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i really enjoyed going to blockbuster and hollywood video back in the day

There was literally nothing wrong with Blockbuster.

>>16635285
candy and n64 games

>>16635307
same
used to take a walk down on friday nights with my dad when I was a kid and we'd watch whatever looked good that week
we don't talk anymore

>>16635316
>>16635328
what a fucking feels trip...

>>16635285
Zoomies will never understand the comfy times.

>>16635285
Zoomers have no clue.

>OMG I MISS CONSUMING SO MUCH GUYS

>>16635285
I want to go back I can't take this timeline anymore

>>16635328
>we don't talk anymore
what went wrong?

>>16636037
lol

>>16636037

>>16635285
I know exactly what you mean. That smell of plastic, color ink, glue... with a fade from the dirty carpet and maybe.. just maybe... fingerprints with pizza grease on the cover...

>>16636047
I'm not even sure.

I remember that smell

where did the time go

>>16635316
the game you were waiting for finally back in stock

>>16635285
Like just build one man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OI-zCnVOGM

>>16635285
In the future, our grandkids will be all 'i'm finna download the blockbuster cologne'

>>16635285
every blockbuster smelled the same, why/how was that?

>>16635285
I was a poor fag growing up and that’s where I would get to play new games. Was allowed two rentals a month...and the only games I owned were the ones that came with the systems.

>>16636037
renting is absolutely anti-consumerism which is why it didn't survive
instead of everybody buying a disc, blockbuster bought 10-20 of them and rented them out

>>16636736
companies use machines that give a store a smell in order to get customers to feel a certain way in order to buy food or something.

https://www.ambius.com/scenting/scent-machines/
https://www.fastcompany.com/3064512/confessions-of-a-store-smell-designer

>>16636736
Cheap plastic and carpet glue is pretty standard

>>16636795
https://prolitec.com/retail/

>>16635285
I see Shock And Awe on blu-ray there.
That movie released on DVD in August 2018.
This is quite possibly the last Blockbuster. I'm quite surprised they have so many damn copies of some of these in 2018. What to they do with all the extra copies, sell used?

>>16636834
i think alaska has the last blockbuster, they don't have netflix or good internet.

>>16635285
i loved going there as a kid. kinda sad i'll never get to experience it again

>>16636785
Why buy the disc at all?

>>16636845
the last blockbuster has a twitter....

>>16636188
Time is a construction of your mind. Only present exists and time has no length, speed, or direction.

>>16636037
it was much more than just "consuming" you retarded zoomer, it was an actual experience. It's not the same as just clicking some shit on a a browser.

>>16636960
Is it? Is it really?
No it isn't you sad bugman

>>16636964
fucking off yourself
>bugman
what the fuck are you talking about, I was a child, watching movies with my family and friends... I don't even consume shit right now.

>>16636878
exactly

>>16636037
>consuming
going to blockbuster was fun, you didn't know what you'd find and no kid had money to buy games so renting a new game was always fun.

>>16635314
Late fees (were Fucking criminal until they realized their business was dying) out of new releases, only a couple copies (if that) of the best games.

Yes inconvenience makes us all nostalgia for simpler times. It’s death was inevitable

Wanna live in the 90s again? Go to Maine or North Dakota.

>>16636964
>Is it? Is it really?
>No it isn't you sad bugman
Yes it is dumbass. You would go there with your friends on a friday night and rent a couple movies to go back and watch at the sleepover. Of course a zoomer doesnt know this because you just DL a movie and watch it solo with a bag of doritos.

>>16636988
>>16637104
>The Blockbuster Video religious experience
Alright, it's your life man. Whatever
>>16637004
I meant why buy or rent the disc at all. Are those movies really that good?
From what I remember it was just the newest garbage Hollywood cash grabs on a shelf so saying Blockbuster is "anti-consumerism" is just ridiculous.

You fucking fags

Walk in on Friday night, walk over to the new movie that just came out, look behind 200 empty cases. Nothing. Get some movie you already saw but the disk is scratched and you can't watch it.

>>16636960
>>16636964
>>16637107
it is though, it's more about the time you spent with the people around you... since americans don't go to church anymore.
i have many fond memories of walking to blockbuster with my mom in the mid 90s because she took the time to spend that weekend with me.
other people remember their teen years - goofing off with friends and ribbing on the titles there. i don't but i had the same sort of experiences at the mall and on out of town trips.
when people are nostalgic about blockbuster, nobody actually cares about the blockbuster itself.

>>16637180
>when people are nostalgic about blockbuster, nobody actually cares about the blockbuster itself.
We used to have an independent music and video store too. Those were the days.

>>16637107
>HIRR DURRR SPLLLLTTTTH

Listen you cynical cunt. It was every movie. So it wasn’t just “MUH Hollywood garbage”, you don’t know Fucking SHIT and it’s obvious so GTFO my board, the adults are talking.

>>16637196
Listen up bucko just because you fetishize blockbuster video renting consumerism doesn't mean other people have to
It's just a fucking store where you went to rent a shitty cashgrab movie and now it's closed down. Who fucking cares? It's like being nostalgic over a time you were mugged

>>16635307
Me too

>>16637225
No you shit stain read my previous post, I said blockbuster sucked.

The uninformed post I replied to was made by an idiot so I addressed it, simple as.

Blockbuster usually wasn't as good as local places, but going there was still enjoyable. Was a great place to hang out and browse for a long time.

>>16637362
That was my post and it wasn't uninformed. Do you really think I never went to a Blockbuster? Blockbuster didn't sell "every movie" they sold Hollywood garbage, the type of movies that shouldn't even exist let alone be rented, bought, or sold. Fuck Blockbuster

>>16635285
The zoomers here won't remember it. But it had a very distinct smell.

>>16637392
Wow so I bet you know all the coolest movies!!! All the ones blockbuster didn’t rent. Name the obscure awesome indie shit thats soooo much better than all the normie pleb movies.

You’re an uninformed child that saw pictures of the new release section and thinks you know what you’re talking about. So yes I don’t think you’ve ever been in one since you’re like 14.

Also yes fuck blockbuster

>>16637483
>name obscure movie

1980s version of lathe of heaven. It’s on jewtube.

>>16637410

there is still one left in bend oregon

>>16637374
Theme of this picture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ht5RZpzPqw

>>16637564
You win. Congratulations

>>16635285
Damn. We will never go back to a better past

>>16636037
gee you're right anon, now we have even better stuff like netflix and amazon prime video and stan and.... amirite?

>>16636037
>The Consoomer.

I got the flu. Affluenza. I got to... Ahhhhhahhah, Consoooooom!

>>16637665
Nice

>>16637564
I might consume that lol

>>16637392
Spotted the zoomer. Blockbuster had other sections beyond new releases. Keep researching im sure you will find more info.

>>16638405
Eat a dick you gutless cuckold

>>16638425
lol i triggered a zoomer

>>16636174
Be happy yours is alive.

>>16636037
We never had any money to rent anything. We went there to look at the new releases on the wall, smell the popcorn in the air, and buy the cheapest candy there and go home.