i did but i was like 5 or 6

I was a Hollywood video guy

scrolling through the movie artwork on netflix, then amazon prime, then HBO, then disney, then paramount and finding nothing to watch is basically the same thing as perusing the covers at blockbuster

>having to make small talk and eye contact while the cashier rings you up
never, zoomers would hate it

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>oh shit this could be good
>if only there was some way to know if it's good or not
>we could always watch the first 15 minutes and if it's bad drive back here and get a refund and start this whole process again

>>216803129

Lived through it. It's 100% rose-tinted glasses thinking people loved these places. They charged too much, never had the latest releases on a Friday or Saturday, nickel and dimed you with bullshit fees, and were constantly upselling you overpriced snack foods you could get at the grocery store for a third of the price. Blockbuster was the worst for all of this. Mom-and-pops could be nice but usually your selection was nothing but 20 year old tapes of shit B-movies or worn out movies from last year Blockbuster sold off in bulk that didn't track correctly. They're never coming back. And good riddance to them.

went there plenty of times as a kid buddy

>>216803129
i always had to take a gigantic fucking wet shit whenever i stepped inside so it really rushed my selection and i'd come home with a dud half the time

>>216803264
This. They fucking sucked.

I miss Blockbuster so much.
Which was your favorite aisle bros?

>>216803264
>>216803348
Imagine being this fucking gay.

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>>216803391
I was a movie gallery kid but for me it was the horror and Japanimation aisles. new releases were on the outer wall.
I remember watching this kino on VHS

>>216803264
This sounds exactly like Netflix if Netflix sold candy. What's your point?

>>216803264
This, holy fuck. People who post blockbuster shit miss their childhood not actually going to blockbuster and them not having jack shit to rent so you pick literal shit and then forget about it and rack up huge late fees. Newsflash, zoomers have the ability to flip through netflix and pick something they've never heard of before

>>216803264
>nickel and dimed you with bullshit fees
bs. if you can't return your tapes on time that's on you.

>>216803129
Yeah I did retard. my blockbuster started closing in the early 2010s. zoomers have kids now. when will these retards just seamlessly shift into "GEN ALPHA DIDNT GET THIS!!!" and its a fuckin ipod or something

>>216803264
>They charged too much
Wasn't a concern of mine, because my parents paid. Also in those times people could afford to spend money on things besides rent and groceries.
>never had the latest releases on a Friday or Saturday
Back then they had another relic specifically for latest releases, called the cinema.
>nickel and dimed you with bullshit fees
Again, not a problem when I was a kid.
>were constantly upselling you overpriced snack foods you could get at the grocery store for a third of the price
Why would you not just go to the grocery store to get snacks then? That's what my parents would do.

Very few things are more nostalgic than going to the blockbuster with my family on a hot summer night to rent a weeks worth of movies, before picking up pizza or fish and chips.

>>216803264
>>216803348
Literally the only reason people like blockbuster was because they were kids and associate it with fond childhood memories now. Ask anyone who was an adult back then and they'd say it's far better now. Now you don't even have to leave your house to watch a movie, new stuff is immediately accessible, and it's honestly less expensive in the grand scheme of things. /tv/ can piss and moan about how blockbuster was "soulful" unlike netflix but if blockbuster came back you guys would still just pirate everything.

I think you think we’re younger than we actually are. I was 11 when my local Blockbuster closed.

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The blockbuster was further away so we rarely went / didn't have membership. It was my bros birthday and they were (selling) Starship Troopers, my mum got it for him absolutely kino film.

Locally in Aus we had something called Video Ezy, they had an entire section for Super Nintendo games 'Megaman X' was always rented out. Pic related was the last thing i ever rented, the space is now taken by some kinda doctors office.. so sad

>>216803129
My country had blockbuster and a lot of smaller rental shops too.
I went to one with my parents that had an 18+ section.
I can still feel that overwhelming curiosity tinged with fear, as I crept towards the DVD stand, picking up some generic hentai and turning it over to see explicit sex scenes on the back. Distinctly I remember two anime girls 69'ing.

I've never been as aroused since. Not just the sight of the animated porn but the fear of being caught too.

Zooms will never be 7 years old sneaking under the curtain and marveling at the all-hetero adult video section

>>216803642
You guys are colossal faggots. Going to blockbuster or the hipster video store to rent movies was fun as fuck well into my college years. I remember my first apartment with my gf and we'd rent like 8-9 movies or tv shows and get a pizza shit was awesome

>>216803129
This is still possible to experience, just go to your local library and there's thousands of DVDs and even Blurays to choose from. And the best part? It's FREE!

>go to the horror section
>see the cover for Thirteen Ghosts
>get nightmares for the weekend

>>216803129
Fuck off. Gen Xer. Fuck video stores. Always hated them. Ma and pop ones didn’t have shit and always accused you of fucking up their tapes. Big chain ones that also didn’t have shit, retard employees, late fees, having to drive back to store to drop the shit off. All you losers just miss your childhood not video stores. Glad they’re out of business

>>216803879
>>216803996

>>216803412
There are so many anime VHS I watched as a kid that I've never seen any reference to since, but they live in the recesses of my mind.

