A trip to the last Blockbuster on Earth
It all felt worth it when we caught a glimpse of the glowing yellow Blockbuster sign in the distance.
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It all felt worth it when we caught a glimpse of the glowing yellow Blockbuster sign in the distance.
The Bend, Ore., Blockbuster is like a museum for movie fans.
The rentals are still reasonably priced: New releases cost $3.99 and older DVDs are just 99 cents. And these days, nobody complains about late fees.
In 2023 I set a goal of watching as many movies as possible, in particular a lot of classics I’d never seen before. While I fell far short of watching one film a day, I did manage to watch a total of 234 different films in 2023 (and a few I saw more than once). Partially inspired by British film director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Baby Driver), I decided to log every film I watched. At the end of each year Wright posts to Instagram a list of all the films he watched in the previous 12 months.
While the streaming wars seemed intent on killing physical media, Barry Hertz reports on the heartening new signs that discs will live to spin another day