Yes but who else is there! (Blockbuster)

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Product:	Blockbuster
Date:	20/12/01 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: Goodish selection, Carpet munching

Disadvantages: Lots of hyped crap, Wiffy carpet

Our Blockbusters is like an old boxing champion that’s its dated, sweaty and smelly with what looks like an old blood stain on the carpet from the last cash till robbery. Videos are being squeezed to make way for DVDs for whom only one in ten people have a player.
Playstation and Nintendo are also surprisingly being crammed into the dusty corner, as the ROM disc becomes the rage.

Your top of the range films for Christmas like Bridget Jones and The Shriek are 3.75 for a one-night rental. You must bring em back the following day before the store closes or in the night box by 11pm.If you don’t then there is no mercy as you cop a fine of a pound up.
The next grade of rental is 3.50 for big films not considered worthy of their extremely rigged top twenty chart.
Any movie suitably hyped is bunged in there regardless of how many copies its sold or how good it is.
Three fifties usually are foreign or soft porno’s that generally make their money from husbands on the day of as they get off. Not on the foreign films of course.

The three-pound section is for films on the way down from the above categories or straight to video fare from Kenneth Branaugh and lottery movies.
I remember the ginger headed spoof film critic Dennis the Pennis catching the thespian outside a trendy LA restaurant with a witty comment.
“Kenneth, you have a film out today”.
Branagh”have you seen it yet!”.
Pennis” maybe i will catch it on video next week”, they really should bring that guy back.

The cheapest and best value films tend to be in the world section where you have any number of brilliant European award winning movies for two or three quid on release. Its well worth flicking through your film book to see if any a worth a look as you are rarely disappointed by this hidden shelf.

The in-flight magazine is vulgarly bias to their own products and isn’t even worth considerin
g for a pointer to a rental. Their website is even worse for that as every single film is talked up to Star Wars standards.
Occasional they have a cut out discount stamp to make average blockbusters worth renting. But that’s all it has to offer.

Talking of discounts, they some times send members or householder “Premium Cards” that give you deals like rent one get a cheaper rental free or a quid of here and fifty pence of there. But a strange thing happens when you make the most of them as they mysteriously disappear.
The last three I had were there one minute and gone the next.
Now im very careful with things like this and im sure the staff are trained with slight of hand to extract them furtively when you have run up so much.
Any other renters out there, who have had the same problem, we may be on to something here.

Video games are a done more on a weekly deal although i have only ever rented once there. The staff are a pleasant mix of students and firm buffs who very rarely tip you off about a film worth watching. Doesn’t matter how much you schmooze them they just say it’s not bad.
One did suggest I watch “Duce Biggallo” though i politely declined on the preemies that Jonathon Ross said it was distinctly average with bells on.

The hard part with video stores is finding out if a film is good or bad. This is one of the reasons sites like dooyoo can be very valuable to the folks who don’t believe the hype in that industry. Just by reading the dust covers though you can discover a few clues.
Ignore review’s comments splashed all over the place from Maxim, Empire or those mens magazines. A lot of those so-called magazine journalists are heavily bribed with free stuff through the post plus God knows what else to talk up crap.
The Sunday Mirror guy will apparently hype anything if the money is right.

The trick is for film and productions and video rele
asing PR people to cut out what they need from reviews.”This film was great big pile of s**t”. Just cut out the.”This film was great”and there you have it direct from the horses mouth.
I am of course talking about,”The Red Planet” if you were confused.
If a movie has the broadsheet titles on the back then it’s more likely to be watchable and worthy.

Membership is easy with two pieces of id need with your name and home address on it.I used a bank statement and my driving permitt.You get a nice plastic coated membership and smile as you are free to rent straight away.
As theres only Titles as a rival with the ever decreasing little independent as opposition then we have little choice on value and selection anyhow.I find it weird that both Blockbusters and Titles put their prices up in the same week.

Gone are the days when you had a local video shop for local people, will have no shouting here, just down the road. You knew once you got to know the boss you could rent those almost hardcore porno’s that showed everything but the banned stuff, with the occasional exciting lapse.
But laws are slowly being relaxed and we are almost there with the risky stuff in Blockbusters and the like.

If you rent something in Blockbusters like the Erotica series or Eros its all plastic breasts and sex to violins and sloppy music. But recently they have started showing women masturbating and touching their erect loveflaps.
Theres obviously no “money shots”(male ejaculations) yet quite rightly. Lesbian’s scenes to go just short of the tongue on the naughty bits, But it cant be far away.
But they are not in the least bit erotic with classics like Wildthings”still doing the business in that department…..Zippppppp.
We ll a guys got to do what a guys got to do.

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