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This is exactly why I miss the old, neighborhood, mom-and-pop DVD-rental store. The place near my apartment back in the early-2000s pretty much never removed an

This is exactly why I miss the old, neighborhood, mom-and-pop DVD-rental store. The place near my apartment back in the early-2000s pretty much never removed anything from the shelves, so you could find almost any movie ever made. You just had to wipe the dust off some of them.

cromka 3y ago
Any movie ever made in the US, that is…
- jfoutz 3y ago
  It depended. I mean, nobody's going to have everything. It wasn't too hard to come by _man bites dog_ or _run lola run_. European art house stuff. A different place had a deep Spanish selection. In my part of the u.s. southwest, Bollywood, Japan and Korea were under-represented. I'd imagine different proprietors had different tastes. See something they liked, if it rented, look for more of that flavor.
killjoywashere 3y ago
If you can erase the past, you can control the population by influencing their collective memory.
- text0404 3y ago
  are you implying that the collapse of mom and pop DVD rental stores is part of a plot to manipulate society?
  - rakoo 3y ago
    The collapse of rent-what-you-want has definitely helped the rise of rent-what-we-want
  - TMWNN 3y ago
    Maybe not directly. But killjoywashere makes an interesting point. My understanding, for example, is that the official Saturday Night Live clips on YouTube have been silently edited to remove "problematic" skits.
addled 3y ago
Same, except the one in my hometown hadn't even thrown out the VHS tapes yet. There were still aisles full of early 80s movies in their faded, original edition boxes that had probably been there since the store first opened. I remember finding "Breakin'" (the original, not Electric Boogaloo) in like 2003 when I was still in high school. The owner was a pretty cool dude, I remember apologizing for returning some cheesy sci-fi flick really late after forgetting I had it. He capped my late fees to one day and said "Don't worry about it, you're the only one who ever rents that."
- jimt1234 3y ago
  You had me at "Breakin'". That owner is the coolest guy in your hometown. LOL
jeeeb 3y ago
You can rent movies online though. Steaming catalogs are a moving target but online rental catalogs usually have most stuff available. You also don’t need to drive down to the store and risk getting a scratched up disk that skips over a key scene when renting online. To go back to the OP’s example, Prime has Taking Care of Business available for rental for about $5: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Business-James-Belushi/dp/B004JRWKH6 https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Business-James-Belushi/dp...

cromka 3y ago

Any movie ever made in the US, that is…

jfoutz 3y ago
It depended. I mean, nobody's going to have everything. It wasn't too hard to come by _man bites dog_ or _run lola run_. European art house stuff. A different place had a deep Spanish selection. In my part of the u.s. southwest, Bollywood, Japan and Korea were under-represented. I'd imagine different proprietors had different tastes. See something they liked, if it rented, look for more of that flavor.

killjoywashere 3y ago

If you can erase the past, you can control the population by influencing their collective memory.

text0404 3y ago
are you implying that the collapse of mom and pop DVD rental stores is part of a plot to manipulate society?
- rakoo 3y ago
  The collapse of rent-what-you-want has definitely helped the rise of rent-what-we-want
- TMWNN 3y ago
  Maybe not directly. But killjoywashere makes an interesting point. My understanding, for example, is that the official Saturday Night Live clips on YouTube have been silently edited to remove "problematic" skits.

addled 3y ago

Same, except the one in my hometown hadn't even thrown out the VHS tapes yet. There were still aisles full of early 80s movies in their faded, original edition boxes that had probably been there since the store first opened. I remember finding "Breakin'" (the original, not Electric Boogaloo) in like 2003 when I was still in high school. The owner was a pretty cool dude, I remember apologizing for returning some cheesy sci-fi flick really late after forgetting I had it. He capped my late fees to one day and said "Don't worry about it, you're the only one who ever rents that."

jimt1234 3y ago
You had me at "Breakin'". That owner is the coolest guy in your hometown. LOL

jeeeb 3y ago

You can rent movies online though. Steaming catalogs are a moving target but online rental catalogs usually have most stuff available. You also don’t need to drive down to the store and risk getting a scratched up disk that skips over a key scene when renting online. To go back to the OP’s example, Prime has Taking Care of Business available for rental for about $5: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Business-James-Belushi/dp/B004JRWKH6 https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Business-James-Belushi/dp...