Why do boomers and millennials have such nostalgia for this obsolete chain movie rental store?

I don't think you're wrong, but you haven't accounted the entertainment value people get from watching movies/tv shows, especially if they were just newly released in a video rental store.

Because we were young and the world was pretty good

because it's nostalgia
it'll happen to you too
>back in my day all we had were apps! not these damn neuralink VR disposables! I loved that Apple store so much. You young fellas will never know what it's like to use your fingers to use technology

Blockbuster was actually remarkably shitty and mostly worthless, the best movie rental places were local mom n' pops kind of places that each specialized in a niche. You had the shop with rows upon rows of horror movies, the shop which specialized in imported foreign movies including anime, the shop with a porn section that dwarfed the entire normal release section, the place with the best games going back to NES etc. Fuck big business choosing what media people can access based on licensing and copyright fees. So much good stuff is completely inaccessible now whereas it was easy to find even a decade ago.

No. It was comfy not because it turned into some ritual, it turned into a ritual because it was comfy. Without going to a video store you could only watch whatever was on TV at the time. You actually got to choose what to watch for once, and not worry about reading through the local TV Guide for something good only to find it came on at the same time as your favorite show, or too late to watch on a school night, or during a football game your parents wanted to watch so you couldn't see it because back in those days there was only one TV available. You have no concept of sharing a house with 4 other people and all of them sitting down to watch something together and actually enjoying it.

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You're ignoring sense memory.
The only fondness I have for blockbuster is that they ALL smelled the same, all were playing the same clips on the tvs, even the hum of the lights were the same.
The best zoomers get is "remember the smell/sound/feel of opening your first iPhone box"

Because I had my first conversation with my wife there when I was 14 and we knew right when we first saw each other that we'd be together.

sometimes i would go twice in a weekend, bros

>go to blockbuster with friends and/or family

>Chill around the store while you choose a movie and/or videogame

>Go back home with snacks and enjoy the movies/games you rented

Zoomers will never know this feelig

Pre 9/11 and post 9/11 were the dimensional shift

>My autistic theory is that people deeply enjoy the familiarity of doing a repetitive ritual, and part of a special ritual is gathering the necessary materials.
No.

>Blockbuster was actually remarkably shitty and mostly worthless, the best movie rental places were local mom n' pops kind of places that each specialized in a niche.
This. I have way richer memories of some shitty shop that used to be a family owned appliance repair place that then started renting movies. The 1970's faux wood paneling, the vague smell of dust and cigarette smoke. The water stains on the drop ceiling. The old gumball machine with stale gum.

This was probably an attempt to rehab Blockbusters dead brand using astroturfing that then became so retard's ritualpost thread. It doesn't track with reality because what user is actually nostalgic about is being a kid and Fridays with mom getting pizza and going home for the movie. Nobody was actually nostalgic for Blockbuster itself. That was the worst part of the trip in many ways. Everyone hated Blockbuster back in the 90's and 00's.

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>No you cannot criticize the hecking "carpet and old shoe" smelling video franchesino
Possibly people like it because it was the last time they spent time with their parents and oddly some people bonded over vhs tapes.

Hard to tell if the dead of the living room made families more reserved.

>nostalgia for muh late fees
literally no boomers or millennials have nostalgia for this

americans dont have culture so objects of their adoration are corporations and trademarks. its incredibly sad being a fat mutt in 2022. just so sad. just so fat, so nonwhite, so sad.

Yeah it must be similar to the dopamine release you get from getting a (You)
Also, are you sure you want to bring pablov into the argument? You are the late 20s guy posting here daily.

nah, it was 2012

I loved waiting weeks for a copy of the hot new release to finally be in store and available to rent. Fuck this nostalgia horseshit. And I wont rewind you cunt

>pirate games
>pirate movies
>pirate candy
The future is now gramps.

i miss movies actually worth waiting to see
actually worth seeing at all

imagine not having to hear the rest of the fucking world talking on the internet. its just you and your family on a friday night eating some popcorn and enjoying a movie without any other noise to distract and no phone to take your attention away

hey locals. lurk moar

worked at a blockbuster and this was the reason people came into the store

You wouldn't understand. Zoomers have no culture.

