r/blockbustervideo

Hi, just abit of advice, im planning to turn our spare room into a retro blockbuster theme room any ideas/advice if anyone has done this before? Thanks in advance

I have no doubts that in a few years we'll be having an analog renaissance. You can actually feel the grimness that the last decade of the "online" culture created in everybody living.

If Blockbuster opens its stores again, video rentals will be the next industry to yield the biggest returns. It will be super profitable for the few lucky ones who participate in the 1st wave of the market.

Mark my words, we are going back baby.

Hey is it just me, or is it particularly hard to accept that the age of Blockbuster is over? When I feel upset or nervous, I regress to the times when blockbuster was a huge part of my childhood - renting games every weekend. Everything seems so hostile these days. I want to visit the store in Oregon, but there is a 95% chance that I just break down ugly crying if I go.

I bought a full Blockbuster uniform and name tag that I intend on wearing regularly because it might make me feel better.

Does anybody else feel similarly heavy? I just really don't like where technology is gone man. The kids these days I feel have been robbed of better times. I think everybody in this sub had felt the magic of Blockbuster and had it play a part in their lives, and so I was hoping to hear you share your feelings so I wouldn't feel so weird/alone in this.

It wasn't Blockbuster, it was local in my college town of Auburn, AL. It was called Premiere Video in 1999. Actually, Blockbuster wasn't much of a thing at that time in the south. It was here and there, but it was just among the other video rental places. But all the love it gets and how everyone talks about it, I get. Blockbuster is the face of that industry, that's just easy to reference. I've even heard podcasts about people who used to work there, and my experience was the same.

I grew up in the 80s on movies, went to the theater almost every weekend. What I didn't see in theaters I saw on VHS when rentals were extremely local. I lived in the rural south, just happened to live near a gas station that was the only gas station in a 20 mile radius. It had a rack of videos they would rent to you. And they called if you didn't return it. I got a job at this place in college at 20.

My interview went like this: the manager asked me what my top 5 movies were. This was a store that had the employee section of their top 5 favorites to get you to rent. I answered without hesitation, and in order. I can't remember what was my top 5 at that time. But number 1 has always been "Jurassic Park". But he was so impressed, not with just how quickly I responded and didn't have to think, but also of my movie selections. Got hired on the spot. The store was doing so well they opened up another location and I went there to be a "key holder". I could open and close.

I was also in charge of arranging the video wall getting ready for the new arrivals. That was my favorite part of the job. Reducing the previous popular movie from one full wall to half a wall. And then as the weeks progress that movie went from half a wall to 2 shelves to one shelf and so on. But the best part was that we got the new releases before they went on display for rental on Tuesdays. Had to look it up to make sure my memory was correct. Tuesdays were the days for new release movies on video. We would get them days before and take them and watch them before the general public. It was great. And I was there at the beginning of DVDs, because we started renting them out as well.

My worst memory is checking out these 2 white sorority chicks who were discussing just seeing "The Sixth Sense" and that Bruce Willis was dead the entire time. I hadn't seen it yet. They ruined it for me. When spoilers were in person and not online.