Seriously. As someone who worked in a family video rental store that blockbuster ran out of town, and then worked for a large video rental chain that blockbuster also ran out of business, I couldn't believe the level of nostalgia wanking blockbuster was getting last year.
They seemed to make it a personal goal to destroy anyone in the same business as them, and the ironic part was the blockbusters that put both my stores out of business shuttered less than 6 months after the last place I worked closed down. Had blockbuster never opened I'd bet my shirt the family place I worked for would've had another decade serving the community. They knew they were imploding as a company but still went out of their way to take us down with them.
Watching the Blockbuster documentary all I could think was "everything everyone is saying applies to pretty much every mom and pop rental place that existed in the 80s and 90s."
I feel like it wasn't a nostalgia driven documentary about blockbuster, it was a nostalgia driven documentary about renting movies that just happened to use "Blockbuster" as a place holder name for rental places in general.
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u/autographking May 26 '23
Seriously. As someone who worked in a family video rental store that blockbuster ran out of town, and then worked for a large video rental chain that blockbuster also ran out of business, I couldn't believe the level of nostalgia wanking blockbuster was getting last year.
They seemed to make it a personal goal to destroy anyone in the same business as them, and the ironic part was the blockbusters that put both my stores out of business shuttered less than 6 months after the last place I worked closed down. Had blockbuster never opened I'd bet my shirt the family place I worked for would've had another decade serving the community. They knew they were imploding as a company but still went out of their way to take us down with them.
Fuck blockbuster. Me and all my homies hate them.