What was this like?

What was this like?

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the only redeeming factor was the time limits forced you to commit to actually watching movies instead of endlessly browsing.

Smelly

Cool when you were a kid because you'd walk past the popcorn bags stacked near the till and get that smell of sweet stale popcorn before asking your mom if you could buy a bag

it sucked most of the good shit was gone more than half the time

It was comfy but inconvenient. It was a sort of event to do with your family or friends.

Rewinding the tapes and getting bitched at by the folks for having to pay the rewind fee was a never ending battle in my household.

I loved picking action/horror/sci-fi movies based on their cover art.

It was literally a better time.

It fucking sucked.

i miss it

$5 more expensive than the local video store

You spend 3 hours examining every case and when your mother says it's time to go only 20 mins have passed.

>t. zoomer

We would spend hours picking the perfect movies for the weekend with my brothers. Good times.
This was before cellphones, we would say to our mom that come pick us up in a hour, usually it would take more than that. Sometimes you would have to wait for someone to hopefully return the movie you'd like to rent. I'm glad I got to experience it, one of the best parts of my childhood. A kilogram of candy was also obligatory.

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Look at the picture and you get a sense of exactly what it was like. I don't miss it.

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Did any of you guys do the online ordering thing they tried when competing with Netflix?

You nolstalgia boomers are embarrassing. We get it, you miss your childhood

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Yes the local video store much better. I remember the guy used to let me rent 15s with my friends when we were younger cuz we were regulars.

*sips monster*

Those were the good old days

I don't miss being molested.

Also me and my brothers were obsessed with the film "deuce bigalo" without ever having seen it just because of the cover

Why haven't record stores suffered the same fate as movie rental stores?

Did it. Was eh. You had a huge list with them and they would send what they wanted randomly. I actually watched more movies then.

Shitty. You had terrible brats who would come in and trash the store and you had the loser lowlifes who would argue every time because they could never get their shit back on time despite the fact that bitch I watched you drop it off in the slot and scanned it in immediately and you were fucking late. Also you always had a couple of niggers who walk in 2 minutes before closing and would take 15 minutes to get something. Other than that it was a decent enough place to work.

Record stores advertise good music that isn't run of the mill nigger shit. Also vinyls.

Who /movie gallery/ here? Didn't have many Blockbusters around me

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why the fuck do you make this thread every fucking day?

Record stores cater to a subculture. Blockbuster just catered to the general public who moves to the next most convenient thing.

I stoppped going to blockbuster because renting games were no longer a necessity when the Wii, PS3, and 360 were released.

I just went to a public library to get a book and it was very similar to the Blockbuster days. Lots of options, have to choose the best 2-3, plan on coming back for the others next week. Good times.

>Go to blockbuster
>Rent the matrix reloaded and devil may cry
>Come home and log into AOL

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I had those PC speakers

So go to the counter and reserve a copy.

I WANT TO GO BACK!!!!

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movie gallery and blockbuster were overpriced. My grocery store had a movie rental thing it was much better

God, the internet was so much better before THOTs and niggers.

Nostalgia will end soon, right? Nobody will ever miss their childhood after this generation.

the new releases shelves would be the same for over 8 months.
completely unchanging.
same fuckin titles, every damn time. a ton of early Asylum releases after 2003 or so. games selection went away after n64/ps1, but it was great to rent n64 games
usually smelled stale and there was always a little caesar's somewhere within the shopping centre

here's what mine turned into

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The late 80s early 90s was insane. Most grocery stores and even the bigger gas stations had video rental along with every small business owner who nowadays run vape shops rented videos.

i do miss my childhood. actually just bought a lot of monster in my pockets because my mom garage sale'd all mine, along with my battle beasts and zbots, and i now want them for my own son to grow up playing with.
instead of capeshit action figures and lights and sounds toys. those things can fuck right off

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Soul draining since this is what me and my loser friends would do every weekend when are crushes were getting fucked by chads and tyrones.

king soopers always had 1$ movies, and tons and tons of selection. shit was so cash

It was only great because everything is great when you're a kid.

In Ireland the rental chain was called Xtra Vision. When you're a kid their selection of maybe a few hundred movies feels like tens of thousands with no filler. The shitty red and yellow colour scheme of the branding and decor actually succeeds in giving it the aura of a cinema rather than feeling like a cheap, tacky substitute. Everything's vibrating with potential and promise. You pick up things you've never seen before and instantly make up the best possible version of what that could be in your head, then fully expect it to be that.

