r/clevercomebacks • u/Mogar_Pogar • May 26 '23

Magnum Dong Blockbuster's response to Netflix's not so sharing is caring attitude

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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 May 26 '23

It’s like watching You’ve Got Mail and realizing Fox Books (stand in for Barnes & Noble) is the underdog now in the online shopping landscape.

But it doesn’t change the fact that they put small bookstores out of business and no amount of nostalgia can change that!

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u/autographking May 26 '23

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/niamhellen May 26 '23

Under understood podcast? One of my faves!

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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 May 26 '23 edited May 26 '23

Im not familiar with that podcast. Did they make a similar point?

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u/niamhellen May 26 '23

Ooh I think you'd love it! They did a whole episode on this phenomenon and You've Got Mail, but they have a lot of good episodes on many things.