That Shrek menu is so iconic that in my family when my Dad presses play on most movies he says "play the movie!" And my sister and I always feel the need to respond with a "ja, play!"
The Nemo one was chill, but put in disc 2 and you've got the stingray singing 'Let's make a selection a selection a selection, ohhhhh let's make a selection on the DeeVeeDeeeeeee' and I think about it all the time! Rent Free
It's a shame you only mentioned the Finding Nemo re-release DVD menu because the original 2003 DVD had so much going for it! Disc 1 had you in the ocean with Marlin and Dory commentating on the DVD menu while Disc 2 took place in the dentist aquarium with the fish gang and Nemo, and I have to mention that BOTH discs gave you the option to turn the menu background into full fledged screensavers for your TV. Truly one of the top tier DVD menus
In 2009 in college, I remember one of my classes having an assignment to design a DVD menu. It seemed so outdated at the time, but ended up being a blast to see how absolutely bat shit I could get.
I love that you chose a Barbie menu for the opening gag, because the very first movie I remember having on DVD as a child after the switchover from VHS began, was Barbie and the Nutcracker.
Dude, the Barbie magic of the Pegasus dvd menu let you dress up the Pegasus and I would spend HOURS not even watching the movie. Barbie had the best menus
For all its faults, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's DVD had an "infinite improbability drive" button that would take you to a randomly selected special feature, including an otherwise inaccessible full-length version of a little animation that is playing in the background in one scene of the film.
this is amazing! the Shrek DVD menu is burbed into my head. Specifically Donkey jumping up and down yelling "ooo ooo pick me! PICK ME!" - my little sister used to fall asleep to Shrek often and I would always turn it off for her in the middle of the night lol thank you for bringing back all kinds of memories! also I absolutely love your editing style
This probably got recommended to me because I started looking into ways to create my own "DVDs" for archives of shows on youtube. I now have even more inspiration. Thank you. Papa Bless. 🙏
Came here from Pinely, and I'm so glad I did. This reminds me of having a birthday party as a kid. Watching a movie felt like an experience because the menus were so fun. I loved playing the terrible little minigames they had and interacting with every menu just to see what it did. Thanks for reminding me of these memories c:
I'm not even halfway through the video but I just HAVE to comment on the editing. It's amazing, it's so fun to watch and engaging, it serves the point of the video without being too disruptive. The intro was cool, but it's so neat to keep editing like that for the rest of the runtime. The one about Series of Unfortunate Events is especially fun to watch, it fits the vibe of the menu so well.
i love the simpsons dvd menus. they had special new animated scenes for each disc that contained characters from those specific episodes and had the simpsons doing episode relevant things too. they’re so charming!
the lion king dvds were my personal fav. i always looked forward to dvd releases from disney/pixar for all the games, easter eggs & special features. who knew it’d be such a short lived thing. my childhood was timed perfectly for stuff like this lol
I used to play with the Shrek the Third menu all the time. It even had a school yearbook. A forgotten art indeed. PS here via Pinely, good recommendation!!
I was literally thinking about this yesterday when I watched Amélie and the special features menu had a bunch of different sections for different features and every section was a different location in the movie, the bar, her apartment and the Sacré Ceour. The dvd menu I remember the most from my childhood was probably the second Harry Potter movie, where there was some games on it and me and my cousins played one where you raced through the forest fleeing from the spiders. It was really rudimentary but it was still really fun for us back then.
I still use DVDs to watch shows and movies on streaming platforms I pay for. The experience of DVD menus is like no other especially getting to scroll through different layers of menu and get to bonus features
My favorite menus were the ones from the Shout Factory _Mystery Science Theater 3000_ releases, because they just had so much care and effort put into them, creating a whole new sketch out of existing voice clips. They were also how I realized how insanely impatient people have gotten. I saw multiple people wishing that they'd stop putting in the effort because it took _15 whole seconds_ to get to the point where you could start the episode.
top notch quality, the Madagascar one especially is nostalgic for me because I used to play a small game that involved the penguins that was on one of the DVD menus, which makes me ask if you'd ever do a video about DVD minigames?
