Last Blockbuster (FULL MOVIE) Documentary, Movie Rental, Nostalgia, VHS

The Last Blockbuster is a fun, nostalgic look back at the era of video rentals and the story of how one small town video store managed to outlast a corporate giant.
Featuring interviews with comedians and celebrities with ties to Blockbuster: Adam Brody (The O.C., Jennifer’s Body), Ione Skye (Say Anything, River’s Edge), Doug Benson (Getting Doug with High, The Lego Batman Movie), Paul Scheer (The League, Veep) and director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob), with narration by Lauren Lapkus (The Wrong Missy, Orange Is The New Black).
Filmmakers Taylor Morden & Zeke Kamm follow the manager of the world’s sole remaining Blockbuster in Bend, OR, Sandi Harding, as she reflects on the store's vibrant past and navigates the difficult task of keeping a video rental store open in the era of streaming.
Taking us through the history and subsequent rise and fall of the franchise, the documentary reveals the real reason why Blockbuster went out of business (hint - it wasn’t Netflix), while celebrating the unique and defining culture it created in the ‘90s, honoring a simpler times and the sense of community that could once be found in Blockbuster locations across the world.
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[@spectre_635]

As someone who was born in the late 90s, I'm glad I was able to experience Blockbuster, at least for a short while. Every friday after school, my mom would let my brother and I pick out a movie and a game with our favorite snacks. Truly, simpler times. I'm jealous of people born in the 70s and 80s who got to enjoy that time longer than I had the chance to.

[@BOYHUNF]

Same here, was born in 98 and have great memories of going in and renting games for my gamecube. Just the simple act of going to a store, seeing a game you've never heard of before with cool box art, and just giving it a try seems so awesome today. Best part is, if the game sucked, just bring it back! Wish we could go back to that

[@FloridaManRacer]

Sandi isn't getting enough credit. She's a guardian angel of our collective past... 90's kids, young couples and old couples all have distinct memories of how Blockbuster existing made their lives more full of social interaction and entertainment. Without her passion for keeping that experience alive, we would only have the memories left. That store and her dedication leave that one seed of hope. And that one seed of hope is worth that store's weight in gold.

[@themayor6355]

I think they should work a deal to give the store to Sandi for being such a dedicated person.

[@FloridaManRacer]

@@themayor6355DirecTV owns the naming rights to the Blockbuster franchise. What needs to happen is they give her a contract in perpetuity that locks that location in using the license permanently. That way as long as she can keep it open, she can keep the name without having to do negotiations every 3-5 years...

[@sliat1981]

I feel like the owner isn’t given enough credit. He’s the one who decided to keep going and he’s hardly in this documentary. She’s the manager but he’s the owner and the one who decides keeps it open

[@Richard.oo7]

Fond memories of Blockbuster from the late 80's and early 90's. My dad would take my sister and me there on a Friday evening, he would pick one, and me and my sister would pick one between us. I still clearly remember the store now, 30 years later.

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

Those were the days...

[@jaredpower1019]

It’s because she’s a protector it’s still surviving she deserves the credit

[@lethalwolf7455]

Yes, hats off too her!

[@worldpeacearroyo8515]

There used to be plenty of "Block Busters" in my region as a child. Growing up in Puerto Rico, that was part of my childhood. Going with my parents and siblings to rent a couple of movies to watch during the weekend while eating a pizza or nice dinner made it a wholesome experience. Sandi, thank you for what you've accomplished for the sake of nostalgia & reliving joyful memories for thousands.

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

So glad you liked this!

[@L8-APEX]

Man i miss this store. Ill never forget that smell. What a great experience

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

Those were the days!

[@Funk_Reactions]

I just visited it in Bend, OR this past weekend. Just nostalgia.

[@blanca.weigel]

I miss going to blockbuster and getting all the VCR”S then DVD”s. Now you can barely find half the movies online that we used to get when I was growing up. What I wouldn’t give to physically go there.

