You only have to go back 20 years and this could have been your life instead of this shit
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You only have to go back 20 years and this could have been your life instead of this shit
You only have to go back 20 years and this could have been your life instead of this shit
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why not go back 20 years and go to a place where you can actually buy the movies
>go back 20 years
>rent a movie instead of investing in apple and bitcoin and getting a job at Google
>investing in apple and bitcoin
yes
>getting a job at Google
lmao why? i'll deliver pizza part time for a few years then sell and retire
Maybe because of stock options or getting paid in stock? Isn't that a thing young tech companies do?
Everyone who started near the beginning was set for life when they went public
>don't enjoy the peak of human civilization, instead help facilitate the techno dystopia we are currently doomed to!!
against the wall homosexual
>the peak of human civilization is paying to not own a movie
>don't enjoy the peak of human civilization
>renting movies from a corporation is peak human civilization
Are you going to make love?
>Go back 20 years and instead of engaging with life in ways since lost, just do the exact same shit you're doing now but with a vhs tape instead of on your computer.
>Friday after school, Fall 2000
>Dad picks me up
>Our tradition: One game. One movie. One snack.
>So many kino choices
>Chameleon Twist 2, Godzilla vs Biollante, and Sour Patch Kids...A LEAN WEEKEND.
I'm unfamiliar with that cover.
The one I had makes the protagonist look like a black dude. Atleast, I always thought so.
That child of divorce life
Frick no we had cable internet and torrents in 2004 newb
More like 30 years. Dsl wasn't good enough for torrents
It is said that the 20th century truly ended in 2010 because of iPhones, the iPad, and Twitter. Those were what really ushered in the current era.
No, it ended in 2000 when the Internet became mainstream and digital filmmaking took over.
2000s Internet was very different from the current Internet. Web 1.0 and early Web 2.0 were "wild west" and were mostly pre-social media. It was only around 2008 that Facebook started appearing. Also digital filmmaking "took over" in 2013. I think 2010 is a good cutoff point in general because that was really when the world changed.
I miss blockbuster-sucks.com
Blockbuster was shot. Not that Ma and pop video stores where any better. Hollywood was the best. They started 5 day rentals, made sure top rentals where in stock but getting a shit ton of copies and they had Game Crazy.
Oh i have the edit
penis
>having to leave the house and pay money to watch films rather than just download everything for free
Nah frick that I'll stay here thanks
Brudder, you could get warez on IRC in the 90s. Regardless, you easily save your couple dollar rental fee with everything else being exponentially cheaper.
Blockbuster was overrated trash.
My first "big" download on dial-up was a 14 mb game install (Chaos Overlords), and it took more than two hours. Since I couldn't use up the phone line during daylight hours, I had to wait until the middle of the night and stay up to download it. I put on a vhs of Gods Must Be Crazy and watched that while periodically pausing the movie to check if the download was still going. This was a 28.8 kbaud modem on a Pentium Windows 95 computer.
You weren't downloading movies on the internet as a kid in the burbs in the 90s. Not until broadband internet really lit up in was that remotely feasible, and even then quality was trash most of the time because if it wasn't some shitty camrip from a theater it was a VHS copy or if you were lucky a DVD stream with a bad codec.
They both sucked ass, big shitty chains that were alright at first because their undercut prices but once they were the only games in town they went to shit.
Mainly as others said, the people who owned and worked the indie stores liked their shit and were good to chat with. The chains had way more affordable prices and somewhat more accessibility in that regard but were staffed by highschoolers (sometimes movie nerds could be cool) and then loser middle managers who hated tardwrangling said highschoolers. Everything was policy set and rigid, and interactions were limited or manufactured to get you to buy the extra fluff bullshit.
That being said, the Mom and Pop stores could have their issues too:
if i could go back in time i would warn my parents about the massive mistake they are going to make and prevent it from happening (my birth)
Kino. First rated R movie was Troy while eating pizza hut. I miss you Dad. Rip at only 58
Sorry fren 🙁 My dad doesn't like movies but I have fond memories of the few I have watched with him
hollywood video was better
Nothing beats the comicbookguy-staffed mom & pops
This.
>listening to millennials whine about MUH BLOCKBUSTER when that overrated shithole put all the truly great video stores out of business
>that overrated shithole put all the truly great video stores out of business
What made those places better than Blockbuster?
Same thing as what made the comic stores better than Barnes & Noble... the owners loved the media.
>the owners loved the media.
Sounds like the difference between old Cinemaphile and Cinemaphile now. Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm doing in this thread. Anyone who was raised by old people knows how annoying talk about the past is. I don't really want to hang out with boomers.
I personally loved going with my grandmother to the care home and listening to all their stories. It also provided a nice contrast to the lies they try to push on us about our own ancestors.
mine had free popcorn you could eat while browsing
mine had a street fighter 2 rainbow edition machine and fresh popcorn
There's two left where I live 🙁
Mom and pops sucked. Had one copy of anything. Always blamed you for not rewinding or VHS tape being shit. And they were all one day. One ma and pop wanted 60 dollar collateral VHS because was out of print. Found Hollywood had it for 2 bucks, 5 days!