If I'm not mistaken, that's my walkthrough of the ASoUE DVD menu in here! Always wondered if my archive would be useful to someone, glad to know it has been. Thanks for joining the effort to make sure the art of physical media isn't forgotten (^:
I had a copy of nemo on dvd that had a different menu. It was the aquarium in the dentists office and you could watch the fish do their thing, it was really cool. Great video btw
Gosh, I miss when DVD menus had this kind of pizazz. While it's unlikely we'll ever go back to having new DVD menus with this level of charm, atleast we can now appreciate what we once had through videos like this one.
Even though there's no mention of it, I'm glad you still included one of the many Barbie DVD menus! They didn't disappoint on the DVD features neither as they make games as one of their bonus materials (on certain movies). From what I could remember, there's a dressing game on Rapunzel and Magic of Pegasus, a karaoke feature on Princess and the Pauper and Island Princess, and the iconic game ever: the singing Bibble one on Mermaidia!
4:14 "disney was always a company that always was [...]" beautiful clunky sentence thank u. really beautiful and touching video. i miss these beautiful things. we live too hard and fast these days without our dvd menus. life is different now. i am lonely without the light of the oscillating dvd menu
Fun fact: many 3D Blu-rays have stereoscopic menus, including characters popping out. Still some charm and whimsy in the 2010s era, that has mostly trickled out now...
My favourite dvd menu has to be for the IT Crowd S2. There is so much detail and charm in its parody of retro games its a joy to just sit and watch, as there is a solid 9 minutes of totally original content. I couldn't believe how cool it was to see that much effort for a small british tv series but by golly it is worth the money to own it.
Oh something I know about! Shout out to Pinely for pointing his viewers (me) to this video. I used to help a coworker who handled the menu creation and DVD / Blu-Ray work ("Content & Authoring" AKA "C&A") at the post-house I used to work at and it's wild. The budgets are often *tiny* and the work is very specific. They draw up flowcharts on each video that leads into others, and where you go if you press any buttons and it's written in weird coding languages that heavily marry computer science and art and the work was mostly done by a single guy who only came in to work when there was C&A work. For some historical info that I learned from my coworker (so anecdotal but who else would I trust lol), for a while every company had their own C&A department but eventually they all started shuttering theirs and eventually Sony was the big dog and when they closed theirs, they farmed it out of house to the guy mentioned above. Now as the studios move further away from home releases, soon I'm sure there will be like 2-3 places that will even be able to handle the work and only a handful of people who will know how to do it.
I’m happy someone finally made this video, dvd menus were truly something special. My favorite menu and the one I think about often is the original over the hedge vending machine menu, it was so ingenius with how it’s not only creative but how it leads into the first scene of the movie.
I swear you included all of my childhood movies. Now I want to get all my DVDs out just to load up the menus and look for all the hidden details like I used to as a kid. Great video!
DVD menus are cool until they wake you up in the middle of the night at max volume repeating the same clip over and over again so you gotta get up and turn it off because you lost the remote to the DVD player 😭
needed a good reminder of dvd menus, such a specific part of my childhood that i sadly don’t think can be replicated again i’m surprised you didn’t mention the dvd menu for Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed bcs of the mystery that was hidden in it! there was a special feature about Shaggy’s pants going missing, and to find out what happened you had to click through ALL the menu pages to find the the next hidden clue that played the next part of the special feature. i don’t remember ever feeling like i completed it, to this day, i don’t know what happened to Shaggy’s pants 😔
I’m surprised you didn’t talk more about all the features that would be on these menus, especially the games! The film ‘Dinosaur’ had some great games I remember playing loads.
