Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

40,000 movies, $5/ea, 15 minutes to choose!

Posted by 4season on September 27, 2007 at 22:03:40:
Sounds like a "What-if?" scenario, doesn't it? But this is exactly what I encountered when I got to the local Hollywood Video "library store", 15 minutes before closing: large going-out-of-business banner across the front, and *all* rental DVDs were priced at $7.99!

What to do? I rushed over to the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD shelves, but there was nothing to be had here: These, they shipped off.

Next, to the rather complete Criterion Collection collection, and this too was gone! Was later told that a single individual bought it all including the signs! Nuts, I'd have liked to have the Akira Kurosawa and David Cronenberg movies on Criterion, maybe Fellini too.

I had just dropped off a brand-new copy of "Dora Heita", but someone must have snatched it out of the drop box, because it was nowhere to be seen, although the OTHER movie I had returned was still there.

On to Documentaries: Quick look to see if they had the "Architectures" series put out by Arte (nope).

Foreign movies: Still pretty intact, so I grabbed some non-classics including "The Eye X", "Cursed" and "The Locker". Quick look for any of the Maiku Hamma series including "Stairway To The Distant Past" turned up nothing. Left behind "Happiness Of The Katakuris", "The Green Butchers" and "The Kingdom vol. 1"

Animation was kind of picked-over, but I found "Tokyo Godfathers", left behind "Patlabor III", "Perfect Blue", and "Paranoia Agent vol 2". Not much left by Hayao Miyazaki, no "Lupin The 3rd" or any other items that I didn't already own.

Looking at my sales slip, they only charged me $20 for my four finds, and one item actually rang up as $0! May try to return tomorrow, but won't have a chance until evening and imagine it'll be down to the dregs by then, but who knows?