The Last Blockbuster

1091 Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): December 15, 2020

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filmnerdwifeApr 1, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Last Blockbuster fell flat of my expectations. Rather than a documentary about the video rental era, it was nostalgia gone wrong. This documentary was a 90 minute filler of comedians and musicians telling bad jokes and doing corny bits. It was not heart felt, it was not funny and I definitely didn't learn much. All of the film's interesting points were quickly brushed aside so Doug Benson could tell another lame joke. The documentary briefly touched on revenue sharing, the Lehman Brothers, and Lloyd Kaufman. These shining moments should have been expounded on and I think there was a more interesting story to tell. Blockbuster was a giant corporation that forced independent video stores out of business, they sanitized and censored what movies were available for rental, and film makers like Lloyd Kaufman couldn't get their films into a Blockbuster. And then in a turn of poetic justice, Blockbuster crashed and burned mostly due to having too much debt during the 2008 recession. This debt was serviced by the Lehman Brothers, who we all know, bit the big one during the recession. Amidst these odds, one plucky store makes it to the end... in a world of streaming excess. Now this is the story that should have been told. In summary, the last Blockbuster was a painful slog through bad puns, jokes, and gimmicks by a bunch of washed up comedians who haven't been relevant since Blockbuster was in its heyday. If you are looking for a rush of nostalgia...watch the I love decades series instead. NO STARS!… Expand

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JLuis_001Mar 28, 2021

I was born in 1990. For that reason, through my childhood and adolescence I've been experiencing most of the big technological changes that have occurred in the last 20 years.

I had a walkman, a cd walkman, then iPods and not to mentionI was born in 1990. For that reason, through my childhood and adolescence I've been experiencing most of the big technological changes that have occurred in the last 20 years.

I had a walkman, a cd walkman, then iPods and not to mention countless different cell phones.

Obviously the same thing happened with films.
I had my VCR and I had a lot of VHS cassettes, after that the DVD, and so on.

So of course I visited Blockbuster several times. And I have a lot of good memories of that, but frankly it's just that, memories.

They say current generations have it all easier, and just a click away, and it's true, but you know what? I don't miss it. At all.

I'm still a fervent believer in the physical format. In anything. Movies, music and books. I had a Kindle and never used it.
But the commodity of what streaming means, and especially the Internet, has opened doors for us that we would never have thought of.
Especially when it comes to cinema, and how it has been ensured that we can consume films from all over the world with such ease.

So this documentary is just nostalgia, the good kind, I don't deny it, but it's still just nostalgia.
And basically everyone involved repeats the same thing until the end.
It was really good for a moment, but as in everything, you have to move on.… Expand

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