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The Lost Art Of DVD Menus
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2021
- In which I praise the nearly lost art of DVD Menus.
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Nothing fills me with 2000s nostalgia like a good old fashion DVD menu.
From DVD menus, previews, to box engineering, a ridiculous amount of expertise and deliberate design was invested in selling the public on new forms of physical media during the 2000s.
What are the qualities, quirks, and merits of physical media during what is arguably the last era of its existence? Is there still a point to having a massive collection of DVDs and Video Cassettes when I can just rent Tokyo Drift on iTunes and watch it right now? Are there any strengths in physical releases compared to streaming video? Absolutely. Physical media, and DVDs in particular have artistic merit and valuable content beyond the movie itself. Before you even press play on your remote, you’re absorbing a powerful, deliberately designed, and sadly underappreciated form of art. Behold, the art of the DVD menu.
Video essay, movie analysis, film history, y2k aesthetic, 2000s nostalgia, 2000s trends, 2000s movies, y2k movies, art analysis, art video essay
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As a former DVD menu designer/producer, thank you for this.
Your work is greatly appreciated, thank you 🙏
Which menus did you design?
@@mmsthfanatic6296 I didn't actually design a ton because I wasn't a great designer. Mostly low-level indie movies and back catalog studio films. But produced just about everything that Universal did over the last 5 or 6 years, and worked on a ton of Disney and Fox titles farther back
@@Chris-bs7ex Nice.
i subbed to you
It’s sad how kids won’t experience the awesome dvd menus we had.
I'm passing all my DVDs along to the next generation thats for sure!
I experienced the "It's great to be an engine" menu
I’m 13 and I understand
The special features menu for Shrek is one of the menus I remember specifically from my childhood. I always remember selecting the gumdrop buttons on the Gingerbread man and hearing him say "Not my gumdrop buttons!". I love the main menu but the special features menu is always the one that comes to mind when it come to nostalgic DVD menus IMO.
Do you remember the character creation feature on shrek special features?
@@winnersneverqult The character morph game? If you're talking about that then yeah I remember it.
The first Spider-Man movie's DVD menus definitely were the ones I had on loop the most. Although I'd add the Cat in the Hat DVD as well for having the characters sort of chastise you for taking too long to pick something.
Yesss I can't believe I forgot about the Cat in the Hat menu until you mentioned it. Great example of a meta menu that played on loop on my TV as kid.
Same with Surf's Up
The DVD menu for The Incredibles was the best one that I can think of. It had TONS of bonus material. With that said, the one that is drilled into my memory is Christmas with the Cranks lol. My cousin and I left it playing for an hour after the movie finished trying to memorize and recite the theme song that played on repeat :)
I feel like the early Pixar DVDs had so many great behind the scenes docs. Loved watching those!
Ahaha that's a great memory to share with your cousin!
Who says DVDs and Blu Rays can't be convenient? I still think they are! LMAO
Shit man, that ending bit about the Star Wars DVD menus and you discovering that Empire of Dreams documentary, coming to the realization that filmmaking is a career path you can take on and be inspired by... verbatim how I got into filmmaking too. You hot me with those feels man. Great work on this video, King.
Thank you! It's wild to magine all the filmmakers that Empire of Dreams inspired😊 So glad that doc exists
Man My most nostalgic is the Cars DVD menu with McQueen just doing a loop animation around the track with Real Gone karaoke in the background. And I remember having my toys on the carpet and using the music as if it was there and to pretend there waiting for a Drive-In movie to start on the couch. And I loved just listening to Marlin and Dory in the Anemone arguing about the movie and making jokes
Oh my god I specifically remember that Shrek menu lmao, most of the time though I found the loops quite annoying however now that I’m in my 20’s, I want them back
Right?? I remember so many times when that menu would play over and over as a kid
I always hated the menus where characters spoke to you because I grew up speaking French only and those menus were never translated so I never understood a thing. My greatest DVD menu memories are from the Platinum edition of Beauty and the Beast, though, as this was the first DVD we ever got in my family. It was one of those "Each menu takes place in a location of the movie" kind of thing. I also remember a lot about Shrek 2, even though that's one of those voice-over menus I never understood when I was young. I just watched that movie so much, I saw that menu an insane amount of time!
