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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Blockbuster was beta

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was never mine.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It should have been

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >20 dollars to rent a movie for 3 days
    Pass.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Really¿

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes. Most nostalgic morons tend to have conveniently forgotten the pricing of Blockbuster rentals as it destroys their entire argument.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Around the end they had unlimited rentals/no late fees for like 30 a month. What are you talking about?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And Tubi is free. Thanks for conceding.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes. Most nostalgic morons tend to have conveniently forgotten the pricing of Blockbuster rentals as it destroys their entire argument.

        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

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Counting individually despite it not mattering
          >Still coping
          No matter how you slice it, streaming is overall far cheaper than renting

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            that was never the argument. you claimed $20 a movie for 3 days, you cant back up on that now moron.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              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 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.

              It’s not more. You clearly don’t remember cable prices in the 2000s

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cool lie

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      All i see is kino

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nah it was good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Blockbuster didn’t put out original productions full of LGBT and other Marxist propaganda.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      /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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >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

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why did THEY do it?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    THEY did it

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You're not nostalgic for blockbuster. Your nostalgic for the memories you made with your friends, family, and random people you met there.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the original "you will own nothing and you'll be happy"
    frick the 90s
    and frick the blockbuster

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >renting this out to hipster airBNB suckers
      based
      >actually living here
      cringe

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    HOLLYWOOD VIDEO RISE!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hollychad video reporting in

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Blockbuster was dogshit, you just lack healthy amounts of human interaction. Touch grass Black person.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >rent latest movie release and a ps1 game from Blockbuster
    >get popcorn from the shop next door because its cheaper

    Good times.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    These companies killed themselves, no one took them away.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Digital > physical
    There I said it

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Shut up Judy, you killed Blockbuster.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        nope, they killed themselves by being idiots
        if they reopened right now from nowhere you will not go there

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why would I, there's fricking nothing worth watching being produced today.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              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.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Did they sell icee in your country's blockbuster?

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why did THEY do it?

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Who took what from who now?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      THEY

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is now a 2000s kino Flipnote Hatena thread

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Still getting Flipkino to this day

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