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Post by Daisy on May 25, 2017 21:27:20 GMT
I do miss it sometimes as it could make a "date night" when you would go out with your significant other and choose (or argue over) which movie to rent, grab snacks and food and make a night out of it. Just seems like less when only selecting something from the computer.
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Post by sariz on May 25, 2017 21:41:29 GMT
Rental stores not so much, movies always ended up being much more expensive because I never returned them on Time. But I do miss buying movie stores like sun coast or the virgin mega store second floor which was a floor dedicated to films.
I miss getting excited to explore the stores and and add some movies to my collection
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Post by someguy on Jun 1, 2017 14:31:30 GMT
I would say I miss it, but in my city we still have Family Video and I never go there.
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Post by Jillian on Jun 1, 2017 16:34:12 GMT
To some extent in that I wish it were possible to rent some weird random vintage movie from ages ago, but sometimes I still occasionally rent films. It´s both good and bad that everything is available immediately.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 1, 2017 18:28:53 GMT
No, not really. It seems like we (or just me) paid more for less than what I get for Netflix and Amazon now. Plus the store we had just devolved into cheap dtv crap. It never turned out to straight up porn but I felt dirty visiting the place.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Jun 1, 2017 20:15:51 GMT
We had two in our town, an independent, and a Blockbuster. Better deals at the independent. Oddly enough, it lasted longer than the Blockbuster. I really enjoyed that store.
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 1, 2017 20:28:46 GMT
While from a nostalgia standpoint, maybe a little, i would have to say no overall because with today's technology (basically the early-to-mid 2000's to date) everything is just more convenient.
at my age i can remember the VHS days well since it was pretty much the 1990's as i would have been a teenager for most of the 1990's and they say that about mid-2003 that DVD overtook VHS rentals from some article i read online a while ago. but basically 2003 is when i discovered SCVD and then XviD not long after and then HD stuff etc.
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Post by Marv on Jun 2, 2017 0:35:53 GMT
Kind of, but not enough to go to the one near me.
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Post by Roberto on Jun 3, 2017 6:07:05 GMT
Yeah I kind of do. Streaming/torrenting has made people lazy. I do like the ease of it though, but yes I miss rental stores.
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Post by leesilm on Jun 4, 2017 4:40:39 GMT
My old neighborhood/hometown had a Blockbuster near the University and another just outside of town, plus 2 independent, plus several of the grocery stores had their own smaller versions. I still remember discovering SURF NINJAS, PRACTICAL MAGIC, DRAGON HEART, and HER ALIBI at the one grocery store's small movie rental shop. When the two Blockbusters closed, we still had the others for a long time, and it wasn't until about 2010 the last one went out. Now I have to drive to another town, about 40mins away, to go to their independently owned one (they do VHS, DVD, BluRay, video games-including some "oldie but goodie" types, and they trade/sell older comic books, geeky toys/figurines, and the like).
I miss it from the standpoint of going through the isles and finding new titles, having those cool conversations with the staff or other patrons, and sometimes having rented enough that you got some discount and being able to rent a favorite for only a buck. It was like a different kind of library. There was a particular smell, a familiarity, and you knew what isles to cruise if you were looking for your favorite genre(s) or if you wanted to try something new, just slide over a couple isles. A new movie that just came out but you missed in theatres, you could check out for a couple bucks in the comfort of your own home.
I still remember going to one in FL, USA that was 3 stories high and had escalators. That blew my mind. I was used to the tiny ones where I was from, that might have had the size to support 25 tables of 4 -if they had been restaurants, and were just a big square. This place was HUGE! Cavernous. You could get lost in it, and they had one section on the third floor that was dedicated to CDs, tapes, A-tracks, and records that you could rent.
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 24, 2020 3:42:22 GMT
For all the convenience toady, I do miss going to an actual physical location and walking through aisles and browsing. I think I even miss the embarassment felt when I would take a racy tape to the checkout area. At one point, I may have had memberships at ten different rental establishments.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on May 24, 2020 3:54:16 GMT
I do somewhat, yes. That said, I used to regularly frequent DVD stores such as Tower Records (which still exists in my country) prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and that was a very similar experience to the old rental store one (replete with aisle browsing, exciting new discoveries, etc). That's something I'm really missing at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 3:56:53 GMT
Sometimes. I miss what it means to discover a movie through that process, or what it means to get out and search. These days there's a sea of options at your fingertips. I liked seeing what movies a store had and how they were divided. If you're not streaming them now, you're paying 40 dollars and up for something you used to be able to rent for 5-6 dollars.
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Post by onethreetwo on May 24, 2020 4:03:07 GMT
There's a Family Video in my area. It's like Blockbuster, but actually better. You can rent movies, buy movies, rent video games, buy video games, and you can order pizza through a window into the neighboring building. It's a cool place. You're not in Minnesota are you? There's one exactly like that not far from me.
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Post by sdrew13163 on May 24, 2020 4:06:12 GMT
There's a Family Video in my area. It's like Blockbuster, but actually better. You can rent movies, buy movies, rent video games, buy video games, and you can order pizza through a window into the neighboring building. It's a cool place. You're not in Minnesota are you? There's one exactly like that not far from me. No I'm in Kansas City, on the Kansas side. That's pretty sweet that they have more of those around, though.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 24, 2020 4:07:14 GMT
No actually. I stream rentals on my tv with the push of a button now. To be fair, most of my classic film viewings were brick & mortar rentals, so it did serve a purpose for me for its time - i.e. most of my classics bucket list has been completed. Frankly, I don't miss having to drive somewhere to watch an older movie, with the chance it may not even be available. Blockbuster's last few years seemed sad - $5-10 used dvds for sale, older era classics mostly purged away to make room for video games & tv dvd. Besides, in 1999 I maybe owned 20 DVDs or something. 2009 that jumped over 200.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 24, 2020 4:10:06 GMT
The next to last Family Video in the area just closed.... I think there is still one in the town to the north within an hours drive.
Pawn America has good sales on used DVDs but they tend to not advertise them and they're mostly ones I don't want anyway ! The TV series are priced high BUT if you ask, they will sometimes reprice them to about 1/2 if they have been in the store for a while.
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 24, 2020 4:13:06 GMT
Miss it quite a bit actually, spent hours in there some times. Worked in one for a few years too.Did you have any memorable customers, good or bad?
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Post by ck100 on May 24, 2020 4:19:30 GMT
To be honest, I more miss stores like Suncoast and Sam Goody.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 24, 2020 8:47:04 GMT
Miss it quite a bit actually, spent hours in there some times. Worked in one for a few years too.Did you have any memorable customers, good or bad? Most customers were usually pretty decent. No one I can particularly remember standing out as "great", but a few asked for recs on occasion and that was nice. A girl came in with a Suspiria T-shirt on once. I commented that it was a cool film, she said the shirt actually referred to a goth band who no doubt took their name from the film. That was pretty cool. A few minor negatives: We had a "staff picks" section and I had put klute in there. One guy complained, saying it was boring after he'd rented it. I once had Once Upon A Time in the West playing in the store and a guy commented along the lines of "who still watches movies like this?". It was the late 90s, the height of "Spice (Girls)-mania" we had a display for a video of one of their live shows. Every second person would make some smug/sarcastic comment as they passed. I put up a hand-written sign stating "Please refrain from making sarcastic comments about this product." The next day management had taken it down. and finally... A young drunk guy comes in with his girlfriend, asking for a bag, I assume to throw up in. I gave him one. He couldn't get it open, so he comes back and asks for another one. I open the same one and hand it back to him. He walks off mumbling something under his breath.
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