What do miss about going to the local video stores?
The "Be Kind Rewind" stickers.
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Good VHS documentary.
The local video store lady who loves watching boatload of movies and can actually recommend people for the movies they would interested in. Her knowledge in movies was incredible; any genres, any directors, any countries, she watched them all. She was having the job of her dream.
I wonder how's she doing nowadays after the store was closed long ago.
I had a local video store owner just like yours. She was great! Turned me onto a lot of movies that have become my favourites ever since.
We became very friendly. Kept in touch for a while after she closed the store, but have since lost touch. I hope she's doing well.
Buying stacks of ex-rental VHS tapes.
Browsing the covers.
Under the counter video nasties. Ssshhhh !
Th unique, unmistakable smell. And as someone else mentioned, the used VHS section.
I remember as a teenager how excited I was to find a copy of "Summer of Sam." Loved that movie!
The box art (which was misleading about 50% of the time for horrors)
A lot of the artwork was better than the movies!
I agree.
Some of the standees were epic.
They were cool
I loved so many of the posters too
Its probably a bit pricey to collect them but it would be great material to decorate with
I've got a couple of movie posters, given to me by the manager of a local video store. One is huge, pretty well dominates the wall on which it's centered.
shareI only have 2...Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back
Both are repros though so they were very cheap
Which do you have?
This is the big one: https://moviechat.org/tt0104691/The-Last-of-the-Mohicans
This is the other one: https://moviechat.org/tt0108061/The-Sea-Wolf
Very cool!
LOTM was a great movie
Never even heard of SeaWolf...i will add it to my ever expanding list👍
I agree,the artwork sometimes wasn't anything to do with the actual movie,Embalmed(1983)for example. Hand coming out of grave like a zombie movie but it wasn't.
shareOh man it was frustrating!
Ive read that they often just hired some artist who often enough had nothing to do with the production and just gave him a vague idea!
Those covers were really hit or miss...its kind of funny looking back
You never knew what youd get in the horror section!
Reminds me of the cover for that killer snowman movie "Jack Frost". The cover scared me as a child it was holographic and if you held it one way it had a normal snowman and at the top it said "He's chillin'..." then if you turned it the other way it turned into a scary snowman and it said "...and killin'" so that scared me and I built it up in my head for a long time. Finally I get a chance to watch it and I'm all excited and it turns out to be this stupid B-movie comedy. At one point this guy goes outside smoking a cigarette and Jack Frost asks for a smoke, the guy looks around, then Jack Frost shoves an axe down his throat and kills him. Then he says "Gee, I only axed you for a smoke.". That was when I gave up on any hope of it being an actually scary movie.
shareThat was one of the worst movies i ever seen.
shareYeah. Just walking down the aisles taking everything in, looking over the DVD boxes.
shareHello AngularTurnip,
we had something similar here in Germany: When you forgot to rewind the tape, it could cost you 1 Deutsche Mark... unless you were a regular customer and the personnel knew you ;-)
When the EURO was replaced the Mark, they simply said, now you have to pay 1 EURO (= 1,95583 Deutsche Mark, as the official exchange rate was).
Booo!!
But nowadays I'd rather pay that extra fee, just to get the old feeling again - these stores had something very special. I loved it! (Especially the smaller ones, which didn't belong to any "chain" like "World of Video")...
When the first DVDs began to replace the cassettes on the shelves, I thought the business would just go on as before, with the new media; but still they went out of business, one by one (I think the kind of store isn't "extinct", as yet, but "critically endangered", that's for sure ;-)
In pre-internet times this was one of the few places where you always could find someone with whom you could have a good talk about movies, actors, directors, etc. etc.
Kind regards
Andreas (123all4me)