Last Blockbuster (FULL MOVIE) Documentary, Movie Rental, Nostalgia, VHS
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- The Last Blockbuster is a fun, nostalgic look back at the era of video rentals and the story of how one small town video store managed to outlast a corporate giant.
Featuring interviews with comedians and celebrities with ties to Blockbuster: Adam Brody (The O.C., Jennifer’s Body), Ione Skye (Say Anything, River’s Edge), Doug Benson (Getting Doug with High, The Lego Batman Movie), Paul Scheer (The League, Veep) and director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob), with narration by Lauren Lapkus (The Wrong Missy, Orange Is The New Black).
Filmmakers Taylor Morden & Zeke Kamm follow the manager of the world’s sole remaining Blockbuster in Bend, OR, Sandi Harding, as she reflects on the store's vibrant past and navigates the difficult task of keeping a video rental store open in the era of streaming.
Taking us through the history and subsequent rise and fall of the franchise, the documentary reveals the real reason why Blockbuster went out of business (hint - it wasn’t Netflix), while celebrating the unique and defining culture it created in the ‘90s, honoring a simpler times and the sense of community that could once be found in Blockbuster locations across the world.
#bekindrewind #blockbustervideo #vhs #redbox #netflix - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Hi worked at Blockbuster video and met my best friend there ,got my movie watching education from the store ,loved the popcorn smell all around the store & meeting friends & neighbors there ,plus finding movies you never saw before ,great memories here ,thanks for sharing ,
Nostalgia isn't as exciting as instant gratification.
-the Troll
As someone who was born in the late 90s, I'm glad I was able to experience Blockbuster, at least for a short while. Every friday after school, my mom would let my brother and I pick out a movie and a game with our favorite snacks. Truly, simpler times. I'm jealous of people born in the 70s and 80s who got to enjoy that time longer than I had the chance to.
Same here, was born in 98 and have great memories of going in and renting games for my gamecube. Just the simple act of going to a store, seeing a game you've never heard of before with cool box art, and just giving it a try seems so awesome today. Best part is, if the game sucked, just bring it back! Wish we could go back to that
I was born in 1982. I remember the rise of VHS. I remember when blockbuster began as a business.
Same, born in 97 and really miss the video store and the one hour photo stores. There was nothing like taking a couple of rolls to get developed and heading to the video store to rent some movies. But I catch myself wondering if I miss these experiences or if I just miss being a kid (probably both).
Sandi isn't getting enough credit. She's a guardian angel of our collective past... 90's kids, young couples and old couples all have distinct memories of how Blockbuster existing made their lives more full of social interaction and entertainment. Without her passion for keeping that experience alive, we would only have the memories left. That store and her dedication leave that one seed of hope. And that one seed of hope is worth that store's weight in gold.
I think they should work a deal to give the store to Sandi for being such a dedicated person.
@@themayor6355DirecTV owns the naming rights to the Blockbuster franchise. What needs to happen is they give her a contract in perpetuity that locks that location in using the license permanently. That way as long as she can keep it open, she can keep the name without having to do negotiations every 3-5 years...
I feel like the owner isn’t given enough credit. He’s the one who decided to keep going and he’s hardly in this documentary. She’s the manager but he’s the owner and the one who decides keeps it open
Man i miss this store. Ill never forget that smell. What a great experience
Those were the days!
This had me in tears! Such an amazing documentary. Brought back so much nostalgia to me. Blockbuster will forever hold a special place in my heart. I definitely want to visit and even get a few movies and merch from there 😭
Fond memories of Blockbuster from the late 80's and early 90's. My dad would take my sister and me there on a Friday evening, he would pick one, and me and my sister would pick one between us. I still clearly remember the store now, 30 years later.
Those were the days...
I was assistant manager at one for about 2 yrs. Until u got accused of stealing merchandise which absolutely surprised the hell outta me. Long story short....turns out it was the manager and when she got busted she blamed me. For the rec this wasn't a jab at blockbuster at all. I enjoyed my time there actually. This was 100% about the manager. I miss the videos stores.
There used to be plenty of "Block Busters" in my region as a child. Growing up in Puerto Rico, that was part of my childhood. Going with my parents and siblings to rent a couple of movies to watch during the weekend while eating a pizza or nice dinner made it a wholesome experience. Sandi, thank you for what you've accomplished for the sake of nostalgia & reliving joyful memories for thousands.
