What do miss about going to the local video stores?
The "Be Kind Rewind" stickers.
shareSneaking behind that curtain has a kid to venture in a forbidden world...
Then being ask to leave by the sales person...Adults only!
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I kinda miss the feeling of lucking out and getting a popular new release when there were only a certain amount of copies available.
shareThe decor. All the movie posters they had plastered over the windows and the huge cardboard cut out displays. It's lifesize Arnold Scwharzenegger! Video stores were like movie temples where you went to worship film. It was great.
share"Video stores were like movie temples where you went to worship film."
That is such a good way of putting it.
The back room😉
shareI don't miss them at all.
shareAmen. Things are so much better today. I suppose I miss being younger... I sure don't miss harassing the teenage employees to see if someone just returned an out-of-stock popular new release.
shareeverything is at my fingertips - why go back? I don't get the nostalgia stuff.
shareI love streaming. LOVE no commercials! But no commercials on videos either. Or there were, but you could easily FFd through them.
It may be different where you live, but here the two video stores we had were like a community thing. You'd run into neighbours, get to know the owners and employees, they'd recommend things to you because they'd gotten to know your taste.
That's what I miss.
I miss running across a title I had heard about but wasn't expecting to see. I loved my old video store. Through Blockbuster I binge watched The Sopranos and Deadwood and tried to get into Weeds. I would have started on The Wire but people had been stealing the discs and returning the covers.
Plus we had an independent vid store a long time ago and I saw a ton of great foreign films that might have been hard to find elsewhere. Loved my old video stores.
mainly the fun of finding odd obscurities, dipping into the cult & foreign sections and grabbing handfuls of stuff with no real idea of what i'd be watching.
& always grabbing at least one film from their criterion section.
i also occasionally had fun chatting with the film snob clerks, and i always enjoyed ogling the hipster girls that worked there.
Everything :(
Now I go to thrift stores and gaze at the movies and games. I actually found some great PS1 and PS2 titles. Now that Gamestop doesn't carry them anymore in their stores.