fingers are the butt cheeks.
Referring to DVDs as "old school" has made me feel old.
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@@TheCorkon Noice! 🔥.
I can't explain why we all like these videos, they're just simply, hilariously, amazing 😂
30:38 / 38:41 - The reaction just says it all 🤣
Mrs Brown's Boys doesn't exist in his universe
That's how I feel about it too, don't get why it's popular (or at least used to be)
Folded me
There's so much you could say about what's wrong with that show, but where to start? It'd fill a video in itself.
Best just pretend we didn't see it and then frisbee it into the nearest bin.
30:38 The most appropriate reaction.
Thank you for making me realise I'm not the only person who thought exactly that
@@LexTheSteelerthe show is generally destested by most people.
@@stingersplash I know some friends of mine find it hilarious for some reason, the uncultured swines 🤣 glad to know others have better taste in entertainment
I mean I haven't seen Hook in probably 20 years but I hold it that it's probably still an amazing movie.
I've seen it again last year and it still holds up for me.
I still think is an underrated Spielberg movie.
BANGARANG
Its a decent movie to have on at christmas or something. I wouldnt say its amazing or anything.
23:39 George Sampson won Britain's got talent back in 2008 doing his little roboty dancey dance.
According to his Instagram, he's now doing a bit of panto
He was also in Waterloo Road
@@dellzinchtWas about to say the same thing!
Ashens knows Kids in the Hall! That warms my frozen, Canadian heart!
The double sided one is from the era before double density DVDs which we use now. Now both layers are on one side. The bottom one is accessed by using a different frequency laser I think
Epic Movie is kinda worth it for Captain Jack Swallows
man really dials up the impression to 11
12:04 - "This is the story where Paddington gets decapitated."
Well if Winnie The Pooh could get a horror movie I'm sure Paddington will too some day XD
The newest home alone is absolutely bizarre because the burglars are actually a down on their luck couple trying to get back a valuable doll they think the little kid stole or something??? It’s very “fuck the poor” for no explicable reason
Serenity always came across to me as the creator being like "FINE, enough already! Stop asking." Then he makes a movie that ensures the TV show can never come back, just to spite the fans.
Objects in Space was peak Firefly. As you say Serenity was pretty much funded by the Browncoats for the Browncoats enjoyment.
It’s a good thing. Would have just came back woke anyway.
@Nytephyre New thing is different from old thing!!!!! 🤯😱
@@Nytephyre wow lol big brain over here
Kinda reminds me of the first Evangelion movie. Which was made to spite the fans.
The only person who can talk about DVDs and make me laugh.
DVDeez nuts
@@GodsDrunkestDriver1791 looks like there's two people now
Try watching 'redlettermedia'
Me too! I generally skip over these types of videos, but Ashens could make watching grass grow interesting lol
I saw Serenity in the theater not knowing it was part of Firefly and having never seen Firefly. I was lost and didn't get a lot of what was going on. I need to revisit the universe.
Oh man, the 2012 version of The Sweeney. I was on holiday in Switzerland visiting a friend that summer, and where he lives in Lugano, we took a trip to Locarno on the opening night of the yearly film festival, and this was the movie they had as their premier film, about a month and a half before it was released in the UK. I remember two things - nearly losing my hearing because the person they had on stage singing opera before the film played hit so many high notes that it was deafening, and that pretty much the whole audience broke into applause at the end of the climatic fight scene.
I thought the film was ok, I've seen enough of the classic series to know that was better, but the film was just about ok.
THE DARK BE.LOW is a great low budget Horror/Thriller film. It's also a modern day silent film. There's only one sentence of dialogue during the film.
Sharknado and it's sequels are so bad they come out the other side shining. Katie price getting crushed by a great white will live in my memory forever.
Check out ‘Six-Headed Shark Attack’, it’s a masterpiece.
I think they were supposed to be bad though, right? I only saw a few minutes of the first one. When things “try” to be bad they generally aren’t any fun, either haha
4:24 that's the first time I've seen a dvd that's allowed for both resale and rental!
I didn't know Patrick Stewart had played Ahab. That makes the scene in First Contact where he goes nuts and smashes his "little ships" funnier.
I love when you get to the Mrs Browns Boys DVD you just don't say anything and toss it to the side 😂
4:23 - There's literally a high chance it's one of the *many* compilation DVDs where it's a mixed bag of the classic "Tom and Jerry" shorts as well as episodes from the 'Tom and Jerry Tales' series from 2006-08 (though some will just have one or the other). I actually have four of them (three mixed compilations and one full of classic shorts) in my own DVD collection plus one of the direct-to-DVD films Warner produced.
Seeing this frame rate and quality after watching you over a decade ago is really cool.
