What is the most DVDish DVD. - The Bear and Badger

mistercrayon

This is probably dumb

This is inspired by some of the chat in the film thread but I wonder if it’s possible to attach nostalgia of media to the media they came on.

For example for me the most Iconic DVD as a mix of DVD and representing the format would be something like The Matrix. Not only was it a release around that time but it felt like it captured the best spirit of that format with its extra features and so on.

It maybe it doesn’t work but whatever let’s see.

For me

CD - Michael Jackson Dangerous
Vinyl LP - Jackson Thriller
VHS - Predator
DVD - The Matrix
PC CD-Rom - Monkey Island or Half-Life
Blu-Ray - Spider-Man 2
HD-DVD- Peter Jackson’s King Kong
mp3 - Trick Me by Kelis
Streaming Video - House of Cards
Cartridges (Console) - Sonic 1
Cartridges (Handheld) - Tetris
Disc console - Resident Evil 2.
Tapes - Bad Michael Jackson.

So a lot of Jackson but I guess that makes sense really.
It’s obviously kind of nebulous.

b0r1s

DVD - As I said in the film thread. Blade for me. Everything about the region 1 version was top notch with great extras and menu design. I guess also because it was my first decent DVD. I recall my player came with Broderick Godzilla and it was as basic as the movie is bad.

I’ll have to think about the rest.

GurtTractor

I think the first proper CD album I had was Gorillaz' first album, which is great. And I really liked all the artwork in the sleeve, I used to spend quite a bit of time drawing trying to mimic the style of the faces.

GurtTractor

In terms of cartridges the Game Boy Camera was fucking wild.

ZMM

I still have some DVDs that have those really stupidly complicated menus, like the Simpsons Season 2 dvd where you have to cycle through some hilarious head swaps before you can play a damn episode

b0r1s

Christ I feel old. My first CD was Bon Jovi New Jersey.

ZMM

House of Flying Daggers is my bluey-est blu-ray

Dark Soldier

Goodfellas on the double sided DVD

mistercrayon

Double sided is a great shout.

ZMM

Transformers is my HD-DVDish HD-DVD. That thing was everywhere.

Still got my Xbox HD-DVD drive somewhere and about 30 of the doomed HD-DVDs.

They're worthless.

Blue Swirl

I was utterly convinced HD-DVD was going to win the HD format war.

afgavinstan

CD - GNR Appetite For Destruction
Vinyl - Queen A Night At The Opera
Tape - Oasis WTSMG
VHS - Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves
Dvd - The Shawshank Redemption
Blu Ray - Speed Racer
Streaming video - House Of Cards
Streaming audio - Bombay Bicycle Club I Had The Blues But Shook Them Loose
Cartridge - Sonic 3 or Tetris or SMW
Game disc - GTA 3

Escape

mistercrayon wrote:

Tapes - Bad Michael Jackson.

Shouldn't you have handed these in as evidence?

Facewon

Dark Soldier wrote:

Goodfellas on the double sided DVD

Feelin it. Dead Man Walking same same.

Escape

I listened to my first director's commentary for about half an hour, and never again. Seemed like a great idea until you got to their execution.

b0r1s

Best extras was The Lord of The Rings making of docs. Lasted nearly as long as the trilogy but so good.

Moot_Geeza

Dvd

The Gift (Katie Holmes)
Go (Also Katie Holmes)

And maybe I.D (unsure on pronunciation) and Ron Howard's Grand Theft Auto, but only because they were ridiculous giveaways with State of Emergency and GTA III when I worked in Game and all local stores/charity shops were swimming in copies.

LivDiv

CD- Dr Dre 2001
Feels like everyone had this in their car, at parties, floors, coffee tables, used to roll joints on, prestine, smashed up to fuck. It just seemed to be omnipresent during my teens.

DVD- The Matrix
The movie ushered in a new era of mainstream action just like the tech. Like many my first DVD player was the PS2 and the Matrix fits perfectly with being played on a games console.

