WEBVTT - 10 Most Expensive VHS Tapes + The Last Movie Ever Released on VHS + Movie Review: Together Is NOT The Horror Movie of the Year + Trailer Park: Hoppers and Why Disney is Their Own Villain 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.640 Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.239 am your host Movie Mike. Today we are going full nostalgia. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.000 I want to talk about the VHS tape, the most 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.920 expensive VHS tapes of all time, and the last movies 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.720 to ever be released on the video home system from 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.040 different genres. Again, nostalgia will be the death of me. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.520 In the movie review, we'll be talking about together with 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.480 Alison Brie and Dave Franco, It's a new horror movie. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.280 And in the trailer Park we'll be talking about can 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.800 Pixar comeback with their new movie Hoppers or are they 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.839 destined to fail time and time again. Now, thank you 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.279 for being here, thank you for being subscribed, Shout out 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.360 to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now let's talk 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.360 movies from the Dustroe Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.760 Movie Podcast. The VHS Tape was developed in Japan and 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.040 released in nineteen seventy one. We got it here in 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.880 the United States in nineteen seventy seven, because we're always 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.480 a little bit behind Japan. They're always limiting in the future. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.840 But it was dominant in the nineteen eighties, in the 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:05.560 nineteen nineties and fizzled out right around the mid two thousands. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.560 I just associate watching VHS tapes with my childhood. It 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.080 all goes back to I didn't have a whole lot 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.800 of friends when I was a kid. My friends were 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.760 the VHS tapes that I would borrow from family and 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.480 friends because again, unless we were buying them at a 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.440 garage sale or the flea market. All talk about my 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.560 favorite place to go as a kid, Traders Village in 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.840 Grand Prairie, Texas. We were there every Sunday, and I 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.720 would always flock to all the people selling VHS tapes 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.959 because that was the only place that we could afford them. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.800 We weren't affording those Walmart prices because they were overly priced, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.560 and different movies had different prices. Obviously, a movie like 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.959 The Lion King was going to be more expensive, but 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.760 then a lower tier movie like the straight to VHS 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.880 movies would be a little bit cheaper, like a goofy movie. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.840 That's why that movie was so accessible is because they 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.240 didn't price that the same as they were pricing a 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.880 Lion King. They priced a little bit cheaper so people 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.080 like me would have access to it. And I love 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.120 going to Traders Village and going to the people who 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.200 were selling used VHS tapes, and I would watch those 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.960 movies all the time at home. I also associate the 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.280 VHS tape with the best day ever at school and 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.840 what day was that? It was movie day. And kids 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.919 today don't have this. They have no idea the joy 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.480 that you would get when your teacher would haul in 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.400 that giant tube television and it was the combo rack 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.000 where you have the huge TV on top and the 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.120 thing was shrapped down. It was on there much like 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.079 you would shrap down cargo now in the back of 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.920 your F one fifty. That is what we were doing 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.240 to these giant Zena TVs or whatever brand your school had, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.000 probably like a Phillips or something, but they were huge 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.160 and massive. If they were fancy, you'd have the combo 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.680 that on the left side of it had the VHS 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.600 and on the right it would have the DVD slide, 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.120 but that was like a low way. Later oftentimes it'd 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.959 be the big TV on top, and then there'd be 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.880 a middle shelf below it and that where the VHS 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.160 tape would be, well the VCR, and your teacher would 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.960 roll that thing in and you were probably set up 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.360 to watch whatever Disney movie was out, even if it 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.359 was like a really old bad movie, which is where 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.640 I was exposed to some classics. Like the first time 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.760 I ever watched The Sound of Music was in my 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.560 elementary school music class, so I got that too. So 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.600 shout out to the Wakasati Independent School District for really 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.840 helping me shape my taste in movies early on. But 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.200 I truly believe there's something to actually having physical media 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.040 and having to put something into a device to play it. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.960 Like this sound just brings back a lot of memories 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.080 for me, and we don't have that anymore because we 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.120 just open up a streaming service and hit play. There's 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:51.160 no rewinding, there's no tracking, there's no having like kind 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.200 of okay picture quality, and there's also just kind of 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.320 a warmth to watching a movie on a VHS tape. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.160 It kind of has like this warm, fuzzy feel and 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.680 now it just feels like you're thrown on a file, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.200 which is all fun because it's so much easier. So 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.280 they could take that away at any time, but they 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.360 can't take away your physical media. So let's get into 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.480 this list. It's coming to us from CGC, which is 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.920 a grading company. So if you have comic books. If 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.120 you have sports cards or memorabilia, you send it to 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.320 them to be graded, which I've learned about them through 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.120 some comics that I own. If you watch this show 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.440 on YouTube, you can see I have a couple of 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.080 graded comics on my wall, and you see that CGC 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.719 at the top, letting you know that is legit, that 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.599 somebody looked at it verified it. They verified the condition. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.599 So you send it in and you get a grade number, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.080 whether it's all. You very rarely get a ten, but 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.000 you probably get maybe a nine point nine and nine 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.080 point five. And depending on how highly it is rated, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.680 that is how much you can sell that thing for 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.360 and how much it is valued at. And again these 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.200 are sealed copies. They have to be in pristine condition. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.160 These are the most expensive ones that have ever been graded. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.719 At number ten is The Return of the Dead, a 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.680 sealed copy sold on this list at eighteen thousand, seven 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.839 hundred and fifty dollars. Obviously, this movie was very essential 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.040 in the eighties for zombie movies. Not one of my 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.040 favorite zombie movies of all time. When it comes to 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.800 who I like from the early era of zombie movies, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.200 I'm more of a George a Romero guy from the 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.640 nineteen seventies. But if you can get your hands on 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.280 a sealed copy of this one, it is eighteen thousand, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.559 seven hundred and fifty dollars in your pocket. At number 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.240 nine is First Blood, which had a graded copy valued 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.080 at twenty two thousand, five hundred dollars. A sealed copy 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.800 of this VHS sold for that price added auction in 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.880 twenty twenty two. This is a movie I associate with 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.200 my childhood because it's one of the only ones that 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.480 my dad and uncles could agree on. This movie came 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.080 out in nineteen eighty two, so anything in that genre 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.040 that is Sylvester Stallone or John Claudevaden dam I feel 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.880 like I watched without even trying as a kid, because 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.719 anytime I would go over to my uncle's house, that 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.120 is what they were watching. Because at that time my 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.800 family was still learning English, and the way we learned 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.599 English was by watching movies. So with a movie like this, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.159 you don't really have to know the language one hundred 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.640 percent to get what is happening. If you see a 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.719 dude like Sylvester Stallone on screen with a gun shooting 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.880 down people and running and chasing from people and trying 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.560 to kill people. You don't exactly need to know that 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.039 language to understand that concept. So I think that is 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.400 why a lot of my uncles, even my aunts for 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.320 that matter, gravitated towards movies like this. They were also 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.240 just massive in the eighties, and a lot of what 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.200 I was exposed to in the early nineties was a 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.719 lot of things that were kind of left over in 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.279 remnants of the eighties. Because I have two older siblings 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.400 who would be considered an eighties kids, so a lot 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.120 of the things that were essential in their early childhood 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.960 I learned from them. One of those being first Blood. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.800 At number eight is Ghostbusters, that had a copy cell 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.080 for twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. The 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.839 wild thing about Ghostbusters whenever it was first released on 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.840 VHS back in the eighties, it's sold retail for seventy 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.520 nine to ninety five, And I think we forget that 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.960 sometimes how expensive movies were, because that was the thing 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.840 whenever TV came around, and then whenever VHS came around, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.800 it was like, oh, now you can watch it at home. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.240 We have to charge a lot of money for this, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.040 And at first they were not as accessible as they 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.200 later became. When you could just go to Blockbuster or 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.520 just buy a copy at Walmart, it was seen as 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.400 kind of a luxury, as you see with Ghostbusters being 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.200 eighty dollars. And now when we rent a movie digitally 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.760 at home for twenty dollars, I can't even do that 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.800 because that's like the first run. Whenever a movie finishes 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.400 its theatrical run and then you can own it on 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.960 digital for the first time, it's usually twenty bucks. I 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.720 usually end up waiting until it's like that five six, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.520 seven dollars range, and then I feel like most people 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.680 now wait until it's on a streaming service that you 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.520 already pay for. But could you imagine going to the 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.480 store now to pay eighty dollars just to watch something 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.280 at home. So that is also how we've seen a 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.440 shift in the movie industry where they could make money 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.120 like this, and a lot of films did see a 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.080 second life from these home video sales because if a 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.320 movie didn't do so well at the box office, but 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.880 then Bam was a hit on VHS tape, it could 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.040 make its money back. Movies now do not have that benefit. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.559 You can't really make that money back on streaming, because 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.120 in the era of streaming, that throws residuals out of 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.480 the way, that cuts off a lot of that back 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.440 end money. But this is a case where not only 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.240 was Ghostbusters super successful in theaters, I think it made 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.480 almost three hundred million dollars by the end of its 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.880 theatrical run, and then Bam with a eighty dollars VHS 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.600 and then later in twenty twenty two selling a copy 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.720 for twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. This 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.320 is gonna have me by the end of this list, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:47.920 going to a good will and see if I can 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.840 just find a sealed copy of anything, But that one 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.720 is at number eight. At number seven, a copy of 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.720 Rocky sold for a record twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollars. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.680 This was back in February seventeenth, twenty twenty three. This 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.040 was one of the only known factory sealed copies of Rocky. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.000 And that's the thing you have to do now, if 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.920 you want to make some money like this in twenty 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.040 to thirty years, you have to think what could be 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.360 of value now sealed that I could go back in 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.320 thirty years and take to somebody or put it online. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.920 At one of these auctions and sell, and you just 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.760 have to buy that thing and have the willpower not 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.040 to open it. Because if you in the eighties went 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.640 and bought this copy of Rocky and just kept it 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.480 in a box anytime you moved houses, you made sure 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.880 you took that, you'd have an easy almost thirty grand 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.800 that is crazy. Next up on the list at number six, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.480 a copy of The Terminator, So for thirty two thousand, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.839 five hundred dollars back in February twenty twenty two, you're 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.000 going to see a lot of this stuff happened recently 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.400 because post COVID memorabilia just kind of shot up. Everybody 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.400 realized they had stuff at home, and we got more 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.640 nostalgeric thinking back on good times. This this is now 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.000 would be the time to sell if you had anything 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.200 thirty or forty years old, But again it has to 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.880 be sealed. Terminator was released not only on VHS but 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.040 also on Beta Max in nineteen eighty five, which I 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.360 don't really remember that era. I remember Laser Disc a 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.080 little bit only because I went to a school district 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.560 that was, you know, not the richest of school districts, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.160 so we never watched anything on beta or laser disc, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.840 but I did see them because it was so old 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.439 that some people still had them available. I think one 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.640 teacher was like, let me pull out this huge disc 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.520 and like, what is that? That is a giant CD. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.800 And whenever Terminator first came out back in nineteen eighty four, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.880 they did not think this movie would be successful, but 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.600 it went on to be a number one movie at 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:48.080 the box office, made almost eighty million dollars worldwide, and 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.800 then somebody made a lot of money off of it 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.720 in twenty twenty two by selling their sealed copy for 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.520 thirty two thousand, five hundred dollars, getting into the top five. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.280 Next up is Jaws. A sealed copy from nineteen eighty 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.160 three sold for thirty two thousand, five hundred dollars in 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.520 a heritage auction sale on June ninth, twenty twenty two. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.440 This movie just celebrated its fifty year anniversary. It was 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.240 the first ever summer blockbuster. The whole reason we have 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.679 big movies come out in the summer like we do 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.560 now is because what Steven Spielberg did with Jaws fifty 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.920 years ago, and since then, it's become my favorite season 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.560 of the entire year. This season, in particular for twenty 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:35.000 twenty five, has been a fantastic summer blockbuster season, and 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:40.720 despite everybody loving Jaws, it had great critical response. Jaws 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.520 almost bankrupt Steven Spielberg and his entire crew. The film 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.480 went massively over budget because of the filming issues, because 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.240 of the props, but luckily it all worked out. Why 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.720 because of the back end, because of these VHS sales. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.840 Because the movie didn't come out on VHS until nineteen 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.520 eighty MCA Home Video put it out so that we 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.520 could finally enjoy this movie at home, because that wasn't 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.120 a thing. Also, back in when movies were coming out 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.800 in the seventies, you couldn't go watch a movie in 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.640 the theater and then eventually in like six months have 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.840 it at home. You had to wait three years to 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.280 watch the Jaws at home. And because of that, Jaws 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.240 has now ended up as one of the top five 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.040 most expensive VHS tapes of all time at number four. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.640 The Thing, not the Thing from Fantastic Four, No, the 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.560 John Carpenter movie The Thing. It sold a sealed first 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.439 edition copy of the nineteen eighty two movie on October 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.000 thirty first, twenty twenty two, for whopping thirty seven thousand, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.800 five hundred dollars. The Thing was not a success when 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.160 it came out in theaters. But the thing No pun 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.280 intended that gave it its second live was its home 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.199 video release. And that's what shows you that sometimes when 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.640 people go see a movie in theaters, they can hate it. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.000 But then when it's released to everybody who can watch 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.400 it at home, maybe you have some people a little 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.280 bit more open minded, maybe they're in a better headspace 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.480 so when they sit down to watch this movie. So 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.280 initially this movie was a bomb and now has turned 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.959 into a cult classic, which has happened with a lot 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.320 of movies. Just because you don't do well in theaters, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.520 you can find your audience somehow, because sometimes movies are 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.600 just released at the wrong time, or they're put in 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.760 a position to fail where they don't have the promotion, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.200 or they go up against another really big movie. And 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.199 the Thing now is a classic and a copyfore it's 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.600 sold for a record amount of money at number three. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.640 Hey you guys, we have the goodies. A sealed and 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:43.120 certified copy of this movie from nineteen eighty six sold 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:48.079 for fifty thousand dollars in a heritage auctions on June ninth, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.080 twenty twenty two. They must have just had a massive 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.839 sale in twenty twenty two. This movie goes beyond classic. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.440 If you told me The Goonies was your favorite movie 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.760 of all time, I just know we be good friends. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.480 It's not my favorite of all time. I don't even 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.200 know that I would put it in my top ten. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.160 But if you love this movie, I probably love you 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.560 because it's just a piece of American history, so much 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.360 so that the Library of Congress preserved this movie in 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.800 the United States Film Registry in twenty seventeen. And that's 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.480 like the biggest honor. Only movies in there that have 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.080 really just etched themselves into American film history belong there. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.440 And that means maybe nothing on surface level, but that 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.040 means kind of if everything else went away, we lost 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.920 all other movies, but could only hold onto the movies 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.520 in this registry. That is how impactful these movies would be. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.280 That would be like if we had to leave Earth 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.160 and only take a certain amount of movies with us, 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.520 we would take the movies in this registry to show 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.280 how our culture has evolved over the years in film, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.680 and The Goonies has it all. It has action, it 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.240 has adventure, it has romance, it has great characters, it 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.880 has great music. Could easily make the argument that the 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.200 Goonies and the movie coming up at number two are 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.400 just perfect movies. And if Aliens came down and said 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.000 show me your best movie, I would say, maybe start 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.240 with the Goonies, or maybe start with number two. Because 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.600 at number two, which sold for seventy five thousand dollars 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.000 at an auction back in twenty twenty two, again it 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.760 was a sealed and graded copy of this movie It 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:28.440 is Back to the Future Man seventy five thousand dollars. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.320 That is a lot of money for a VHS tape. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.240 Just imagine the pressure. I know CGC puts them in cases, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.840 but just the pressure to even grade something like that 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.360 where you're like, okay, even if I make because you 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.440 know how hard it is to keep shrink wrap on something, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.480 especially VHS where it has like the corners, it has 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.120 to be perfect. But this movie was not only a 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.040 success in theaters because it made over three hundred and 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.760 eighty million dollars at the box office, it was also 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.840 so successful when it came out on VHS in nineteen 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.960 eighty six. This was another movie that costs seventy nine 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.160 to ninety five whenever it came out, which is one 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.000 of the more higher priced video cassettes. But even though 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.400 it had such a high price point, Back to the 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.640 Future became the first movie to sell four thousand, five 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.640 hundred units almost half a million units at that price point, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.560 and became the most rented cassette in nineteen eighty six. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.840 Why do I just love the word cassette? It just 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.520 feels good to me. So not only was it super 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.800 successful and popular when it came out in theaters, but 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.720 then everybody had to own it and watch it at home. