This video from The Onion made us nostalgic for late night trips to the video store. Not really. Not unless the definition of nostalgic has suddenly changed to “ew, remember how much that sucked.” Watch. Laugh. Rewind.
Comment by MC
May 15, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
I was just in a Blockbuster… it does have a museum quality to it come to think of it.
Comment by Bape
May 16, 2008 @ 9:50 am
I think that stores like blockbuster wont last very long if you ask me. New cable boxes allow video renting for the same price - why go to the store?
Comment by Jeremy
May 16, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
I used to have to walk to the video store in the snow, uphill both ways. You try and tell some downloading kid that these days and they won’t even listen to you.
Comment by MC
May 16, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
I think those stores are going to change to a purchase only model myself.
Comment by MC
May 17, 2008 @ 12:13 am
Oh, and BTW, you won the Pageant of the Transmundane this week:
http://rantocracy.blogspot.com/2008/05/year-3-week-1-pageant-of-transmundane.html
Comment by Heidi Nyburg
May 17, 2008 @ 7:46 am
MC- I saw that first thing this morning when I was reading your blog in my Bloglines feeds. Thank you so much! So excited! Can’t wait to post my badge!
Comment by Roberto
May 17, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
Ha — but you know, I go to Blockbuster pretty often because I like the instant gratification. Netflix means planning ahead…
Comment by Arjan
May 17, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
Our equivalent of blockbuster has almost completely switched to dvd’s (probably like everybody did) but you have to pay 4€ for a daymovie. Most of the time after a half year of the release on dvd I can búy a movie for that price.
reminiscing a bit further..aaaw the time when you were politely asked to rewind your videotape before bringing it back.
Comment by MS
May 18, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
The Onion has done it again. This video is dead on. My antediluvian VHS tape rewinder is but a fossil collecting dust in the corner of the storage room.
Comment by SN
May 19, 2008 @ 10:10 am
I think the crowning achievement was the hiring of reinactors who did research on their character. ha ha.
Comment by Pom
June 15, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
I’ve never been a big fan of Onion humor…and this one was no exception for me. I remember there was one sometime back that made me laugh…something about “the internet is broken” or “someone turned off the internet” or something like that. That one was well done. But most of these don’t even make me smile a little.
Comment by videoizlet
June 24, 2008 @ 3:26 am
Always good to hear from Derek. He is a buddy of mine and a true inspiration in the aff marketing field…
Comment by Sachina
June 25, 2008 @ 2:19 am
I think those stores are going to change to a purchase only model myself.
Comment by Alex
July 28, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
So true. Next things to go, magazine shops, cd stores…..well pretty much any media that I can get on the web or my iPhone.
Sad but true, but hey…….A WHOLE LOT MORE ECO FRIENDLY
Comment by Monavie
July 31, 2008 @ 1:40 pm
Ha what a funny video. I like the “actual employee” part of it. If RedBox didn’t put video stores out of business, I think the internet might. Every time I ask someone to go watch a movie with me they tell me they watched it online already.
Comment by Vikki
August 1, 2008 @ 7:22 am
Blockbuster definitely wont last long - they are on the way out. All downloads and free movies on the Internet now.
Comment by Ramesh
August 20, 2008 @ 1:28 am
Hi this is ramesh. I have sen your video .. it was very good.
Onion made us nostalgic was very good.
Thanks
ramesh
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