So glad you liked this!
It’s because she’s a protector it’s still surviving she deserves the credit
Yes, hats off too her!
I just visited it in Bend, OR this past weekend. Just nostalgia.
Since this film was made in2020, I was woneering if it's still open now. You answered my question.
it's funny that you can rent this on youtube about renting videos at blockbuster.
@@marty3888 😂🤣😂 that is the same thing I told the cashier when I was there.
I miss going to blockbuster and getting all the VCR”S then DVD”s. Now you can barely find half the movies online that we used to get when I was growing up. What I wouldn’t give to physically go there.
If you want a similar fix, you can still go to your local thrift store and find stacks of VHS and DVD for next to nothing
Just started watching this movie, it wasn't Netflix video shops started to close down before Netflix came along, it was the internet, people video taping movies at the cinemas and uploading them onto free movie site's. I miss putting on a DVD and sitting down with family and having a movie night.
The Petsmart down the street from me used to be a Blockbuster for decades. It still crosses my mind everytime I pass it and all the time I spent there as a kid
Our Blockbuster also turned into a PetSmart and it's just down the street from me how crazy is that?
I feel so blessed to have had my childhood in the late 70’s and early 80’s…the very best era in history!!! ❤
I totally agree ❤...
@@v.roni1971 The slasher films (banned in the UK) used to get them from the seedy back street Vid shops - and some very soft porn - we was kids.
Before BlockBuster was Mrs. Goldies in MS!!! First place with a VHS store!!! She and her husband were the sweetest owners and used to give us kiddies candies! (1988) ❤❤❤
I'm currently building a replica Blockbuster video store in my garage in my home.
I start painting the garage soon and on 5th August I have 8 ex video store shelves arriving, to add to the one I have already and I'm getting a few Blockbuster shelves too, 2,000 VHS tapes, 5 big metal store dvd shelves and lots of posters.
I'll be documenting it all on my other channel Stephen Sherrard-Griffith Movies At The Bar if you want to come see it.
what physical media and places like Blockbuster (its Video Ezy in my area) provide, is Modulation. it makes the film "memorable". today, i keep on adding movies to my watchlist, and because it is too easy to do that, i just keep adding and not watching them. Plus, studios just want to populate the platforms with something new as fast as possible, so films have become disposable instead of memorable. gone were the days of films like ET stayed in theaters for a year, or Titanic for 10 months. a movie would go viral, and people forget about it a few weeks later...
Blockbuster and chill.
LOL
I grew up in the 2000s, and Blockbuster was a personal mecca. Our local store was next door to an Italian bakery and a pizzeria, so my family would hit up the whole plaza every Friday. Pizza, cannoli and my own movie rental (would always pick the newest Godzilla release), it's honestly one of the most irreplaceable memories I have.
My Dad got into owning video stores quite early (I remember him having both Betamax and VHS films). He had around 8 store locally in the UK and also racks inside local corners shops & post offices etc.
I remember people queuing up out of the front door on a Friday & Saturday night to rent a film, it was crazy.
Then blockbusters showed up, the nearest store was 8 miles away but they were seen as cool and customers wanted to go there. They charged £3.50 a film to rent and we always charged only £2.50 for the same top film but it made no difference.
It was actually Skys digital satellite tv network in the 90’s with around 10 movie channels and PPV movies that dealt the biggest blow.
Eventually we closed down and I became a customer of my local blockbusters and managed to take my young kids there to give them the experience of picking out a film and renting it. It felt like a circle of life moment 😊.
It's been three years since this film was completed and the Bend, Oregon store is still open renting movies. Wouldn't it be wild if it outlast ... Netflix.
ooh! time will tell!!!
Hopefully they don't....Bend...the knee
Block buster will return back in some way or form. The love for the '90s is too strong
Anybody else here been to that big curved window/wall Blockbuster on Oak Street in Vancouver BC? Loved the shop, loved the ‘hood.
Another great nostalgia video, about the hard copy music days: “All Things Must Pass.”
And yup, I’ve still got some VHS, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, and Vinyl. 45’s too😊 (and my BBuster card!)