Spoke to ashens at MCM and talked about this series of videos said one was in the works glad to see it here.
Hearing the name Bruno brought back this horrific flashback of when me, my dad and my brother were watching the scene in the film when he was at the hotel handcuffed to his partner and the various belts and straps they had used for... mounting each other to one another and my mother walked in and thought we were all watching some gay porno (although to be fair the movie kinda was a porno).
Fun fact. I named my cat after his character.
24:59 fun fact, in the Legends canon the first-gen AT-AT was actually used by the Republic during the Clone Wars.
Re: Fantastic Four movies. During the 90s, they got Roger Corman to do a FF movie (FF is also what it would receive as grades in school) in order to retain license; they only barely released it. Having seen it, it's delightfully bad in a very Roger Corman sort of way. It's a guilty pleasure for me.
Flying straight past, Mrs browns boys is a vibe 😂
I take it you aren't a fan of pantomime then... 😂
As a performer I quite like the gimmick of Mrs Browns boys being that they always ad lib and try to make each other laugh.
The episodes do get repetitive though I'll admit
Microwave the Mrs. Brown's Boys DVD for a fireworks display marginally better than the content.
Oh gawd - there's TWO! I suppose that'll be double the fun of destroying them.
Was that one of those stupid British comedies that was worse than Carry On?
Was? The BBC are, for whatever reason, still commissioning it. Mrs. Brown's Boys makes Carry On films look like [insert top tier film of your choice here].
@@lawrencecalablaster568 A Carry On snob? Infamy
Mrs. Brown was in that Tyler Perry movie
One of my best animations is Coraline. Nice and scary for the kids.
Brilliant in 3D
@@babettesfeast6347 Possibly the only 3D dvd I own, now you mention it, came with it's own glasses in the box.
I remember seeing Coraline in cinema, back in the day
My name is Caroline. My dad got it for me as a Christmas present when I was a kid because of how similar it was to my name lol I'm glad he got it, because it was awesome
I highly recommend the book if you havnt read it.
It's short but does a fantastic job of playing up the wierdness of the other world
Home Alone 4: Not for Rental is a weird title though im sure we can all agree, kids should not be for rent.
One of my favorite short term tv series from the 90s was Nightmare Cafe, only 6 episodes but very interesting sci-fi/horror type show by Wes Craven staring Robert Englund. I taped every episode when they aired and was so disappointed when it was suddenly cancelled.
At least you can use them as coasters for tea and coffee mugs, and the occasional Pina Colada.
Next time I get asked "do you have any coasters?", I'll just bust out the Barbie DVDs...
"With all the dogs you could ever handle" Ashens, that's just 2 dogs.
You have to be one entertaining ass fellow and good with improv to just LOOK AT DVDs that you haven't seen and somehow still make it fun to watch. and yet it is!
I"m here to hunt down the random reflections in the centers of the disk that show an unsuspecting ashens staring at the sofa
24:19 at the end "IAN" realizes that the first letter of his nametag was turned sideways....."HAN"....True Story😅
I remember that Disney Princess DVD I believe its just a compilation of animated shorts and episodes all put into one disc. I think it also had games on it as well.
Just when I'd resorted to rewatching some old Ashens videos, Stewart rises from the ashes like the glorious phoenix he is and uploads a nice new video. Thank you sir.
"oh fuck, it's sharknado" is the only appropriate way to refer to that film now
Yes! a new Ashens video!
'I reckon [Where the Wild Things Are] is going to be a laugh, at the very least.'
Better get your pillow ready, Stuart...I tapped out halfway through.
No joke, these are some of my favourite videos that you do. I don't quite understand it either. :))
I love these videos because I get a tid bit about every film and references for others. It helps find new stuff.
Epic Movie has a whopping 2% on Rotten Tomatoes! 🤣
Huh... so in other words the best of the "movie" movies then.
That’s about 3% higher than it deserves.
@@TimothyCollins Scary movie 3 is good. It was directed by David Zucker who made the naked gun and Airplane.
still better then that shitfest Green Book.
@@AfterBurnerTeirusu Scary movie 3 featured Leslie Nelson peeing through his finger. I give it a 2% at best.
It's an orangutan, not a chimp. But I suspect you knew that, and said it just so people like me would type messages like this in the comment section. It worked! All hail the algorithm!
Amazing video, love the mystery DVD boxes!
You're right about The Dark Below when it comes to genre it falls very much under horror/thriller, little off on what it's about - it's certainly an interesting watch 🙂
Always loved Hook, regardless of how Spielberg felt, I felt it was a great addition and intriguing twist on the Barrie story. By the way I burst out laughing when you briefly paused on the Mrs Brown's Boys dvd and then just threw it aside, that was perfect 😂