Video rental thread

Eastern Promises was great--Viggo Mortensen was fantastic. Haven't seen The Savages yet, but it's on my list.

 

RedBox is a part of a multi-tiered effort that'll kill all but the indy and porn shops in 5-10 years. RedBox gets the cheap crowd, Netflix and its ilk get the monthly subscription fans, and iTunes/On Demand/Xbox Live/what have you cover the download set.

Is there ANY reason, unless you live in an area with no broadband or RedBoxes, to go to Blockbuster anymore?

 

Nope. I've been there like once in three years, and it was only to rent "Candyman" on Halloween night. Shoulda just bought the DVD...b/c outside of brand new releases, you can buy a DVD for just a bit more than it'd cost you to rent it. If it sucks, oh well, you blew $6. And if it's good, you loan it to a friend or family member and you've gotten more use out of it than a rental.

And now there's two and three movies available on a single DVD. My wife got "April Fools Day" and "My Bloody Valentine" for $7.50 at good ol' Wal-Mart a few weeks ago. I didn't like "April Fools Day" nearly as much as I'd hoped, but again, for $3.75, who cares?

 

BYH is just bitter because he can't rent anything for his beta or his laserdisc players anymore.

 

WarGames rules.

 

You laugh, asshole, but laser discs are the future. You can take the discs and the players on the road and watch a movie in a hotel room. Watch, you dickhead!

 

Seriously, if you ever want to have another girlfriend you have got to stop posting things like that.

 

Have you ever stopped to think he doesn't want another girlfriend? That he's very comfortable in his routine of:

Wake up
Cry
eat breakfast
vomit upon reading Chef's latest post
Watch 4 hrs of Full House
cry
eat lunch
Watch 4 hrs of Boy Meets World
post on SJ
cry
eat dinner
watch 4 hrs of Home Improvement
cry
post on SJ
watch 4 hrs of SBTB
post on SJ
cry self to sleep

rinse wash repeat

 

So that's the key to this romance thing: Cool posts? Or just no '80s movies?

 

You couldn't be more wrong, Great God of Dorkdumb. First of all, I watch two hours of Home Improvement from noon to 2 p.m. -- Brad's engaged this episode (but not for long ...) -- and two hours at night. I rarely eat breakfast, and it'd be cry/post on SportsJournalists.com because the only time I weep is when I read your hurtful words, you big dope.

Other than that, though, you're pretty spot on, I guess. Except for my two hours of Scrubs.

 

No Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

 

Ya think? The shelf life ain't long for ol' Blockbuster.