So get in the habit of rewinding, dumbass. You shit and don't flush, too?
Alctuallu Black person, the smart store tell not to rewind. They’d rather rewind the movies themselves with audio reminder. Saves VHS because film is cool and don’t have worry about people shitty VHS players eating the tape. Some stores put on the box DO NOT REWIND
>shit and don't flush, too?
Only the most impressive ones taken in public restrooms
Are you going to keep doing this into your fifties?
The AI needs more organic material
It was more fun buying ripped DVDs on the streets or in dorms but I’m sorry mommy’s special lil boy spent his good bux on overpriced candy and a babysitter
It wasn't, though. Partying and pussy doesn't beat childhood wonder. Just like detached irony can't beat honest sincerity
When was the last time you anons can remember going to blockbuster? I want to say it was 2008 for me. Rented Prom Night. It was a subpar slasher.
Hollywood Video had a better selection of N64 games
Video rental stores were legitimately dreadful and I'm glad they died, thank God for the DVD being inexpensive enough by the mid 2000s to kill these places
>morons nostalgicly remember blockbuster as this amazing time
>Shitty staff
>late fees was their bread and butter
>Before DVDs VHS tapes were never rewound so you saw the ending of a video when it started
>Introduced games but they were always scratched and shitty
Frick Blockbuster I'm glad its dead and there's literally only one left for marketing purposes. Not saying Netflix is a great replacement but sure as shit beats driving down to a store to rent a $15.99 movie you're gonna watch once and forget to return for 3 days and they charge you $13 for late fees
Don’t forget new movies where never in. You’d wonder around trying to find some shit movie so could justify the trip but usually just end up leaving. Even worse, you call around and when some teenage punk worker says they have a copy you drive out your way to get it and homosexual didn’t put it on hold. That happened when tried rent “The Rock” the weekend it came
out
My favorite thing was they'd literally put the knock off movie right next to the actual movie you'd want to buy to confuse over tired/drunk parents stumbling in to shut their crying kid up and they'd intentionally grab the wrong film
That happened when buddies and me rented Monster Ball so see sex scene and switched it out with Monsters Inc
I can't over emphasize how shit Blockbuster was
>late fees
>expensive as frick
>new movies were always taken
>videos weren't rewound
>discs were scratched and wouldn't play
>the worst wagies on earth
I know we all have to pretend old slop good because nostalgiagays are mentally ill but my brother and I always left disappointed, one movie wouldn't play for whatever reason and the other was the shittiest direct to video trash you've ever seen and didn't finish.
blockbuster would send you to collections over a fricking nickel I swear bros
Blockbuster sucked. Every store was the same. They smelled like BO and had this putrid yellow lighting. Movies were filthy from customers fondling them and employees never cleaning anything. Overpriced candy and snacks were always stale. The rental prices were a rip off. The staff was rude and unhelpful. They always acted like they were doing customers a favor just to ring up a bill. Speaking of bills, Blockbuster had the highest late fees. A day late would mean economic rape. No one in their right mind would go to a Blockbuster if an independent rental shop was in the area. Only moronic suburban consumers went to Blockbuster. Only reason they did is because Blockbuster would be the only one available at the local strip mall. Anyone that says Blockbuster was great is looking through nostalgia glasses.
Everyone who has "le heccin wholesome friday night Blockbuster trips!" did it about three times their entire lives. Anyone who actually remembers those days realize it was nothing like zoomzooms pretend.
Inorganic forced nostalgia bullshit.
My local video store also sold cellphones. I bought one when I was 8.
There was a period of time in Upstate New York, in the Finger Lakes/Syracuse adjacent part of the state where nobody gave a frick about the either the capital(Albany) or its big moronic brother on Manhattan Islans in our asscrack, where all video rentals were done at the fricking GROCERY STORE. No joke. While my parents were buying beer and bread, I'd be in a corner looking at the latest NES and SNES games, wondering if my save file would still be there, or at the cover of Silence of the Lambs wondering just what the frick this moth movie could be about.
It wasn't just grocery stores though. I had three rental places: one was the actual grocery store, pre-Walmart. One was the liquor store, who had more movies than games but was infinitely more fun to browse, and the last was a truly fricked business model; a recycling center/emu farm/video rental place. No games, but they had a barrel full of peawiener feathers and ALL the Godzilla movies on VHS at the time. I try to describe this economic environment to people IRL and I'm just met with stares or vague "wow, never heard of that." Never saw a big chain of rental places until I moved out of NY. Walking into my first Hollywood Video seemed like a dream.
Can you remember songs that played at Blockbuster? Or maybe adjacent video stores? I can recall hearing 'There Goes The Neighborhood' for the first time on a really good sound system at a video store. Also maybe 'Don't Dream It's Over'.
>Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof
>My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof
>In the paper today tales of war and of waste
>But you turn right over to the Cinemaphile page