the spouse joked that i should start a movie rental store and folks
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@hex i can tell you that one store I used to go to (about 15 years ago) would charge a $5 monthly fee for rentals, and $10 for membership buying of dvds, list price for nonmembership purchase.
I do love feeling of sifting through my options, and I've also read Generation Z is really into the blockbuster experience they missed@Thatonepersonwithaface the old rental place back at my college town did a deal where if you rented three non-new films (and had a membership) it’d be $3 for 3 nights. every film you added was an additional dollar and night (5 movies for $5 for 5 nights)
i honestly loved that and would want to do something like that
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@Thatonepersonwithaface the old rental place back at my college town did a deal where if you rented three non-new films (and had a membership) it’d be $3 for 3 nights. every film you added was an additional dollar and night (5 movies for $5 for 5 nights)
i honestly loved that and would want to do something like that
@hex I'd say it'd be right up my alley, and as I said, I know a lot of Gen Z folks who are enamoured with the concept, if you got a popcorn machine like they have at Rural King for folks browsing, I think you'd be in business.
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@hex I'd say it'd be right up my alley, and as I said, I know a lot of Gen Z folks who are enamoured with the concept, if you got a popcorn machine like they have at Rural King for folks browsing, I think you'd be in business.
@Thatonepersonwithaface i mentioned “Rural King” to my spouse to pitch this idea and her eyes lit up
heck
this could be fun
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@Thatonepersonwithaface i mentioned “Rural King” to my spouse to pitch this idea and her eyes lit up
heck
this could be fun
@hex "every David Lycnh movie comes with a three pound bag of chicken feed.
No reason, we just think he liked chickens"
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the spouse joked that i should start a movie rental store and folks
imagining an aisle that is basically “stuff you literally cannot find on streaming”
if i can get one kid to accidentally rent The Fall (2006) and fall in love with it that would honestly fill my heart so much
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@josie i want to make a wonderful weird corner like that
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imagining an aisle that is basically “stuff you literally cannot find on streaming”
if i can get one kid to accidentally rent The Fall (2006) and fall in love with it that would honestly fill my heart so much
@hex (the fall is available on mubi btw)
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@hex (the fall is available on mubi btw)
@emily_rugburn hell yeah mubi
when i first hunted it down two years ago? nowhere to be streamed. the only way i was able to see it was by buying a copy on dvd.
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imagining an aisle that is basically “stuff you literally cannot find on streaming”
if i can get one kid to accidentally rent The Fall (2006) and fall in love with it that would honestly fill my heart so much
gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex laser disc party reviews would be great
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex if you can’t trust weirdos on the internet, who can you trust?
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@hex if you can’t trust weirdos on the internet, who can you trust?
@kev right?
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
DVDs were made but idk how far it travelled outside of Ottawa.
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@emily_rugburn hell yeah mubi
when i first hunted it down two years ago? nowhere to be streamed. the only way i was able to see it was by buying a copy on dvd.
@hex i believe it was the first movie i watched after buying my mubi membership last year
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@kib i mean i also love the idea of having VHS tapes with random movies on it
why is this particular video a double feature of Toys and McHales Navy?
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
anyways i’m going to try to sleep now (toss and turn figuring out what i need to start this project)
feel free to keep posting support and maybe one day there will be a weird movie rental place in kentucky with aspirations of being a weird movie theater
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@kib i mean i also love the idea of having VHS tapes with random movies on it
why is this particular video a double feature of Toys and McHales Navy?
enjoy@hex I also always mix Toys up with Toy Soldiers, the movie where Wil Wheaton definitely thought it was gonna turn his image around
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gonna have a section called “weirdos i know on the internet think you should watch this” with recommendations from yall
@hex I cannot tell you how excited this makes me
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@courtney y’all keep giving me examples of successes gonna actually make me do something drastic - like write up a business plan or something
@hex If the path is also a theater, movie madness is owned by the nonprofit that also owns the Hollywood theater here, worth taking a look at how their membership structure and fundraising messaging works.
A lot of the Hollywood (and the Clinton, another gem in town)'s repairs and features were crowdfunded, iirc it's how the Hollywood got at least some of the $$ for their 70mm projector
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@hex I cannot tell you how excited this makes me
@MmeLibertine HA! i’ll even do the whole “Todd recommends this movie” thing old Blockbusters did but with yall avatars (with permission)