>>216803264
I agree with you. If brought back, no doubt it would also be insanely overpriced.
However, there was something kind of nice about going, not finding what you wanted, and then picking a different movie that looked interesting. You usually found some good stuff that way you wouldn't normally watch. Otherwise, yeah I don't think there'd be a benefit to it returning.

>>216803264
My mom rented video games for me from time to time. Hollywood Video's selection was all right for the time- the n64 was rapidly becoming obsolete. If you had a PS2 and liked scratched discs, you were in heaven.

One of the mom and pops that we used to go to got really fucking stupid about renting video games- the owner was charging $50 to rent one. As an adult, I understand why but as a child that shit pissed me off. I never got to play Banjo Kazooie as a kid because of that.

>>216803206
Absolutely nothing alike. You only think that now in a post internet world where every hidden gem has been discovered and fed to you by your favourite eceleb. If you had been alive then, you'd know the joy of stumbling on some weird movie in the back

Zoomers are gonna be unemployed and more radicalized once the next recession rolls around. They're not gonna give a shit about some Gen X/Millenial relic

>>216803129
Blockbuster was soulless corpo trash but the little hole in the wall places were comfy. People also tend to forget practically every grocery store and gas station had a rental section once upon a time.

>>216803257
You just watched it anyway, zoomer. Time spent with family was never wasted time. That was half the appeal of watching a movie at home before streaming. Another thing zoomers missed out on, holy shit no wonder they're all so developmentally stunted.

>>216803642
>Now you don't even have to leave your house to watch a movie
Yeah, leaving the house and interacting with people is so lame. I'm so glad that everyone just stays home most of the time, and even if someone does go outside, they just put headphones in to avoid any and all social interaction.

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>>216803642
>Now you don't even have to leave your house to watch a movie, new stuff is immediately accessible,

>>216804027
We had a place called Hastings where I lived that had a little bit of everything. Movies, games, books, magazines, music, etc. I rented so weird anime tapes from there because they were something I'd never seen anywhere else before.

>>216803241
They could pick out a moobie and stream it to their iphone watch

>>216804049
But zoomers love Xillennial shit.

God I wish tower records was still open in Los Angeles that had SO MUCH SOVL in the 70s through to the 90s

>>216804067
Grocery store rental section. Lol Here in Western Pennsylvania was Iggle Video in the Giant Eagle.
I remember early on when I was young they had this Gone with the Wind VHS box set for rent all the time. It was the 89 50th Anniversary set. It was beat up.

>>216803129
this is one of the things during the 90's that actually did fucking suck and people who are nostalgic about it are retarded, it was a horrible experience to live through and you should celebrate it's demise

>>216803264
Lmao you sound like you just grew up in a poor people area with shitty employees and poor families. Our shit was awesome and like $5 to rent was easy. You could get like a movie, game, and a pizza+2L for like $20 back then.

>>216803129
I only cared about renting video games because my friend's dad would pirate every movie in existence

>>216804113
Going to the theater is when leaving your house to watch a movie makes sense. Leaving your house to go to blockbuster to get a tape then going home to watch it then having to go back is just time consuming and the only people you're interacting with are the retarded teenage blockbuster employees who didn't want to interact with you anyways.

I had two blockbusters one on each side of blanding boulevard. Blockbuster bought out hollywood video or mega video. It was really convenient.

>>216803257
as a rule of thumb the better the airbrushed cover the shittier the movie

>15 unrented copies of the same crap movie
It was shit. Netflix dvd by mail was the greatest thing ever. The problem is Netflix was too successful so Hollywood pulled all their content for their failure streaming services leaving Netflix to attempt and fail to make their own shit.

>>216804067
I was too young to even know or care at the time, but I later found out a lot of those little mom and pop places also sold stuff like hacked satellite cards and cable descramblers.

>>216803206
>>216803241
>>216803264
Theres nothing stoping you fags from hanging out at your local library except the inability to read

>>216803412
This show taught me that women could suck on my dick when I grew up.

>>216803129
I'm almost 30 unc, video stores were a regular part of my life

>>216804430
My library doesn't carry Legend of the Overfiend or Best Chest in the West you fucking hosehonker

>>216803264
blockbuster was absolute gigashit and destroyed the eighties and early nineties mom and pop stores (shout out Video Dynamics) that had utterly fucking insane selection, better than you'd find until we were years and years deep into the internet / piracy

>>216803642
I would kill to go back to blockbuster instead of having to connect my stupid ass tv to the stupid ass internet and log in to 8 different accounts (all of which cost $15+ per month) and then verify my email and connect my phone and resend the verification and the two step authentication and hope that whatever I'm looking for has been arbitrarily selected to be shown that month by some shitty subscription service. Not that I actually do any of that bullshit but basically everyone today does. Renting a movie used to be a nice event, you would always be able to make an evening out of it, ordering a pizza and all. Now there's just a database of slop to browse through, none of which ever is worth watching.