That actually sucks that they didn't bother dubbing the DVD menus in french!
@@ItsGregKon the menu for ironman
Dvd menus always scared me. Mostly because my brother would leave on his horror movie dvds in the middle of night and I would find them with there scary ass menus. I couldn't stomach the courage to turn the player off but goddamm it was scary. Look at the evil dead dvd menu and the ring dvd menu.
Soooo true. I definitely remember The Ring DVD menu. At sleepovers we'd play rock paper scissors to choose who has to get close to the TV and press play😂 The fact that it just plays on repeat makes it even creepier somehow
@@ItsGregKon after watching this video i made a video about this topic. its kinda bad lmao but it was fun. definitely was something i was afraid of for a couple of years and made me avoid DVDs
That's awesome! I'm eager to see your take on the topic 😃
Omg the nostalgia!!!
It was the best when they had good music and terrible when the music clip was only like 20 seconds long haha
Also, I never thought about the dying art of "special features"
Either there's a documentary film style "The Making of..." piece or nothing. There's no little tab on a Netflix movie that let's you watch "the making of the lightsaber" or those clips of make-up artists working on the masks in Harry Potter.
So many memories of flipping through pages of bonus features trying to watch every single bit of my favorite movies...
I really liked this, really well done!
Right? I wish it was standard for Netflix, etc to have audio commentary and special features. I swear I watched those more than the movies themselves when I was a kid😂 Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it😊
I really like the example of the Criterion Collection as a more modern day version of what DVD menus could look like. All these old 2000s examples got me right in the feels.
Criterion menus never miss❤!
The Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron DVD menus were just... so good.. I'd love for them to be re-released text free as wallpapers or something. They were so beautiful.
Did you make this FOR ME?!?!? I think you fucking did sir. Yes indeed. Jesus, this is exactly what I want in a UA-cam video haha. And btw, it's Spider-Man.. that's my essential childhood DVD menu!
(And all those stupid mini-games 😂 ... I miss that era 😭)
Ahahaha I knew I wasn't alone in this 😂
Man I'm so glad this video exists, still an avid movie collector but it's exceedingly rare to find the Blu-ray release of a new movie that really cares about a cool menu.
Just finished watching all your videos today and this one was my favorite, perfect blend of 2000s notalgia and appreciation for something that was largely unnoticed.
Thank you! Hearing that someone went through all of my videos makes me so happy😁 Am working on a niche 2000s nostalgia video right now, will be up next week!
Anyone who appreciates a good DVD menu should see the IT Crowd's menus. The episode select from season 2 is a perfectly recreated mortal combat 1 character select screen, with each character being a particular episode. If you leave the menu open for about 30 seconds, it will enter the "game" and play out a fight between two characters, using moves inspired by moments from the show. Every menu on all 4 seasons is a different parody like this, and nobody's going to see them on streaming services.
Whoa! That sounds incredible. Great show, good to hear that a lot of effort went into the menus for each DVD. I gotta hunt these down now 😃
Yes!!! I loved the season 2 menu!
I'm genuinely so happy that this video exists. There really is a beautiful art to the DVD Menus of old, and I'm so pleased you could illustrate my exact thoughts!! Subscribed~!! You deserve way more views.
Also, if I had to pick a favourite DVD menu, hands down, it would have to be the one for "Over the Hedge".
Comments like yours make my day! It means a lot that my video resonated with you.
That Over The Hedge Menu is classic! DreamWorks was really nailing every DVD Menu in that era.
@@ItsGregKon Absolutely!! They were masters of an underappreciated craft. I cannot wait to see what else you have in store!! ^w^
I buy dvds not for collection- but because i want a physical copy of my very favorite and influential films and tv shows. I want to be showrunner so actually owning those shoes and films and not depending on the length of the contract whatever streaming service i have has with the copyright owner. Many shows and movies are not permanent staples on Streaming services and they jump around. If the film of show is important to me either emotional or creatively as an inspiration or for learning or all of the above combined- then i should have a physical copy. I just wish more people thought that way.
