Bye bye, Blockbuster

5 comments April 8th, 2009

Over at Salon.com, Mike Madden writes about how the once-mighty Blockbuster’s days are numbered  – and he explains why there’s no reason to feel bad about this…

Walking into a Blockbuster, even in its glory days, meant you hadn’t managed to come up with anything more exciting to do that night than rent some mainstream Hollywood crap you somehow missed in the theaters. “Make it a Blockbuster night” may have been its marketing slogan, but somehow the vibe in the place made it feel like nothing more than a clever way to say “Admit defeat, loser.” Every one of the stores was, and still is, exactly the same: all electric blue and canary yellow, with dizzyingly bright walls, trailers for months-old action flicks playing loudly on overhead TV screens and a few surly employees behind the counter.

Think you hate Blockbuster? These people hate it even more. (The language gets a bit salty in the comments, because these folks are angry!)