>>216804273
You're missing the point.

>unc nostalgiaslop thread
cringe

>>216804476
>Best Chest in the West
haha that rhymes

>>216804616
Lisa needs braces

>>216803129
>go to Video Ezy back in 2004
>I rent Thunderpants, Jimmy Neutron and The Phantom Menace
>Dad rents Enter the Dragon and Rumble in the Bronx
Comfy

>>216804605
At least we'll have nostalgia, you have nothing good or interesting to be nostalgic about. If you noticed everyone is only nostalgic about the 80s/90s, boomers didn't care about the 60s and most enjoy the 80s more than the 70s. There's basically only been 2 good decades and everything else has been shit.

>>216803264
Blockbuster had cheap weekly rentals, we went every Friday so never had a problem with late fees.
>constantly upselling you overpriced snack foods
Sorry you couldn't control yourself, fatty fat fat.

>>216804233
You can rent any movie you want digitally for $5, so basically less than half accounting for inflation

>>216804700
Yeah, sure, old movies you can do that. I just checked a recent release and Tron is like $25-$30 to rent/own. Back in the day you'd just go to Blockbuster on a Friday and the entire back wall would be the new releases. It was like $1-5 depending on release age and length of rental. Digital should be under $5 for anything recent and free inclusion in paying for the service in 2025. There's a reason I just pay for a vpn and have my own server with 60TB of shit now.

>>216804569
What the fuck does ordering a pizza have to do with Blockbuster lmao? Sounds like you just miss being a child. Name any movie and there's a 99% chance you can rent it digitally for $5 or less

>>216804585
Whatever point you are trying to make is retarded. I get it, I loved going to Blockbuster as a kid too. Nostalgia is a powerful drug

>>216803412
I felt like I won the lottery when I found a Guyver anime vhs at blockbuster in middle school

>>216804273
I went to the movie store with friends. We have a great time scraping together our change to rent the latest Jackie Chan movie, an Evil Dead or Mad Max sequel

>>216804751
The $20 ones are either still in theaters just released digitally and are set at that price to make up for the lack of a theatrical run. Back in the Blockbuster days movies werent available to rent for months after theatrical release. You just miss going to rent a movie with mommy and daddy

>>216804476
Best Chest in the West sounds like hubris, how would they even know that?

>>216804825
Then you went to the local soda fountain and got yourself a coke made the old fashioned way for a nickel? Do you realize what a rambling boomer you sound like?
Sorry you dont have friends to watch movies with anymore

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>>216804863
It was a competition.

>>216804515
Those mom and pop stores also usually had sizable back catalogs of movies that wouldn't fit on the shelves. If there was some off the wall thing you were looking for, chances are they'd have it somewhere in the back or know someone else who had a copy. It was fun to track things down sometimes. Like a treasure hunt.

>unc had to leave the house to get movies to watch
lmao bruh

>>216803129
Just go to the library

>>216804898
No. We got an SURGE or Jolt Cola from the vending machine for 65 cents

>>216803391
The weird anime corner with stuff like Perfect Blue and Metropolis.

>>216804445
Ace Ventura taught me that was possible. It took me a bit to figure out why though.

The Midwest had family video up until 2020. Never actually went inside one, though.

>>216804940
Lol, blockbuster put parental advisory stickers on fucking Totoro. Hollywood Video had Wicked City and Bio Hunter and Venus Wars.

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>>216803129
Blockbuster was the Netflix/Disney+ slop factory of its day.

Unbeatable prices, a wide selection, and absolutely nothing more than rated R. If you want 200 copies of Independence Day on release weekend it was the place to be but if you wanted something weird or foreign or edgy and violent you were better off at indie video stores.

Same with renting porn as well, there was no adults-only section that was barricaded only by a beaded curtain like our local video places.

>>216804067
One of the weirder things I remember was a local appliance store that had a section with nothing but Laserdiscs and Laserdisc players to rent in the mid-90s. Maybe it was a deal with one of the companies that made the players, I don't know

>>216803879
...And what's the difference between that and just watching 8 - 9 movies on netflix?

>>216804847
They weren't available for months because they literally had to produce the media and distribute them phyiscally, so yeah it'd take 6months to a year. The second that stopped being an issue should have made it more convenient for the customer, not more expensive.

>>216804135
I lived in Utah for a few years and I think that was the name of the place I went to, it was a great place and had a lot of good stuff. Peak video store era like 25 years ago.

>>216803129
Why would they envy this? Do you wish you used library search cards instead of Google?

>>216803129
My mom would drop me off, go grocery shopping, then come pick me up with my selections.
Would spend like 30+ minutes just browsing and eating popcorn.

>>216803129
Blockbuster and equivalents would never come back, anyone that fed up with streaming services would just skip to pirating.