I do the exact same thing! I don't trust the constant content churn on streaming platforms. Plenty of great shows and movies have gone out of print and are unavailable on streaming. I'm always re-watching my favorites and I'd be devastated if any of them weren't available any more.
I searched "video essay" and sorted by new on UA-cam and found your channel. This video is super well made, I hope you get more popular!
That's awesome, thanks for watching! I'll keep makin em and hopefully people like you keep finding em😁
my all time favorite dvd menu is finding nemo.
Yes! An all time classic
@@ItsGregKon i especially love disc 1 as it has marlin trying to get you to select an option while dory is being dory.
The aquarium.
I think why DVD and blu-ray menus are less creative now. Is because physical media dying out. Warner Brothers even it will phase out DVDs and Blu ray discs by next year.
You're right, it's all moving to streaming!
The studios don't have budget for menus anymore, so they've templated everything for speed and cost.
My favorite DVD menu isn't from any movie or TV show
It's the "Deuce" DVD about the band "Korn."
Why is it my favorite? Because the scope of it's features are massive. It has so many different features, like biographies of the fan members, interviews, all of their music videos, and just videos of them hanging out and messing around. Some you have to unlock by doing puzzles or figuring out combinations. The menu is great, and there's so many different areas that you can move to, so many that you can even get kind of lost. It's something that I wish more bands did. I definitely recommend it.
When I was younger, a teacher gave me & my brother disc 1 of season 2 of SpongeBob, and I was confused by most of the menu clips not being from episodes on the disc. This was made more confusing by the fact that I never saw any of the episodes those clips came from on TV. The Incredibles was one of my favorite DVDs as a kid. I probably watched the 2nd disc more than the first. It was the main DVD that influenced my love of filmmaking. It isn’t my #1 DVD anymore because it’s in 4x3 and skips a lot, but I’ll still keep it for the nostalgia. I remember the DVDs for the 90s sitcom Martin, and I found it fun to do a sort of “scavenger hunt” to find the clips they showed on the menus. I also love the menu for the Mr. Peabody & Sherman movie, because it’s a really creative spin on the animated clip show type of menus. It reminds me of what Warner Bros. sometimes did (ex: live action Scooby Doo-ology, Looney Tunes: Back in Action) where they repurpose animation assets in a fun way. The early SpongeBob DVDs also did this, and I love them for it. Not to mention that most of those compilations had exclusive special features.
Jonah a VeggieTales movie has the best DVD menu, that one was always my faverite
Not to mention how much I loved it when DVD menus would do something wild or artistic within the constraints of the format. I remember my dad and I rented the Stir of Echoes special edition DVD, put it in, and a completely normal, no-audio still-image menu appears, as you call them, "Windows screensaver menus". I try to hit Play. Nothing happens. The highlight over the menu options begins to scroll up and down, but I'm not pushing any buttons. The menu glitches out in a fashion to make you think your TV is haunted, with clips of the film interspersed with original stuff, and the true menu appears, backwards text hand-drawn in the frost of a cold window, with "See" being the ominous play button.
That menu fantastically set the tone of the film we were about to watch, and I'll never forget it. I never would have had that experience if I'd simply watched it on Netflix or something, but now that menu is inextricably linked with the film itself in my memory.
The End of Evangelion's original Manga Entertainment DVD did something similar, but not nearly as subversive. Somber piano music plays over rapid cuts of material from the film as the text of the menu selections begins to deteriorate, decay, letters shriveling and falling away until the options are almost unreadable, culminating in a rapid-fire supercut of incomprehensible imagery that cuts to absolute black for a few moment before resetting. Absolutely chilling, and VERY indicative of the tone of the film.
That is so cool! I've never seen the Stir of Echoes menu, but that sounds perfect for a horror movie. Both menus you mentioned sound like an excellent way to set the tone.
