the spouse joked that i should start a movie rental store and folks
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@Thatonepersonwithaface i feel more and more there’s frustrating with streaming services charging more and still including ads
and there’s always the older clientele that just don’t have the patience for getting the services
i think there might be something here
@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 -
@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