[@cs8712]

If you want a similar fix, you can still go to your local thrift store and find stacks of VHS and DVD for next to nothing

[@mac11daddy6]

The Petsmart down the street from me used to be a Blockbuster for decades. It still crosses my mind everytime I pass it and all the time I spent there as a kid

[@frankiegreer6258]

Our Blockbuster also turned into a PetSmart and it's just down the street from me how crazy is that?

[@SonJayChannel]

I grew up in the 2000s, and Blockbuster was a personal mecca. Our local store was next door to an Italian bakery and a pizzeria, so my family would hit up the whole plaza every Friday. Pizza, cannoli and my own movie rental (would always pick the newest Godzilla release), it's honestly one of the most irreplaceable memories I have.

[@justinsixx90]

I love this so much!! I was just talking to someone the other day about missing the smell of Blockbuster! I would love to come visit your store, if im ever out in Oregon, IM THERE!!

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

The good old days, for sure!

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

I feel so blessed to have had my childhood in the late 70’s and early 80’s…the very best era in history!!! ❤

[@v.roni1971]

I totally agree ❤...

[@signwriter1]

@@v.roni1971 The slasher films (banned in the UK) used to get them from the seedy back street Vid shops - and some very soft porn - we was kids.

[@davidbarlee4722]

My Dad got into owning video stores quite early (I remember him having both Betamax and VHS films). He had around 8 store locally in the UK and also racks inside local corners shops & post offices etc. I remember people queuing up out of the front door on a Friday & Saturday night to rent a film, it was crazy. Then blockbusters showed up, the nearest store was 8 miles away but they were seen as cool and customers wanted to go there. They charged £3.50 a film to rent and we always charged only £2.50 for the same top film but it made no difference. It was actually Skys digital satellite tv network in the 90’s with around 10 movie channels and PPV movies that dealt the biggest blow. Eventually we closed down and I became a customer of my local blockbusters and managed to take my young kids there to give them the experience of picking out a film and renting it. It felt like a circle of life moment 😊.

[@TheFunArchivist]

I love how Kevin Smith is in this. It makes it 5x more awesome than it already is!

[@lovelacetunes]

Anybody else here been to that big curved window/wall Blockbuster on Oak Street in Vancouver BC? Loved the shop, loved the ‘hood. Another great nostalgia video, about the hard copy music days: “All Things Must Pass.” And yup, I’ve still got some VHS, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, and Vinyl. 45’s too😊 (and my BBuster card!) 🤘🤙

[@wonderexplorer4195]

what physical media and places like Blockbuster (its Video Ezy in my area) provide, is Modulation. it makes the film "memorable". today, i keep on adding movies to my watchlist, and because it is too easy to do that, i just keep adding and not watching them. Plus, studios just want to populate the platforms with something new as fast as possible, so films have become disposable instead of memorable. gone were the days of films like ET stayed in theaters for a year, or Titanic for 10 months. a movie would go viral, and people forget about it a few weeks later...

[@KeleniHallett-js8tt]

Just started watching this movie, it wasn't Netflix video shops started to close down before Netflix came along, it was the internet, people video taping movies at the cinemas and uploading them onto free movie site's. I miss putting on a DVD and sitting down with family and having a movie night.

[@Whitey_Ford]

😂 these were the days. So many found memories. Damn I’m old. 😂

[@pennylynch913]

Miss going to rent a movie so much!

[@themayor6355]

In our childhood home it was mandatory that we be home by 4:00 on Sunday. We made a trip to Blockbuster and the local drug store to pick out our candy. I think my mom did this because we were so active in sports that we were never home, it was her way of spending time with us and it made for great memories.

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

Nice memories!

[@RPRosen-ki2fk]

It's been three years since this film was completed and the Bend, Oregon store is still open renting movies. Wouldn't it be wild if it outlast ... Netflix.

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

ooh! time will tell!!!

[@cs8712]

Hopefully they don't....Bend...the knee

[@oronasundial]

Block buster will return back in some way or form. The love for the '90s is too strong

[@nadinetrades]

Blockbuster and chill.

