The local Hollywood Video had all their DVDs on sale due to bankruptcy, I got 7 for $20!

[smoochpooch]

I haven't bought a DVD in a while (other than BSG), and usually I would buy online, but I found some good ones that were worth it:

Zodiac, Intolerable Cruelty, No Country For Old Men, Paranormal Activity, REC, Tell No One, and 13 Tzameti.

Maybe there is a Hollywood Video closing near you (shakes fist at Netflix), you could find some good deals!

[SunnySong]

1. I myself have scraped those bones (ours closed a year ago) and honestly the movies

sit unwatched along with the rest of my DVD collection. The only three movies I have even watched from my collection in the last year are Glengarry Glen Ross, Rocky Balboa, and Baccanales Sexulles.

I also blame Netflix... mainly their instant watch which has made my DVD collection superfluous.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. The only DVDs I buy are foreign ones that haven't been released in the U.S.

and therefore are not on Netflix.

I have a region-free player (not that expensive), and I order a lot of British and Japanese television programs from Amazon's foreign sites.

(I highly recommend the original British version of Life on Mars--released in the U.S. about five years after its UK run--and its three-year-long sequel, Ashes to Ashes, which completes the thread started in Life on Mars and ties up all the loose ends.)

[ceile]

9. Ashes to Ashes?

I loved Life on Mars (damn, John Simm is hot). I'll have to see if Netflix has Ashes to Ashes...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. They don't

They only have DVDs that have been released in the U.S.

Ashes to Ashes doesn't feature John Simm but it does feature Keeley Hawes (Zoe on MI-5) as a police psychologist who is shot and wakes up in the 1980s. She has read Sam Tyler's file, so she is a bit more cued in than he was. Gene and the station gang are back with some new characters, too.

[charlie and algernon]

2. I've gotten a bunch of movies from the blockbuster closings

No Hollywood videos around here, so I'll have to wait for another Blockbuster to close, lol!

[grace0418]

3. The Hollywood Videos in my area closed years ago. I was mad at the time because

Blockbuster beat them out and I always hated Blockbuster. Now Netflix has hobbled Blockbuster, but I love Netflix. Even Netflix fully admits that soon they won't be shipping dvds at all. Everything will stream.

[cbdo2007]

4. Good job. I pay $8.99 per month for hundreds of thousands of movies and tv shows

on Netflix. Throwing out my whole dvd collection.

[Skittles]

7. and getting excited over bankruptcy

hoo boy

[SunnySong]

11. Hey all the buggy whip manufactures went bankrupt as well.. nt

[alphafemale]

14. Very true. The video------>DVD stores basically ripped people off for a few decades.

You didn't usually get your first choice. You had to stand in line forever. You were charged a ridiculous amount of money. If you didn't buy their stupid insurance they charged you full NEW retail for a worthless broken used movie.

And if you were the forgetful type...you were screwed with late fees.

[Common Sense Party]

5. I think Netflix is wonderful. Blockbuster and Hollywood had business

models that worked great in the 1990s and even up until a few years ago. But Redbox and Netflix tapped into consumer desire and sentiment and came up with a better model.

[LynneSin]

8. They have them online too

http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/products-c25-CLEARANCE.aspx

[Parche]

13. I interviewed with them 8years ago twice

they were snobs, their headquarters were 8miles from my place :hi::hug:

[Kat45]

12. The Hollywood Videos around here closed a number of years ago.

I did pick up some movies when they were closing but the price wasn't as good as what you found.