It's pretty hard to confirm: DVD menus are not Turing-complete so it's not possible to run DOOM with it, and Reddit nerds won't give attention to DVD menus. There's control flow but has very limited memory. In practice, DVD menus can be Turing-complete if they delegate memory operations (read(memAddr), write(memAddr, value)) to the user. DVD menu board games effectively delegate memory to the players.
Great video! Can't believe you don't even have 200 subs. I was happy to see the menus of some DVDs I had. Here's two I want to mention that you didn't: the Monsters Inc. bonus disc had a very cool menu based on that scene near the end with the milliond of doors. Another menu I wanna mention is the one for the Garfield live-action movie. That one used to scare the shit out of me cause the music was extremely loud
One of my favorites is the House of 1000 Corpses dvd. The main menu is a character from the film, Captain Spaulding (Played by Sid Haig, RIP), insulting you from behind the counter of his convenience store. It was hilarious.
I have some fondness for the Red Dwarf menus, though that may be because at the time, I had also stumbled across a website with information on how to get to all the easter eggs.
My absolute favorite DVD menu to date was the original Treasure Planet menu! Those transitions to the virtual map were gorgeous. I was so disappointed when i got the 10th anniversary bluray and it just became a static menu with scenes from the movie The background
Spider-Man (2002) and Star Wars had my favourite menus. Monty Python and The Holy Grail would troll you when you hit play. It would play an old British 1960s film, emulating when film technicians would accidentally play the wrong reel. Blurays, particularly WB ones, are so uninspiring.
The greatest DVD menu's I have ever seen in my entire life.... are the DVD Menus for ADV's original box set of "Excel Saga" the Im-Perfect Collection. Not to be confused with the horribly inferior Funimation re-release from years later, I'm talking the original ADV box sets. Those menus are jam-packed with charm and hilarious effort. They went out of their way to get some of the menus to be narrated and even have original new audio skits using the voice actors for Excel and Hyatt to perform them, they're chock full of clickable and discoverable secret Easter Eggs, they contain bonus Easter Egg sketches and fake commercials for fictional products based on jokes from the show, and the menus themselves are well edited and feature some of the best music from the show. They're set up in a fun and creative manner.... ADV just put all their effort to go above and beyond to make those menus memorable.
bit of a deep cut, but the Veggietales Jonah movie menu was great. If you sat at different menus, different characters would just be chilling in the background having conversations. I can't believe they put in the effort to write scrips and record the voices just for a bit of entertaining background effect that people might not even notice edit: if any one is curious, Nostalgivault has the dvd menus uploaded, the one I'm remembering is on disk two :)
Only thing that sucked about owning dvd's as a child is if you lost the remote to the dvd player, you couldn't actually navigate the menus at all and see the bonus content on said dvd...I suffered through this
My favourite dvd menu is 100% the coralline one, could be just because of how many times I watched it every night. I loved listening to the music and watching the little objects from the movie float through the screen. I also loved the Corpse Bride menu I loved the transitions into all of the selections and the music that was used in each menu selections.
As an elder millennial I kind of feel like I missed out on the DVD menu era. Not sure if it's the less mainstream stuff I was watching, the fact we came up renting more than owning so there wasn't much replay time, or maybe I was busy digitizing everything at that point. I have fond memories of Coming Soon trailers on VHS and recall in store Blu-Ray promos talking up interactive special features. Of course shortly after players became affordable streaming started to catch on. Austin Powers's creepy head brings back memories of Felix the Cat's CGI head at the start of the 1988 movie :V
The 2 disc editions of early Pixar films like finding nemo and incredibles were fantastic in the uk, Easter eggs hidden on the dvd by waiting for secret icons to appear on the incredibles dvd or going to certain options and pressing a different direction revealing a hidden fish icon on finding nemo for extra lill features is always fun (also the Jurassic park dvds were scary as hell for the foreboding music and raptors running around screeching god I hate it)
I was in a rut today of what to watch and this video popped up in my recommended and it was such a fun video to watch so thank you for making a boring tuesday a little more special 😎
The menus were always fun the first time around. Unfortunately, some of them failed to have a "skip" option, so if you booted the DVD again you'd have to wait forever for it to load and go through its cycle.
