Blockbuster Oregon to set win Blockbuster Battle Royale
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https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/03/theres-only-one-surviving-blockbuster-left-on-planet-earth/
https://www.communitynews.com.au/eastern-reporter/news/morley-blockbuster-the-last-in-australia-to-close/
I don't live far from the Morley Blockbuster, I haven't been for years but I remember going there quite a few times when another local video store closed down. The place has been hit by a car and a frickin tornado but still has stayed open till now (@ 1:14). Definitely gonna drop in for one final time when I can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GkJUjWKytQ
At this point the government should just buy it out and maintain it as one would maintain a museum.
i miss rental places so much. they had pretty much everything and walking through the aisles, trying to find something to watch, looking at the shitty horror movie covers and reading the back of the box was a fun experience. there was a sense of anticipation to driving home with it, the delay between picking it out and putting in the VHS or DVD growing your excitement. now, scrolling through hundreds of movies on netflix, hulu, amazon prime just to find something feels like a chore. instead of wanting to dig through what they have, maybe find a hidden gem, i just want to get it over with.
maybe i'm just being nostalgic, but the instant gratification isn't as satisfying to me.
I miss trying to find a good movie purely based on cover alone. I also miss renting VHS just as they were phasing it out and seeing the trailers.
The closest I've come to the feeling of rental places is going through lists of stuff on places like letterboxd and recommended sections of IMDB.
Know it's not Portland, but fitting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hShMEk1Ew&t=1s
and yet hollywood video still seems to live on.
I still rent all the time from Family Video. I'm also the one out of the two people who rent 4K movies.
I shit you not the Family Video near me sells CBD stuff.
Blockbuster always rented the storefronts, Family Video owns the real estate the buildings are on. That's the key difference why one is an epic 90s reference and the other continues to live on to this day.
Damn this is surprising to me. I went to Hollywood a lot more than Blockbuster, but that was primarily because there was a sweet video game store attached to it called Game Crazy. No Hollywood Video exists in Colorado anymore as far as I am aware.
blockbuster tacked onto gamestation was the thing over here.
go rent a movie and then pick up a bunch of preowned games for pennies.
Makes me think that a VR app would be a good idea for Netflix that essentially sets you in a virtual video store to emulate the feel
I really enjoyed going into a store and renting a game for the week. There was something cool about seeing dozens of the same popular release on the shelf and hunting to find a copy to rent.
Hell, I remember when you could even rent a console.
There was something uniquely 90s about Blockbuster that stayed with it even beyond the end of that decade. It was same thing most bowling alleys have where stepping through the front door is like stepping through a time portal
Pour one out:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/165/ab1d5cb3-2178-496f-be60-52abc3233306/image.png
Have a photo of the Bend Blockbuster that I took last year. I didn't see any photos of it linked in those articles.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/144519/e75759ba-6456-4e58-b5bf-3adefca8dc75/20180915_130405_HDR.jpg
It's weird that blockbuster is dead, there's a local movie rental chain here that does well enough and its been around for 20 years or so
My friend just told me the one I used to work at is selling CBD products as well, whats the deal with this?
I'm in Eugene so I'd go, but then I'd have to actually exist in Bend for longer than ten seconds and I don't think that's a sacrifice I can make
people like to point the finger at digital streaming but it was redbox that murdered them
Not sure about that particular chain, but it's just a product that sells well at the moment so tons of stores are adding it to their inventories. It's bizarrely random what kinds of stores are stocking it, but it's hard to blame them when it seems to be selling so well since its legalization. There's even an antique/collectibles shop near me that stocks it.
There's a converted Pizza Hut over here in Oregon City that's now a dispensary called "Electric Lettuce".
If that isn't proof of reincarnation then I don't know what is.
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