Good thing I have a copy of Dogma. However, I am of the opinion that every movie and tv show ever, should be available for watch and purchase to the masses. Media is art. And art deserves to be observed.
@@Burn3r10 Fine. Then you decide what television show/music/movie needs to be available and YOU foot the costs associated. Printing every DVD/CD/Blue-Ray, plus packaging costs, storage, distribution, advertising, plus all royalties.
I remember getting a DVD player for Christmas when they came out and all my friends were jealous lol. Fk Getting old 😭😂 I still have a VHS player too not goona lie. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
This cracks me up! I own almost everything on this list on DVD! My children are both millennials and are always saying “why do you bother keeping all those DVDs you can get EVERYTHING on streaming!”LOL I always reply “NO YOU CAN’T”
I'm a millennial and have a huge dvd collection...I think you might mean Genz Millenials were born between 1981 and 1996. Streaming services weren't really a thing until the early 00s. We had dvd players.
Three of my favorite movies are not available on streaming, but I have the physical copies - Dawn of the Dead (original), Pink Floyd the Wall and Island of Lost Souls. That is reason enough for me to keep my physical copies!
Plus, you never know when you get a hankering for a movie with a rubber poop monster? Actually, got almost all the Smith stuff on DVD including the talking shows. Surprised how much Dogna goes for on Amazon nowadays!
Same especially with video games and older films. Recently I tried to show my husband my favourite movie that was produced in the 1950s and it’s nowhere online including legal/illegal streaming sites.
Disney: "We can't have Song of the south because it's racist" Also Disney: "We bought the rights to Star Wars and our first film is going to have strong Nazi influences."
@@fluidikons It's boring. And the problem between the kid's parents - that he's pro ending slavery and she's a moron - is completely ignored because Disney was afraid it would be boycotted in the South if they took an anti-slavery stance.
Definitely. Why you shouldn't be getting your books via Kindle and other such readers, you don't own you rent and they can take them from you whenever they feel like and you've no recourse to get them back.
That reminds me of my bootleg DVD set of "Cowboy Bebop." I did look everywhere for Bandai/official DVDs, but the company wasn't interested at the time. I have since added a "Best of" DVD set which looks MUCH better, but Bandai was shortsighted.
Florence Stoker sued Prana Films for ripping off her late husband's novel "Dracula" and had the court order that all copies of "Nosferatu" be destroyed; we have an enterprising movie pirate to thank for its survival. "Nosferatu" is now considered a classic, not only of the silent era, but of all time.
"The Drew Carey Show" has the same problem with musical rights. The show was wonderful, with guest stars ranging from Rush Limbaugh to The Reverend Horton Heat
The thing I remember about "The Reverend Horton Heat" episode, is that only "Jim Heath" got a speaking part. The rest of the band were snarling, and making threatening postures😄👍
Voting integrity opponents: "Why are you making it harder for people to vote by insisting on ID?" Movie pirates: "Why are you making it harder to watch a movie by insisting that we pay for it?"
There is a scene in one of the episodes that played the Star Wars theme as Bruce Willis was fighting a bad guy with some swords or something like that. I just remember it was one of the funniest scenes in a TV series I've ever seen.
WhatCulture: "Dogma DVD and Blu-Rays are out of print." Me staring at my Dogma Special Edition DVD: "Mwahahaha!" Also me: I don't have anything to play DVDs... WhatCulture: "Mwahahaha!"
@@chaosbringer546 studios love it because it makes licensing easier and sometimes more lucrative. Now they they only have to allow you access to the film/game/software rather than providing you with an actual physical copy. Users like it because solid state drives take up less space and are faster. Me...I have a 400+ library of titles on Bluray/DVD/CD. Every build gets an optical drive.
I'm so glad for DVD burners and the ability to convert from VHS to DVD back in the day, especially when Netflix was a DVD rent-by-mail company! You could get 3 at a time so my collection is HUGE! I learned from records/8-track/cassettes going to CD to ALWAYS save the old technology and get it converted over yourself to the latest medium when possible.
