Why We Need Video Rental Stores - FLICK TRIP 

Enjoy the new Flick Trip episode! This video was recorded back in March, sorry it took so long. Leave a comment about your video rental store memories to win a $25 Family Video gift card, make sure to buy Sour Patch Kids and rent Over The Top with it...

This is sad. This place looks awesome. And the rental/discount deals are great.

I love how Jon has been through like 10 girlfriends in the time hes known Chris.

When I was real little I wouldn't walk by the "C's" because I was afraid of seeing Chucky.

It's the 90's again. It's a friday afternoon. I get to pick one thing, a game or a movie, and look forward to a weekend of potential awesomeness. I so miss this.

I used to use Blockbusters and Hollywood video to buy all my dvds. They had 4 for 20s all the time.

the Family Video near my house just started selling CBD.

Why is the hardest part RETURNING the movie? ITS SO HARD .... late fees

You and Stuckmann make a better romance than Twilight and Fifty Shades combined! I ship you guys so much!

I miss video stores and going there to rent movies and video games. I still collect physical media today. I remember going to the video store for my first time when I got a Nintendo and be able to rent Nintendo games, that’s how I discovered many of my favorite games like Mega Man. Also, in my early teen years, I discovered many 80s sci fi/fantasy movies by renting them.

Things Just Got Magical & Mystical

I remember renting Halloween H20 and Scream on VHS with my friends every 2 weeks or so. We would buy some candy, go home, close the curtains and watch them back to back. I was like 8 years old and was scared to walk home after we saw the movies. We would sneek into the porn section and look at the covers. Also remember renting Titanic and SW The Phantom Menace with my parents and watching them on saturdaynights. Man,some great memories.

Ohio has video rental stores and 24 drive in movie theaters. It's so awesome

I love your videos. They always make me feel nostalgic

Yeah I miss the Blocbuster experience. Some of you know what Im talking about. I agree Netflix kind of took that away but I still love owning my own HARD COPIES of films. Not stream.

I am very lucky to still have an incredible rental store called Movie Madness. I’m in heaven when I walk in, and there is such a great selection too. I love it. Glad to see that there are still some rental stores in business.

I want to cry, this brought so many memories back :')

I went to a rental store on a date way before Netflix and chill. Omg how time flies and it didn't even seem that long ago.

This generation doesn't know all the things that they're missing know when the Internet eliminated a lot of these playbourne I guess now you would call them nostalgia throw backs

Renting movies reminds me of when I started dating my wife in high school in 2005. We went to Hollywood video, probably renting exclusively rom-coms, and did the OG "Netflix and chill". As a kid, I'd go into West Coast Video and Blockbuster and walk the horror aisle to get scared by the cover art. Also I can't believe Chris hasn't seen Wes Craven's New Nightmare. That's a very solid movie.

The local Family Video's in my neighborhood put season one of my show The Deadersons on their shelves to rent! It was so cool!! Life achievement unlocked! :D

We have a Family Video here in Olathe, KS! Its phenomenal! Always try and go there at least a few times a month. Free movies for kids is a bonus!

"How good it feels to hold a movie." *HOLDS GOTTI*

I think the loss of DVD and rental culture in terms of movies has really changed our appreciation of the medium. When a film can sit on a shelf like a possession or a collectable, it seems so much more valuable than when its simply an electronic file or such like on Netflix. I used to love collecting my favourite box sets and devouring a set of TV shows/ movies. My local video store in the 90s had an aura about it, I can remember seeing videos like 'A Nightmare Before Xmas' sat in the dusty 'cupboard under the stairs' part of the store and it provided a spooky atmosphere that enticed me to watch it. Movies like that were imprinted in my memory. Nowadays, we are a binge watch, 'watch it once and forget it' culture, where old DVDs are being sold in charity shops for 50p and that video shop culture is quickly fading. It's why Vinyl records have made a comeback, partly because of hipsters but also because the vinyl record is an experience, an almost painterly canvas sized appreciation of the artist's music, rather than an MP3 or Spotify stream with little lasting impression. Even CDs went out of fashion, partly from digital downloads, but because for many they didn't live up to the epicness of a vinyl record, both in sound and imagery.

I thought Video Rental Stores everywhere were extinct.. I miss Blockbusters so much :(

The friday night video store visit was honestly the best feeling in the world!

R.I.P. Family Video. They shut down forever this month 😥

I live in Toledo, Ohio the home of Marcos Pizza and I have never seen a Marcos inside a Family Video in Toledo. Jealous.

I remember being young in the early 2000s going to Blockbuster and renting Godzilla movies all the time. Both VHS and DVD.