@@ItsGregKon The only video of the Stir of Echoes menu I'm talking about that I can find it this one of some guy filming his TV (there is another menu, but it's way more basic, more of a "movie trailer menu" like you described. ua-cam.com/video/JWtfPCpfriY/v-deo.html
@@ItsGregKon and here's that end of Eva DVD menu. A commenter put it very well when they said "never before has a DVD menu so perfectly conveyed a message of 'abandon all hope ye who enter here'" ua-cam.com/video/pSznJol16pM/v-deo.html
@@tituslafrombois1164 Thank you for the links! That Eva one is so powerful. Stir of Echoes looks creeeeepy
@@ItsGregKon Thanks for watching them haha! Truly, DVD menus were an art form all their own.
The DVD menus for the Matrix films are so good that I watched them more than the actual films as a kid
They're so slick 😎
I remember the Flushed Away DVD Menu. It had so much content! I also had The Lion King Diamond Edition DVD. And i remember finding it the scariest shit ever XD
Flushed Away... that's a movie I haven't thought of in a long time. I also had irrational terror for some kids movies/menus😂 I was so scared of The Grinch as a kid
4:13 that line alone was just perfect
It's true!
One of my favorite DVD menus had to be for ‘Night at the Museum’.
Before sending you to the actual menu, it would show the lights of the museum slowly turning on until it revealed the T-Rex and then a text would appear on screen saying “Welcome to the Tour. Click here to start.”
After you clicked start, Alan Sylvestri’s EXTREMELY eerie score would start playing and you would be sent over to the main desk where the text would read “The Museum of Natural History” and each option underneath was treated as one of the Museum exhibits.
This menu scared me so much as a kid, but I loved it so much.
I. Could. Not. Agree. More.
As someone who has authored many DVDs over the years, I have said exactly the same thing - DVDs and their menus are a lost art. There is something so vvery special that 'they' managed to create with the DVD specification back in the mid 90s. The menu art actually started to become lost on Blu-rays though, with companies like Universal applying the exact same menu template to every title, merely changing the words on the generic menu options.
The Planet Of The Apes 2001 DVD Menu was Terrifying
Hulk 2003's menu was scary too
Man, the most memorable menus for me were the following:
The Original Jurassic Park trilogy
The Little Mermaid
Shrek 1 and 2
The Lion King
Aladdin
Disney's Dinosaur
Madagascar
Shark Tale
Godzilla 98
Jonah a Veggietales movie
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Emperor's New Grove
Cars 1
Ratatouille
Wall E
Kung Fu Panda
King Kong (1933)
Dragon Wars
Open Season
and Looney Tunes Back in Action
Thank you for this video, glad to know that more people appreciate DVD menus.
I still collect dvds from the flea market, and I particularly enjoy the dvds from Warner Home Video, which characteristically have a dark themed background (with the Waner Bros logo), title of the movie and your classic choices, my favorites have to be the popular Production Notes from the film and the Cast and Crew information. Most of the time you can find the copyright screen on those parts of the menu and it's rather fascinating how well hidden the copyright screen can be.
My favorite menu though has to be Fight Club, that mocking warning screen, the happy music and menu screen turning to hard rock and fighting scenes from the movie, amazing.
Thank you again for the video.
Thank you! It's so great to see viewers like you who still appreciate DVD art. The Fight Club menu is a major standout from that era, great pick!
NGE death and rebirth and End of Eva had amazing menus, they’re what made me go down the menu nostalgia rabbit hole.
Love the aesthetic of those menus
Since childhood, I'm always fascinated with DVD menus. These days, I only look into static DVD menus released for old films made from the early era. I become so hook up with the simplicity, I ended up designing them just as how they did.
There are some issues along the way though, which I don't think it was fully covered online though.
I think the Blu-Ray's pop-up menus are better because they are straight to the point and I can get to a bonus feature, scene selection and such quicker.
Great video!
I remember the 24 first season DVDs menu. Where a voice said. "It's right... we're watching you." After the watched episode it went straight back to this voice. And I sometimes let it run for quite a long time. Yes. DVD menus where great!