>>216805144
oh and always checking the return stack or asking them to empty and check for the hot new rentals

>>216803129
as a kid it was great. as a teen/early 20s, it was a easy date option. go to blockbuster, grab some takeout and make a night of it. not too different than netflix and doordash if your girl is agreeable.

>>216805102
Not him but it was a fun place to meet new people or just hang out by yourself spending an entire afternoon picking 3 movies just picking up boxes to examine the covert art and description on the back.

Sometimes I wouldn't even rent anything, I would just hang out looking at all the hand-drawn covers of 80s movies whether they were action fantasy films or horror or boner comedies. I'd watch 15 minutes of whatever was playing off of all the TV hanging off the ceiling.

It was just another fun place to hang out, like the arcade.

Sure you can play games on your phone now and download everything at your computer, but you lose those places that used to hold games as physical objects. Or rather you never got to experience them.

Like I said you could escape the world and be in your little world of things that you enjoy, or meet new people that share your interest in movies.

>>216803129
I was born in ‘03 and never went to Blockbuster. However, we did go to Family Video to pick out movies to rent when I was a kid.

>>216805357
>I was born in ‘03 and never went to Blockbuster. However, we did go to Family Video to pick out movies to rent when I was a kid.
oh man, i can't wait to read your memoirs

>>216804997
Weirdly I had a local video store that had the kid's section behind the beaded curtain. The adult section was in the corner and all the boxes had a black sleeve in the front (the backs were visible).

My mom n pop eventually stopped even getting new mainstream releases in, their business was 99% out of the adult room.

>>216803257
>>216804282
That is one awesome cover alright.

>>216803264
I'm surprised you didn't mention the "Blockbuster version" edited movies

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>>216803129
grew up in the boonies...we didn't have a blockbuster or anything near by. we had "Whistle Stop Video" video rental store inside an old decommissioned train car. Surprisingly decent selection, despite being a train car

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>>216804045
I miss GameCrazy like you wouldn't believe

>>216804961
I thought at the time she was just grabbing his legs and swinging him around.
Weather Report Girl was a lot more on the nose.

>>216803129
HAHAHAHAHAHA

Zoomers don't even KNOW about the 5 year era where Netflix was this thing where you could type in literally ANY movie that had EVER been made - certainly hundreds you would never find at Blockbuster - and have them just delivered to your mailbox with the return envelop included.
You could just cycle through kino after kino, over and over. Anything you dreamed of. No need to go to a store.

Imagine not knowing that Netflix streaming began as "okay so like here are a few movies you can watch online if you want, instead of having to like mail them".

>>216804915
>had sizable back catalogs of movies that wouldn't fit on the shelves
yep that's how it worked, you had to ask for things it wasn't all on display like later at blockbuster with forty copies of the patriot on a shelf, i didnt think to mention that but i guess if you weren't there you wouldn't know. also of course much less floorspace in the smaller stores blockbusters and even hollywood video were so huge. the jewish guys who owned the store i went to had another location and id occasionally be told something was over there

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Remember actually being excited for new releases?

>>216803264
Blockbuster gets hype because it was the only way to watch the entire 80s action movie canon or like, the Goonies. Or a lot of 70s shit that existed before VHS was mainstreamed.
The ONLY way.

This was when the internet was extremely nascent so even though Blockbuster was like the Reddit homepage in terms of "Wow I found this niche comedy special that also literally everyone in the country that browses the one comedy special shelves would find, I've never heard of the Dirtiest Kings of Comedy so it feels like a find".
Once Reddit and that shit matured Millennial culture revolved around everyone hearing of everything, driving the niche deeper and more exclusive but Millennials instantly keeping up with the niche making it lame and gay until there was no niche left and Millennials in writing rooms ruined culture.

You have no idea what it was like. For about 8 years it was so fucking exciting because 40% of us were discovering shit en masse that only 2% of our elders knew about and it just kept going on like that until 80% of everyone all knew about the same ass shit and the high ended.

>>216805591
>Imagine not knowing that Netflix streaming began as "okay so like here are a few movies you can watch online if you want, instead of having to like mail them".
you could also pay for only the 2 dvd out at once plan or whatever it is and then upgrade to 8 out after you got billed get that at the old rate, downgrade right before billing, repeat. eventually they closed the loophole but it took years and years. netflix streaming was pretty elite in the very early days esp for old movies before they striated out to all the different services, of course now there are probably 100 rogue streaming sites you can play everything on

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>>216805591
>HAHAHAHAHAHA
>Imagine
>don't even KNOW
i can smell you through the screen, and see your balding grey hair.

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I rented Spiderman day 1

>>216803154
Based

>>216803129
Millennial nostalgia pisses me off now, im so fucking tired of seeing it.

>>216805719
>>216805681
>Everyone who wasn't raised in troon culture and has broccoli hair and was raised by iPhones is suss fr fr

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>>216805719
>Millennial nostalgia
my boss was complaining we don't have a Short Circuit remake yet..and i had to chuckle and say 'yeah', since i need the job..it's the little things that kill

So the only reason Blockbuster was good was because you found shit that you had never heard from there?

