Just don’t forget “Happy Scrappy Hero Pup.” It’s her favorite.
In my old neighborhood, there were two video stores, one was Blockbuster, the other was good.
FWIW, Blockbuster Japan is exactly like Blockbuster US (even down to the uniforms). They had an incredible amount of floor space, but wasted it by having 4-foot high shelves and giving a foot of shelf space per video. Their new release section was ok, but the rest of the selection looked like it had been chosen by throwing darts at a list movies from the past 20 years. Happily, they went out of business.
The other place we simply called “the shop”. I never saw a name on the front of the building, and the membership card just said “Videos”. It was a tiny shop packed floor-to-ceiling with laminated box covers, stacked 100 per shelf-foot. Best of all, in addition to having a very thorough selection of mainstream films, they also had an amazing collection of obscure (often deservedly so) videos. Last time I was in town, they were still going strong.
–sublight.
Seeing all these rants about Blockbuster crack me up, because I used to work there about a year ago. One of the most horrible places I have ever had a job at. It was a part time job and I was 17 when I was hired, so of course it’d suck a little. I don’t even know why people work there, they paid me basically nothing. When I had to put movies back (called “running movies”) I saw about a million of those “porn” movies which would make my face red. I used to stand there thinking, “There’s something wrong with this.” Also, they wanted us to go around the floor and tell customers that when they check out they have a choice of signing up to AOL. Yes, they made us employees shove AOL to the customers. I never did. I HATE AOL.
Whenenever one of my friends go to Blockbuster, I tell them to go to Hollywood Video instead. I love Hollywood V. The only problem is that they don’t have my two favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 videos that Blockbuster had: Manos, the Hands of Fate, and The Pod People. Oh, well, there’s always Amazon.com.
–Anake
PS: Yes, most of the people working there are morons. I was a moron for working there.
In Vienna, VA there’s no choice except Blockbuster.
There was a Forbes Video south of town, but it’s going out of business (and it was a hassle getting there by public transportation.)
I’ve wanted to rent Dinner Game and Beresina for months, but Blockbuster has no intention of getting either film.
And do they have to run those ads on their TV monitors all the time??
Oh man, do I hate Blockbuster. I refuse to go there. Its only about 5 minutes away, but I’d rather go to Hollywood Video which is about 20 minutes away. HV has a 5 day rental policy even for new releases, so we usually just stock up on 4 or 5 movies, and we can watch them over the week.