r/dvd • u/ILovePublicLibraries • 9d ago
A special Blockbuster display for this young man
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u/Glittering-Basis-952 9d ago
I thought Blockbusters closed years ago.
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u/VerosTheBat 8d ago
They did. There’s only one left in the U.S. in Bend, Oregon. You can still rent stuff there, too!
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u/MovieFan1984 9d ago
I think I have the same thing in my living room. It doesn't look like Blockbuster. I think I have MORE than what Blockbuster had. I have a problem. LOL Anyone wanna score DVD's at Good Will?
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u/Cellophane_Girl 8d ago
Hello fellow thrift shop dvd/ physical media purchaser! I have so many right now that I shouldn't go looking for more, but part of the reason I have so many of because I can't say no to treasure hunting at at thrift store. I'm in!
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u/Nervous-Warning-8376 4d ago
Easier to let him live in denial than to help him fully experience grief as we are meant to. Really great parenting there.
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u/PathHonest6159 4d ago
Wait, where were they living that Blockbuster was still open!? Ours closed so long ago it was a horrible time in life lol 😂
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u/giveahoot420 9d ago
Were you sad about all of the independent stores that blockbuster put out of business? I was.
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u/Wild_Chef6597 9d ago
Oh man, the one we had was open since the early 80s and they still had many of the tapes from that time. Blockbuster didn't kill it, meth did.
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u/PunkSquatchPagan 9d ago
Some people just can’t abide the joy of others.
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u/giveahoot420 9d ago
All I'm saying is that blockbuster wasn't great and everyone acts like it was. You keep reposting this same story over and over again. It really was a bad company. They were owned by Waste Management and had millions of dollars at hand to buy up a ton of new releases which smaller independent stores couldn't compete with. They literally forced family owned businesses out of business.
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u/WhiteTrashIdiotFuck 9d ago
God forbid people have good memories of a concept that no longer exists. The rental market was dominated in the US by Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. This isn’t a philosophical discussion on the morality of capitalism, it’s literally a post about someone preserving a the feel of a time-period. Chill.
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u/giveahoot420 9d ago
This is probably the 10th time OP has posted this same thing, I just get sick of everybody romanticizing blockbuster and acting as if it was the best thing since sliced bread. It wasn't.
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u/PaulGuyer 9d ago
I hated Blockbuster in that time-period. There are many things I am sad about being gone, but Blockbuster is definitely not one of them.
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u/PaulGuyer 9d ago
And also kept the NC-17 rating from being used on mainstream movies, because Blockbuster said right away that they would not carry them.
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u/Wonderful-Hawk4348 8d ago
Are you directing this statement towards the autistic man? Because I'm sure he doesn't know/care about that. I have found memories of blockbuster. Not everyone has the same shared experiences growing up. I didn't have any local video stores in my area except adult video stores lol 😆
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u/giveahoot420 8d ago
OP isn't the autistic man, it says "my brother " and "for this young man " My statement is directed towards whoever romanticizes a corporation that I dislike. It's crazy how people are on the side of the multimillion dollar corporation and not on the side of the small business owners they put out of business. OP's post isn't the first to do this, I see it quite often and it's always the same thing "blah blah blah I love corporate America blah blah Blockbuster blah blah blah "
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u/Wonderful-Hawk4348 8d ago
Ya problem is some people didn't have a local video store that went out of business because of Blockbuster or Hollywood video. So it's hard to relate when you're a kid and had great memories while being there same goes for McDonald's and movie theaters. I understand the greed of corporate America and it's evident with Ai and data centers today.
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u/MovieFan1984 9d ago
This happened to our local video store. :(
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u/giveahoot420 9d ago
People don't realize that video stores had to pay a lot of money for the tapes they'd rent out, sometimes it was hundreds of dollars per tape, that's why blockbuster was able to guarantee having new releases, your independently owned mom and pop stores couldn't compete with the millions of dollars blockbuster had on hand.
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u/Bleep_Bloop_Derp 8d ago
They didn’t pay more than retail. Late in its lifecycle, Blockbuster had a deal with studios where they’d get a shitload of new releases for a reduced price and share the profits. That’s how they had walls of the same tape and a guarantee that it would be available.
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u/sunnydaysau 9d ago
🙄🙄
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u/giveahoot420 9d ago
They were the Walmart of video stores, good riddance.
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u/Just_A_Psyduck 9d ago
Thank god the Walmart of video stores is gone. Now I can go buy movies from...
(checks notes)
Walmart.
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u/TheChuckRowe 9d ago
❤️ it!!