Sigh. We had two really awesome video rental places nearby that survived until around 2008. They always had all the good indie and classic films from decades ago, but at some point in the 2000s people just stopped returning the rarer vids. I remember calling every video rental store in the area looking for Kids and Gummo and being pissed off because people who rented those movies usually just kept them and never came back.

I stopped going after the locals spots started offering to sell you a rental if it wasn't a new release or if it was a VHS (even if it was not released on DVD yet!). Not that I didn't like new releases, but sometimes you just want to watch something like Commando but you don't want to add it to your collection because maybe you'll watch it once every ten years or so. Then you go to the store and there's no Commando available because someone snatched it up. That ruined the concept of video rental for me. I would just end up ranting with the clerk for like an hour about good movies and rental blues, then head home empty handed.

Now I have Netflix -- but it doesn't even have a comment section any more. Oh well, IMDB boards ftw.

You have been brainwashed by their system. It is NOT a privilege to use their card, it is a requirement.

The banks have made it so that the card has replaced tangent legal tender. Many businesses don't even accept cash anymore. they have made us reliant on the bank to do everything. we can't even pay our bills any more without the bank. All local services have closed their doors to bill payments, we have been forced to pay through the banks. And you can't even access your account anymore, even at the teller, without your card.

The "Card" is not a privilege, it has been instituted into everything we do. Online shopping is part of that. Even my fourteen-your-old daughter has been forced to use a visa-debit card by the bank to force her into online shopping. Many products and services can now 'only' be bought using these online-debit cards. Things like video rentals, Theater and concert tickets and more. Many stores don't bring in their full selection anymore because they make it available on-line instead.

Trust me, get rid of your credit an debit card and you'll see how crippled you are without them.
I repeat, NOT a privilege,a REQUIREMENT.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:


Banks will charge consumers directly for transaction fees now - or (as BoA is doing) they will charge a yearly fee for the priveledge of a debit card.

>> ^Sagemind:

So, get rid of the video rental stores (Block-Buster here is now gone) and make sharing illegal at $500 per download. So what are the people with low income's supposed to do?
Looks like the corporations and their lobbyists are winning.
I guess they could riot in the streets out of boredom.


The corporations and lobbyists won a long, long time ago.

So, get rid of the video rental stores (Block-Buster here is now gone) and make sharing illegal at $500 per download. So what are the people with low income's supposed to do?
Looks like the corporations and their lobbyists are winning.
I guess they could riot in the streets out of boredom.

Ditto the good riddance sentiment.

It's pretty interesting to see the physical media rental industry coming to a close. When Netflix started it was a popular fad that before too long started seeing a bit of financial trouble. At the time I found myself figuring Netflix was an experiment that would fail and video rental stores would never go away. (In the early days of iTunes I also couldn't imagine people giving up on owning the physical property of music CDs to trade it for worthless, intangible electronic music files.)

Now here we are just a few years later and we're actually witnessing the vanishing of video rentals for the interim of rental-by-mail, which will be a placeholder as the real future of electronic delivery becomes king.

There will probably remain mom & pop video rental shops to serve small and/or poor communities where high speed Internet isn't very common, but it's quite interesting to be here on the brink of a new age.

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Good riddance. The writing has been on the wall for years that home video rental is a twilight industry. Blockbuster didn't adapt in time and continued to gorge itself on punitive late fees. They will not be missed.

Growing up during the VHS boom, I saw this box in practically every video rental place I knew... always assumed it was incredibly bad...

Watching the trailer though, I feel the production values were actually much higher than what I was expecting... I might have to find this after all. Looks kinda funny in a bad cinema sort of way.

>> ^vaporlock:
Porn has plots now. WTF


Some of them try unsuccessfully.


>> ^Shepppard:
Hah, the movie itself isn't hardcore porn..
It's more of a comedy with softcore porn bits in it. I for one think the movie is hilarious, and the slightly bad acting only adds to it.


When they didn't recoup their production costs with the hardcore release, they reedited the sex scenes to make a softcore release. With all the video rental shops that bought it, they made enough money to make a sequel.

And Yes, I am ashamed that I know that.

it can be done. I am commenting here as a witness. Congratulations, ydj!
If you wanna go a step further, I have been living broadcast-tv free for 5 years now. No antenna, no cable. Nada. I rent movies when I wanna watch them. Yes, from a video rental place in a building, where you have to say hi to someone to rent something.
yeay for change, AND for control, no?

this film is special for me, as it holds the title of the worse film i've ever seen. It's the closest ive ever come to asking for a refund from the video rental shop.

couldnt watch it all, after 30 minutes is was a fast forward job.

Seriously, for those who have not seen this, you should run out to the local video rental place and pick it up. Hell, if you can find it buy it, its well worth it.