That's such a fucking retarded reason to glorify something. When I have nothing to do, I don't go to find shit to waste hours of my life, I go find something useful to do, like earn money or fix my fucking apartment.

Jesus christ these threads are pathetic
All of you faggots are just upset that you grew up and don’t have friends anymore
If you’re going to be nostalgic about a bygone era at least choose a based era like when slavery was legal and women couldn’t vote, not the disgusting soulless corporate 90s
I hate all of you

>>216803264
I had a place by me that charged a dollar a daym didn't matter old or new.
>>216805719
Lmao you zoomer/alphas have nothing to be nostalgic over

>>216805869
>why are you nostalgic for your childhood
>you should be nostalgic for something that happened 130 years before you were born
based retard that doesn't know what nostalgia is

>>216805838
Imagine trying to discuss something you never experienced as if you could understand what it was like

>>216803129
I would have killed to have a 4k tv and torrents of everything back then

>>216805719
>Time to make another Zoomer "The Star Wars prequels were good" and "I was watching kids' cartoons in 2007" nostalgia thread

>>216805838
Being mad on 4chan at a video store that stopped existing 15 years ago is a great use of your time

>>216803264
Kill yourself you spoiled faggot

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>>216805886
>>216805886
>Lmao you zoomer/alphas have nothing to be nostalgic over
nostalgia over commercials and bullshit products is pretty sad. and im a millennial.

An anon from Thailand or somewhere like that said they had dudes with giant backpacks full of DVDs riding around on scooters running mobile rental services. Sounded pretty comfy. Surprised no one over here ever had the idea to rig up a big van or truck as a rental store on wheels.

>>216805957
t. born in 1997

If blockbuster returned it would be owned by indians

>>216805989
>born in 1997
i wish...late 20's was the best

Streaming is objectively superior to video rental stores in every conceivable way and you’re a loser if you disagree
>but you could go out and interact with people irl!
You can still do that but you choose not to because you’re an asocial coward. Plus nobody was actually excited about interacting with the stoned teenager cashier who openly didnt like his job or the customers, which was the only person you would be interacting with.
>but you could find stuff you’ve never heard of before!
You can still do that, and in fact it’s significantly easier now than it used to be.
>but it was more fun when it took forever to find what you were looking for! it’s like a hecking treasure hunt!
This is so fucking retarded it doesn’t even deserve a serious response. Nobody was ever happy about having to drive to multiple different stores to find the movie you’re looking for.
>but it was super cheap! you could rent a movie for $5!
You still can, which means movies are significantly cheaper now than they used to be when you factor in inflation, not to mention the time saved by not having to drive back and forth to the store constantly.
>but it was a good way to spend time with family and friends! you could rent a movie and order a pizza at the same time!
You could still do this if you had any friends or still had a relationship with your parents.
>but it was hecking based and wholesome and not corporate slop like we have now!
Blockbuster was literally the epitome of soulless corporate slop. You only think otherwise because your child brain was easily amused and couldn’t comprehend the concept of soul v soulless.

These threads are so pathetic it literally makes my skin crawl

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>>216803129
>life will never be this good again
bros...

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Gen alpha will never experience going behind ghetto gas stations to buy pirated copies of movies and ps1 games out of a van.
>Last one I ever bought was AVPR
>Couldn't see a fucking thing
>Thought it was because the recording was shitty
>Watched it years later
>Still couldn't see a fucking thing

>>216803129
>all the new movies are rented out by Friday
Nah

>>216806174
SOUL

>Movie night on Friday then Saturday Night Football on Ten
God my weekends were good

>>216806174
>>life will never be this good again
swap blockbuster for Plex, and pizza hut for dominos and that's my kid's friday night.

>>216806231
I can only imagine what a fa/tv/irgin's Plex would look like.

>Dad, what's Drive? Can we watch Salo??

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>>216806243
changes when you have a couple kids. but i forgot, anyone who posts here is a forever alone virgin. like knocking up a townie is the most unbelievable thing

>>216806174
Except for the internet speeds + data caps. Fuck that shit. Give me modern internet infrastructure and I'd gladly go back

>drive to video store
>go to the new kino display
>every copy of every new kino is already rented
>have to browse the same few aisles of the same shit you’ve already looked through a million times
>after 20 minutes of looking for something that isn’t complete shit, you eventually just grab a random old dvd you’ve never heard of and hope it’s good
>have to wait in line behind a bunch of annoying boomers asking the cashier retarded questions or seething about late fees
>finally get to check out
>get charged $10 in 2025 dollars to rent it
>drive all the way home
>disc is scratched to hell
>drive back to store
>get back in line
>wait for more boomers
>exchange dvd and hope they don’t blame you and charge you extra for the scratched disc
>drive home
>watch movie
>its complete garbage
>forget to return it
>get charged $20 in 2025 dollars in late fees
>repeat indefinitely
Yeah nah, blockbuster fucking sucked. Streaming is cancer but it’s way better than the old system.

