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re: IF Blockbuster Was Still Here......
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:01 am to ThuperThumpin
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:01 am to ThuperThumpin
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My nostalgia was more for the mom and pop stores before Blockbuster.
Same here. Although I did buy the frick out of some used BB DVDs...it's how I got my collection started. Me and my roommate used to hit them up every week for their deals (buy 2 get 1 free, etc.).
My memories of renting movies and games come from being younger. Like whenever my dad and I would go to our friend's camp in False River, the parents would always be drinking and partying and me and my buddy would piddle around and play and get into shite. And they'd let us rent movies. So we'd always rent one scary movie, one "kid/cartoon" type movie (for when we were terrified from the scary one
), and then Revenge of the Nerds (for the nudity). Fun times. I also remember being in high school and me and another buddy would always go rent Black Bass on NES, and we would stay up all night playing that shite.
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Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:05 am to TheBigLeBROski
I managed a Blockbuster. It was the best/worst job I ever had. It was a blast to work there - free rentals, relatively easy job, most of the girls who worked there were hot - but jumping Jesus were the customers just fricking awful. They'd act like I personally insulted them if we didn't have the movie they wanted. Like sorry we don't have Titanic, the most popular movie in the universe right now, but that's not a reason to threaten my life.
As a kid, there really was nothing like my mom taking me to the video store. I could rent one video and one game, and the vhs and game were mine to watch/play as many times as I wanted - up until Sunday by midnight.
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Share your fondest memories from the Blockbuster era as well.
As a kid, there really was nothing like my mom taking me to the video store. I could rent one video and one game, and the vhs and game were mine to watch/play as many times as I wanted - up until Sunday by midnight.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 9:09 am
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:33 am to TheBigLeBROski
We still have a National Video in our town. But I have no DVD player hooked up. So I just rent movies off Amazon.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:41 am to TheBigLeBROski
Interesting thought. But I think it comes down to another case of something I have very fond memories of but wouldn't want to go back to. The nostalgia is great but I prefer streaming 4K movies/shows on a giant TV.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:49 am to TheBigLeBROski
Blockbuster killed the better video stores and made it to where a "new release" could be a 3 year old movie.
I miss the stores blockbuster killed much more than blockbuster themselves.
I miss the stores blockbuster killed much more than blockbuster themselves.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 10:36 am to TheBigLeBROski
I always enjoyed going to Blockbuster. We have the only one that's still around, but I'd be lying if I said that I go in there on a regular basis. A lot of people that live here do, though.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 10:54 am to TheBigLeBROski
I miss the video stores. Browsing the aisles caused me to watch more movies I might have forgotten otherwise if I was just choosing from some website's limited selection. The video store had ALL of the movies, not just ones by studios they had contracts with.
The late 80's was my favorite era for "movie stores," so I'd probably be getting Revenge of the Nerds, Willow and Condorman.
The late 80's was my favorite era for "movie stores," so I'd probably be getting Revenge of the Nerds, Willow and Condorman.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 11:34 am to PhilipMarlowe
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Hastings TYFYS.
Hastings was awesome. I'm out of area but they had an insane amount of stuff online.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 11:39 am to TheBigLeBROski
Yeah probably. Going to Blockbuster or Hastings it was a guarantee I'd pick a movie for the night and it's an easy low key date night. When the wife and I are going through 5 or 6 streaming services it's more likely we'll just ending up scrolling past a couple hundred movies, get annoyed and or bored, and end up watching Scrubs for the millionth time.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 11:42 am
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:16 pm to Datfish
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I miss the excitement of being a kid, scanning the section for a certain movie or video game you wanted, and seeing they had one last copy to rent.
Only thing that rivaled it was perfectly recording the song on the radio that you had been waiting to tape.
My kids have never known anything but the in demand generation but I feel that they’re missing out on the satisfaction of these simple things.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:20 pm to TheBigLeBROski
I miss the smell of a Blockbuster
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:47 pm to CBandits82
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I miss the smell of a Blockbuster
If you come to the one in Bend, it will hit you as soon as you come through the door.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 2:08 pm to TheBigLeBROski
Blockbuster = Radio
Netflix = Spotify
Damn near any media can be had “on demand” today. It used to be exciting when one of your favorite songs came on the radio or Blockbuster finally got a copy of XYZ movie you’ve heard about for months.