I converted all my VHS to DVD with the exception of those that were locked. The only movies out of the 200 or so that I wasn't able to converted because the content was copy protected were Disney movies (every single one) and Heavy Metal. F'n Disney, I love them but they're a bunch of money grubbing bastards. Walt is rolling over in his grave
@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu not at all but no one cares about the people downloading them... They are too busy trying to stop the uploaders. Not to mention how do you go after someone in China using American law or visa versa?
I know several seasons got DVD releases (the packaging gimmick was the box 'wearing' a Parka.) so I don't know why/how Streaming would be that big of an issue... unless their issue was with Multiple Studios having produced it and with everyone having their own app (Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+)
NX IS available with ALL of the original music on a region-B BluRay box set -- tracked it down about a year ago for $100-ish new. US box-set versions stopped featuring the original music after season 2 because of rights issues HERE that never became a problem in the UK.
Anyone else remember the show that went up against NX in its time-slot called _Key West_? Fisher Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Tasha Yar, a bunch of other recognizable names. I liked NX okay for the 1st season, but really dug KW for the far more congenial atmosphere of its setting. I'm *still* trying to get there, half a lifetime later! 😂
@@TJ52359 Was sure had seen some on a shelf at Half Price Books. How I wish I'd bought several series before I moved. There isn't a Half Price Books where I live now.They always had a huge offering of DVDs of movies and TV series and I loved the box sets.
There’s a euro set with the music intact. the north american versions had a lot of the music replaced with generic or other music that sticks out like a sore thumb (they left the children’s choir intro of Inchworm in but dubbed out Danny Kaye with a woman singing a country tune). the season 1 north american box set has the original music but only by accident and only in the spanish dubbed audio track.
Had this issue with Cold Case, love that show, and every episode had music from whatever year the murder took place in. So glad that hbo max has it now. There wasn't even any dvd's of it either!
I was such a devotee of this show, that when a pay TV station in my country showed these again, I painstakingly recorded each and every episode on VHS. Most of the music is the same as shown on TV, so I made my own collection.
Actually, I just checked The Criterion Channel today (June 1, 2021), and "Pink Flamingos" is among the newly added. Not my cup of tea, but just letting you know.
It should be "Difficult to Find", rather than "You Can No Longer Watch". The latter only applies to titkes that no longer exist, like "London After Midnight" and a lot of BBC shows that got wiped. Just because a title isn't streaming doesn't necessarily mean it can't be had, if you're determined.
They did clear up in the video that the only way to access them is through second hand copies, obtaining them through other means like buying them from another country altogether
The best example of this are the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who episodes that got erased because nobody at the BBC honestly thought that people would be wanting to watch them 60 years in the future. Fortunately, fans managed to make audio recordings of all the episodes so the BBC has tried to recreate them by making new animated episodes to recreate the visuals of the original TV broadcasts.
@@greenmonsterprod people tell me the same thing every week when I go looking for stuff in my old tapes collection. Only 2 days out of the week that I can look and today is one of them. Time to get back at it...
The reason it took so long for the tv show “China Beach” to come out on dvd was music rights problems. They had great soundtracks on that show. I waited and hoped for years for a box version. Then, finally!
I found a set of the first series of Moonlighting in a second hand shop - gave it to a neighbour. The real question it - can you still get Bruce Willis's craptacular music album?
This “Musical Rights” issue puzzles me. If a movie has copyrighted music on it and people discover this music by watching, it likely will motivate them to purchase the music if they really like it. The movie would expose music to viewers that otherwise may never discover it. By forcing the movie to be held hostage and thus not shown, who is going to discover its sound track? This same wrong thinking goes on with RU-vid. Videos being blocked for the music. A video of Phil Collins “ In The Air Tonight “ went viral on RU-vid seeing millions of views in a short time. That song went to number two on Spotify! Exposing music to new listeners is always a good thing.
Yup, in the long run they are screwing themselves out of perpetuity. I get that creators should make money but if it is unavailable, becomes strictly a product of the time it was released. All the tv shows, movies have soundtracks that fit a scene, making it iconic. Imagine John Cusack holding up the boom box & instead of hearing, In Your Eyes, some generic, noncopyrighted music plays, the power of that moment is gone. Charmed, Supernatural are examples of shows with popular songs that dragged thru approvals. I understand that SPN lost some classics when it aired on Netflix and people complained how it changed the whole feeling of how it played.