>blockbuster re-opens in modern-day muttmerica
>browns and blacks dont bring anything back
>the few that do trash the store cuz "hewwww nahhhh howz u know im late ix aint payin shieet
>blockbuster shuts down again

>>216806295
>ghostbusters 2016
nigger what the fuck

>>216803129
The person who wrote doesn't know that Netflix is still cheaper?

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>>216803129
>Is it outside the realm of possibility that a recession will make a cheap thing obsolete and bring back a much more expensive thing?
Uh… yes?

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>>216806360
>>ghostbusters 2016
>nigger what the fuck
have a daughter...thought Bridesmaids was funny..who would have known theyd fuck up that bad?

>>216803129
Blockbuster was awesome, but I pretty much exclusively used it for vidya.

>>216804452
You were a leash toddler, huh?

>>216806295
All goyslop

>>216805719
Same. Nostalgia is cringe. It's like the 60s. Or the 80s. Or World War 2.
All the while most Zoomer culture is dogshit and I will chuckle when they soon approach their 30s and all their sacred cows get dunked on by teenagers who don't even remotely appreciate them

>>216806322
> He doesn't check the disc while he's at the store
pleb

>>216806174
>>216806230
>ai slop
>'soul'
Kill yourself retarded ausfaggots. Holy shit you pathetic fucks are so desperate for attention that you'll jump to reply to anything 'aussie' even if it's the sloppiest boomerest ai trash ever created. I hate Australians so fucking much.

>>216805561
In the next lifetime, brother

>>216806849
Zoomers are nostalgic for the 90s they never experienced.

>>216803129
Zoomers never got to:
>go to the video store to find that its out of the movie they went there to get
>eagerly prepare to watch a rented movie only for the dvd to be too scratched to play
>try to rent something but cant because they arent listed on their family's account
>cant rent something because of outstanding late fees caused by a family member
>cant rent because their family account got closed for whatever reason
>get home and open a dvd case to realize its got the wrong dvd inside

>>216803129
>you will never experience n64 for the first time playing starfox on a demo kiosk at blockbuster
By you, I mean the person reading this, most likely. I did, and I truly feel bad for people even 5 years older than me for missing out

>>216803129
I can still remember the smell of our local blockbuster. It had a TCBY yogurt shop connected to it. Sometimes go there on a friday, get some yogurt, rent a nintendo and some games, then have fun all weekend.

>>216806295
I've seen 20 of these but the thought of subjecting a kid to all this is bleak.

>>216806174
>You wouldn't download a car.
Fucking hilarious pirates have quality control that prohibits this kind of garbage.

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>>216803264
>>216803348
>>216803491
>>216803642
>>216804042

My brothers.

I'm a 1991 born Millennial who soifaces over everything from the 90's and early 2000's. I still have all my old Pokemon cards, Beanie Babies, Goosebumps and Animorphs books. Half my CD collection is 90's music of various genres, from Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears to Incubus and Tonic.

I don't care about Blockbuster, though. Except for the Pokemon Snap photo booth and one or two vague memories, it wasn't a big part of my childhood. Even before the internet, we rented movies from the grocery store or for free at the library.

Streaming is superior to Blockbuster in every way.

>Um, no, because I MEMBER when Blockbuster-

I don't care about the smell or the overpriced candy, dude.

>>216803129
It gets worse. Gen alphas don't even know what a tv channel is.

>Friday night
>local movie rental has 3 movies for the weekend +x amount of candy for a deal
>rent movie for the girls
>rent fun movie (ace Ventura etc)
>rent war movie for dad
>pizza
>coke
God i miss being a kid in the 90s so much it’s unreal. Maybe i can relive some of its glory with my kids when the time comes.

Renting dvds wasn't really much of a thing. People had internet by then or they were still using vhs. Video rental was an entirely different beast when you had 3 channels, there was maybe a year old movie on Friday and some Disney crap on Sunday, and then 1970s and earlier movies on later at night.

>>216807171
Zoomers will never get to download movies and music off of Limewire and have it be bestiality videos or an audiophile starting with “i did not have sexual relations with that woman”

>>216805838
>So the only reason Blockbuster was good was because you found shit that you had never heard from there?
>That's such a fucking retarded reason to glorify something.

This. You can do the same thing with literally any streaming service. Even YouTube's free movies.

Your local library's DVD section lets you do that, too.

>>216805869
>If you’re going to be nostalgic about a bygone era at least choose a based era like when slavery was legal and women couldn’t vote, not the disgusting soulless corporate 90s
>I hate all of you

How can we be nostalgic for something that ended 130-ish years before we were born?

>>216803129
I used to rent video games from the local library.

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>>216807309
Will those times ever come back?

>>216803129
Renting was a humiliation ritual from those shitholes, it was better actually owning VHS's, DVDs and games.