Another really great one was the2004 Dawn of the Dead. So much bonus stuff. Hours! sooo good.
Memento had the most frustrating, yet most creative menu.
Did it start at the credits and work its way back to the play button?😂 I haven't seen that menu, I'll have to track it down!
@@ItsGregKon Just trying to get the movie to play was a feat in itself.
@@ItsGregKon from what I hear it was a really complicated test that if you didn't solve correctly you wouldnt get to watch the movie.
@@NumaanTahir Of course 😂
I personally prefer dvds over streaming, because there sense of satisfaction i get from having a physical copy in my hands. Plus the little mini expedition you go on when you journey to the store and buy a copy.
Agreed, it turns the watching experience into more of a thoughtful ritual. Plus, I just like looking at movies on a shelf😊
Blu-rays and UHD Blu-rays exist and have much greater picture quality
@@tomojagooriginal622 I am aware
In summer of 2002 I was planning to propose to my first wife (the first movie that we saw together was Shrek (in a theatre)). While I have seen 95% of the movies that you mention here I have not seen ANY of the DVD menus since I saw those movies in a theatre.
My favorite dvd menus were always the menus for
Finding Nemo
Shrek 2
The incredibles
Wall-E
Cars
Toy story 2
And high school musical
One of my favorites is the Madagascar DVD and its METRIC TON of minigames.
Yes! A classic, I loved those mini games
Ohh i still have the DVD i´ll have to check it out sometime
Too bad I’ll probably never play that trivia game anymore. That part probably got affected from the scratches. RIP
Ranking my top five favorite dvd menus, the list includes...
5,) - 2006 version of The Santa Clause 3 The Escape Clause / Jack Frost freezes the gears,
4,) - 2002 version of Scooby Doo with Matthew Lillard / Luau Supplies,
3,) - 2004 version of Shrek 2 / zoom call conference,
2,) - 2001 version of Cats And Dogs / cyber profiles,
1,) - 2004 version of Classic Star Wars Trilogy / landscape with glimpse of a few scenes from the movies,
the second disc of monster inc. I remember exploring that like if there's no tomorrow.
I really love DVD and Blu-Ray menus! My favorites were the ones that included some bonus games and extra videos! I know that the main attraction is the movie/TV show, but I find messing around with the bonus features after watching to be extremely fun!
Same even if they are just behind the scenes stuff and links to websites I still love messing with them every once in a while
Another bad thing about modern dvds is the disc prints it doesn’t have art on it now it just has a grey print with the logo on it
It's all about SpyKids for me yo
An absolute banger of a menu for a banger of a movie
The Memento UK 2-Disc Limited Edition is the greatest DVD Menu ever made. You have to take a psychological test as the character to get to specific features. There is an extra special bonus feature if you answer the right way to see the movie in Chronological order, taking up more than 1/2 the disc for one feature most people never see. I had to find a DVD Menu guide like it was a video game! Not for everyone but great immersion
Back in 2000, my parents brought a DVD player and The World is Not Enough. The menu on that blew my mind at the time. I own the first 17 seasons of the Simpsons on DVD and they have really great and creative menus and animations.
I found this video after watching clips of the DVD menus for the 2 Disc Memento DVD release. That was a very interesting/disturbing/creative/frightening menu format and worth checking out.
Also, some of the worst DVD menus are that of early Paramount DVDs (Clue, Scrooged, Addams Family) as they had no animation and no features save for a trailer.
ARE YOU READY FOR FOX DVD?????!!!!!!!! This was a rush a nostalgia - it was almost too much!
That Fox DVD commercial lives rent free in my head😂😂
@@ItsGregKon as it should!!!
Thoughtful video. Good choices/visual references. Other cool DVD menus are Twin Peaks Season 1 (Artisan Entertainment Edition), Alien (20th Anniversary), Aliens (20th Anniversary), Austen Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me and Basic Instinct (Special Edition and Ultimate Edition).
