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Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
Uh oh, the rubber band holding the two cases together broke! Now we only have part 1 of Titanic :(

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The American Dream
Mar 1, 2007
Don't Forget My Balls
I used to rent capcom games and cut the points out of the manual. Then send away for joysticks and poo poo. I feel like if I did this today TLC would give me my own show.

CruJones
Feb 22, 2006

by Lowtax

Gaunab posted:

the blockbuster near my old apartment got turned into a liquor store. it was for the best

Missouri?

Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!
I remember them having good airconditioning and the one I went to always smelled nice.

Cpt.Sean Luc Picard
Nov 24, 2006
man why you even got to do a thing?

MegaGatts posted:

Remember when Blockbuster turned away the netflix people and the nexfilx people started their own business called netflix instead?

Makes sense. Summer of 2003 we were piloting a service in Houston just like Netflix. Faggots would come in and pay like $20 a month and rent two movies at a time and come in later the same day to return them only to rent another two and could do so as often as they wanted all month. Rinse and repeat by the dozens, if not hundreds. Worst summer of my life.

Obviously Blockbuster fumbled the ball and did not adopt this business practice.

Cpt.Sean Luc Picard fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Aug 27, 2014

KennyLoggins
Dec 3, 2004
Welcome to the Danger Zone
i bought my SNES from Blockbuster. and i also bought some of the used movies there cause they were super cheap.

thats my blockbuster story.

CruJones
Feb 22, 2006

by Lowtax
I worked for a franchisee for 14 years. I guess I probably have some stories.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I still see dvds for sale at the thrift store in the blockbuster case.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

CruJones posted:

I worked for a franchisee for 14 years. I guess I probably have some stories.

whats the weirdest thing you ever saw

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax
in one of his books lloyd kaufmann complains about the religious owners of blockbuster editing out sexually explicit scenes in movies and specifically singles out a lamp superimposed over the buttfucking scene in last tango in paris.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





I worked at a Hollywood video. My boss routinely did coke off the counter and we all stole candy and food. Apparently our store was one of the best in loss statistics which always made me laugh.

One dude over the course of a year stole 10,000 dollars and was caught right before the store shut down
Good times at the video store

Typical Pubbie
May 10, 2011

Prettz posted:

i discovered a lot of old animes back in the VHS days thanks to blockbuster

yeah like Ranma 1/2 volume 2, Akira, Ghost In The Shell, and Bubblegum Crisis episodes 3-4.

Cpt.Sean Luc Picard
Nov 24, 2006
man why you even got to do a thing?

THS posted:

whats the weirdest thing you ever saw

I'm not the guy you're asking but one time a dude came to check out and totally plopped down his colostomy bag onto the counter while we did business.

Pyzza Rouge
Jun 25, 2011

La Mano de Dios

renting games from blockbuster was the only thing approaching enjoyment i had as a child. someone explain to me why the government was willing to bail out fannie mae but not blockbuster

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Frostwerks posted:

in one of his books lloyd kaufmann complains about the religious owners of blockbuster editing out sexually explicit scenes in movies and specifically singles out a lamp superimposed over the buttfucking scene in last tango in paris.

I wasn't sure if Lloyd was correct about this until I later saw Cronenberg's Crash a second time on IFC after previously renting it from Blockbuster and wondering why people made a fuss over the sex scenes when it came out. Then I realized they were chopped all to pieces for the rental version and super explicit in the actual version. :eyepop: In related terms, if you're a Troma fan, you should try to track down the Blockbuster versions of Terror Firmer and Toxic Avenger IV. They have additional content not in the official releases replacing the content they were forced to cut to get them on the shelves. Lloyd himself explains what's not going on in Terror Firmer, while Toxie IV has far more cut-aways to the Sklar brothers doing their newscasts.

CruJones
Feb 22, 2006

by Lowtax

THS posted:

whats the weirdest thing you ever saw

A few:
-Mountain of a black man fell flat on his face in front of the candy racks and knocked himself out cold. Black dude he was with just walked off muttering "I don't even know this nigga" to himself.

-*Used* panties in the dropbox.

