All I can say is that Blockbuster Video stores were superior to Prime, Netflix
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MortSahlFan — 4 years ago(August 14, 2021 10:04 PM)
I think its a bad sign when Blockbuster closed down. In fact, almost every video store has closed around here.
Saying that, I probably wouldn't frequent them as much. Deadlines were a pain in the ass, having to drive 10-15 minutes on a day you didn't feel like it. In 2013, I came back from Australia and got back into movies again, and would rent 6 movies at a time from the library, but after seeing so many, it wasn't worth the drive, to check out movies that didn't pique my curiosity, but since I was there, I'd always get 6, and the quality diminished.
I don't have a good enough connection to stream, unless its YouTube, where I can watch through my "smart" TV. But even with that, my ad-blocker doesn't work, so I use those free trials, and of course, they bank on you forgetting. I usually cancel right away once I know they'll automatically do it for me when the trial period is over.
My biggest problem today is not having any movies I wanna see. I do look for recommendations on here, and used to on IMDB recommendation lists, but IMDB keeps ****ing themselves, but all their ****-ups occurred when Geoff Bozos bought it.
I never got any recommendations from the people at Blockbuster, despite me being such a regular there. Would have been nice. Even a "I saw that", but they might have been told not to be judgemental (human) on the customer's selection.
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NostalgiaGoddess — 4 years ago(September 04, 2021 12:37 AM)
Maybe it's because my family was never able to rent from Blockbuster, but how would Blockbuster video stores be in anyway superior to streaming sites? The only advantage I could think of was that at least you don't have to worry about certain movies expiring from Blockbuster the way some movies leave streaming services after they lose the rights.
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