>>216803129
Zoomers were alive for Blockbuster. How young do you think zoomers are? Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010 and lived for a few years after that. The oldest zoomies were 13 by 2010.

>>216803129
> physical media
> not rutracker

>>216803129
>zoomers never got the chance to experience the ultimate kino movie experience
They have dude rental video stores existed all the way through the end of the 00's.

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>>216803129
They did though, Blockbuster was still around into the 2010s. The last one in my city closed around 2014 or 2015, I went on the last day since they were liquidating stock and I got a shitload of blu-rays for $1 each.

>>216807485
In my town, they were still around until 2021.

>>216804094
Man I can't even remember half the terrible movies my family rented just on a whim for movie night. Never mattered if they were good or bad though I have nothing but the fondest memories of sitting down on the couch and watching movies with my mom and dad. That's what I remember, being with my parents.
I just now realized how sad it is that so many zoomer kids don't have those family movie nights anymore even though with streaming it should be easier than ever

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>>216807419
i have to concur.
287 copies of the new release: Pozzed IV, and only the one copy of Braveheart that was always checked out.
standing in line to rent slop at full ticket price wasn't as much fun as your rosy nostalgia glasses remember it now.

>>216807443
>Zoomers were alive for Blockbuster. How young do you think zoomers are?
Some niggas are still stuck in 2016 thinking they're teenagers.. most zoomers are in their late 20's..

>>216807331
That was some nightmarish shit. Sometimes my computer would let me play something while it was downloading so I could catch that awful stuff. Other times, I think with avi files(?), it wouldnt and Id waste all that time waiting and it would be something gross.
Zoomers also never dealt with all the codec bullshit that was constantly changing, or downloading and opening something without realizing its filename ended with ".mp3.vbs" and their computer getting infected.

>>216803642
I miss it because of the mystery and not having to find movies on streaming. I'd just walk through the horror section and pick something based entirely on how weird the cover looked, half the time the movie was shit or something obscure that I could never find again, but it was fun. I would've never seen crap Ghoulies or The Vineyard or Jack Frost if it weren't for Blockbuster.

>>216803129
It's fucking disturbing that people have had such empty childhoods that they feel nostalgia for this corporate shit. Sure, if it was some local video store from the 80s or 90s or something, then combined with getting snacks and the anticipation of watching a movie later that evening, it could be a nice experience to a kid, but this?
These massive, sterile, corporate shitholes that look like a mixture of an office building and a warehouse?

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>>216807537
The zoomer gen also starts with 1996, so a lot of them were almost 20 when mostly Blockbuster closed in 2014 and even then it was still around internationally until 2020. It was also still pretty damn popular in the late 2000s, so a lot of '96 zoomies went for sure.

>>216807576
You don't get it. It wasn't about the business, it was about the whole experience from start to finish. The evening drive in the car, your comfy old couch, the CRT TV, the excitement of waiting to see a brand new movie, no smart phone to piss you off etc was all part of it.

i went to my local one often but some melanin enriched gentleman got into a fight after his daughter was stabbed and after that my parents would not take me back there again

>>216803129
Zoomers got streaming services, a far superior kino movie experience.

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>>216808200
>pay for streaming service
>then pay again to watch the movie

>>216806934
Settle down m00t

>>216807576
It was about watching movies with my family before I became a disturbed loner.

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>>216808218
>1995: Pay $100+ a month for renting movies
>2025: Pay $8 a month for streaming movies
Wow tough choice

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>>216808319
>$100+ month
Holy fuck, nobody was renting that much. I'd get about 5 movies to rent for a week for $10. Even doing that for 4 weeks straight, that's only $40.

>Pay $8 a month for streaming movies
Lol, not really. Prices keep increasing and you still have to pay to rent a movie from the streaming service. Hope you love ads too, because that's what $8 gets you (until the next price hike kek).

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>>216808200
>Zoomers got streaming services, a far superior kino movie experience.

>>216808319
>$8/month for 480p on one TV and you still have to pay $5 to rent a movie because its not free to stream
oof

>>216808372
but can you put a vhs into a phone? no? kek retard get reckd

>>216803129
I did but looking back it wasn't that good. Now I can get any movie I want for free, find online consensus if it's good, can look up the movie director and see his previous films, and so on.

Like it was comfy, but movie wise we're living in a better time, couldn't get 4K bluray rips then.

Of course there was actually good movies being released back then but that wasn't to do with Blockbuster.

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>>216808404
>watching movies on your phone

>>216807531
> I just now realized how sad it is that so many zoomer kids don't have those family movie nights anymore even though with streaming it should be easier than ever
Nigger what are you even talking about? Plenty of zoomers had movie nights with their parents, and gen alpha still has movie nights with their parents. Hell I’m a 29yo zoomer and I still have movie nights with my parents when I get the chance.
Netflix is not the reason you don’t have any fulfilling relationships anon. The sooner you acknowledge that, the better your chances of not dying alone.