As a kid who grew up without internet but had a crap ton of movies on dvd I would like the movies that had mini games on the dvd menu. But 9/10 times the dvd remote would be lost so the only thing I could do was press play on the dvd player.
I was JUST thinking about old dvd menus and looking back at the ones that stuck with me. The cat in the hat and shrek ones in particular were my favorites. Also love that you brought up the series of unfortunate events menu, the art style perfectly captured the aesthetic of the books and it was one of my favorite movies growing up, it might not be a great adaptation but i still think it's a good movie on its own. btw love the editing, were you by any chance inspired by nakeyjakey?
Yet again, I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the fact that we are blessed by another masterpiece. God, I can't believe we can access this for FREE! Move over Mona Lisa, there's a new kid in town and there ain't enough room in the Louvre for the two of you! Myself and the whole family have been moved to tears. Bravo sir. Bravo.
What a banger of a video, got this recommended at 100 views right but I have a feeling this is gonna have a lot more than that soon
100% agree 🎉
thank you!
totally agree!
A serious banger!!! Shocked to see the view count. This video filled a need I didn’t know I had
so true
That Shrek menu is so iconic that in my family when my Dad presses play on most movies he says "play the movie!" And my sister and I always feel the need to respond with a "ja, play!"
Ooh pick me, pick meeeeee!
same same!!
Literally just got shrek on dvd the other day can’t wait to check it out
The Nemo one was chill, but put in disc 2 and you've got the stingray singing 'Let's make a selection a selection a selection, ohhhhh let's make a selection on the DeeVeeDeeeeeee' and I think about it all the time! Rent Free
It's a shame you only mentioned the Finding Nemo re-release DVD menu because the original 2003 DVD had so much going for it!
Disc 1 had you in the ocean with Marlin and Dory commentating on the DVD menu while Disc 2 took place in the dentist aquarium with the fish gang and Nemo, and I have to mention that BOTH discs gave you the option to turn the menu background into full fledged screensavers for your TV. Truly one of the top tier DVD menus
I’m so glad I still have that DVD, it’s about to turn into a historical artifact 🫠
I don't remember disc 2 since i lost that one. I do remember Dory talking about the little mermaid
In 2009 in college, I remember one of my classes having an assignment to design a DVD menu. It seemed so outdated at the time, but ended up being a blast to see how absolutely bat shit I could get.
I love that you chose a Barbie menu for the opening gag, because the very first movie I remember having on DVD as a child after the switchover from VHS began, was Barbie and the Nutcracker.
I LOVED how Barbie literally welcomed us into her world. it's just completes the movie experience imo
Dude, the Barbie magic of the Pegasus dvd menu let you dress up the Pegasus and I would spend HOURS not even watching the movie. Barbie had the best menus
There was a period of time where you could find secret Easter eggs on just about every dvd menu
For all its faults, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie's DVD had an "infinite improbability drive" button that would take you to a randomly selected special feature, including an otherwise inaccessible full-length version of a little animation that is playing in the background in one scene of the film.
Shrek 2 delivered cinematic excellence on all fronts 🔥
This is single handedly the best coverage of my all time favourite niche topic, thank you piercski xxxx
this is amazing! the Shrek DVD menu is burbed into my head. Specifically Donkey jumping up and down yelling "ooo ooo pick me! PICK ME!" - my little sister used to fall asleep to Shrek often and I would always turn it off for her in the middle of the night lol thank you for bringing back all kinds of memories!
