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Post by Evil Dave on Sept 10, 2007 2:26:41 GMT -5
I hate Blockbuster. They have crap for selection if you're not into mainstream movies and they've killed all the cool lil' ma & pa local videostores. Anybody else think this?
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Post by tsmooth31 on Sept 10, 2007 2:39:11 GMT -5
yep blockbuster is terrible...i went to rent the movie brutal and they didnt even have it..i mean its not that low budget..but hollywoodvideo is really good..not sure if you have one of the mby you but they get some very low budget movies
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Post by Evil Dave on Sept 10, 2007 2:40:37 GMT -5
I have lots of places to rent where I live, it's just that Blockbuster is the closest and is on about every other street corner. Almost as bad as Starbucks.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Sept 10, 2007 3:07:07 GMT -5
yea its the closest to me too..but i can never find what i want so i dont even bother checking anymore
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Post by lazario on Sept 10, 2007 6:47:59 GMT -5
Their selection probably started sucking when it became vastly less profitable to carry Good movies, anything other than the CGI / direct to video stuff that sold the most.
But yeah, they definitely are the antichrist of video rental stores.
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Post by Evil Dave on Sept 10, 2007 6:51:05 GMT -5
Their selection probably started sucking when it became vastly less profitable to carry Good movies, anything other than the CGI / direct to video stuff that sold the most. But yeah, they definitely are the antichrist of video rental stores. Exactly. I blame the same people that perpetuate Hollywood making shlok films for making Blockbuster popular. It's like the Walmart of video renting.
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Post by lazario on Sept 10, 2007 6:57:23 GMT -5
Oh, I'm sure Blockbuster still craps out dozens of straight to video titles too, among their 'mainstream' titles. But I haven't really been there since 2002. I used to buy DVDs from them too, their prices are fucking insane. They'd charge $23.99 for some movies Wal-Mart would charge $13.59 for.
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Post by Evil Dave on Sept 10, 2007 7:01:19 GMT -5
I don't know, maybe I'm too nostalgic, but I really miss the days of the ol' mom & pop video rental shops. They had a better "feel" to them for some reason. I just can't stand corporations.
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Post by lazario on Sept 10, 2007 7:06:52 GMT -5
Oh, no. You're absolutely right. My local store wasn't a Mom & Pop thing, it was just one guy as far as I knew and everyone else had met him but I never had. Unless he worked there, behind the counter. I remember renting: Leprechaun 4, An American Werewolf in London, Troll, and several more movies from them but not many more Horror titles. Our nearest city-like town (with the McDonalds and everything...) had a slightly better Horror selection.
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Post by Evil Dave on Sept 10, 2007 7:09:33 GMT -5
Yeah, that's what I liked about stores like that. You could get to know the owners personally if you rented enough from them. I remember as a kid being able to keep movies a couple days longer at no extra cost all the time. Try doing that with Blockbuster and you'll end up buying the damn movie for a hundred bucks.
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Post by lazario on Sept 10, 2007 7:14:44 GMT -5
My brother once held on to a video game from them for like 3 months. I don't remember what the bill was, but, it was an eye-opener, that's for sure.
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Post by piggsy on Sept 10, 2007 10:03:17 GMT -5
Blockbuster is, in fact, the Fourth Reich.
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Post by lowkey on Sept 10, 2007 15:50:02 GMT -5
Mom and pop stores were the best. They always had a great horror and action selection. So what if you couldn't rent the latest mainstream releases, for months after they were released, because at best the store just had two copies? Who wants to rent that crap anyway?
NC17? Blah! Mom and Pop stores had two types of movies: the kind you got to rent because your parents trusted you with their card, and the kind that required a parent to rent them for you, because you were an untrustworthy little $hit, and/or had uptight parents. My parents were too lazy to go with me, so I got to rent whatever. Well there was the porn section that was off-limits, but they shoved a lot of softcore onto the shelves with regular movies anyway, so it balanced out.
I will slightly defend my local Blockbuster though. I used to work at a Subway, and I gave the manager of the local Blockbuster free food in exchange for free rentals. She'd always hold stuff for me too, which most Blockbusters won't. Sometimes she'd even bring them to me, if I didn't have time to pick them up myself. She was a bit of a hottie too. I always wish I had of asked her out.
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Post by Evil Dave on Sept 11, 2007 1:08:24 GMT -5
^^^ Lol, it sounds like you're defending the manager more than Blockbuster here lowkey. A hottie with free rental privileges? I don't blame you!
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Post by maycanady on Nov 8, 2007 9:56:08 GMT -5
Wow, I can't believe I missed this thread before. Anyway, I can't stand Blockbuster. I haven't rented from them since 2000 or so, when they started slowly fazing out VHS tapes. A lot of the VHS titles they got rid of are things that never got released on DVD, and the horror section suffered the most. Now my local Blockbuster is all new-release, popular mainstream dreck for the most part. Give me Netflix any day.
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Post by Evil Dave on Nov 8, 2007 14:30:48 GMT -5
^^^ I've considered trying Netflix sometime. You recommend it?
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Post by lazario on Nov 8, 2007 16:00:49 GMT -5
Wow, I can't believe I missed this thread before. Anyway, I can't stand Blockbuster. I haven't rented from them since 2000 or so, when they started slowly fazing out VHS tapes. A lot of the VHS titles they got rid of are things that never got released on DVD, and the horror section suffered the most. Now my local Blockbuster is all new-release, popular mainstream dreck for the most part. Give me Netflix any day. I stopped renting from Blockbuster in 2001, when I got my first DVD. And I've only rented a few DVD's from anywhere that rents them. And that's where I fell in love with DVD. So, I can't completely hate Blockbuster. Just what they offer to customers: crap. By the by, I'm also seriously thinking of Netflix. As long as you can rent out of print DVD's. In that case, I can rent all the Disney Special Edition and Platinum Edition DVD's that have gone out of print. Because... sorry May, but there's nothing on Earth that makes the Peter Pan Platinum Edition worth $20-25 bucks. The special features are pathetic- I know. They have extensive and awesome reviews over at Ultimatedisney.com.
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Post by maycanady on Nov 8, 2007 18:09:31 GMT -5
I definitely recommend Netflix for the convenience and cheapness factor. I have the 16.99 a month plan where you can have any 3 DVDs out at one time. The shipping is pretty fast too, in my experience. It only ever takes 1 business day for my DVDs to get to me. As for the out of print DVDs though, I can't say they're really the best for that. I know that they don't have any of the OOP Disney platinums.
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Post by lazario on Nov 8, 2007 18:14:20 GMT -5
I checked them for that, by the way. I could have sworn that the first time I searched that they had them. They have the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Platinum. And that's totally out of print. And they had at least 8 other Out of Print DVDs... at least, that's what the pics of the DVD covers told me. I know whether most of them are Out of Print or not.
I just hate their some of this, some of that sort of thing. And they don't have multiple Issues of movies. Like if a movie has a single disc and a double disc... they don't have one, but they have the other. I freakin' hate that.
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Post by maycanady on Nov 8, 2007 18:18:30 GMT -5
They have the pictures for the OOP Disneys, but there isn't an option to add them to your queue. When you click on them it will say something like "This film has not been released to DVD" on the bottom of the page.
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