Anyone Else Miss Going to Blockbuster Video?

[MartyMcFly]

If you think about it back in the day there was only 2 movie critics that people even considered or took seriously. Siskel and Ebert and I don't know where you're from but when I was growing up the show use to come on late at night and they were looked at as snobs for the most part b/c they had ridiculous ratings for movies. I think back then no one knew how to really market these movies which is why so many of them came out and you didn't know what you were getting. Some were bad but a lot of them were amazing. The same thing with music. The internet really did fukk everything up IMO. It started giving people who didn't need a voice one and people started taking those opinions as fact instead of actually going out and watching something for themselves.

Yeah siskel ebert and whomever my mom would see on good morning America or the today show or sometimes I'd pick up USA Today. But I also didn't care lol. Like I really cared what critics thought of little giants or little rascals. Or the sandlot. fukk outta here

 

[Alpha Male]

I just remember bein a kid in the horror section lookin at some of the box covers like

 

[Kid Dynamite]

I miss this part of my life... Nothing like hopping in the car with the family and going to the video store on a Friday or Saturday night and either renting something obscure, mainstream, a video game or all of the above

Then sitting down like a family or sometimes your friends spent the night and watching that shyt like family

 

[Alpha Male]

I miss this part of my life... Nothing like hopping in the car with the family and going to the video store on a Friday or Saturday night and either renting something obscure, mainstream, a video game or all of the above

Then sitting down like a family or sometimes your friends spent the night and watching that shyt like family

Could u imagine how many parents had to waste their Friday night on some bullshyt

"Hey dad look mortal kombat ahnialation

 

[the next guy]

I miss the feeling of discovery.

It's just not the same.

I miss walking into a video store and picking something based on the name and cover. That feeling when you found a hidden Gem.


Same with music. Used to just go in and blind buy music and see if I like it.

For sure. This was an adventure on friday night, to go the store renting something and you were first in class to see. RE 2 for Playstation

This post is so on point and not to go off on a rant but I'll just say I'll always be grateful for growing up in an era where you could witness great movies and music on a whim and out of sheer curiosity. Use to feel like you found a treasure with an unknown group (rapper or singer) and movie.

Before the internet ruined us with so many sources telling us what to watch and what not to watch or what to listen to and what not to listen to. At times I really do believe our reliance on film criticism has ruined just discovering stuff. Anytime I listen to someone say they were going to check this movie out but decided not to because the reviews weren't great, I die a little inside I think of all the flicks I discovered as a kid just because the poster looked cool or the box looked cool and then I look at the reviews in retrospect and find out critics hated them. So if that was the case today, would I even have seen those movies? Ace Ventura was rejected by critics, would people see it today or lame out because of a score?

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If you think about it back in the day there was only 2 movie critics that people even considered or took seriously. Siskel and Ebert and I don't know where you're from but when I was growing up the show use to come on late at night and they were looked at as snobs for the most part b/c they had ridiculous ratings for movies. I think back then no one knew how to really market these movies which is why so many of them came out and you didn't know what you were getting. Some were bad but a lot of them were amazing. The same thing with music. The internet really did fukk everything up IMO. It started giving people who didn't need a voice one and people started taking those opinions as fact instead of actually going out and watching something for themselves.

Thumbs up, thumbs down... Siskel and Ebert were great...Chicago guys that told you why the move was good, not just how it's good. Miss them.

 

[Kid Dynamite]

Could u imagine how many parents had to waster their Friday night on some bullshyt

"Hey dad look mortal kombat ahnialation

That's where my pops would take that shyt out and put something else in and leave me to watch that shyt on my own some other time

But I know it's some bruthas that had to sit through straight crap to appease their families

 

[Kid Dynamite]

And nothing like seeing a classmate in there and you run into them and the sister you didn't know they had or being like "a bruh what gonna rent? "

 

[OmegaK2099]

Before the internet ruined us with so many sources telling us what to watch and what not to watch or what to listen to and what not to listen to. At times I really do believe our reliance on film criticism has ruined just discovering stuff. Anytime I listen to someone say they were going to check this movie out but decided not to because the reviews weren't great, I die a little inside I think of all the flicks I discovered as a kid just because the poster looked cool or the box looked cool and then I look at the reviews in retrospect and find out critics hated them. So if that was the case today, would I even have seen those movies? Ace Ventura was rejected by critics, would people see it today or lame out because of a score?

Hpw i discovered johnny mnemonic

 

[Alpha Male]

when I was younger my cousin worked at blockbuster and he got 5 free rentals a week he would bring movies home and we would record them onto another VHS using a double head VCR.

ate very well

 

[TheEgyptianConniption]

When I was real young probably ten my aunt worked at a video store a block from my house. On weekends I would walk to work with her she'd let me grab 2 wwe ppvs I'd run home and watch them then bring them back before she got off.

 

[FlyRy]

Could u imagine how many parents had to waste their Friday night on some bullshyt

"Hey dad look mortal kombat ahnialation

Everyone keeps saying Friday but real movie heads were there on new release Tuesday:Jimmy:

 

[satam55]

I miss the feeling of discovery.

It's just not the same.

I miss walking into a video store and picking something based on the name and cover. That feeling when you found a hidden Gem.


Same with music. Used to just go in and blind buy music and see if I like it.

This. Some of the horror films I watch in October are movies I remember seeing in the horror section at my Local Blockbuster when I was teenager.

 

[OmegaK2099]

 

[KravenMorehead™]

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Yeah siskel ebert and whomever my mom would see on good morning America or the today show or sometimes I'd pick up USA Today. But I also didn't care lol. Like I really cared what critics thought of little giants or little rascals. Or the sandlot. fukk outta here

Damn, I'm old. I think you're talking about Joel Siegel. Forgot all about ol dude


Early life
Born to a Jewish family of Romaniandescent,[5] and raised in Los Angeles, he graduated cum laude from UCLA.[2] His Romanian-born grandmother from Botoşanisurvived the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in March 1911.[6] During college, Siegel worked to register black voters in Georgia during the Civil Rights Movement, and he spoke frequently of having met Martin Luther King Jr. He also worked as a joke writer for Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was at the Ambassador Hotel the night the senator was assassinated. According to some reports, he also led student opposition to the construction of a football stadium on campus.[7]