George A. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' is on blu-ray and 4K. As for Star Wars, I'm amazed nobody has seen fit (yet) to re-release the original versions before George Lucas meddled with them. Maybe someday.
I have the THx versions and those are just about perfect. I cant even watch the 'originals' that they play on Disney or on TV, especially Jedi, that's just brutal for people who saw it in the theater.
@@ShanghaiRooster The original Star Wars Trilogy was released on DVD. I own them. If you find a copy, remember to make sure they are fully widescreen. I've seen versions that look widescreen by normal widescreen standards, but the original trilogy was at least half again more widescreen than that!
They got released on DVD years ago as "bonus discs" to the special editions, but they have a weird aspect ratio, not sure if it was the player I was using but last time I tried to watch it was letterboxed massively and cropped on the sides, the picture was tiny.
When I was urged by my family to get with the times , and abandon my VHS player and tapes which included collectors editions of Star trek tv series a number of years ago I was adamant not to comply , I'm glad I did as I now see where the modern age is headed with media , I have a first run tape of Cocoon , and all the theatrical releases of Star Trek , and a home recordings of mash and Ed .
@@JuniperMe The widescreen versions are non-anamorphic, so thus the horrible cropping. You’d have to zoom using the TV, which zooms in on the image severely lowering the image quality. It’s a shame. Might as well be using the widescreen VHS.
Now you know why I still have more than one Laserdisc player in storage, and you can have my Star Wars Laserdiscs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
My dad was a real videophile back in the 80s. He had a 1983 (not sure the exact year of release) bootleg vhs copy of Song of the South ripped from a Japanese laserdisc release. He didn't care anything about the movie. He was just proud to possess such a rare thing. I myself have seen the movie several times because, believe it or not, Disney used to show it about once a year for a while on primetime TV back in the early 70s as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series on Sunday nights on NBC. And yes, I am that old...
Biggest one you missed is The Drew Carey Show. That show was EVERYWHERE in syndication, and I looked forward to buying the DVDs. But after the first season it didn't happen. Largely believed to be because of music rights. Stupid music industry has screwed over a lot of people wanting higher money for streaming, etc. You'd think that they'd negotiate something more permanent or all-encompassing, but there's always some unseen future format that was unanticipated when the original contract was made. WKRP in Cincinnati was similarly famous for using big hits of the era, and then running into renegotiation problems when trying to put it on DVD. They finally had to remove a lot of the music and use sound-alikes to release it, which is frustrating because that lacks the charm of the actual episode. Similarly, MST3K had to conclude their DVD box sets of their series without any of the Godzilla films and missing out on some of the great films, even final season-era films like "Quest of the Delta Knights" and "KIller Bees", because they just couldn't get permission.
@@themoviedealers Thanks for correcting me. I am only vaguely aware of the situation and wrong to say anything other than "some.". It's still frustrating that this happens again and again. BTW: I was watching Taxi on Hulu and many episodes are missing. Explanation: music rights issues.
The drew Carey show is another one that got hit by the music licensing issue. Sucks because I loved that show. They only could release the first season since they changed the theme song starting in season 2.
Thank Gawd for that. I love the way they walked into a 30yo crime scene, turned over the corned of a mat and found a note, "Must kill X today" signed the culprit, and it was all solved!
@It's simple, we kill the SJW the boxed sets only have the episode segments, none of their heckling bad (and sometimes good) videos, or rocking out to their favorite videos. What there is on the DVDs is pretty good, but it's disappointing not to have the other content. Many of those were full of my favorite jokes from the series. I, too, miss Daria episodes. The original 'misery chick', which I believe the series coined the phrase?
@@davematkins6829 I happen to recall episodes which played samples of popular music of the time. A particular scene, where they're sitting in traffic and someone says, "This is like that REM video, except we can't read each other's thoughts!" 'Everybody Hurts' kicks in, and the shot settles on Daria, and then a subtitle appears under her, it is the words "Thank. God."