also I absolutely love your editing style
This probably got recommended to me because I started looking into ways to create my own "DVDs" for archives of shows on youtube. I now have even more inspiration. Thank you. Papa Bless. 🙏
WE USED TO BE A PROPER COUNTRY THE DVD MENUS USED TI BE BETTER THAN THE MOVIE ITSELF
Missed opportunity for the 2023 Barbie movie menu to have Margot Robbie as Barbie greeting you like the classic Barbie movies 😔
Came here from Pinely, and I'm so glad I did. This reminds me of having a birthday party as a kid. Watching a movie felt like an experience because the menus were so fun. I loved playing the terrible little minigames they had and interacting with every menu just to see what it did. Thanks for reminding me of these memories c:
I'm not even halfway through the video but I just HAVE to comment on the editing. It's amazing, it's so fun to watch and engaging, it serves the point of the video without being too disruptive. The intro was cool, but it's so neat to keep editing like that for the rest of the runtime. The one about Series of Unfortunate Events is especially fun to watch, it fits the vibe of the menu so well.
I remember the T2, The Abyss, and Independence Day special editions having really cool 3D environments you could move through in their DVD menus.
i love the simpsons dvd menus. they had special new animated scenes for each disc that contained characters from those specific episodes and had the simpsons doing episode relevant things too. they’re so charming!
the lion king dvds were my personal fav. i always looked forward to dvd releases from disney/pixar for all the games, easter eggs & special features. who knew it’d be such a short lived thing. my childhood was timed perfectly for stuff like this lol
Nakeyjakey type beat has to be my favourite TH-cam genre
"type beat" implies a vaguely shared aura, whereas the lack of imagination on display here is more of a plagiarism type beat
@@samg3456 it's not plagiarism to sit in front of a green screen lmao
if he was straight up copying someone else's script that would be plagiarism
This is absolutely not plagiarism. He's allowed to sit on an object and use a green screen.
derivative unoriginal type beat 🎧
DVD Menus and Special Features were a treasure.
I used to play with the Shrek the Third menu all the time. It even had a school yearbook. A forgotten art indeed. PS here via Pinely, good recommendation!!
I was literally thinking about this yesterday when I watched Amélie and the special features menu had a bunch of different sections for different features and every section was a different location in the movie, the bar, her apartment and the Sacré Ceour.
The dvd menu I remember the most from my childhood was probably the second Harry Potter movie, where there was some games on it and me and my cousins played one where you raced through the forest fleeing from the spiders. It was really rudimentary but it was still really fun for us back then.
It’s cool the way you edit yourself INTO the menus themselves!
What an amazing throwback. Great video mate! - Next DVD Menu games…
I still use DVDs to watch shows and movies on streaming platforms I pay for. The experience of DVD menus is like no other especially getting to scroll through different layers of menu and get to bonus features
My favorite menus were the ones from the Shout Factory _Mystery Science Theater 3000_ releases, because they just had so much care and effort put into them, creating a whole new sketch out of existing voice clips.
They were also how I realized how insanely impatient people have gotten. I saw multiple people wishing that they'd stop putting in the effort because it took _15 whole seconds_ to get to the point where you could start the episode.
top notch quality, the Madagascar one especially is nostalgic for me because I used to play a small game that involved the penguins that was on one of the DVD menus, which makes me ask if you'd ever do a video about DVD minigames?
thank you! i was definitely planning on covering DVD minigames in the coming future
@@piercski Well that's good. The HP DVD games voiced by Jim Dayle are seared into my brain.
when i get around to my creative projects. i will make my own website. and it will be reminiscent of these menus
Close enough, welcome back NakeyJakey
House of 1000 Corpses had Captain Spalding cursing at the viewer.
If I'm not mistaken, that's my walkthrough of the ASoUE DVD menu in here! Always wondered if my archive would be useful to someone, glad to know it has been. Thanks for joining the effort to make sure the art of physical media isn't forgotten (^:
I had a copy of nemo on dvd that had a different menu. It was the aquarium in the dentists office and you could watch the fish do their thing, it was really cool. Great video btw
That was Disc 2 of the first print. Disc 1 has Dory annoy Marlin offscreen
Amazing work I completely forgot about far far away idol!