My Fav Will Always Be The Toy Story 2 DVD Main Menu Of 2005
Oh that's interesting! I had the 1999 DVD and the menu was pretty basic. Nice to hear that one of Pixar's best got a menu upgrade
@@ItsGregKon Just To Describe 2005, It's Kinda Like A Clipshow On A TV With Wheezy And The Little Green Men With The You Got A Friend In Me Reprise In The Background, And When You Press Play, The "TV" Goes Static And Ol' Fashioned 4 3 2 1 Play In The TV As We Zoom In Then It Cuts Black Yatta Yatta (ROLL CREDITS!!)
That sounds way better than the still image with no sound menu that I grew up with!
*_"YEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAW!"_*
That one?
Also So Glad That For Pixar Films, That Pesky Fastplay- Wait, What's That Sound.. OH GOD- ťhí§ đï§ñëý ĐVĐ
Two of the best menus I've seen are the ones for the two Gorillaz DVDs. They make it so that you're exploring the band's HQ Kong Studios. On the main menu, clicking an icon will take you to a certain room and in that room, you can click on an object which will lead you to a music video or some other bonus feature. On the second one, a bonus video will be unlocked upon entering each room.
Another is the main menu for Season 1 of Angry Kid (a pixillation show made by Aardman Animations). The menu doesn't display all the options for you to choose and you instead have to wait for Angry Kid to write a sign which has where you want to go. It sounds annoying but it fits since the main character is an annoying brat.
That was a pretty good video, you've earned my subscription. It's also cool to see you have Dogma on DVD.
Thanks, and welcome aboard! The Dogma DVD has some of my fav box art, it's great
My personal favorite was the original six Star Wars menu, where each time you popped in the DVD, you rotated between 3 different backs-drops. Although, I won’t forget finding all 3 Easter Eggs in my Lord Of the Rings Extended Edition DVD menus.
woooh I came here to look for an answer about the DVD menu but you have taken me on to a journey I very much enjoyed. Thanks for the video it is nicely done. I feel nostalgic even though it is not my era. you did a great job bro.
Disney DVD menus from the 2000s are very nostalgic
Absolutely!
If you want an overly elaborate DvD menu, I highly suggest checking out the Momento Special Edition menu.
Not just that.
We hardly get 2-disc special editions of DVDs anymore.
Thank you for this video. I have so many unforgettable DVD menus. Basically any early Pixar or DreamWorks movie. I still collect DVDs nowadays and do menu Walkthroughs on my second channel.
Here's a playlist to my walkthroughs, a lot you mentioned are in here
ua-cam.com/play/PLtIG8iyW5PAbnuIbpfljZvgtQLQtHXDB1.html
I love your videos
@Solomon.272 thank you very much.
Another great video!
Yay! Happy you enjoyed 😊
Amazing video, criminally underrated channel.
Thank you so much!
The dvd menu for Coraline (2009) I have is very memorable for me when it’s just a bunch of clips to the credits music
I loved staring at the Iron Man 2008 DVD menu all day, I also love all the Spider-Man trilogy menus, Cars, and the SponegeBob SquarePants Movie from ‘04 menus
I miss special features more than anything though lol
Saaame, special features are the best!
I would always fall asleep while watching UHF, and would wake up to it's glorious menu.
I'm currently working on my own DVD menu for some things and damn, I'm nothing compared to these super animated ones! I have some motion but I'm so limited with the software options available in 2023.
The two that come to my mind immediately are treasure planet and the thunderbirds film from 2004.
Treasure planet was the map opening and all the options being part of the map and thunderbirds was like the cockpits for the thunderbirds
My favorite thing about physical releases is that it is mine and mine to keep and not rented.
Cars was always etched into my mind as the premonition to thx which scared the crap out of me at that time
This is one of the best things about Physical Media.
I like how some dvd menus were interactive!
Wayne's World 1 and 2, Spaceballs, Star Trek special editions, Die Hard trilogy are some of my favorites.
As someone who was born in 2004, I own a lot of DVDs from the 2000s era. I remember when DVD menus were so fun and creative. And then when streaming took over, the menu speaking all the same and boring and dull.