I have the DVD too but I am wondering now if my sister stole it. I had it during my university days - it was part of the UK Film 4 films that were released on DVD.
You can get it for 10-20 dollars on ebay. Prices haven't gone up all that much. It's also very much a stable at most pawn shops and you can buy 5 dvds for $10 at most of them.
@@rebeccam.9963 I actually did have one decades ago that my sister's ex-husband gave to me. At the time I hadn't seen the movie yet so I didn't know what it was from. I used it for a school project in English and then gave it to a friend of mine.
I think Cold Case should be included. It was never released on DVD or BluRay and it’s not on any major streaming service (at least here in Australia). It was an amazing show with good writing acting and absolutely phenomenal casting.
I watch Cold Case seven days a week on a free station called START TV. It runs with Crossing Jordan, Unforgettable, Rizzoli and Isles, The Closer and Major Crimes.
I absolutely loved "Cocoon" when I was younger. I watched it so many times that I actually wore the tape out. The sequel was pretty decent in its own right, but the original was just phenomenal from start to finish.
@@Leonard1977ful It was shown on free to view tv in Australia less than 2 weeks ago. I saw it while scrolling through channels and thought oh that’s an old movie
Better title: “10 Movies & TV Shows You Can’t Legally Find on Major Streaming Services”, but it’s not as click bait-y… P.S. Add Herman’s Head to the list
It's crazy, I've seen Dogma, Cocoon, Looking For Mr. Goodbar and Sleuth on TV within the last 3 years. I didn't realize it was hard to see them like that.
Wow I didn’t know this! 30-100 years sayeth Google, so Dogma for instance could already be on its way out at the low end of this estimate. I wonder if its like video tapes, where the tape still looked fine but would glitch out or if it warps
I have 100s of DVDs in physical form. The most difficult move for me to get was a 1980’s film called “The Manhattan Project”. It’s a movie about a genus high school kid that makes a hydrogen bomb for a science project, to stick it to the “man”. One of my favorite movies of the era. Another difficult movie for me to find was “D.A.R.Y.L.”. Very good movie and I think it can now be streamed on some platforms.
Moral of the story: don’t include copyrighted songs in your movie/TV show. Pay a starving artist to make original songs and buy the rights off of them. You’ll both profit.
@@DavidKen878 It makes perfect sense. Personally, given the choice between forgettable original songs, elevator music or just not being able to watch something, I'll take the first option.
@@DavidKen878 1. Contact a musician 2. Ask them to write a song for your movie 3. Put that song in your movie 4. ????? 5. PROFIT! Which one of those simple steps don't you understand?
Not at all. Just ensure your licence to use any song covers physical media releases and (nowadays) streaming, alongside original showings, whether that be cinema or tv.
Music copyrights are what has prevented the series "Cold Case" from being released. I loved the show, and you can only see it today through bootleg copies.
That’s what I was gonna say! Loved that show! It was streaming on ROkUTV for awhile I guess but was taken off fairly shortly after I discovered that it was there. Of all shows to take down.. the one that literally can’t be found or watched any others way! Unless you HAPPEN to live where it plays on a real obscure channel that not nearly all cable/satellite providers offer BRB about to check and possibly subscribe to hbo max
Y'all forgot about Freejack, a terrible 90s reimagining of a "body snatcher" story set in a dystopian future staring Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, and Mick fucking Jagger.
I learnt about slavery in the USA BECAUSE of Song of the South (I’m from England) years before we learnt about it in school. Banning a groundbreaking film like that (the animation is a beautiful example of the animation of the time, and for it to be hybridised with live action was incredible at the time) is heartbreaking
I think the controversy surrounding _Song of the South_ is a tempest in a teapot, especially when compared to the well-deserved critical praise of such movies as _Django Unchained_ and a number of Spike Lee's offerings. SotS focused on a single character, Uncle Remus, whose personality overshadows any cultural outliers. At the same time, the Brer Rabbit stories are extremely charming with some solid moral lessons. SotS is a lost treasure. Locking it away treats the public as too ignorant to see that it's a children's story, not a political manifesto.
@@Mike10001 No...the depiction of the slaves on that plantation is completely out of whack with reality. And since it's a film for kids and not something like Gone With the Wind or Wonder Bar it should be kept away from them.