You're so young that every idea, place and time period is new to you, so every shitty ass movie you could pick up is the discovery of a whole new world. Later on that night your dad explains what a hostage situation is to you cause that's what the movie you picked up happens to be about and its so interesting and engrossing. You always fall asleep before the movie ends, because it doesn't matter. It wasn't a 90 minute distraction. It felt like a full on transportation to a different place. You don't feel like you "missed anything" anymore than you feel like you miss part of your vacation by falling asleep after a great day.

It's interesting that childhood is just a transitory, half baked stage, a biological necessity that evolved because your mother can't fit a 20 year old in her abdomen and something as intricate as the human brain takes time to develop. And yet it only feels like the brain is working right as a machine to joyously and to your benefit engage with the world when its half done. When you're still 'growing up'.

Or maybe its the world that's wrong. Maybe if we weren't living in a heavily industrialised capitalist regime based on selling labour we'd all still feel like we did in the good old days, before we properly had to engage with the churning gears and manufactured insecurity of modern society.

I remember playing the video game with my brother all the time.

Thats got to be around 98 judging by clothes and movies

>free beer at front desk
>qt tattooed employees
>stand-up comedy/poetry slam next door
The best.

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Freddy v. Jason came out in 2003

>calling all the rental places in town to try and reserve a game to play for the weekend
>feeling so hyped about getting it and being able to play couch co-op with your bros late into a friday night
>being tempted with candy and bullshit in the lineup to pay
>having options between blockbuster, rogers video or some local joint with all the kino horror on tape
>that comforting plastic aroma that filled the stores
>asking employees to check the back for extra copies
>the old cases with tears in the weird rough-ish plastic that was mostly on old clamshell style VHS tape cases
>the running into neighbors and shooting the shit
>the dead-eyed employees
>that one employee that was so far ahead of the curve on what kino to check out
>first time I ever saw suspiria was thanks to him


fuck do I ever miss the video rental store experience, zoomers just don't know.

It's 2003-2004 judging by the movies.

That shit was awesome at the time. They briefly had a plan where you could have three movies out at a time and check out unlimited movies a month. You could return the discs to your local Blockbuster, and as soon as they were scanned there, they were considered returned and the next ones shipped out.

This was back during the DVD burning era, so I built up a library of like 100 movies in a few months because I would just burn them all in one day and return them as fast as possible. Sadly my collection got outdated pretty quickly since it's just a bunch of 480p rips, but for certain older more obscure movies I don't really care.

Comfy. My local Blockbuster always smelt of popcorn, carpet cleaner and air conditioner. You could rent foreign films dirt cheap and keep them for a week, so most of my esoteric film knowledge comes from being a broke 12-year-old with a Blockbuster Video 10 minutes walk from my house. Being able to rent physical copies of games was pretty great too, I got through a lot of N64 games by renting them for a week.

looks like a place in boulder i'd go with my ex.

>fat cunt
>Matrix Reloaded was the greatest letdown in cinema history
>desk is a mess
>inferior AIWA? brand boom box
>having a boom box instead of a system with separate speakers-- vastly superior sound at every price point
>ginger twat

At least you got Devil May Cry right. You fat cunt.

This looks comfy where is it

Austin, Tx

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maybe

I use to pass that place all the time going to work

I always had a Movie Gallery instead of a Blockbuster. There was one really androgynous girl that worked there that would give me posters and discounts on candy. I think it's a Verizon store now.

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>go to local video store
>rent scary looking movie called house on haunted hill
>tape plays a trailer for movie before the actual movie starts
>got so spooked from trailer I didn't even watch the film

>dad eventually gets tired of spending money on rentals
>says every movie will eventually come on tv and we can just watch it then
>buys some empty tapes so we can just record movies off the tv

Honestly it was a better time. I enjoyed movies more then when you don't have everything available at your fingertips

>cool chubby black dude worked at movie rental place
>my normie friends got to know him
>I go in there often enough that we say but don't really talk much
>one day for some reason he gives me a bunch of VHS tapes for free
>one is Perfect Blue, and the other is Princess Mononoke

Based black guy.