🤘🤙
😂 these were the days. So many found memories. Damn I’m old. 😂
I love this so much!! I was just talking to someone the other day about missing the smell of Blockbuster! I would love to come visit your store, if im ever out in Oregon, IM THERE!!
The good old days, for sure!
I love how Kevin Smith is in this. It makes it 5x more awesome than it already is!
We went today!!❤❤❤
I worked in a videostore as a teenager during the eighties and as a twenty something during the nineties (early 2000's) but not in the USA but in Belgium (Europe) , some things in this documentary are recognizable but still a different story. I never could watch a movie when working in a videostore (no time), ... especially the nineties-early 2000 period ; i worked in a videostore (1000m2, a very big one, run by cheap owners) together with 1 or 2 collegues (between 1000-1500 visitors a day). We didn't have a big blockbuster just some chains of videostore or the mom&pop stores.
Fantastic best thing I’ve watched on CZcams wish I could visit one day
So glad you enjoyed it!
Great presentation…took me right back…💞💞💞🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting.
We were not paying $7 for a movie in the early 80's. It was like $3.
I am from the UK and have lived here my entire life. I have fond memories of growing up through the 90's going into some video rental shop with my Mum and my siblings and we would just run around that place for what seemed like HOURS looking through everything they had. The saddest memory I have of that period is when at some point whoever owned the place sent out a load of flyers saying it was closing down. And on their last day of business you could go in there and from what I can recall at least like EVERY VHS tape was 50p so people were just going in and buying everything!!
That shop all these years later is now a Pharmacy and I suppose what you learn about things like this is technology will ALWAYS evolve and change and that big and small companies alike will unfortunately fall by the wayside as we progress through time.
In our childhood home it was mandatory that we be home by 4:00 on Sunday. We made a trip to Blockbuster and the local drug store to pick out our candy. I think my mom did this because we were so active in sports that we were never home, it was her way of spending time with us and it made for great memories.
Nice memories!
I grew up in the late 50's, the 60' and 70's. Those were the best time to be alive.😊
Miss going to rent a movie so much!
This movie touches me big time reminding me of the video store days so long ago, but i am glad i got to visit a Blockbuster
Store around twenty years ago when i visited L.A and i think it was on Sunset Blvd, but this film makes me think how much
I miss a video store branch in Ireland called Xtra-Vision that closed just over ten years ago, gone but not forgotten.
In the 90s my parents would take us to blockbuster and each person (4 total) would get 1 movie and an extra movie for us to watch as a family. 5 movies a week. I miss that. Blockbuster helped bring my family together.
Look, we can all look back at Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix and laugh and call them stupid in retrospect, but in all fairness, when you’re the single biggest place for watching movies in the home for so long, I can see how they grew an ego. This of course, does not make decision any less foolish and it is still funny, but I can kinda see why that happened
Must be a little bit distressing to see people enter your store only to find out they're visitors/tourists with no intention of buying (renting) anything.
It was something else at the time. I still remember me winning a sports tournament and my dad turned into the blockbuster parking lot for me to pick out a video game as a reward. I'll never forget blockbuster
she did not just wipe that disc in a circle motion !!!!!
I commented the same thing then I saw your comment. Queen of blockbuster and she doesn't know how to take care of a disc!?
All the copies of Indiana Jones were out. So had to rerent a Shannon Tweed movie.
Ha Ha. Would that be Night Eyes 2, Illicit Dreams, Body Chemistry 4, or Possessed by the Night?
@@FREEMOVIESYT Nope, the shining moment for Ms. Tweed was Hot Dog The Movie!
I miss video stores . Streaming is not exciting
I was a university student (Canada) in the early 1990s. Our big video rental chain was Jumbo Video.
A successful Friday night for me would include getting a six pack of beer (hopefully), some groceries enough to make sandwiches or pizza, and a stop at Jumbo for some video rentals.
As part of their circus theme, Jumbo Video had big old fashioned popcorn machines, operating all the time. The smell permeated the store.
Little paper bags were stacked by these machines, and popcorn was free as you browsed the videos.
Broke-ass starving students would browse on Fridays and fill up on popcorn for as long as possible.
Fond memories indeed. I'm not complaining, I promise.
Blockbuster R.I.P.
Blockbuster videos is still open in Bend, Oregon
Blockbuster deserves to reopen its 9,000 locations
Typical monopolistic thinking. Instead of opening their own stores and renting movies and making even more money, the movie studios try to stop anyone else from doing it.