Gosh, I miss when DVD menus had this kind of pizazz. While it's unlikely we'll ever go back to having new DVD menus with this level of charm, atleast we can now appreciate what we once had through videos like this one.
If I could meet Van Ling I would ask him so many questions about DVD menus and alarmingly few about his actual VFX work.
Found this channel with the Weird World of Trophies in Videogames video and now I can’t stop watching your videos, this is A class
I truly do miss these ❤
Cinderella movie (w Hillary duff) was my favorite to see the menu! Loved the ones with games and extra bts footage.
Hide the Stash from "How High" was kinda fun. Even the cheekily undewhelmed reaction from Method Man and Redman when you finally "find" the stash.
Some of my favorite DVD menus are the ones for Rat Race, Jonah - A VeggieTales Movie, and Mouse Hunt.
Even though there's no mention of it, I'm glad you still included one of the many Barbie DVD menus! They didn't disappoint on the DVD features neither as they make games as one of their bonus materials (on certain movies).
From what I could remember, there's a dressing game on Rapunzel and Magic of Pegasus, a karaoke feature on Princess and the Pauper and Island Princess, and the iconic game ever: the singing Bibble one on Mermaidia!
4:14 "disney was always a company that always was [...]" beautiful clunky sentence thank u. really beautiful and touching video. i miss these beautiful things. we live too hard and fast these days without our dvd menus. life is different now. i am lonely without the light of the oscillating dvd menu
Fun fact: many 3D Blu-rays have stereoscopic menus, including characters popping out. Still some charm and whimsy in the 2010s era, that has mostly trickled out now...
2:55 I was looking for this menu for a decade! I remember seeing it when my after-school care played a movie for us on a Friday
My favourite dvd menu has to be for the IT Crowd S2.
There is so much detail and charm in its parody of retro games its a joy to just sit and watch, as there is a solid 9 minutes of totally original content. I couldn't believe how cool it was to see that much effort for a small british tv series but by golly it is worth the money to own it.
I used to go to sleep to the Finding Nemo menu. That was my night light lol. Such nostalgia.
You should talk about Bonus Features next. Some dvds had games and everything 💪 these days you’ll be lucky if you get failed takes 🤦♂️
Oh something I know about! Shout out to Pinely for pointing his viewers (me) to this video.
I used to help a coworker who handled the menu creation and DVD / Blu-Ray work ("Content & Authoring" AKA "C&A") at the post-house I used to work at and it's wild. The budgets are often *tiny* and the work is very specific. They draw up flowcharts on each video that leads into others, and where you go if you press any buttons and it's written in weird coding languages that heavily marry computer science and art and the work was mostly done by a single guy who only came in to work when there was C&A work.
For some historical info that I learned from my coworker (so anecdotal but who else would I trust lol), for a while every company had their own C&A department but eventually they all started shuttering theirs and eventually Sony was the big dog and when they closed theirs, they farmed it out of house to the guy mentioned above. Now as the studios move further away from home releases, soon I'm sure there will be like 2-3 places that will even be able to handle the work and only a handful of people who will know how to do it.
The nakey jakey style was well done. Good job hitting the algorithm with this man
I got Surfs up on dvd and found all the Easter eggs they left on the menu I was so happy to find this on basically my favorite movie
I’m happy someone finally made this video, dvd menus were truly something special. My favorite menu and the one I think about often is the original over the hedge vending machine menu, it was so ingenius with how it’s not only creative but how it leads into the first scene of the movie.
was it just me who spent hours on the voice changer mode in the Open Season dvd or learned that random choreography from The Cat in The Hat?
I swear you included all of my childhood movies. Now I want to get all my DVDs out just to load up the menus and look for all the hidden details like I used to as a kid. Great video!