My friend: "Why does he seem bored? Like he's ready to go?" Me: "Eh, Chris is kinda always like that." 🙃

A local video store from my neighborhood won me a Playstation back in 97'. They were giving up coupons to win one, and I rented so many movies and Sega Genesis games that I ended up with the price... So I'll forever miss them.

Sadly the two closest to me just closed.. I loved just going around looking for the random movies I havent seen in forever.

The day i went into a family video and realized how funny it was that FAMILY video has porn yet HOLLYWOOD video does not. Never made sense to me. Guess famlies like sitting down together to watch some good ol Ron films.

The disadvantages with the rental stores would be that some of them would have one copy of the game or movie you wanted. And then you had to ask the clerk when the movie or game is returning. Those were the days.

Had a rental store near my house, and it recently closed down. R.I.P

I rented Hook maybe 10 times. Ones I discovered were Mouse Hunt, Drop Dead Fred and Mrs. Doubtfire. I remember renting T2 after seeing Salvation so through Blockbuster I saw my first R rated film. Plus a lot of the Batman animated series vhs

Fun video. I'm a big blu-ray collector & I couldn't imagine not buying physical media. It's the best!

In the mid 80s here in Canada, I remember going to a local video store to rent out VHS tapes as a kid. Then came BlockBuster, then in more recent years it was HMV. Not many places rent anymore tho.

I applaud your video, and I genuinely love and appreciate your zeal for nostalgia, but we'll never get that back, John. It's gone dude, and I'm saying this as someone who completely agrees with you, as someone who grew up in Erol's and Blockbuster and Suncoast and movie theaters. But it was a moment in time that is lost on this generation and later ones. We have the 80s and 90s as memories and that's it. It's over. Hey, at least we can still buy physical media, because I dont know how much longer we got.....

I wish they made more videos together. Its been a while now

I remember I rented the virtual game boy at blockbuster when I was nine. Man that was the best!

Never let Family Video die

Finally! A Family Video video! Lol For "reel" though, I have a Family Video about 2 min from my house and I LOVE IT!

Ohhhhh, I felt like I walked back in time to nostalgia too. Then I decided, as a movie fan, to work there between corporate jobs. It was terrible because they made me cover my arm tattoos while my teen manager wore worn out stretch pants. They were way too conservative when most customers had tattoos. I sweated my butt off all summer and went back to a corporate job with no fear of tattoos showing (and twice the pay).

I got to meet Robert Englund at a Comic Con. He was awesome.

Family Video is my life!

Love your videos John! Love your collabs with Chris as well

It’s great to see people appreciating Family Video. I have one in my town that I’ve been going to all my life and it’s still thriving! Btw, that Marco’s pizza is amazing!

THEY HAVE PIZZA IN THE STORE SO COOL!!

I used to work at a blockbuster and I really miss the video store atmosphere!!

The family video in my hometown closed earlier this year. It's like a piece of my childhood disappeared and I'll never be able to experience it again. RIP Rowlett Family Video.

We have a video store in my neck of the woods (I live in south Mississippi). I love going there whenever I have the chance to.

For real I have Prime, Netflix, and Hulu and barely use them and it does get stale going through their selection. But it does help for blind buys

You can tell Chris was yearning for a little smoochie smooch. Haha

I have a family video by me I go to once in a while to relive the glory years! Back in the day hollywood video was my go to. The one by me was huge. I used to love browsing on that Friday night after school trying to pick out what to rent having the whole weekend ahead of me. Or looking at the new release booklet and waiting for that Tuesday to come for the movies I wanted to see...Blockbuster was my back up spot if Hollywood video was rented out. Miss those days.

here we are, 1 year later, and the video store news is "the video store is dead" sad times, indeed.

This is beautiful. Reminds me of the movie stores I used to visit. Thank you guys for this.

Chris and John are like Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

prayers have been answered

Chris is so adorable!!!

2:35 I see John has finally met his new girlfriend. Don't tell Chris 😂😂😂

Miss family. Mom pops. Video store. Like home. Physical meida live forever

"Holding Gotti" sounds like a euphemism

Loved going to the old style video stores that were run and operated by the Mom and Dad's of America. But the take over and over pricing from blockbuster, started to leave a bad taste in my mouth. 5.50 for one day of a brand new movie? One movie ya!!!. No wonder they crashed once Netflix came out.

I wish Blockbuster was still around so I could rent brand new video-games rather than risk £50-60 on them.

love these collabs

Everytime I see a Family Video I think, "Good for you guys...still hanging in there."