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.080 At number two is Back to the Future, but at 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:45.320 number one the most expensive VHS tape of all time 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.400 sold back in October twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, when 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.560 somebody found a sealed copy of the first release of 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.280 this movie, which is next to impossible. It was sold 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.400 through Golden for an incredible one one hundred and fourteen 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.720 thousand dollars, the most expensive VHS tape of all time. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.920 What do you think it is? At? Sci Fi originally 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:13.200 came out in theaters in nineteen seventy seven, grossed over 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.160 seven hundred and seventy five million dollars at the box office. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.920 Can you guess it? Well, it is none other than 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.320 Star Wars, a new hope. The unusual thing about Star 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.000 Wars is it didn't have a traditional rollout to home 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.920 video because twentieth Century Fox actually delayed putting it out 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.400 on VHS because they wanted to make more money from 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.840 it in theaters. They were also concerned about the technology 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.720 at the time. They were like, should we focus more 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.479 on laser disc? Is this going to be what the 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.080 future is? So what they did instead was released small 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.000 clips through weird media products. They didn't have a traditional 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.800 VHS release because they were holding out on it, but 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.160 everybody was like, yo, we want to watch Star Wars 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.080 at home. So they finally released it in nineteen eighty one, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:01.560 but it was only available for you couldn't buy it yet. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.359 Obviously that caused chaos because then people would go rent it. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.160 They wouldn't take it back. You had video rental places 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.080 going rogue and just selling people a lifetime rental for 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.440 one hundred dollars. So it just created this huge mess 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.440 where people were stealing copies, pirting copies, they were going missing. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.840 And finally they had an official release to Star Wars 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.000 on VHS in nineteen eighty two, and people ate this 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.879 thing up. And if you had a seal copy like 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.280 this person who sold it back in twenty twenty two, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.720 and if it's in mint condition, but you could make 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:44.240 one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars the most expensive VHS 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.320 of all time. Star Wars a New Hope. So now 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.679 to close out the episode, let's say goodbye to the 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:54.920 VHS format and talk about the last ever VHS movie released. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.240 It was in two thousand and six. The VHS was 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.920 officially dead when A History of Violence came out. Vigo 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.680 Mortensen plays an ex hitman turned quiet town family man. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.040 The movie also stars Ed Harris in one of his 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.359 more sinister bad guy roles. It was the last ever 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.880 major Hollywood movie to be released in VHS format, even 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:20.119 though some Disney enthusiasts say that it was actually the 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.120 Disney Pixar movie Cars, because in February of two thousand 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.240 and seven, Disney released a copy, but it was only 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.560 through their Disney Movie Club, so it wasn't available for 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:36.160 everybody to purchase. But if you're going technically by a technicality, Cars, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:41.399 mister Kachow was the real ever last VHS tape made 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.840 came out in two thousand and seven. I also have 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.920 some of the last movies released on VHS from different genres. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.480 For horror, it was Saw Too Man. Sometimes when I 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.520 think about Saw watching that first one, I think, Man, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.480 that was only like ten years ago. But the first 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.720 one came out in two thousand and four and came 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.760 out in two thousand and five, twenty years ago. But 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.520 that was the last ever major horror movie to be 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.040 released on VHS tape. For comedy, it was Just Friends, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.560 which was the movie with Ryan Reynolds, which I remember 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.520 this being one of the movies we rented from our 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.879 local video rental store in Waksahatchie. I think it was 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.199 just called the Video Store, but we didn't rent it 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.359 on VHS. We rented it on DVD. This place was 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.320 so old school. You would walk up and take this 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.080 little almost like a mini poker chip or is this 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.199 mini tab that was hung up on the wall on 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.120 literally a hook, and you would take that tab up 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.720 to the counter and then they would pull that movie. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.040 And I remember doing that for Just Friends, which is 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.880 the comedy with Ryan Reynolds, back in a pretty good 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.040 era of comedies. But he gets friend zoned and he's 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:47.960 like a bigger dude and then gets ripped up. I mean, 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.320 it was Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit, and I 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.840 believe he had braces, which I find a fence from 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.640 on multiple levels as being a former big guy and 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.000 a person who wore braces for a very long time. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.800 Probably couldn't make this movie today, but at the time 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.439 I enjoyed it. He tries to get back with his 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.359