Far Far Away Idol made me the person i am today
Waking up to the goonies extra credit scene selection was the best. Endless hours as a kid watching the extras. I miss having those
DVD menus are cool until they wake you up in the middle of the night at max volume repeating the same clip over and over again so you gotta get up and turn it off because you lost the remote to the DVD player 😭
needed a good reminder of dvd menus, such a specific part of my childhood that i sadly don’t think can be replicated again
i’m surprised you didn’t mention the dvd menu for Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed bcs of the mystery that was hidden in it! there was a special feature about Shaggy’s pants going missing, and to find out what happened you had to click through ALL the menu pages to find the the next hidden clue that played the next part of the special feature. i don’t remember ever feeling like i completed it, to this day, i don’t know what happened to Shaggy’s pants 😔
I’m surprised you didn’t talk more about all the features that would be on these menus, especially the games! The film ‘Dinosaur’ had some great games I remember playing loads.
It's pretty hard to confirm: DVD menus are not Turing-complete so it's not possible to run DOOM with it, and Reddit nerds won't give attention to DVD menus. There's control flow but has very limited memory. In practice, DVD menus can be Turing-complete if they delegate memory operations (read(memAddr), write(memAddr, value)) to the user. DVD menu board games effectively delegate memory to the players.
Great video! Can't believe you don't even have 200 subs. I was happy to see the menus of some DVDs I had. Here's two I want to mention that you didn't: the Monsters Inc. bonus disc had a very cool menu based on that scene near the end with the milliond of doors. Another menu I wanna mention is the one for the Garfield live-action movie. That one used to scare the shit out of me cause the music was extremely loud
Jumpscared me with the most nostalgic DVD menu of all time right at the intro!
Something about dvd menus always gave me the creeps. No matter how friendly it was
One of my favorites is the House of 1000 Corpses dvd. The main menu is a character from the film, Captain Spaulding (Played by Sid Haig, RIP), insulting you from behind the counter of his convenience store. It was hilarious.
The Simpson's DVD box sets had my favorite gags and easter eggs.
I have some fondness for the Red Dwarf menus, though that may be because at the time, I had also stumbled across a website with information on how to get to all the easter eggs.
Never forget the Tarzan & Jane DVD survival game where Tarzan sometimes dies
My absolute favorite DVD menu to date was the original Treasure Planet menu! Those transitions to the virtual map were gorgeous. I was so disappointed when i got the 10th anniversary bluray and it just became a static menu with scenes from the movie The background
Yasss I love analyzing weird forgotten artforms :D good stuff! subbed
I had never noticed the different Star Wars menu’s!! It all makes sense 😆
You made me remember things I thought I'd have forgotten my whole life
Spider-Man (2002) and Star Wars had my favourite menus. Monty Python and The Holy Grail would troll you when you hit play. It would play an old British 1960s film, emulating when film technicians would accidentally play the wrong reel. Blurays, particularly WB ones, are so uninspiring.
Dream jelly did a video on this too :o i loooove old dvd menus
I got that recommend right after this, both the videos are great!
The greatest DVD menu's I have ever seen in my entire life.... are the DVD Menus for ADV's original box set of "Excel Saga" the Im-Perfect Collection. Not to be confused with the horribly inferior Funimation re-release from years later, I'm talking the original ADV box sets. Those menus are jam-packed with charm and hilarious effort. They went out of their way to get some of the menus to be narrated and even have original new audio skits using the voice actors for Excel and Hyatt to perform them, they're chock full of clickable and discoverable secret Easter Eggs, they contain bonus Easter Egg sketches and fake commercials for fictional products based on jokes from the show, and the menus themselves are well edited and feature some of the best music from the show. They're set up in a fun and creative manner.... ADV just put all their effort to go above and beyond to make those menus memorable.