>>216807309
Nothing is stopping you from calling your family members, organizing a movie night, and ordering pizza for everyone (unless they’re all dead I guess)

Certain AI filmmakers will be so amazing that one (me) could start their own physical stores and exclusively release them there and psychotically DMCA all online piracy of it, including murdering the 123 jeets.

>>216808372
>$108/month to watch basically every movie and tv show that has ever existed, whenever you want, always in perfect 4k quality with no ads
>$20 to rent brand new movies the same day they release in theaters, or wait a couple weeks and pay $5
Vs
>$50+/month to rent a few movies a week with shit dvd quality (not counting any possible late fees)
>$100+/month to pay for cable just to see brand new shows or super old stuff that reached syndication - if you want to see any tv show that doesn’t fit these categories you’re just shit out of luck
>only way to see brand new movies is pay $10+ per person to see it in theaters, or wait 6-12 months for it to release on DVD
And none of this is even factoring in inflation lmao

>>216808714
Oh and I forgot to mention that even when you paid out the ass for cable, you still got constant unskippable ad breaks. Even the dvds you rented would start with multiple minutes of unskippable ads kek

>>216803129
>a recession so bad that everyone stops paying for streaming services and reverts back to physical media so hard it causes the Blockbuster boom to return
Streaming is way cheaper than physical media and Blockbuster rentals

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>>216803154
>Still haven't returned the Space Jam VHS tape I rented from there

>>216803264
Yeah, people forget. New releases were like $5 back then, so like 15 now. Would you pay 15 to rent a movie? I don't think so

>>216803154
Hollywood Video had so much more movies and games, and some of them had a Game Crazy built into the store. It was also cheaper than Blockbuster.

>>216808972
Normies pay $12 to virtually rent a movie lmao.

>UH LE WILL THINGS BE LIKE THEY USED TO BE???
No. Next question?

>Go to Blockbuster to rent a game.
>Anything recently released is out for weeks
>Settle on some bullshit you never wanted to play
Nah it kinda sucked

>>216809047
And once you press play, you have only 24 hours to finish it kek.

>>216803129
>zoomers think a recession is going back in time

>>216809047
While it’s still in theaters
Movies that aren’t brand new and aren’t available for free can typically be rented for $2.99 on amazon. If you consider inflation that’s like a 70% discount compared to renting for a couple days at blockbuster

>>216803129
Nostalgia for shit like this is manchild behavior.

The dopamine we get in the build-up to a reward is even stronger than the reward itself. That's why the trip to blockbuster and the increasing anticipation on the way home felt like magic. Instant rewards is like using cheat codes in games. You only get a minor dopamine hit that fades quickly

>>216803264
Boo hoo. I rented old horror movies and that was enough for me.

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>>216806139
When things go, you'll be amongst the very first killed
Your physiognomy will be your uniform

It was an overall shitty experience. The worst part was that, when new movies came, the store had only 1–2 copies, and they would get immediately grabbed by people who refused to return them for months, which I'm sure they did on purpose to dunk on everyone else. You had no way of knowing when, if ever, the movie you want is going to be returned, so you picked up the phone and ringed the store: "Is it back yet? Is it back yet? Is it back..."
The alternative was camping in front of the store and waiting for the movie. I remember when Mimic (1997) came out, my older brother told me to camp in front of the store until a copy was returned so I could immediately rent it, and I still couldn't get it.
There were no ways to know if the movie was good or not either. You heard about a movie and you scrambled to get it without knowing if it's total dookie or not, and you had to enjoy watching it.
He, me, and our friends once rented the entire VHS "Storm of the Century" series, which was a total borefest.

>>216803264
>overpriced snack foods
No video store, not even the big franchises, none at all sold fucking snacks here wtf, it wouldn't have make any sense for the exact reason you mentioned after...

>>216809326
cont.
So, if you're wondering "why would anyone watch those shitty Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris movies from the '90s," it was because that was the best we had and we had to be happy with them.

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>Go on vacation to the beach
>Hotel has one of these
>Rent Mario 64 and Pokemon Snap the night we check in
>Parents get Pizza Hut
I don’t care if I sound like a rose tinted glasses fag I want to go back

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>>216809406
always funny to see manlet zoomers copy pasting old gaslighting jokes.

>>216808319
It says right there that he bought Apollo 13 so if you exclude that and just include the rentals it would be 9.75

>>216804094
Kino post couldn't agree more
>>216805197
Except thats the fat zoomer slob option where nobody does anything or even moves an inch for the whole evening.

>>216809326
>when new movies came, the store had only 1–2 copies
I worked at Blockbuster in high school. There was a formula they used for how many copies each store got of a new release based on the box office total of the film, the rating of the film, and the sales figures of your particular store. The goal was to have every copy of a new release rented out after a Friday shift and it was usually pretty accurate. I remember specifically when X-Men came out we got over 100 copies.

But by third week we start rotating stock out for purchase as the demand drops. tldr ur gay.

>>216803241
Do zoomers have autism?