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Posted on 3/20/21 at 8:31 am to udtiger
Nope, Burbank. It wasn’t far from Gardere though. It’s now a Mexican grocery store.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 9:04 am to GetCocky11
I don’t have my card but my member number was 22000135375.
(I worked there in college so your card number was also your employee number)
Gave Michael Clayton and Marcus Spears some free rentals after the 2003 NC. The girls that were hanging on them gave me the cocked neck and said “how come they get free movies?” I said, “well this man right here scored the winning touchdown in the NC”. Spears gave me a fist bump and Michael Clayton nearly choked on his Sprees he was laughing so hard.
Good times.
I know...CSB
(I worked there in college so your card number was also your employee number)
Gave Michael Clayton and Marcus Spears some free rentals after the 2003 NC. The girls that were hanging on them gave me the cocked neck and said “how come they get free movies?” I said, “well this man right here scored the winning touchdown in the NC”. Spears gave me a fist bump and Michael Clayton nearly choked on his Sprees he was laughing so hard.
Good times.
I know...CSB
Posted on 3/20/21 at 9:14 am to CocomoLSU
Ah. I know where you are talking about.
Girlfriend/wife lived off Bayou Fountain in late 80s and we rented from a place on Gardere that was either Showbiz or Showcase.
Girlfriend/wife lived off Bayou Fountain in late 80s and we rented from a place on Gardere that was either Showbiz or Showcase.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 11:59 am to GetCocky11
Can I be honest? That Blockbuster documentary on Netflix sucks.
First of all, the subject of the story, namely Blockbuster, is the suckiest example of a video rental store. They even mention how the corporateness of the company just made everything stale. Only releases from big Hollywood studios and mainly newer releases at that (the older a movie was, the less likely you'd find it in Blockbuster).
Blockbuster was responsible for crushing more interesting mom and pop stores out of existence. Blockbuster is not some company to be sentimental about.
And, they even lamp shade how ignorant their own interviewees are of the subject at hand. They show them telling Doug Benson what to say. Maybe that's supposed to be "meta" or something, but it just spotlights how none of the interviewees even really care about Blockbuster.
First of all, the subject of the story, namely Blockbuster, is the suckiest example of a video rental store. They even mention how the corporateness of the company just made everything stale. Only releases from big Hollywood studios and mainly newer releases at that (the older a movie was, the less likely you'd find it in Blockbuster).
Blockbuster was responsible for crushing more interesting mom and pop stores out of existence. Blockbuster is not some company to be sentimental about.
And, they even lamp shade how ignorant their own interviewees are of the subject at hand. They show them telling Doug Benson what to say. Maybe that's supposed to be "meta" or something, but it just spotlights how none of the interviewees even really care about Blockbuster.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 12:16 pm to bcoop199
I've no clue what the last one I rented was, but I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that the first movie I rented upon moving out of my parents' house after high school was Embrace of the Vampire. For, uh, educational purposes.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 2:16 pm to St Augustine
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I know we rented eternal sunshine of the spotless mind near the end.
I really don't remember the last thing I rented, but Eternal Sunshine is probably as good a guess as any for me too. (Great movie, by the way).
The whole video rental progression was a pretty interesting phenomenon. The first one near us was a really small mom and pop store very near my in-law's house. The whole place was about the size of a large living room. I remember renting "My neighbor Totoro" for my daughter which started off a long term love for anime. Then a slightly bigger one opened on one of the main streets of the small town near where we lived. Then "Major Video" and finally Blockbuster about 12 miles away. A steady increase in size and "corporateness" Then, of course, everything was reduced to Redbox.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 2:29 pm to Methuselah
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I really don't remember the last thing I rented, but Eternal Sunshine is probably as good a guess as any for me too. (Great movie, by the way).
The whole video rental progression was a pretty interesting phenomenon. The first one near us was a really small mom and pop store very near my in-law's house. The whole place was about the size of a large living room. I remember renting "My neighbor Totoro" for my daughter which started off a long term love for anime. Then a slightly bigger one opened on one of the main streets of the small town near where we lived. Then "Major Video" and finally Blockbuster about 12 miles away. A steady increase in size and "corporateness" Then, of course, everything was reduced to Redbox.
It's also a prime example of just a stupid, short-sighted business model.
I mean, can you imagine if Netflix had stuck with their original business model of mailing DVDs to customers. (Do Zoomers even know that was the original model for Netflix?)
Instead, they invested in some high capacity servers and began licensing digital copies of movies from studios and replaced the concept of "renting" with the concept of "streaming."
In 2005, right before Blockbusters started tanking, they had the capital to start investing in streaming technology. They had the billions of dollars to make it happen. They were just too stupid to see it.
Posted on 3/20/21 at 2:39 pm to GetCocky11
Hard to say. Even though I worked at Blockbuster when I was in college I tended to rent movies at Hastings b/c they a far better selection of older movies. TBH I barely even "rented" movies when I worked at Blockbuster. We have 5 free rentals a month as employees but as long as it wasn't a new release most of us would usually just take whatever we wanted off the shelf and return it by our next shift so technically we weren't renting at all. New releases tended to get delivered a week or so early so we'd just pull those out of the box and make sure to get them back by the next day.
This post was edited on 3/20/21 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 3/20/21 at 8:34 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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First of all, the subject of the story, namely Blockbuster, is the suckiest example of a video rental store. They even mention how the corporateness of the company just made everything stale. Only releases from big Hollywood studios and mainly newer releases at that (the older a movie was, the less likely you'd find it in Blockbuster).
Maybe your Blockbuster was like that. The ones in Chattanooga had great classics sections. That was my only real motivation for paying four bucks a pop to rent from them.
Posted on 3/21/21 at 3:15 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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In 2005, right before Blockbusters started tanking, they had the capital to start investing in streaming technology. They had the billions of dollars to make it happen. They were just too stupid to see it.
I believe “the last blockbuster” actually refutes this quite a bit. They wanted to go streaming and we’re planning it. They just had quite a bit of debt.
Posted on 3/21/21 at 3:32 pm to CocomoLSU
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When I did rent I rented from a place called Showbiz Video on Burbank in Baton Rouge. Rarely rented from Blockbuster.
Nice.
Anyone remember the name of the small video store in the shopping center on the corner of Nicholson and Lee? Same spot as BrewBachers and American Market. Right next door to Hair Factory
I lived on Brightside so I used to hit up that and West Coast Video on Burbank by Cane’s and Bailey’s (GOAT chicken fingers FTW) nonstop.
I don’t remember the last movie I rented at Blockbuster, but I was living up north much later and we actually had a Blockbuster that stayed open until around 2010 or so. Was right next to a great pizza joint so used to stop in and look around from time to time.
This was long after my old local ones in Louisiana were closed.
This post was edited on 3/21/21 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 3/23/21 at 9:45 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Anyone remember when last one closed in BR?
Posted on 3/24/21 at 4:23 am to GetCocky11
A Time to Kill. Was home on leave from Okinawa during the 96-97 Christmas/NYE season.
Posted on 3/24/21 at 4:42 am to GetCocky11
No possible chance I’d remember anything like that.
I do remember getting Netflix dvds in the mail, watching them & sending them back , so my trips to blockbuster were far less frequent towards the end.
I do remember getting Netflix dvds in the mail, watching them & sending them back , so my trips to blockbuster were far less frequent towards the end.
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