I miss Blockbuster!!!

The last remaining video rental store I've been aware of in my sphere went out of business at the same time someone put a blockbuster version of a Redbox right in front of the store. The machine was quickly removed, but it was already too late.

I remember the wind knocking out direct TV every Christmas holiday. So we go to block buster to rent movies. I really liked Lost.

I started collecting after all the video stores closed down. I never collected before then because I could always rent what I wanted.

Maybe blockbuster could come back and instead of renting movies just be a distributor and sell movies but still have the similar vibes from the past to have that nostalgic feel to them and maybe incorporate that party idea you mentioned.

my fave Blockbuster memory was when Hollywood Video popped up! no censored movies!

I loved Blockbuster. Remember getting VHS there. Probably won't come back. No one is going to rent movies anymore if they are there going to a redbox location. Would be nice if they came back selling physical media instead. Probably not, though I wouldn't hold my breath.

There's hope we will make a come back

Blockbuster never made it out to my part of the world, but we had video stores which were my favourite place in the world as a kid through to young adulthood. so i get your sentiment. miss the video store

I feel like streaming killed any possibility of physical renting. Why rent the physical copy when you can rent the digital from home? Even if fidelity is important to you. You still get to see a 4k copy with some sort of HDR and decide if you want to pickup the physical copy. I do like the party idea. A gamestop type store with a theater.

Can Blockbuster make a come back?

I think anything is possible for blockbuster to come back around the world again hey we still have the last one in bend Oregon that's great news we.still have one left.

Bro Blockbuster closed doors because people were buying movies rather than renting. And then streaming came along. I always preferred the mom and pop smaller independent videoclubs rather than larger chain clubs. As a horror fan I found more hard to see movies there. And since at that time I lived in P.R. I got something that continental US did not VHS from Venezuela. That was an era for entertainment in P.R. Lots of horror movies arrived from Venezuela before the American version and sometimes they were longer or different versions. At Blockbuster I only bought movies and videogames but I never rented. Blockbuster won't come back because physical movies are having a hard time staying afloat let alone sustain a videoclub. People turned their backs on Blockbuster. Sorry to burst your bubble but I think they're never coming back. Anyway good topic and cool video Mike!👉🙂👈

To be honest blockbuster can not come back. And the reason why is bc streaming has killed any chance of any kind of video store making a comeback. Plus it would be very hard to find anyone or any bank to help to finance to get any video store up & running. And to me that really sucks bc I grew up during the days of the video stores. Like blockbuster & west coast video & the mom & pop video stores. But I will say this to all the people that think streaming is better than owning any physical media. Those people have no clue in what they are missing out on. Bc streaming you never actually own any of the movies you are watching plus the cost of buying movies off of streaming is about the same price of buying a physical copy and with physical copy you actually own more then just a code for the movie. Bc physical copy's you get the movie plus cool extras on a disk & about 90% percent of the time you can tell the difference in audio & video between streaming and physical copy's. And to me i personally I will always pick a physical copy over streaming. But if there is a chance of video stores making a comeback. I will surport them 100% percent bc of how much I miss those days going to the video stores.

Yes. Netflix sucks.