Blockbuster (Depression) Thread

>that blockbuster smell

we didn't have blockbuster in my town, only rogers video

>t. a fucking LEAF

wtf happened ?

>be 5ish
>go to rent movies with dad
>accidentally walk into the adult section
>remember seeing the clerk drop his spaghetti in embarrassment

anyways, my mom would always take me to rent some cartoons, because we were poor and couldn't afford cable at the time

>>84300104
My dad would pick me up from school every Friday afternoon and we would rent a video game and movie to watch together . In retrospect, he always picked movies he thought I would like even though he probably hated them. He just liked spending time with me. He'd also read the game manuals and try to give me tips while I played.

:( RIP Dad.

>>84300281
Right in the feels but look on the bright side you got to have a dad around m80

>>84300281

My dad died a year before I picked up my first video game ;_;

>stay home from school one day because stomach was bothering me
>mom gave me some pepto bismol
>felt better after that
>so i eat a sandwich
>she wants to go get a movie so i go along with her
>get to blockbuster and walk around
>the smell in blockbuster starts making me nauseous
>uh oh
>throw up all over the carpeted floor
>try to run out but i can't hold the puke in so there's a trail of puke leading out the door

my mom still rented die hard 3 for us though, thanks mom

>getting smeared, scratched DVDs from a store
No thanks.

Hard to imagine that most kids in high school today have no memory or ever been in a Blockbuster

>>84300189
I'm a leaf and we had multple Blockbusters in my town, A jumbo video and a Rogers video.

>>84300281
my dad's dead too, but he didn't do shit but smoke cigarettes and watch sports. Still feel for ya dude.

>>84300104
>Go to video store
>Walk into adult section
>Aunt sees me
>Get yelled at home

Also late fees was sometimes a problem.

>>84300591
this
people ITT can get nostalgic all they want but if they actually went back in time they'd miss the convenience of streaming people are just idolizing a happier time in there life but you weren't happy because of Blockbuster you were happy because life hadn't severely disappointed you yet

>>84300892

drunk op here. this thread is 100% about nostalgia.

>>84300104
blockbuster was so great
>drive twenty minutes with sister and mom
>she wants to rent some stupid romcom
>I want to rent golden eye for n6k
>mom too cheap to rent a movie for her, a video game, and a movie for sis.
>leave disappointed and watch some shit movie
yeah man it was so much better than now

I liked going through the horror movies at video shops, looking to sneak peeks at gory pictures on the back.

But now I'm grown I don't really like horror too much. Go figure.

>>84300892
>if they actually went back in time they'd miss the convenience of streaming
I think when say they want to go back in time, they're implying that they want to do so without memories of modern convenience

>>84300892
Everything feels like it went downhill after 2007

The recession, emergence of smartphones and the information era has taken a drastic toll on society

>>84300281
Iktf

>>84300104
>Running around the video games section
>Mom just wants to get a movie though
>Look at the back of the game covers and imagine what they were like

>Getting those awesome fuckhuge cinema-style candy boxes
>That period near the end of Blockbuster popularity where those microwavable popcorns built into plastic tubs got more advanced

>Freaking the FUCK OUT because our Blockbuster had some kind of "Final Fantasy" anime(Was a huge fan of the FF games)
>Turned out to be FF: Legend Of The Crystals and it sucked complete ass

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>>84300104
What did op mean by this?

I dont get why Bond films made his mother bring up the sex talk

>>84301113

2007 was the last time i did absolutely nothing for a whole summer and i miss it dearly

They would usually let me pick a movie before molesting me during the "sleepover"

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>>84301230

lol

>>84300892
You're implying that I actually stream movies, which isn't the case. Nice psychoanalysis though, pity it's a genetic fallacy.

>Blockbuster depression thread
You queers are more pathetic than dead malldags

>>84300281
>He'd also read the game manuals and try to give me tips while I played.
If you ever become a dad, don't fucking do this. Just spend half an hour playing the game while your son isn't watching. Later, bond with him over it. Everyone thinks it's cute that our parents were trying and failing to bond with us over our favorite hobby but it's fucking tragic is what it is.

>>84301367

you should start an angry douche thread

>>84301467
you should suck my cock on your way back to réddit

>>84301508

i would need a pic before i decide

>>84301595
sent ;)

>>84301508
>instantly tells the other guy to go back to lebbit after being replied to with a generic insult instead of any real substance
Fucking newfag.

>>84301616
>he forgot that there are no DMs on 4chan
buddy

>>84301230
this wtf

>>84301624
>being this triggered
gb2ur safe space sweetie mmkay

>>84301616

thanks i'm going back to redit :^)

>>84301661
Where did it send to then smart guy

>>84301230
Because bond fucks all the sexy ladies?

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>Quickly taking one of the adult films into the back corner of the store and cumming in the box before mom found me

>>84300104
Oh shit I watched Goldeneye earlier.
Easily one of the best Bond films, best Bond girls (Natalya and the weird sexual noises squeezing legs woman), and Sean Bean as the villain... 10/10.

