Video stores aren't dead...there's one like 1/2 mi. down the road from me and they still do just fine and dandy.

Well, I haven't seen a Blockbuster in ages. It's all Red Box and Netflix.


http://www.thewire.com/entertainment...o-store/71324/

Wanna say all remaining blockbusters are independently owned.

Blockbuster may have shuttered as a national company, but the store near me is a Family Video, and they really do seem to be thriving.

I know of a city that had a drive-in theater too in recent years. Overall however, video stores and drive-in theaters are passé, and standard movie theaters could be next.

LOL, with the probably billions or even tens of billions the worldwide box office brings to Hollywood in profits every year? I think not. :o

I didn't say it was going to happen today.

Great comeback. Seriously, it's not going to happen ever. That's like suggesting Las Vegas will one day fail to exist. It won't. Vegas and Hollywood have both mastered the fine art of making gambling and the theater experience so addictive and alluring to people that they will never have to worry about having at least several hundred billion dollars at least probably to use to shamelessly promote and hype themselves in perpetuity.

I'm not in some "battle of insults" with you, so the "great comeback" line was not needed.


How long do you really think people are going to keep rewatching the same story over and over again? There are soon going to be two remakes of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and two reboots of "Predator" all within ten years. Human beings aren't stupid. They're going to see exactly what Hollywood is doing and they're going to get tired of it.



I can tell you're from a small-town. Only in rural U.S.A. do I still see those Mom-and-Pop video stores that went out of style for the rest of the country in the 1990's when Blockbuster put them out of business. In any case, small-towners are typically (and literally) thirty years behind the rest of the world and refuse to change with the times.



Survival of the fittest is out here, DAMN. Blockbuster killed the Mom-and-Pop locally owned video stores, then Netflix and Redbox killed Blockbuster and thus killing video stores for the majority of Americans. You really think most modern Americans want to deal with late fees or having to travel back and fourth to a video store and perhaps deal with bad traffic and possibly have to stand in a long line when they can get their entertainment from the comfort of their own home?


Top-rated entertainment is within a few clicks away on Netflix, Amazon Instant, and Time Warner on demand. Illegally downloading movies off the net is a hobby for too many people too.




Movie theaters could very well be next on the endangered species list. Waiting until films are available to rent saves time and money, people have TV's today that are so epic, it's like having your own theater, watching movies at home means you can pause the film whenever you have to take a piss and by watching films at your house, you also don't have to deal with obnoxious motherfuckers talking during the movie or laughing loudly forever at stuff that isn't funny. Some people are so obsessed with the internet and texting that theaters have to advertise against using cellphones. Not going at all takes care of that problem for some people.





I hope you can accept 2015 culture someday. Until then, have fun partying like it's 1985.

You know what else people thought would go the way of the dodo? Radio and television. Yet one is about 115 years old and still going strong, and the other is pushing 90, both with no end in sight.

People also thought record albums ("vinyl" ones) were dead 25-30 years ago, too, yet it, a technology which is around 135 years old, is now experiencing a resurgence in popularity.

Muskets from the United States Civil War are still around too. I didn't type movie theaters would be erased. I can see them becoming a novelty one day like those diners that have 1950's themes to them.