Comments on: Video Rental Memories

By: Eelco

Eelco — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:38:08 +0000

Sad day for me last Friday 29th 2016. I was just back for a day from my trip to New Zealand and I’d received a letter that my videostore will finally close down forever February 12th 🙁 The store is about 150-200m from my appartment. I enjoyed it a lot for years…just scanning through the movies that were on the store’s shelves to find THE movie(s) that I wanted to see for that night (or week). One positive note though…the whole DvD/Bluray collection of the store is up for sale till February 12th. I’ve already purchased quite some DvDs and Blurays for a very low price (like 40 dollars for 20 blurays)!

By: SUP3RFLYSAMURA1

SUP3RFLYSAMURA1 — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:56:36 +0000

In reply to woodrower. Mos def man. It got me into movies i live to this day. Other ones I hate too haha

By: SUP3RFLYSAMURA1

SUP3RFLYSAMURA1 — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:55:00 +0000

In reply to SUP3RFLYSAMURA1. Forgot to mention they jus recently closed down a blockbuster near where I lived. I was kinda sad seeing one of my childhood memories being stripped and sold. They were selling practically everything the store. Even the famous blue carpet. Wish I could of bought it but it was pretty expansive. Anyways with all the memories we had me and my pops went and bought a bunch of movies. I even picked up some troma film called Dr. Hackenstein. Can't wait to watch it.

By: SUP3RFLYSAMURA1

SUP3RFLYSAMURA1 — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:50:30 +0000

In reply to ProblemGamer. Thanks for sharing. Real cool memories.

By: SUP3RFLYSAMURA1

SUP3RFLYSAMURA1 — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:45:00 +0000

Man going to the video store was like an adventure, a whole experience. My family (all 6 of us) would cramp into the van and talk the whole way about what movie we were going to rent. We weren’t even there yet and we were already going crazy. Soon as you walk in you get blown away by all the movies in just one place. As a young kid I was a huge fan of movies, I was especially into horror. I mean I still am but nothing beats when you’re first getting into it. The local movie rental place (can’t remember the name) was like my chocolate factory. I’d always go to the horror section first. Seeing all those bloody, disgusting, and gory vhs cases would always get me excited. I’d look through as much as I can. I’d pick it up and laugh or smile at how cool the cover was. Man other people must of thought I was a sick kid. I’d run all over the video store jus to show my family the different horror covers. I loved it. It was a museum filled with films that were either really shitty or masterpieces. It was gamble every time you rented somethin but that was the fun part of it. Also waiting in line with the movie in your hand. As a bonus if we were lucky my pops had enough money to buy us some popcorn. Awesome times. It sucks that my kid will never experience that . That’s why imma build my own mini vhs store in my basement like james so maybe he’ll get a glimpse of how cool video stores were.

By: brenden_sutton_1

brenden_sutton_1 — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:44:09 +0000

Funny I’m only 13 and I can relate to this I live in topeka Kansas and I used to go to the video stores all the time like family video to test the video games before I’d buy them if they purchased them and a lot of these stores are closing

By: FilmmakingismyLife123

FilmmakingismyLife123 — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:56:07 +0000

Too bad Blockbuster is now an ONLINE DVD rental store. When they were actual stores, outside of the internet, they sold VHS Tapes. I was young when I was about to get a Dinotopia cartoon at my nearest Blockbuster, but my babysitter didn’t have the money. Now, it’s a bank. From 2001-2013 and so on, I always loved that store.

By: Spencer Dunnings

Spencer Dunnings — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 04:38:58 +0000

Hey James, i have vivid memories of going to the video store. i’m 17 so i’m much younger than you and have fewer memories but plenty i remember. i can always remember going into Coconuts (now F.Y.E) and a local video store called Captain Video. After my dad would leave work for the day, he would surprise me with a VHS tape he bought be. I remember me and my brothers getting Werewolf of London, The Mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein VHS tapes. the artwork on the tapes always made me smile. I also remember me and my dad going to Coconuts and i went in and was looking for a good movie to buy and i saw The Wolf Man (1941) from the Universal Classic Monster Collection and the original poster art cover was so cool i had to buy it, my dad bought a movie of his own which i never though the movie he bough would end up being my favorite movie of all time which is Night of the Living Dead (1968). I was so afraid to watch it and i could never get past the opening cemetery sequence. later on of course i grew out of the fear and fell in love with the film. So video stores really changed my life as well.

By: Jacob Edwards

Jacob Edwards — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:12:46 +0000

There’s a video store here in Halifax, NS called Video Difference. There are 2 locations already with a new opening up, so hopefully the movie rental business will stick around here for a while.

By: kyle luther

kyle luther — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:02:59 +0000

I think there might be a video store or 2 around here that is still open, I’m not sure though. In the past 5 or 6 years I’ve only gone to a video store to rent video games. Still, the feeling of walking around the video store looking for what I want to watch will be missed, as I doubt 5 years from now places like Blockbuster will even exist anymore.