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saw this this morning... thought my friends would like to read it.
http://www.msn.com...PQ?ocid=spartandhp
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Sad, I miss those days, but don't miss having to wait on a new release or rushing to return things. Being about to talk to people about movie reviews and recommendations was fun, as was getting out to browse huge seletions and making a 'find'.
“You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.” | |
Personally, I don't really miss video stores. The ones by me (Blockbuster & Hollywood) pretty much only stocked new releases, and even then, they'd have 20 copies of the latest Will Ferrell garbage, and one copy of movies that were actually good. Netflix has its shortcomings, but it's got a huge catalog of DVDs. Their streaming selection is OK, but the main reason I use it is to see all the great films I missed in the '70s and '80s.
Here's my queue, if you're interested:
Black Adder: Back and Forth
Black Christmas
Track of the Moon Beast
Vault of Horror
The Innocents
Diabolique
[REC]
High Tension
Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69
Chronicle
Shutter
The Gift
The Marsh
The Abominable Dr. Phibes / Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Bonnie and Clyde
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: The Complete Series
Maniac / Narcotic
Night Nurse / Thou Shalt Not
I Wake Up Screaming
Baby Doll
The Defilers / Scum of the Earth!
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Carnal Knowledge
The Astro Zombies
Stone
Escape 2000
13 Ghosts
Night Gallery: Season 1: Disc 1
Tideland
The Possession
Deranged / Motel Hell
Welcome to Collinwood
Quadrophenia
The Factory
Topaz
Marnie
Torn Curtain
Marjoe
Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
The Lords of Salem
Stephen King: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Disc 1
Suspiria
Deep Red
Enemy at the Gates
A Technicolor Dream
Banshee Chapter
Prometheus
The Dead Matter
The Color of Magic
Hogfather
Eraserhead
Ladyhawke
13 Frightened Girls / 13 Ghosts
Val Lewton: Isle of the Dead / Bedlam
He Knows You're Alone
The Omega Man
Tom Horn
WUSA
Lucio Fulci: The Beyond
Stalker
Fury
Gone Girl
Terry Pratchett: Going Postal
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: Vol. 1: Disc 1
Crash
Antwone Fisher
The Nameless
Them
Kill List
Selma
Lee Daniels' The Butler
Glen or Glenda
The Girl Next Door
Salem's Lot
Once Upon a Time in the West
I Drink Your Blood
The People Under the Stairs
From Beyond
Tales from Earthsea
Hawk: The Slayer
Dragonslayer
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
WKRP in Cincinnati: Season 1: Disc 1
The Triple B Collection: Guns
The Ninth Configuration
It Follows
Brazil
The Apple
Mata Hari
Fanny Hill: Unrated
Howard the Duck
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Manos: The Hands of Fate
rated 4.1 stars
Irreversible
Zabriskie Point
The Lair of the White Worm
Requiem for a Dream
Boogie Nights
The Party
Murder by Death
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
The World of Henry Orient
Marquis de Sade's Justine
Book of Blood
Prophecy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Burn After Reading
The Men Who Stare at Goats
A Serious Man
3 Women
A Field in England
With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Interstellar
Deep Water
The Nightmare
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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what this guy was talking about was a video store, not a chain franchise.
personally, I don't stream. I like having a bit of a library, myself. Same with my videogames... like having them on the shelf.
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Posted by Samurai
what this guy was talking about was a video store, not a chain franchise.
personally, I don't stream. I like having a bit of a library, myself. Same with my videogames... like having them on the shelf.
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OK. Fair enough. There was an independent video store near me that specialized in B movies, but they barely lasted a year. There is still one indy store that I know of. I don't know how they stay in business. Porn, I guess.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright | |
Posted by splumer
OK. Fair enough. There was an independent video store near me that specialized in B movies, but they barely lasted a year. There is still one indy store that I know of. I don't know how they stay in business. Porn, I guess.
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Porn is nice online, but sometimes you want to spread out on the couch and get your weird on away from the keyboard. Hard part is hiding those dvd's when family come to visit.
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