>>84300471
That isn't really a child appropriate film.

>>84300104
Childhood confession.

>bought some spray at some place or another
>spray it in nearby arcade, clears it out for my bros
>get carried away, start spraying it everywhere.
>go to local blockbuster, w/ mi mum
>start spraying around the place
>anyone smell gas?
>as mi mum and I leave
>BB employees evacuate store, thinking NG leak
>fire department shows up, branch shut downed for nearly two weeks.

Felt like Actaeon, unintended consequences and all.

>>84300892
i was also thinking about how much these kinds of threads are actual general nostalgia but it seemed like people appreciate things more when they are flawed or limited, it's more in touch with the human condition/experience. infinite choices and our modern culture of add make it hard to live in the moment. nowadays i can watch whatever i want in five minutes but end up just half-watching something and not really being mindful or fully immersed, whereas when i had a beat to shit vhs of something that i knew i only had the opportunity to watch once, it was a different experience.

>>84302000
Forego the detail of over-the-counter gag fart spray, that I forgot to relay.

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>>84300104
>Watch Moonraker at friend's house
>His parents are deeply religious
>Dad walks in during last five minutes of the movie where James bangs some chick in a satellite or whatever
>"Th-this is explicit sex! Wh-whose idea was it to bring this into my home?!"
>His faggy dad still hates me

>>84302002

the amount of media at my finger tips could last me 10 life times. i think that kind of access would have really fucked me up as a kid. i'm glad i'm not a kid nowadays. its a bottleneck anyways. too many choices. what the hell do i pick?

>>84300591
>dvds

Nigger these weren't a thing

>>84301238
>did absolutely nothing
>i miss it dearly
posts like this justify my NEET lifestyle

>>84300104

>friday night
>mid-late 90s
>get out of schoolhttps://i.4cdn.org/tv/1498447241129.jpg
>dad gets off work
>we go out to eat
>hit up blockbuster and get some movies
>stop by krispy kreme on the way home for hot fresh donuts
>watch movies until midnight or so

just about every weekend.

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>>84300104
I went to Blockbuster more, but my most prominent video renting memory involves pic related.

>At the time live real close to a Hollywood Video
>Every weekend my parents would take there, and each time I'd search for Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
>it was always checked out

I did this for months, literally get there around 7PM on Friday night, run right to the back wall and see if it was there
>it never was

Fast forward 10 years, and I am driving by this location, having moved away to a new house years later.

>The store is having a closing sale
Decide to go inside, see if I can find any good vidya or DVDs.

>They have a huge bin of old VHS tapes for $.50 - $2.

>Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island was in the bin

>didn't buy it


did I make a mistake bros?

>Friend and I would mow a guy on the block's lawn for $10 every week
>Would immediately go to the Blockbuster 1/2 mile away and both rent a different game
>spend all weekend playing said games
>rinse and repeat for weeks until we decided not to do it one day because it was hot and the guy fired us.

>>84302159
What? Blockbuster was alive and well during the days of DVD.

is it just me or has moderation been stepped up here on /tv/ the last couple of days? Things like frog trope threads and obvious crossboard bait are getting deleted quickly.

>About 2004
>Browsing the video games
>Hear someone rush in and up to the counter
>This guy looked pale from sweating(if that makes sense) and was out of breath
>Yells at the cashier "Do you have any girls gone wild tapes?"
>She only responds with "Umm, no"
>He starts laughing and tells her it was just a prank

>Be 16 or so
>Day off school
>Take a bus to the city
>Walk some miles drinking coke and listening to music
>Get to Blockbuster
>Rent three or four movies with cool looking covers
>Rent some Xbox 360 games
>Copy the movies on my computer

Did this many times. Nothing really outstanding but they're still some of my happiest, warmest memories. That routine really made me happy.

>>84302252
Your dad is Optimus Prime?

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>>84300104

I feel as though I need to clear some things up about why Blockbuster Video is closing, and why they went chapter 11 in the first place a few years ago

>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks

Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty corporations.

>>84302159
What are you talking about? Blockbuster was around until 2013 or some shit

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I remember the few racks of rental VHS at my local shop-rite

when my mom was checking out my sister and I would look at the movies before running to catch up with her as she started pushing the cart out to the parking lot

that was twenty years ago

and now I have my own son

>>84302294

Nigga... you fucked up. Bad juju right there

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>be little kid
>see this cover in video store
>expect wacky bug comedy
>get nature documentary
>somehow rented this multiple times expecting a different result

>>84303444
Kek I remember seeing this one

>>84301258
Damn. The employees at your location sound rough.

I almost never went to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video was closer

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>>84300162
>Like stale popcorn and carpet

What I would give to go back to mine. Place has been a furniture store then vacant and I haven't seen what it is now.