Spongebob se stories DvD menu, Toy Story 2 menu (animated one), and Iron Man Armored Adventures volume 2 all had me wake up to them and hear their audio on repeat as I attempted to drift back to sleep
The DVD menu for Sofia Coppola's beautiful film Lost In Translation, was a loop of live film footage of Tokyo at night from the roof or balcony of a tall building amongst other tall buildings. It (like the whole movie) has a really warm, organic, cozy feel. And they set that visual loop, to a loop of this song (I think!) from the soundtrack.
ua-cam.com/video/Qoa83DR2zhc/v-deo.html
It was easy to let that menu just run all night.
P.S. I was 24 when I saw Lost In Translation in the theaters (a theater in my area that ran indie films) in 2003. I saw E.T. in the theater when I was 4. I never thought I'd be so glad to grow up in a time without internet or computers in every home (I knew one person with an Apple II in the 80's. My family got a PC in 1996 when I was at the beginning of the 11th grade) and smartphones in every hand. And actually as a teen and adult, watch and remember the shift from that time, of an adolescent of the 80's when technology was just starting to explode, to where we are right now. And now the love for retro (when I was a teen in the 90's I was really into what was 20 years before that time - 1970's style colors and aesthetic - retro!) NES and pixel art and cassette tapes, and the like. Technology has moved so fast from the 80's to now, that I feel like the barely over 4 decades I've been alive, has been like, 100 years. It's really pretty cool.👾
Beautiful movie, deserves a beautiful menu like this.
It's unreal how much tech evolution you've witnessed!
I don't know why but I have always been terrified of dvd menus
For me, the dvd of Smashing Pumpkins Vieuphoria, cause they have in their menu a secret button that you have to find in order to access to a videoclip never released before. That was a good time.
I had no idea there were secrets on that menu!
I have some Czech Pat & Mat (very popular stop motion series here in Czech republic) DVD'S and on them you can see the evolution of menus
aiF's DVD have still image menu but with three new songs composed by the same composer only for that DVD and ton of bonus materials in form of the filmography.
DVD 1-3 have also still image menu but with music from the credits and less bonuses (game filmography of the creator and making of)
4-6 firstly scene from some episode start playing and then it freezes and menu options shows up: play all, episodes selection, bonus materials: game, list of episodes (for some reason without the 4th season), photogallery and advertisment for other DVD released by the same company.
"Special" has the scene from the Ne episode on loop with same bonus materials from the aiF DVD (only two)
1-6 (reedition) + all DVD'S onwards has slightly different image from DVD cover, without any bonus materials.
I know Pat & Mat! My parents had some of the Polish DVDs when I was growing up (I think the show was called Neighbors over there).
That's so cool to see DVD menu tech evolve through a single series!
One Of My Most Cherished Childhood DVD Menu Memories is waiting for The Incredibles Disc 2 Easter Eggs to pop up and i would wait through every menu untill one popped up (if one was on that menu) even today!
I think DVD menus always got you in the mood for the film you were about to watch! The most creative were definitely the Harry Potter DVDs. My fondest memory was tied to the second movie which had that mini game on the second disk where you were driving through the forbidden forest and had to choose the right path so you didn't crash and get eaten up by the spiders 😂 it was actually incredible how much effort was put into such a basic minigame. The Lion King Special Edition DVDs were also amazing. Me and my brother loved the Virtual safari stuff in the first movie and we always anticipated the new Lion king dvds (that being 1/2 and 2) because the virtual safaris were such a cool novelty. Hell, even the Aladdin Special Edition DVD had its own version of it, though if I remember correctly it was slightly more open ended. If I could pick out another menu that I could say was terrifying was definitely the original DVD release of Jeepers Creepers 2. It opens up with the monster itself just popping out from the darkness, staring at you with its creepy ass eyes and then masks the screen with its wings, waiting for you to make a selection. When you started the movie he punched the lens out of the camera lunges at the viewer and I remember finding it scarier than the movies itself for some reason 😂. We all ofcourse left DVDs on if we happened to fall asleep or watched in anticipation when we were about to start a movie with the family. I think the last menu with actual effort i seen was with the 4k remaster of The Beatles Yellow Submarine on Bluray, where they panned the camera into the titular Submarine itself and repurposed footage from various establishing shots in the movie to make it seem like the Submarine was actually traveling outside of the windows. And all of the buttons on screen were menu options, which had an element of curiosity, as it was like when the beatles and old Fred were messing about with the buttons during "All Together Now" . Its actually kinda sad that we won't really have experiences like that anymore, with streaming being on the rise. I still buy Blu rays, although I feel as though they aren't quite the same on a presentation stand point.