I actually was disappointed when song of the south was banned. The actors did an amazing job. Back at a time when few black people were put in screen. So to ban the black actors who were also the main characters is pretty upsetting. And it is the only movie to have ever portrayed the mythology of Briar Rabbit. Which was a series of stories that were told among slaves. Many having roots back in Africa with Anansi the spider god. The soundtrack was awesome. Zippity do da is a ridiculously catchy song. It seems that if slavery isnt portrayed as it is in Roots or 12 years a slave then its unfit now for public viewing is just wrong. I'm sure there were many slave owners who were decent. And treated their slaves decently as well. There were many black slave owners too at the time as well. It is such a complex subject. Of course slavery is wrong. But its something that has existed since the beginning of time and still exists today. One of the main reasons why we could abolish slavery is because of the industrial revolution. Where technology took over human labor.
@@funkyfiss WOW! Yesterday, I posted a RU-vid video share of the song "Zippity do da" on FaceBook and received a Community Standards Violation and Warning!! (Btw, I'm black)
@@QueensLadyDay Wow! That is upsetting. Such a great song too. I hate this censorship culture. It's kind of reminiscent of the fanatics who used to burn books. James Basket the actor who played Uncle Remus was so popular that their were active campaigns to give him an oscar. At a time when segregation was still around. He actually was the first black man to receive an oscar in 1948 becauseof this movie. So the fact that his contributions to the film industry is being forgotten and flat out erased is incredibly insulting.
When companies decide not to release a film because it "doesn't play well today", basically they're saying that people are too stupid to understand film and American history and how far we've come today. I'm not saying they're wrong. People are stupid.
@@eshowoman As a black American, descended from slaves, I think that as racist as it is, it should be viewed and discussed, understood in the context of its time, warts and all.
Let It Be was in fact rereleased on Disney+ in May of 2024 As for Dogma, Kevin Smith said at a screening in June 2024 that he purchased the rights, so we may get a rerelease after all.
IMO when a song is licensed for a movie or tv series, the license for that film and/or episode of the series should never expire. It’s sill that the rights to a song can expire for something which was already filmed and released
The problem is mainly, though, that a lot of older tv series did not anticipate the technology that would be available later so negotiations, contracts, etc. did not include future ease of accessibility. Trying to go back and re-do the contracts I guess is deemed just not worth it by the content producers and/or distributors.
How do we get public domain then? Eventually access to media needs to happen for free in order to keep them reoccoring in popular media into the future, however little that might be. Think about it like this, I'm going to create something but lock it up and no one can use it or have anything to do with it without my permission but I'm not gonna give it so no one will ever get copies and the go ahead head to reference it then it's forgotten about.
@@EnDigoLazer There are time limits for copyright. They are too long, but things do eventually make it into the public domain. And there is such a thing as fair use, which is part of copyright law.
The earlier seasons of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Sure, you can find clips galore. But I wish you could see whole episodes. The three short dvd releases weren't nearly enough
Wow...the fact you even mentioned "Song of the South" and it's backstory gives this MIA piece you did ,gives your story so much backbone to tell.Being a African-American...I find nothing wrong with the movie even by today's standards,and like most blacks don't care.The song has one of the most iconic Disney songs..."Zipp-pa-de-do-do,Zipp-pa-dee-yay.. ...my oh my what a wonderful day..."😓
Life weren`t like that for black people in the US just post slavery, it was hell with white employers not willing to give blacks any jobs leaving them to live in hellish ghettos.
I watched SotS recently, and while I wouldn’t even go so far as to say it’s a good movie, there is nothing bigoted about it. The rich white boy and the poor black boy become best friends and play together. The fact that Disney put a black man front and centre back in the 1940s was, to my mind, very progressive for the time. Yes, it’s a fairy-tale version of a tragic time in history, and some might find that to be in poor taste, but the film doesn’t have a mean bone in its body. If Disney would just release the darn thing with a disclaimer at the start, it would be forgotten within a month. Instead it remains an eternal talking point, and blown out to be a way bigger deal than it actually is.