-Ceramic bowl with tits found stashed in the ceiling. Seriously, it was just a big ceramic bowl with like C-cups sculpted into them. Still curious where that came from, as BBV was the only thing that ever existed there.

porkchop_express
May 27, 2004
i like that they got put out of business by a vending machine

Cpt.Sean Luc Picard
Nov 24, 2006
man why you even got to do a thing?

porkchop_express posted:

i like that they got put out of business by a vending machine

that is going to happen to the rest of every job ever, soon

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
Got in a shouting match with some lady at blockbuster because I slammed my car door into her precious astro van.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Cpt.Sean Luc Picard posted:

that is going to happen to the rest of every job ever, soon

well thanks for killing the fun, Cpt. Sean Luc Picard

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

CruJones posted:

-Ceramic bowl with tits found stashed in the ceiling. Seriously, it was just a big ceramic bowl with like C-cups sculpted into them. Still curious where that came from, as BBV was the only thing that ever existed there.

probably the same reason we found a can of dip above the ceiling tiles in the boys restroom in 6th grade. janitors need a break too

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

Frostwerks posted:

probably the same reason we found a can of dip above the ceiling tiles in the boys restroom in 6th grade. janitors need a break too

so what happened to the dip

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

THS posted:

so what happened to the dip

turns out we did not like dip and we gave it to the redneck kid who did

Prettz
Sep 3, 2002

when the sega cd came out my blockbuster had one on a demo station, with sewer shark on it. i was totally confused by the gameplay, or lack thereof. in retrospect the sega cd was one of the worst consoles ever.

Cpt.Sean Luc Picard
Nov 24, 2006
man why you even got to do a thing?

Don Tacorleone posted:

well thanks for killing the fun, Cpt. Sean Luc Picard

get used to it, son

Big Ol Marsh Pussy
Jan 7, 2007

no, this movie better! much better!

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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i tried to rent some video games from blockbuster and they wanted like 3 forms of id and poo poo so i said no way and 6 months later they went bankrupt

WilltheMagicAsian
Dec 11, 2011

One time I bought two games and got one free

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Oh look there's a shitload of the movie I wanted to rent

oh actually there aren't all these boxes are empty

5-HT
Oct 17, 2012

Gaunab posted:

the blockbuster near my old apartment got turned into a liquor store. it was for the best

let me guess. out in kcmo? westport?

Wicker Man
Sep 5, 2007

Just like Columbus...


Clapping Larry
Pumpkin guts in the drop box. Bunch of cute girls persuaded my dorky rear end to let them have the full body cut out stand of the blue dude from Avatar... Jake was it? It had a weird looking loin cloth extension to hide the side of his naked blue man-cat butt.

There was this cool old druggie dude that had hep C and a big bandage on his front where a big section of his intestine was apparently poking out from.

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty

Wicker Man posted:

Pumpkin guts in the drop box. Bunch of cute girls persuaded my dorky rear end to let them have the full body cut out stand of the blue dude from Avatar... Jake was it? It had a weird looking loin cloth extension to hide the side of his naked blue man-cat butt.

In my case (at Hollywood Video) it was a cute punk girl that convinced me to let her have the cut out for Frankenstein when Universal released the anniversary DVD. I later snagged the Yoda one for Episode II for my Star Wars loving older brother.

Atomizer
Jun 24, 2007



Cpt.Sean Luc Picard posted:

I used to work at one in the early 00s and helped to make it eventually go out of business.

This is basically my story.

Working there was totally not a waste of a few years of my life.

Baiku
Oct 25, 2011

I remember being 7 in 1993 and being excited about renting games from there.

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

Prettz posted:

when the sega cd came out my blockbuster had one on a demo station, with sewer shark on it. i was totally confused by the gameplay, or lack thereof. in retrospect the sega cd was one of the worst consoles ever.

the Lunar games ruled

im pooping!
Nov 17, 2006


i worked there and i went to my coworkers house after work one time, her husband had been coming in and just stealing a poo poo load of movies, there was a stack of maybe 200 blockbuster movies from our store right on her floor near the tv

good times

Shasta Orange Soda
Apr 25, 2007
I grabbed the wrong box and didn't look at it on the way up to the cashier and accidentally ended up with Hope Floats. I watched it anyway because I didn't want to feel like I wasted my money.

Tumblr of scotch
Mar 13, 2006

Please, don't be my neighbor.
when i was a kid, blockbuster put a bogus late fee on our account. like just straight-up made it up. we'd lived in one state most of my life, but for a bit over a year we'd lived in another state in a completely different part of the country before moving back. about a month after we got back we wanted to rent some movie or another and found out there was a late fee on our account that had been created while we were living two time zones away.

my mom managed to argue out of paying for that bullshit and it was at least another five years before we were willing to rent from there again.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
:rip:

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Wang Flotilla
Oct 13, 2007

God damn these electric sex pants

My town still has two running Blockbuster stores, and one of them is next to a Papa Murphy's take-and-bake pizza, which makes it easy to get dinner and a movie of two. I don't go there often because I get some stuff from friends who torrent, but every time I go the store seems well managed, and the people who own it say it's profitable. Good for them.

Also one time I molested a dude who was trying to rent dusk til dawn 2.

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