Blockbuster Widescreen Petition. PLEASE READ!

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oh yeah, yer english.  nevermind then

Wow mm, I knew that people could be careless, but I didn\'t think that the majority were careless and stupid.  Wait, I did know that; but sometimes if I pretend that most of the world is inhabited by logical people I tend to breathe a little better.

humans = dumb animals

need i say more?

Let Blockbuster do what they want.  They are retards and they provide a service for retards...  I would not even be surprised if they start running a short bus service so that people don\'t have to drive there..

I signed you\'re thing.  I don\'t rent from blockbuster anyways, every freakin time I go to get a movie they aint got it..  Damn it costs just a little bit more to buy the damn thing....

come on now, yer being very ignorant

they provide a service.  90% of VHS new release movies, you CANNOT BUY, cause they cost over 100$.  blame the studios, not the rental store. you cant go to a store and buy these vhs movies, like say "fast and the furious".  my store alone carries 60 copies of that film.  we had over 100 copies of pearl harbor when it came out.  my franchise doesnt, BUT all of corporate BBV stores guarantee you get a copy of high profile movies, or YOU GET A FREE RENTAL COUPON for that title on yer next visit.  they do this for DVD\'s and some games too.  how is that retarded?

they charge roughly 4$ to rent a movie, and they cost a little more than that?  try 4x to 5x that much.

they charge 5$ to rent games for 5 days that you can play AND potentially complete instead of paying 50$.  how is that bad?

again, im not defending them cause im an employee, but merely because i support the rental industry.  they have saved me LOADS of money from purchasing crap games and movies.   if it wasnt BBV, then someone else like hollywood would be in thier shoes.  would you hate them instead

like i said before, if yer gonna hate on blockbuster video, then you have to hate on EVERY major corporation out there, like Microsoft, pepsi, macdonalds, etc etc

Agreed MM I hate all Corporations!!!!!  :clown:

Well back in the day when I rented VHS Blockbuster was great..

Now what the hell is VHS again..  I have not watched a VHS tape in a long time...  Maybe some underground pr0n I got, but thats about it..  LOL

I hear ya and you make a good argument, I am just basically venting cause of my past experiences with Blockbuster not having what I want.  And its not like it was a hard movie to carry, just my luck every time I went they just did not have it.  Pissed me off needless to say  

But I can hear you about wasting money, cause I just bought Driven, and I ended up almost throwing the movie out the window cause it sucked so bad.  Would have been a little bit better off if I rented it.

ehhe, you said porn, errr pr0n  

driven did suck, bad

if it was an old movie, i feel yer pain
im into old samurai films, like "zatoichi" or "lone wolf and cub", or anything with Toshiro Mifune and they dont carry them anymore

blockbuster as a whole is moving away from BSI [basic store inventory].  it costs them more to keep them on the shelf than it does for the 3-4 times a year rental income.  i would assume all the major rental companies will follow this practice

another factor is viewer patterns.  society is moving away from "classic" filmmaking.  they would rather watch "flash in the pan" movies like titanic, armageddon, or pearl harbor than classics like poseiden adventure, 2001, or tora!tora!tora!

its sickening sometimes.  the other day we had a box set of "charlie chaplin" films on sale at work, and a black gentleman asked to see it, not knowing what it was.  he asked me after a few seconds of puzzlement what it was.  i told him a brief summary of who chaplin was and what he did for the film industry as im  a big fan of his

"oh, that be that dumb sh1t where they dont be talking and sh1t"

that was his exact response.  needless to say, i rolled my eyes and walked away.

or how about when i went to see "life is beautiful" a few years back in the theatre, and watched 3/4 of the people walked out LOUDLY *****ing that they didnt know they "had to read" and that they wanted thier money back.

i SO wanted to slap someone that night

[videoholic]

Yeah, but you can buy DVDs for 10-18 bucks a piece.  Use to be less on the internet.  You can then trade them in if you want so you don\'t end up much worse than renting.

Originally posted by mm
they are just a major corporation doin the best it can to make itself bigger.  just like micro$oft, mcdonalds, alcoa, ENRON, etc etc

Just like Kirath said, I hate those corporations TOO!

I understand your point about BBV bringing standardization and a few new features like video game rentals to the market, but they\'ve done a lot more harm than good.  

I\'m fortunate that I live in Hollywood where there\'s a huge base of true cinema fans that actually do support the remaining independent neighborhood video stores.  I can go to Rocket video a few blocks from where I live and browse their unbelievable collection of Hong Kong action films and imported Wim Wenders films (for example).  If I lived in some place like Trailer Hitch, Texas, I\'d be SOL!  No independent video stores can survive a market like that with 2-3 Blockbuster retailers within 20 miles.

I know it\'s hopeless to try to stop the homogenization of world culture being brought on by entertainment corporations like BBV, but I can\'t help getting pissed off about it.  I\'ll stop complaining now.

its not the corps doing it, its the sheep, errr the consumers buying it

Guys guys guys.  Its just the bottom and tops of movies here, geez.  Who honestly cares whether you miss the little bit of extra scenery, and who honestly notices halfway through the movie, "Oh my god!  The black bars on this movie are awesome!"  Seems like such a trivial thing to be petitioning about.

trivial?

widescreen = filmmakers work is shown.
fullscreen = cropped = bastardized

Originally posted by mm
trivial?

widescreen = filmmakers work is shown.
fullscreen = cropped = bastardized

Oh come oooooonnnn :rolleyes: Bastardization?  So all those filmakers before DVD\'s were out were just so mad that their extra 3 inches of desert/sky/ocean/wallpaper didnt make it into the home video version? I bet.

there have ALWAYS been widescreen VHS films ya know

if u made something, would u like it edited?  or presented in its intended format?

its like an artist painting a 4\' x 4\' painting when only 3\' x 3\' will be actually shown

you honestly tell me which version you\'de rather watch

where\'s han?



oh yeah, there he is


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Originally posted by Ghettomath
Guys guys guys.  Its just the bottom and tops of movies here, geez.  Who honestly cares whether you miss the little bit of extra scenery, and who honestly notices halfway through the movie, "Oh my god!  The black bars on this movie are awesome!"  Seems like such a trivial thing to be petitioning about.

With a thunderous cry, the sheep have spoken, and the sad oppressed minority who actually know what the hell they\'re talking about are once more dragged down to the lowest common denominator.