>forced to give all our media consumption over to big tech streaming platforms and then complain about how big tech has too much power

man I just want to rent a fucking movie

Going to the movies during quarantine was a great experience, I had the theater to myself and my buddies with no zooms zooms with their god damn phones, it got pretty fucking bad in my town with zoomies literally making half the screen grey with the glare of their phones.

libraries have been a thing

Honest answer? A lot of us had fond memories of looking forward to fridays after school, going to blockbuster, getting to rent a movie or two and a video game, then grabbing Pizza Hut on the way home and chilling in the living room.

It was like a weekly event in my household, from ages 6-12.

How would you describe the ol blockbuster smell?
I used to recall it from memory despite being there a couple dozen times and when I tried to explain it I completely blanked it.

>tfw renting Shrek and Mario Kart DD with the lads and pick up some pizza on the way back

One doesn't know when he's living the good times until they are gone.

Clean carpet, sometimes popcorn, sometimes that cotton candy they had for sale. Mine went through those bags of cotton candy so fast, they bought one of those countertop makers so they could make their own in store.

carpet shampoo

This, for me it was Domino's though or sometimes candy.
Then I used to visit it with my siblings when we were old enough to drive to rent cheesy horror films.

Boomers are nostalgic for the regional video rental stores that Blockbuster replaced.

My fondest memories were of Jumbo Video. Large selection, obscure selections, homey, free popcorn.

Then bockbuster moved in across the street. It felt sterile, corporate, and entire shelves were dedicated to the same movie.

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Blockbuster boomer here. You are on the right track, but it was way more about finding hidden gems among the stuff you actually wanted to get. Netflix actually replicated this well but for tv shows in it's early streaming days. Then it got taken over by their algorithm and kind of dampened the 'choose your bullshit' appeal rental stores had.

Also for a lesser point, they were kind of the ebgames/gamestop of the 90's along with radioshack. All the promos and magazines and shit would be at one of those two stores.

air freshener and vhs/dvd case plastic

god i miss the smell

>summer time
>we poor but parents get by, have a nice house with a big yard
>parents give it their all for you
>friday go on pie deliveries with my mom in her station wagon cause she bakes for extra cash
>always stop at the mom and pop to rent a movie and an NES game for the weekend
No one will ever love you as much as a mom and dad can. If you missed out on this i feel sorry for you. Feelings like these are why i am nostalgic for rental places

Spoken like a true Justin Beeber loving little bitch.

>Poor but have nice house with big yard
What the fuck was the deal with this, back then? I rememeber all my lower class friends had 2 story houses with huge yards and decks, and fucking pools and shit. I look back at it now and realize how fucking lucky we all were in the early 90's.

I will never forgive my parents for selling our house to get a more "space appropriate" place. My mom still regrets it. Went from a 5 bed 2 bath to a fucking 3 bed 1 bath, that had a yard barely big enough for the trash cans and the riding mower. They only sold it because my dad was all depressed and shit that my mom's uterus didn't want to pop out any more kids after me and my brother, and the "space was going to waste".

lmao get jewed on

It's a relic of a simpler, happier time.

>the riding mower
lol lmao we need space for the riding mower guys
gonna regret not having enough space for the riding mower

Blockbuster was shit i'm convinced anyone pretending to be nostalgic for it is just a zoomer larping

You literally had to be there
it's ok though, there will probably be something similar for zoomers that generation klondike or whatever asks the same question about in like 20 years. Nothing new under the sun

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Things used to be good, and americans used to be happy

everything claiming to the contrary is just degenerate zoomie cope for the hellscape we now live in

the nostalgia goggles are strapped on tight ITT.
>rent friday, gotta return sunday not monday
>late fees
>dood rewind
>expensive as fuck candy
>people who didnt rewind
>scratched disks
>unhygenic (people probably having sex and touching the case and disk/tape) as well as picking their nose or touching their dick
>gotta make the trip back to return that shit
>all the new releases were usually taken
>expensive rentals. true kinosaurs went to their local rental video store which had a closed off porn section

I repackaged the new Maddens. 2004 Madden rented... 2003 Madden returned.

Vick was unstoppable that year.

i know no one cares but when i was like 6 my dad took me there and i was wearing sandals and the door ripped my toenail off and my dad carried me through the store so i could still get a movie and vidya

WHAT A LIFE

But hey, we at least overturned rvw so thats something right?