0:21 That scared the crap out of me!
bit of a deep cut, but the Veggietales Jonah movie menu was great. If you sat at different menus, different characters would just be chilling in the background having conversations. I can't believe they put in the effort to write scrips and record the voices just for a bit of entertaining background effect that people might not even notice
edit: if any one is curious, Nostalgivault has the dvd menus uploaded, the one I'm remembering is on disk two :)
Only thing that sucked about owning dvd's as a child is if you lost the remote to the dvd player, you couldn't actually navigate the menus at all and see the bonus content on said dvd...I suffered through this
My favourite dvd menu is 100% the coralline one, could be just because of how many times I watched it every night. I loved listening to the music and watching the little objects from the movie float through the screen. I also loved the Corpse Bride menu I loved the transitions into all of the selections and the music that was used in each menu selections.
As an elder millennial I kind of feel like I missed out on the DVD menu era. Not sure if it's the less mainstream stuff I was watching, the fact we came up renting more than owning so there wasn't much replay time, or maybe I was busy digitizing everything at that point. I have fond memories of Coming Soon trailers on VHS and recall in store Blu-Ray promos talking up interactive special features. Of course shortly after players became affordable streaming started to catch on. Austin Powers's creepy head brings back memories of Felix the Cat's CGI head at the start of the 1988 movie :V
The 2 disc editions of early Pixar films like finding nemo and incredibles were fantastic in the uk, Easter eggs hidden on the dvd by waiting for secret icons to appear on the incredibles dvd or going to certain options and pressing a different direction revealing a hidden fish icon on finding nemo for extra lill features is always fun (also the Jurassic park dvds were scary as hell for the foreboding music and raptors running around screeching god I hate it)
Wait I totally forgot about pixel chix😭😭😭 damn that brought back such vivid memories
And omg the far away idol one I watched that so many times.
cant get over him fullnaming the vehicles like theyre in trouble for bein in the movie
HAVENT EVEN WATCHED YET BUT THE JURASSIC PARK DVD MENUS FROM LIKE 2003 OR SO WERE THE BEST
I FUCKING LOVE THE T REX FOOTPRINTS AND STOMPING
I was in a rut today of what to watch and this video popped up in my recommended and it was such a fun video to watch so thank you for making a boring tuesday a little more special 😎
Miss these menus, great video man
The menus were always fun the first time around. Unfortunately, some of them failed to have a "skip" option, so if you booted the DVD again you'd have to wait forever for it to load and go through its cycle.
It’s not forgotten. Just because something is old, it’s not forgotten.
I had totally forgot about that Harry Potter dvd menu but now I remember being totally freaked out by that head in it.
Had all these on DVD!! Such good memories! :) Great video!
As a kid who grew up without internet but had a crap ton of movies on dvd I would like the movies that had mini games on the dvd menu. But 9/10 times the dvd remote would be lost so the only thing I could do was press play on the dvd player.
i’m glad i got recommended this video, your editing style is so good :D
loved this mate
Goated production value, such an interesting topic
Thought about this yesterday. Thanks for making this vid just for me
I've been hoping for a video with someone mentioning the incredible Austin Powers DVD menu. It was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid
awesome content, came here from the pinely rec!! thank you sir pinely B)
I was JUST thinking about old dvd menus and looking back at the ones that stuck with me. The cat in the hat and shrek ones in particular were my favorites. Also love that you brought up the series of unfortunate events menu, the art style perfectly captured the aesthetic of the books and it was one of my favorite movies growing up, it might not be a great adaptation but i still think it's a good movie on its own. btw love the editing, were you by any chance inspired by nakeyjakey?
What a GOOD video, I was not expecting such a banger! You’ve gained a subscriber
love the nakey jakey inspiration
I miss DVD menu easter eggs. Like where you'd have to put in some secret code to get to a hidden part of the menu.
This is genuinely so good, grateful the algo sent me here😊
Yet again, I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the fact that we are blessed by another masterpiece. God, I can't believe we can access this for FREE! Move over Mona Lisa, there's a new kid in town and there ain't enough room in the Louvre for the two of you!
Myself and the whole family have been moved to tears. Bravo sir. Bravo.