I 100% understand what they mean in this video. I miss being able to go to my local store(Blockbuster) and rent something. I just generally love watching movies. My earliest memory is walking back to my dad's car with my hands in my pocket and I fell face first into the concrete. My sister was laughing at me while my face was still face down on the concrete. My lip was swollen to the size of a carrot and I had a bloody nose and I chipped my tooth. But my ALL TIME FAVORITE memory of a rental store is I would always walk in and walk down the aisles but I would always stop in the aisle with JAWS. My mom would tell me everytime that the movie was rated R and that I was too young to see the movie. Until one day, I was 13. I had been going to blockbuster since I was 13. I had been going there like every 2ish weeks. And I walked straight to the aisle with JAWS. And for once I picked up the case and turned it over to look at the rating for the first time in 8 years since I first walked into the store. It was rated PG. I walked over to my mom and said we are getting this and she said the same thing she always said and I said look at the rating. The look on her face was PRICELESS.

I'm old enough to remember when VHS, Beta-Max, and Video Disc debuted. Our first VHS machine was top-loading, and cost about $1,300--a ton of money in the late 70's, early 80's.

I remember being an incompetent child and wanting to seek out Arnie films and remembered my friend told me he was in an alien movie but I didn't know which one... It was either Alien or Predator.. so I split the difference and rented AVP. Regrets were had that day.

I'll be waiting for the joker review

There is a video building in the state of IL. The name is Mokena Video 11225 Front St, Mokena, Illinois 60448. Currently Bob has 25,800 movies from the 1930,40,50,60,70,80,90,00,10s.

Why does Stuckman always look dead or like a zombie. He shows no emotion even when he was screaming in the intro. Kinda creepy tbh

I always thought you guys had raw sexual chemistry and after stuckmans new video it all makes sense.

Any video that references Pulp Fiction gets an automatic Like 👍 from me.

The Adventures of Flicky and Sticky (coming this fall). Back in 07' ish I broke up with my lady of 5 years. She used the "you'll never find happiness without me" line..... That weekend the insanely attractive girl at the blockbuster counter was being overly flirtatious, so I explained I was newly single and invited her over to #blockbuster and chill!!! I told her to bring a few movies, and she accepted my invite. After her shift she arrived at my house with 3 movies id never watched before. Lucky # Slevin, Hard Candy, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang! 3 badass movies, with a badass girl. Was in my early 20s then and know the experience will never be replicated due to the fall rental facilities. However that is my experience, and a memory that I'll have forever because of my connection with my favorite movie place. Great videos guys. Content is fantastic.

It's so sad seeing it so empty

My family video in Dyer, Indiana is closing this week. All blurays are $2. I just bought 50 blurays tonight. What a bargain. I feel bad for their demise, but to the victor goes the spoils. I also picked up a few ps4 games for cheap. This was our last video store in town, so it was a win, lose situation. I guess disc replay is my last resort for used movies.

that’s *so true* about the video games. I remember playing & passing the first Arkham Asylum for the week I rented it. 10:40 there they go those mythical beasts

Great Video guys 👍🏾😊. Hey, now that we are in this Pandemic, can you do a video about DRIVE-IN movie theaters ?! 😊 I believe there are a few left in the USA.

I'm glad that these two old timers got to relive their childhood.

You know you guys are right I want to see a movie tonight rush and can't get it on Netflix or on xbox I store your righr chris games cost now 70 dollars not included dlc or 70 pounds lm Irish living in in northernl Ireland super mario and is good games but there's people out there not ther cup of tea in video stores I all they had to do rent it out to see if they like it I could rent out a game or a movie for 6 pounds to see if I like it quentin tarantino can make good movies because I he and his friends work in them his friends could tell him about the movies he never saw and quentin could them about movies they never saw

For a second I was wondering why you guys were wearing heavy coats in late summer...

Why does chirs look 45 and john looks 25

Chris Stuckmann and Theflickpick- Two of my Man-Crushes.

Im actually starting a video rental/ buy and sell business. Only because pirated dvds is such a huge deal here so ppl obviously still go for them

There is still a blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. It's the last in existence.

Good video. I miss those days. I even worked in a video rental place. Definitely saw some good movies back then.

I miss going to the Video Rental Stores, simply because I was good friends with the owner and we just talk about movies for hours and it was always a great conversation.

I'm jealous. Netflix started with mailing until they killed the video store industry and then they pulled it.

One day you and Chris should head to Cinemassacre Video. I would love to see you two talk movies with James Rolfe

God I miss these so much

I work at a Family Video near my house. So thankful they still exist.

as a kid i worked at blockbuster video rental store for work experience, i loved it miss these stores :(, they should bring em back

Also, there ARE Blockbuster video stores still operating in Alaska.

We don't have a Family Video on Vancouver Island, we used to have Rogers Video about 6 years ago, but luckily our local libraries lend movies and games for FREE! (As long as you bring them back on time)

I have like 3 Family Video's by my place. Never been in them but I think now I definitely will. They look awesome.

Family Video must not be that good. The manager at ours showed up to work, locked the doors and blew his brains out in the office.

New Nightmare is pretty good

I miss video stores so much