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>>84300281
>rented The Matrix multiple times
>rented Tremors way too much
>should have just kept The Rock

>trying out new video games having no basis of judgment other than the box cover art and game title

Those were the days, anon. Thank you for reminding me

>Hollywood Video opens up across the street from blockbuster
>tries to compete
>only attracts nignogs
>some nog stabs another in there
>place closes down
>Blockbuster reigns supreme for another decade

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>grocery store continued to rent NES and other defunct console titles deep into the late 90s
>5 days for a dollar
>Bought a Sega CD and rented the entire library over the course of a year

>mom used to take me once every Friday or so
>friend and I would have sleepovers all the time and pick out pure boob kino
>would look for the goriest tit-filled anime movies
>shit like Bio Hunter
>taking the movies home and playing vidya before watching them.

The 90s were the greatest time in history. You cannot prove me wrong.

>>84300264
they were always overpriced compared to the other rental places, they had anti consumer policies, and they refused to adapt at all when things like RedBox and Netflix were eatting up their customers. Fuck those kikes I always went to Family Video anyways and that's still around.

>>84300892
>idolizing
i can't ever tell who is actually stupid here and who is just malapropisming to get (You)s.

>>84300281
(You)

>>84300892
There was a tranquility in gathering the family around the TV, darkening the lights, sharing a tub of popcorn, tuning out the outside world while completely giving into the illusion of the movie surrounded by family. All in glorious VCR resolution.

It was a good time to be young.

>>84302294
yep that movie was the shit!

>used to avoid the horror aisle because of scary covers
anyone else?

>>84302252
In the mid 90s we used to drive up to LA from Camp Pendleton to get warm donuts from the first and only (at the time) krispy kreme.

It was always worth it.

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>>84305367
>that Jack Frost horror holographic cover

I've still to this day not watched it but I hear it's actually funny.

>>84300104
Only memory I have is renting GoldenEye for more times than it's worth

ed poggi is a fucking homo

>>84300104
>They still exist in Alaska

https://youtu.be/1mbbl1NldZQ

https://youtu.be/1mbbl1NldZQ

https://youtu.be/1mbbl1NldZQ

>>84300104
>he actually liked Blockbuster and didn't see them as the enemy
Fucking kids siding with a soulless corporation over their local videos store run by a nice old guy and staffed by 20 year olds who all loved movies.

>>84301229
>>Running around the video games section
>>Look at the back of the game covers and imagine what they were like
>>Getting those awesome fuckhuge cinema-style candy boxes
>>That period near the end of Blockbuster popularity where those microwavable popcorns built into plastic tubs got more advanced
>>Freaking the FUCK OUT because our Blockbuster had some kind of "Final Fantasy" anime(Was a huge fan of the FF games)
>>Turned out to be FF: Legend Of The Crystals and it sucked complete ass

BRAVO! You did it right.

>>84305494
Holy shit that was one of them

>>84300104

>Reminiscing about Shitbuster

This is like faggots reminiscing about fucking Netflix or facebook.

It was fucking garbage and ruined movies and video rentals.

>>84305367
Monkey Shines and Child's Play 2 were probably the scariest covers I can remember as a wee lad.

>>84305803
About 20 times?

>>84300281

>Be early 90's
>Dad picks you and youe two best friends up after Rugby practice
>Go to video store (prior to blockbuster killing it)
>spend an hour browsing and imaging how awesome all of the shitty R rated horro movies must be based on the covers
>Rent a trifecta of Total Recall, The People Under The Stairs and UHF
>Read covers and video game magazines in pizza shop while waiting for food
>Go home and watch UHF with dad and pizza
>Parents give us the living room with our mattesses
>Watch Total Recall and then play Mortal Kombat
>Watch People Under The Stairs
>Fall asleep watching recorded episodes of Married With Children dreaming of Kelly Bundy and Peg Bundies huge tits
>Wake up to go to Rugby in the morning too tired to play

Hollywood Video had a better selection of movies

>>84300892

Nah. Even as an adult I enjoyed browsing stores and libraries. Just not blockbuster because they are garbage.

That said I'd rather have had streaming at home and spent more time at the arcade. Gaming sucked at arcades but the atmosphere was great. Lots of whippets and chicks and sneaking cigarettes and that one kid who could freeze the SFII machine.

>>84302159
Nigger I worked at Blockbuster right until I lost my job when it closed down, and we had Blu-Rays even since I started there. They cost more to rent than the DVDs, which we still carried too.

Was only there 5 months though. Really liked that job for minimum-wage part-time.

>>84303017

Blockbuster was also pure garbage that ruined movies, quite literally.

They were the facebook of movies.

They fucked the independent movie scene, becoming essentially outlets for studios to dump 400 copies of Generic Blockbuster #246261 each week.

The editing they did on films and the strict content regulations coupled with them Wal-Marting out independent stores with good range fucking ruines 80's horror and action movies and also spawned the evil that was never ending DTV disney sequels.

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