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

LOL

[@deathmetaldouglas69]

We were not paying $7 for a movie in the early 80's. It was like $3.

[@vjchurch7281]

I grew up in the late 50's, the 60' and 70's. Those were the best time to be alive.😊

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

Great presentation…took me right back…💞💞💞🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@agentancelotti2985]

Fantastic best thing I’ve watched on KZbin wish I could visit one day

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@karldicker1702]

This movie touches me big time reminding me of the video store days so long ago, but i am glad i got to visit a Blockbuster Store around twenty years ago when i visited L.A and i think it was on Sunset Blvd, but this film makes me think how much I miss a video store branch in Ireland called Xtra-Vision that closed just over ten years ago, gone but not forgotten.

[@ricardocuna-xh3qv]

like idk i used to work at blockbuster and to this day i love recomending movies to ppl

[@stonereilly7972]

It was something else at the time. I still remember me winning a sports tournament and my dad turned into the blockbuster parking lot for me to pick out a video game as a reward. I'll never forget blockbuster

[@rendellbright6019]

Blockbuster R.I.P.

[@KenCriswell]

I was assistant manager at one for about 2 yrs. Until u got accused of stealing merchandise which absolutely surprised the hell outta me. Long story short....turns out it was the manager and when she got busted she blamed me. For the rec this wasn't a jab at blockbuster at all. I enjoyed my time there actually. This was 100% about the manager. I miss the videos stores.

[@johnbishop4641]

Nostalgia isn't as exciting as instant gratification. -the Troll

[@rwdplz1]

I have an overwhelming urge to go over there and clean all their computers.

[@johnbishop4641]

Watching this documentary really makes me miss cussing out the poor cashiers who had to ring up my late fees. -the Troll

[@user-fe3iv2pu5p]

Fond memories of my 60's and 70's.

[@collaberatorzseanhuang8952]

All the copies of Indiana Jones were out. So had to rerent a Shannon Tweed movie.

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

Ha Ha. Would that be Night Eyes 2, Illicit Dreams, Body Chemistry 4, or Possessed by the Night?

[@davidclark8543]

​@@FREEMOVIESYT Nope, the shining moment for Ms. Tweed was Hot Dog The Movie!

[@Jazziebby23]

I’m used to go blockbuster back in 1986 when I’m was a 9 year old….

[@darkepicfilms]

she did not just wipe that disc in a circle motion !!!!!

[@brockman562]

fun fact: I still rent and buy DVDs. I only buy DVDs of movies that I like. nothing like 'actually leaving' home to walk into a video rental and smell the ambiance. ...and yes I do stream movies (mostly live sports) as well

[@shnom10]

Sandy really is an All Star.

[@melodyashwin4643]

Ive still got my membership card😢

[@youtubehatesus2651]

we needed a bag of popcorn because there were so many movies to choose from

[@tski3458]

I worked for the company that serviced the blockbuster rental machines you would see outside stores. They represented the death nail for BB . They competed with their own name. The machines were not as reliable as redbox dispensers . They sucked . Hated working on them. Really, it was NCR buying out an existing manufacturer of these, licensing the BB name, and slap them up everywhere. It was a really stupid investment . Ncr didn't see that everything would be streaming soon.

[@gyrlgeorge]

Wait, we still have a BlockBuster in our town. Eureka, California. I guess it is gonna close soon. 😮 Welp, we ski in Bend, guess I’ll check it out this winter!

[@onlyme219]

I really enjoyed that :)

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

So glad to hear that. Thanks for watching!

[@lethalwolf7455]

I almost want to open an 80’s era arcade next to this place

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

We'll be there to play some Asteroids.

[@marierutgiglo5112]

I think it is very sad I wish people could help and they could stay open,I life is getting ruined,history in blockbuster they should stay open

[@johno30197]

Betamax rocked back in my great grandfathers day

[@gryphenicedancer8796]

Betamax was late 70s to early 80s. You must be three and it was your grandfather that remembers it.