I think one of the biggest offenders of DVD menus is the 2 Winx Club movies on DVD in North America. They each have a letterboxed menu that’s just still art of the film and the only option they have is Play. No setup, no bonus features, and not even scene selection.
Aliens Special Edition DVD, Terminator 2 (Ultimate Edition) DVD.
One advantage that physical media will ALWAYS have over streaming, is that they don't require internet to even function.
I am feeling nostalgic... good that still they are around... and pray that they should be there forever.
For me what brings me nostalgia is the DVD menu for :Monster VS Aliens: movie because of how creative it was
That was a great menu!
I actually appreciate this form of art, they make the menu much more fun and attractive, but the only dvd line that has a bit of this art is Disney DVDs
I like the ultraviolet dvd menu and the tomb raider the cradle of life dvd menu
DVD Menu that is stuck in my brain is Barney Sing that Song - so nostalgic
Saw 1 is forever burned in my mind for DVD menus.
Hate to admit it, but my guilty pleasure was dancing with Garfield on the live action movies main menu lol
I remember the first three Transformer movie DVD menus had a cool animations at the beginning same with the first two Iron Man movies....As a kid and even as an adult I think that's really cool and I hope it comes back one day🤔🤣🤙
The special features and other additional content were what I liked about dvd's. Obviously, you need a dvd menu to access special features, and a good, interesting menu just makes the dvd that much more fun. On the opposite side, cheap dvd's, especially of public domain material, had terrible, barely-functional menus. Those are fun too, but for the wrong reasons.
The DVD menu of The Ring 2002 is so scary, there was an easter egg where you can watch the cursed tape and you were not able to get back to the main menu or even stop the tape
Why hasn't someone made an app to digitize & collect your DVD's?! I really miss the menus, easter eggs deleted scenes & bloopers. Definitely a forgotten artform....ahh i still remember my old portfolio I created in my DVD production class of 2006.
Don't forget hidden items and Easter Eggs in these menus.... it was always fun, when those were included (example: Lord of the Rings with the MTV Movie Awards Clip).
But i honestly appreciate the simplicity of a Netflix menu. No sitting through endless unskippable "legal notice" screens or ads. No waiting until the whole thing has loaded to even start the music.
I loved DISCS where the movie starts immediately and you could jump back to a menu, if you wanted.
But all in all...even though a lot of these menus were fun, i mostly saw them as an inconvenience.
The did however have the advantage of pointing out special feature that are usually quite hidden with modern streaming services.
And don't forget the most obvious advantage of physical media...no service can remove them, you don't need an internet connection for them and they can't be changed to censor or remove unwanted things.
the only menus that are silent and have no music or sfx or voices when the options show up (that i know of) are the south park ones.
The DVD menu that got burned in my memory was the main menu of quantum of solace. When I was a kid, watching those images of maps moving with that intriguing spy soundtrack made me activate my imagination and think about playing saving the world or something like that.
Oh god, I hate these, not because they are bad, but because I have OCD, anything that repeats indefinitely it's a nightmare for me, I remember as a child having these stuck in my mind for weeks after seeing them for just a couple minutes, it is a horrible experience having OCD.
I like the Art behind them, but they perfectly describe what it feels to have OCD, your mind is an empty room, but in your OCD room there's a TV with a dvd menu on, forever, you can't play the movie, you are stuck with the dvd menu forever and you can't turn of the TV neither turn the volume down, an unstoppable force that obligates you to stuck with a Dvd menu forever!