For me? I’ll rent Starfox 64, the first Austin Powers movie, and grab a box of nasty arse Sno-caps on the way out. You guys want anything?
Netflix = Spotify
Damn near any media can be had “on demand” today. It used to be exciting when one of your favorite songs came on the radio or Blockbuster finally got a copy of XYZ movie you’ve heard about for months.
For me? I’ll rent Starfox 64, the first Austin Powers movie, and grab a box of nasty arse Sno-caps on the way out. You guys want anything?
Posted on 7/14/21 at 3:19 pm to TheBigLeBROski
Toward the end they had a gamepass feature that was cool. For like 15 a month you can hold on to 2 games for as long as you wanted or swap out games anytime. We lived within 2 minutes from 1 so i could be like ahhh this game sucks and just switch. At times i was probably there 5 to 6 tines a day some days.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 3:58 pm to boxcarbarney
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Like sorry we don't have Titanic, the most popular movie in the universe right now, but that's not a reason to threaten my life.
I always loved the customers that would just straight up lie to us when I have a computer screen in front of me with countless notes from other employees on their account telling all the bullshite they have tried to pull.
We were probably the most relaxed store on late fees. Some people were late every week and we would usually let them slide
'Sorry man you are getting charged because youve had Top Gun for a month and it just came out.'
Posted on 7/14/21 at 4:02 pm to TheBigLeBROski
I would just pull up to rent a dumb/little known video game and then grab an assload of those cookie dough bite boxes
Posted on 7/14/21 at 4:02 pm to Napoleon
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Blockbuster killed the better video stores and made it to where a "new release" could be a 3 year old movie.
I miss the stores blockbuster killed much more than blockbuster themselves.
Not necessarily in new orleans.
Our store competed directly with blockbuster in terms of new releases and had the same stuff as them. Blockbuster didnt have some stranglehold on the supply.
We completely dominated them in regard to older movies and cult classic type stuff. Well and a shitload of porn
Posted on 7/14/21 at 4:21 pm to TheBigLeBROski
I'm sure that Blockbuster had some good people working there, but I have too many horror stories to be nostalgic for that place.
From being accused of sneaking a tape back onto the shelf, to being told ten minutes till closing that I couldn't rent a tape because my car was parked crooked in their empty parking lot, to the a-hole clerk who would give spoilers, I don't miss it.
That, and the restaurant I managed stayed open past their store hours, and the Blockbuster staff was notorious for treating our servers like shite.
If it wasn't the fact that they were the only store with the new releases that my kids wanted, I'd have gotten all of my movies from the mom & pops.
From being accused of sneaking a tape back onto the shelf, to being told ten minutes till closing that I couldn't rent a tape because my car was parked crooked in their empty parking lot, to the a-hole clerk who would give spoilers, I don't miss it.
That, and the restaurant I managed stayed open past their store hours, and the Blockbuster staff was notorious for treating our servers like shite.
If it wasn't the fact that they were the only store with the new releases that my kids wanted, I'd have gotten all of my movies from the mom & pops.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 4:27 pm to Deactived
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We were probably the most relaxed store on late fees. Some people were late every week and we would usually let them slide
I was pretty cool about waiving late fees if it looked like the customer was going to hassle me about it.
I was also pretty cool about giving you a free rental if you brought me food. At my store, we had these two customers who were a lesbian couple. One of them was on disability, so as a hobby she would spend her days making home made desserts. I mean desserts from scratch. And they were really fricking good.
The baker loved "black people movies," as she called them. So whenever we got a new black people movie, I would hold it to the side for her. She'd come in on Tuesday with fresh brownies, or ooey gooey cake, or pie, and I would give her the movie for free.
I also had a customer who worked at Papa John's. She would often swing by with a free pizza on Saturday, and I'd get her a free rental.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 4:30 pm to blueboy
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The video store had ALL of the movies, not just ones by studios they had contracts with.
This is why I still get the red envelopes from Netflix. A lot of what I watch is unavailable on streaming services or its a la carte pricing.
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