THIS is what they took from you
THIS is what they took from you
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— Surreal Videos (@SurrealVideos) March 3, 2023
THIS is what they took from you
This phonograph "reads" a rock’s rough surface and transforms it into beautiful ambient music pic.twitter.com/PYDzYsWWf8
— Surreal Videos (@SurrealVideos) March 3, 2023
Blockbuster was beta
It was never mine.
It should have been
>20 dollars to rent a movie for 3 days
Pass.
Really¿
Yes. Most nostalgic retards tend to have conveniently forgotten the pricing of Blockbuster rentals as it destroys their entire argument.
Around the end they had unlimited rentals/no late fees for like 30 a month. What are you talking about?
>Around the end
When they were in massive decline and closing stores by the thousands? All Access was a last desperate hail Mary, it wasn't the norm.
Nice try. Blockbuster in my town sold the popular new movies for 5 bux, the older or niche or cult movies went for a dollar or two. I'm not sure what prices you're quoting tbh.
And Tubi is free. Thanks for conceding.
And? Sitting at home all day is boring. It was fun going out and seeing what was at the video store. Go out to the video store, grab a bite, maybe do something else before coming back home. It's not natural to sit at home 24/7 and I work from home. I'd prefer to not have everything streaming. Look how shit most everything is now days. Convince doesn't mean quality.
No. In the early 90's it was $3 for three nights, but by the end of the 90s it had moved up to somewhere around $6 for 5 nights. You could argue that with inflation that's pretty close to the equivalent of the current value of $20, but at no point did it ever cost $20 to rent a movie from blockbuster
>Counting individually despite it not mattering
>Still coping
No matter how you slice it, streaming is overall far cheaper than renting
that was never the argument. you claimed $20 a movie for 3 days, you cant back up on that now retard.
I meant 3 movies, but regardless it doesn’t matter. Streaming is still cheaper even at your so called “3 dollars an rental” as most people watch more than 5 movies a month. Not to mention Redbox has 2 dollar rentals currently. This isn’t even factoring in inflation, the smith of choices and the quality of life additions like being able to watch at any time of the month
Good riddance blockbustershill.
It’s not more. You clearly don’t remember cable prices in the 2000s
It definitely was initially. When netflix first introduced it's streaming service and it was only $7 a month it was a steal. This was back before the recent split of all the major studios pulling their content and opening individual streaming platforms- $7 got you essentially every movie ever made. But now it's all been hacked up and they've jacked up the price to over double that and still climbing- streaming is just about as expensive as a cable subscription used to be, and definitely significantly more expensive than a $6 rental from blockbuster ever was.
Cool lie
1. Generic movie selection
2. Randomly watching shitty movies because you'd already watched all three of the good ones was normal
3. Foreign section only place to find decent movies
4. Nobody really liked it but it was the most accessable
5. Always surprising you with price hikes
Blockbuster was just an IRL Netflix. Nothing of value was lost.
All i see is kino
In Australia during vhs era, their tapes seemed better looked after. They also had a lot of obscure stock for sale and had a good video game section too.
Nah it was good
Blockbuster didn’t put out original productions full of LGBT and other Marxist propaganda.
/thread
Guarantee nobody posting this "heccin comfy childhood!" shit is older than 23. They went maybe a handful of times and saw OTHER people describe it as a "Friday Night Tradition" and got bitter that they juuuuust missed it. Blockbuster sucked ass, because if it didn't it would have stuck around as an "ironic" service ala vinyl record stores have been the past 15 years.
>Blockbuster was just an IRL Netflix
no, it was much worse
you got a 4:3 reframed copies on a crappy vhs that was already seen hundreds of times and you had to find it in one of the rows and wait in line instead of getting a pristine 1080p 16:9 copy of the original
internet saved the movies
Why did THEY do it?
No one took anything from anyone- they went out of business because they refused to adapt to the industry changing. There were people internally suggesting they switch to a streaming model like netflix for years, but the top brass just refused because they were arrogant and thought it would never catch on. Their own stupidity and hubris is the "they" that put them out of business
THEY did it
You're not nostalgic for blockbuster. Your nostalgic for the memories you made with your friends, family, and random people you met there.
the original "you will own nothing and you'll be happy"
fuck the 90s
and fuck the blockbuster
>renting this out to hipster airBNB suckers
based
>actually living here
cringe
HOLLYWOOD VIDEO RISE!
No
Hollychad video reporting in
Blockbuster was dogshit, you just lack healthy amounts of human interaction. Touch grass moron.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've been into a blockbuster, and I'm almost 40. They were always shittier than the video rentals that every grocery store had. Either way, I was happy when physical media died. It was too much of a hassle for what was an increasingly worsening entertainment industry.
I miss Blockbuster, when I was 8 and my dad died and I went to return a late copy of Night at the Museum they waived the late fees and let me pick out a bunch of movies and gave me snacks
The 90s were a magical time, honestly. It doesnt explain the large propensity of that generation towards manchildishness but they were a very comfy time to grow up. I was thinking the other day that it felt like everything peaked in 05/06 and has been progressively getting worse and worse as time goes on
>rent latest movie release and a ps1 game from Blockbuster
>get popcorn from the shop next door because its cheaper
Good times.
These companies killed themselves, no one took them away.
Digital > physical
There I said it
walk through rows of what is still available and wait in line to get a shitty 4:3 vhs copy?
wow
it was taken from me
now I am so sad
so sad that I will not watch a 16:9 copy of the same movie on my big screen TV
sad
Shut up Judy, you killed Blockbuster.
nope, they killed themselves by being idiots
if they reopened right now from nowhere you will not go there
Why would I, there's fucking nothing worth watching being produced today.
agreed
you're a smart man
why do you focus on "produced today" though?
there are almost endless treasures filmed by intelligent people that are not from today
I know. I wouldn't expect a Blockbuster to carry good shit in this day and age, however. But who knows.
Anyway, now with fiber internet I can download anything I might be interested in in a matter of minutes, so brick and mortar renting stores don't really stand a chance.
Did they sell icee in your country's blockbuster?
Very fond memories of me and my brother going to Blockbuster every weekend and finding some cheesy low budget horror movies to watch. I also remember renting movies from the grocery store as a kid
Why did THEY do it?
Who took what from who now?
THEY
This is now a 2000s kino Flipnote Hatena thread
Still getting Flipkino to this day