The irony is that James Baskett became the first black male performer to win an Oscar for his role in this movie. Right now it is very difficult to witness that performance.
They released a bootleg DVD here in Australia in the early 2000s, I bought it from a known music retailer for $10, reasonable quality transfer probably from VHS or laser disc
All of these are available to buy online on DVD or vhs. They're just not airing on TV or being put on streaming servers. Dogma is free to watch on RU-vid btw.
While the depictions of Song of the South are far from perfect, seeing the movie as a whole as rascist is screwy. No character in it is depicted more respectfully or more respected than Uncle Remus. Also, what is the origin of the stories: folktales told by Black people in the American South during the 19th Century, and recorded by Joel Chandler Harris.
I agree. The issue is some snowflake say the cover art or something and felt offended WITHOUT watching it. I personally feel we need to have it for folks to see it and hopefully not make the same mistakes now.
@@josemhernandez1974 It could be a case study, celebrated by history, on how cancellation should not just be waved through without broader consideration and agreement.
@@KrillLiberatorAgreed. I bought a bootleg DVD of it hoping to see something that justified the outrage. I was massively let down, but benefitted from the resulting nap.
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR!? Wow, I have sooooo much respect for WC's writers for thinking up this one! I read this book when I was younger (and it scarred me in the way great books often do) and then my mother hunted, hunted, hunted for a ripped copy of this movie for me to see it -- and she ended up getting it on eBay on VHS and then converting it to a DVD for me. I'm so impressed it was on the list!
@@prinnydood9524 So far, only the earliest episodes. I've seen most of the episodes way back when (many repeatedly) & still remember a lot of the sketches/characters.
I have the DVDs of Moonlighting and am glad I do. The first 3 seasons were amazing, and it should be available on streaming somewhere. Some of the best writing on TV -- especially when Dave and Maddie are arguing over each other -- DVD allows you to quickly go back and focus on one and then the other to hear everything. Music rights are a pain, and while I understand it from the musicians' standpoint, it keeps shows like Moonlighting and WKRP in Cincinnati (and shows like Ed) from being remembered for how great they were. The music used is so key, that even trying to cover the music up with generic music is noticeable. Even a show like Cheers, which rarely used licensed music, is glaring when you watch on Peacock or DVD, and they use generic music over the originally-used music.
@@johndoyle2429 Yeah, it's really gotten dumb at this point. Music licensing groups make more of an issue out of this than they do for music streaming channels.
I cant find a TV show i use to watch all the time called “Boston Public”. I wonder if some of these reasons are the reasons why i cant find it anywhere.
I just mentioned that in a prior text. Boston Public, The Practice complete seasons, Picket Fences, and Ally McBeal should be made available. These are all David E. Kelly (Michelle Pfieffer's husband) Productions. Boston Legal was completely released on DVD. The Practice had select episodes from seasons 1 & 2 were on DVD. The final season with James Spader was released as they released Boston Legal on DVD. I worked at Camelot and FYE for a long time. I was lucky to get the Practice early episodes.
I have Seasons 1 & 2 of “Moonlighting” on DVD. Haven’t watched it in years. Now that I know it’s a rare thing these days, I think I’ll have to watch it again!
Wow, between my family and I, we have every movie, here, either on VHS or DVD. I used to ask my parents record the first couple of seasons of Moonlighting, since it came on right at my bedtime on Tuesdays. Then I just kept recording them, even when I got to stay up ("Collector's OCD", maybe? ). Those tapes might still be in storage somewhere, along with 80s commercials in all their glory!
An actress and her movies almost completely forgotten is Jill Clayburgh. Doing a variety of movies late 70's early 80's that got notable acclaim, most of them now are impossible to find. Criterion recently issued An Unmarried Woman, so there's ONE at least!
ur opening statement is just pure WRONG! Unless someone pays concurrently for EVERY streaming service available, they don't have even close to the same access to media that people had 20 years ago, just by walking to the nearest large VHS rental shop! Having that same level of access today is so expensive as to be essentially impossible for most people
The one I would love to see released is HBO's "Dream On". I loved that show. But I can understand that the rights to the old movie clips that were interspersed throughout the episodes would make it impossible.