Ive still got my membership card😢
I’m used to go blockbuster back in 1986 when I’m was a 9 year old….
I worked for the company that serviced the blockbuster rental machines you would see outside stores. They represented the death nail for BB . They competed with their own name. The machines were not as reliable as redbox dispensers . They sucked . Hated working on them. Really, it was NCR buying out an existing manufacturer of these, licensing the BB name, and slap them up everywhere. It was a really stupid investment . Ncr didn't see that everything would be streaming soon.
fun fact: I still rent and buy DVDs. I only buy DVDs of movies that I like. nothing like 'actually leaving' home to walk into a video rental and smell the ambiance. ...and yes I do stream movies (mostly live sports) as well
Betamax rocked back in my great grandfathers day
Betamax was late 70s to early 80s. You must be three and it was your grandfather that remembers it.
@@gryphenicedancer8796Thinking the same thing. This family was getting married when they were twelve...
It may seem like it, but 1985 was not a hundred years ago😂
@@TheMollyPitcherssorry great am 23 sorry sir plz forgive me..
😝🫸🏻🫷🏻🍿🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I used to work for Blockbuster.
Wait, we still have a BlockBuster in our town.
Eureka, California. I guess it is gonna close soon. 😮
Welp, we ski in Bend, guess I’ll check it out this winter!
like idk i used to work at blockbuster and to this day i love recomending movies to ppl
Does nobody remember the failed experiment of Blockbuster Music ?
I think it is very sad I wish people could help and they could stay open,I life is getting ruined,history in blockbuster they should stay open
I almost want to open an 80’s era arcade next to this place
We'll be there to play some Asteroids.
we needed a bag of popcorn because there were so many movies to choose from
Fond memories of my 60's and 70's.
Watching this documentary really makes me miss cussing out the poor cashiers who had to ring up my late fees.
-the Troll
I have an overwhelming urge to go over there and clean all their computers.
I really enjoyed that :)
So glad to hear that. Thanks for watching!
I’m going to talk to my mother. That is clearly my long-lost brother at 34:44
Lloyd Kaufman is like an R-rated Mel Brooks
At Jumbo video, they had free popcorn. Free popcorn. Think about that.
I was wondering if that was a chain or just something in my small town. I remember when Jumbo video went down (some say they were bought by blockbuster but not continued) the jumbo video in my town turned into a wimpys diner and for the first little while u could smell the popcorn from the jumbo video.
Should've been more from Lloyd.
Sandy really is an All Star.
Remember a £1 fee if you returned a video without rewinding the tape
"Be Kind, Rewind!"
We in Australia 🇦🇺 got to buy GARGANTUAN BAGS of POPCORN…just like they do in American 🇺🇸 movies 🍿 too lol 😝 😅nice ✌️
It was the last place where you don’t take home the actual video slip
When Sandy was cleaning the dvds that was the incorrect way to do so. When cleaning a dvd you need to wipe in straight lines (not in a circular motion) sorry to be pedantic but knowing this information could save your dvds.
Blockbuster actually had the opportunity to purchase Netflix but they said no
😢
go on Sandi
It was the last video place here that didn’t let you take home the actual video slip
About to order from the Facebook page blockbuster tye dye shirt yeahhh
Looks like Sandi and her husband had their kids at a young age
People still watch John oliver?😊
Who?
Any chance of an update video? Is it still there or did Covid kill blockbuster?
Looking online, the Blockbuster in Bend, OR appears to have survived Covid and still be open. It has even become kind of a tourist destination😀
Search on youtube (blockbuster bend), they made new commercial in february 2023
Yeah. It has the whole last store nostalgia thing going for it. It's going probably going get stronger in time. Considering how much Gen z loves the '90s my Era.
Lol i know what a floppy disk is but im 28
Sorry, but subtitles are not in sync!
Uau
VHS 📼 ? OR BETA 📼 ?
NO WAY BETA WAS DEAD BEFORE IT BEGAN!! 🤣👍🏻
Sorry, I only rent via Prime....
I miss these stores , getting everything from a device or app is lame & boring
PEDOWOOD movies. No thanks.
is this illegal because CZcams is showing me this things $11 to watch on CZcams