Floppy Disc- Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Amiga. Hooky copy with photocopied A4 manual stapled at the sides.

Cartridge- 6 in 1 Mega Games Mega Drive.
After school special rarely needed swapping out between SoR, Golden Axe and Sonic. Runner up Micro Machines J Cart.

PC CD Rom - Encarta.
Search, print, homework done.

VHS- Hook
Bangarang!

Minnesänger

Great thread, this.

For me “DVD” evokes memories of the age of Asian and art house flicks finally becoming accessible in the UK. Being able to pop into HMV and see what the deals were - 2 Criterion Collection for 15 quid? Yes please.

My love of Asian cinema started with taping stuff off late night channel 4, but it was DVD that saw me able to build a proper collection. The likes of Infernal Affairs, The Ring, The Grudge etc.

Anime, Bollywood, French New Wave. Yes, you could get them before, but they were a hassle, low quality and expensive. DVD changed that. So, for me, the DVDest DVD is Infernal Affairs. A movie I loved, and still love, that wouldn’t have been available to me otherwise.

Kow

The Spinal Tap dvd is the greatest. Firstly there's almost an hour of extra footage, some of which is absolutely brilliant. Also the commentary to the whole film is done by the band, completely in character.

Minnesänger

ZMM wrote:

House of Flying Daggers is my bluey-est blu-ray

Bet that looks proper good.

mistercrayon

Infernal Affairs is also a great shout - that era of importing videos is huge. Things like ringu and what not.

Moot_Geeza

Visitor Q!

nick_md

Mmm, milky.

Minnesänger

mistercrayon wrote:

Infernal Affairs is also a great shout - that era of importing videos is huge. Things like ringu and what not.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Visitor Q!

Yup. Has loads of those. Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, Audition…

Yossarian

Tapes: mixes made by friends with hand-written liners.

mistercrayon

Yeah I long for the day for something that is as engaging to record and easily played. I think USB could have been that but the act of making is too easy and the ability to play conveniently harder weirdly given the name.

I am sad that minidisc didn’t break out of the windows 98 era.

davyK

mistercrayon wrote:

Double sided is a great shout.

Exorcist DVD was a flippy - the extra features being on "side B". Brilliant "making of" doc on that by the way.

Matrix is a strong shout but there is competition from the Alien Quadrilogy and The Godfather Collection. All with splendid extras, as was the "this time it really is" final cut of Bladerunner which has all the different versions, not to mention its making of doc which elevates the form.

I am a fan of a good commentary. There used to be more of them, they are an excuse to watch a film you could act in yourself.

Python stuff's menus are a delight.

Thinking about the Holy Grail one.

ZMM

The Total Recall commentary is my favourite of all time. Paul Verhoeven and Arnie talking broken English at eachother for the duration of the movie. Can't remember if it was on DVD though or blu-ray? I just got the 4k version as well recently, looks astounding, eye-poppingly good detail!

b0r1s

Right let’s do this properly.

CD - Nirvana - Nevermind
Vinyl LP - Prince - Purple Rain
VHS - Return of The Jedi
DVD - Blade
PC CD-Rom - X-Wing vs Tie Fighter
Blu-Ray - Never really cared about Blu-Ray - I’d already started to buy digital content at this time.
HD-DVD - Ha ha ha - I came very close to buying one.
mp3 - I’d bought about a hundred singles but first album was To The Five Burroughs - The Beastie Boys
Streaming Video - ~~Pornhub~~ - I honestly can’t think of my main Netflix experience. Before that I’d bought Band of Brothers on Apple and streamed it nearly every year.
Cartridges (Console) - Super Streetfighter II: Turbo Edition (US Import)
Cartridges (Handheld) - Advance Wars
Disc console - Tekken
Tapes - The Top 40 on a Sunday

Moot_Geeza

Haha.

Edit: at eye-poppingly good.

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