[@TheMollyPitchers]

​​@@gryphenicedancer8796Thinking the same thing. This family was getting married when they were twelve... It may seem like it, but 1985 was not a hundred years ago😂

[@johno30197]

​@@TheMollyPitcherssorry great am 23 sorry sir plz forgive me..

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

😝🫸🏻🫷🏻🍿🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sliat1981]

It was the last video place here that didn’t let you take home the actual video slip

[@NeonVisual]

Remember a £1 fee if you returned a video without rewinding the tape

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

"Be Kind, Rewind!"

[@ezboy88sonny14]

Does nobody remember the failed experiment of Blockbuster Music ?

[@sliat1981]

Lloyd Kaufman is like an R-rated Mel Brooks

[@MrCityslickerktm]

Must be a little bit distressing to see people enter your store only to find out they're visitors/tourists with no intention of buying (renting) anything.

[@sliat1981]

I’m going to talk to my mother. That is clearly my long-lost brother at 34:44

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

We in Australia 🇦🇺 got to buy GARGANTUAN BAGS of POPCORN…just like they do in American 🇺🇸 movies 🍿 too lol 😝 😅nice ✌️

[@sliat1981]

It was the last place where you don’t take home the actual video slip

[@chrisstairs2237]

At Jumbo video, they had free popcorn. Free popcorn. Think about that.

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

I was wondering if that was a chain or just something in my small town. I remember when Jumbo video went down (some say they were bought by blockbuster but not continued) the jumbo video in my town turned into a wimpys diner and for the first little while u could smell the popcorn from the jumbo video.

[@user-rr8io7gk1b]

I miss video stores . Streaming is not exciting

[@dietrichess9997]

I was a university student (Canada) in the early 1990s. Our big video rental chain was Jumbo Video. A successful Friday night for me would include getting a six pack of beer (hopefully), some groceries enough to make sandwiches or pizza, and a stop at Jumbo for some video rentals. As part of their circus theme, Jumbo Video had big old fashioned popcorn machines, operating all the time. The smell permeated the store. Little paper bags were stacked by these machines, and popcorn was free as you browsed the videos. Broke-ass starving students would browse on Fridays and fill up on popcorn for as long as possible. Fond memories indeed. I'm not complaining, I promise.

[@IMeanMachine101]

go on Sandi

[@Steve-si8hx]

😢

[@FerrisB_Stiffler.420]

About to order from the Facebook page blockbuster tye dye shirt yeahhh

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

Any chance of an update video? Is it still there or did Covid kill blockbuster?

[@FREEMOVIESYT]

Looking online, the Blockbuster in Bend, OR appears to have survived Covid and still be open. It has even become kind of a tourist destination😀

[@forestforce2951]

Search on youtube (blockbuster bend), they made new commercial in february 2023

[@oronasundial]

Yeah. It has the whole last store nostalgia thing going for it. It's going probably going get stronger in time. Considering how much Gen z loves the '90s my Era.

[@59771006]

Blockbuster actually had the opportunity to purchase Netflix but they said no

[@sliat1981]

Looks like Sandi and her husband had their kids at a young age

[@nayhmalak]

Uau

[@TheRealLucifer-Morningstar]

Lol i know what a floppy disk is but im 28

[@ensndkdndne-Eusjsnsns]

is this illegal because KZbin is showing me this things $11 to watch on KZbin

[@giauz]

Sorry, but subtitles are not in sync!

[@stevem815]

Typical monopolistic thinking. Instead of opening their own stores and renting movies and making even more money, the movie studios try to stop anyone else from doing it.

[@MausMasher54]

Sorry, I only rent via Prime....

[@joedizzelfoerizle]

People still watch John oliver?😊

[@justinsixx90]

Who?

[@davidellis5141]

VHS 📼 ? OR BETA 📼 ?

[@kathrynbillinghurst188]

NO WAY BETA WAS DEAD BEFORE IT BEGAN!! 🤣👍🏻

[@maralinekozial9131]

I miss these stores , getting everything from a device or app is lame & boring

[@tendaze8204]

PEDOWOOD movies. No thanks.