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I remember my first visit to Videodrome when I was passing through Atlanta and feeling like I was a kid in a Blockbuster for the first time in 20 years. I would love to live nearby and just rent a new movie every day. This place deserves to be preserved.
I guarantee I rented every "Heroic Bloodshed" movie that the old "Movies Worth Seeing" carried! I remember those guys working there. Good God where did the time go??
Digital media/streaming services are so disappointing. Like you mentioned, purchased films can be deleted from the cloud anytime, and movies frequently move between platforms or disappear entirely due to contract changes. The biggest problem to me is there's no way to recommend something different than your usual preferences. This is why rental stores like Videodrome are essential, they provide organization and variety.
I've been a Videodrome customer for 20 years! Every time I walk in I see so many things I'd love to watch it can be hard to narrow it down to 2 or 3 to rent. I come home genuinely excited to watch a movie. When I doomscroll netflix or another streaming app for 20 minutes I struggle to find anything that I actually want to watch.
I've been going to VideoDrome since 2005 and I've told... all my friends about it, and taken many as well. I love it, I love the staff, I love the vibes, the atmosphere, the collection. John, Tommy, and Matt are all awesome, as well as the other staff. They all have passions for film and cinema and just overall visual arts and stuff, and they all, always have awesome suggestions and and they know their stuff, soooo well. I've been going damn near 20 years, and if we're all lucky, we'll be able to go for another 20.
Odd for a place that rents videos to not understand that streaming services are basically renting out films. Yes, you don't own them, the same way you don't own a film you rented from a physical store. The difference if you pay a monthly fee and can watch as much as you want instead of renting per film. I have always found that argument of not owning the film so strange. People also disparage the cost of streaming services, but I remember the new movies in 2000 costing 3$ to rent. Adjusted for inflation, that's 5.50$ now. Watch one new movie every other week, and one older, cheaper the other weeks for 1$ (1.82 today) and that's more than the cost of a streaming service (14$+). I often enjoyed walking around a video store, even though I would sometimes take a while to find films that interested me. It sometimes annoying me, but over-all it wasn't too bad. I still buy physical media, usually from the Criterion Collection (purchased The Human Condition and Ikiru recently), but I have to admit that streaming is just better over-all as a consumer as I only watch maybe 1 out of 50 films a second time anyway. I hope physical media survives, but I think some of the arguments people give for it is tearing down streaming instead of focusing on the strengths of physical media, like it having the highest possible quality, having behind-the-scenes vignettes, and the ability to loan out the film (or re-sell if you want to).
I lived in Atlanta for many years, and I visited Videodrome a million times looking for hard to find films. Side note: No Hard Feelings was really funny.
These cultural hubs, enclaves, little portals to the imagination, I miss them. You don't meet fellows online in the same way. Imagine a place like this which also has comics, books, video games. I see they have some toys and knick knacks ... you don't need more than that.
This video made me miss home. I’m from Atlanta. I always loved this place. I recently moved to Colorado. And there is no place like Videodrome here, and I miss that vibe.
