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Weekly Ramblecast 047: Mo Rockin' It
🕑 Added 2022-05-03 21:39:24 +0000 UTCAnother ramble is here, this time with chatter about the joy of working at the roller rink, the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video, Sam Raimi's return to Marvel movies, measuring the Hulk's... hulkiness, what it's like working on set with Vin Diesel, and more!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:07) Intro
(00:00:22) At least the birds are happy
(00:02:00) More escaping of rooms
(00:04:39) Don't mock the roller rink
(00:10:50) Video rental stores
(00:16:40) Go out of business or live long enough to become the slightly less villain-y business?
(00:24:14) Spider-Man: No Way Home
(00:30:32) 100 percent accurate comic and Hulk discussion
(00:40:24) What's up with those X-Men and Fantastic Four?
(00:42:18) Oh, we're in Phase 04
(00:44:01) The Vin Diesel-verse
(00:45:05) Is Fast and Furious still Rock-ing
(00:49:39) Wrestlers making movies but not movies about wrestlers
(00:53:24) Making the leap from a successful show to the next thing
(00:59:51) Wrapping up and thanks
(01:00:40) See ya
Comments
James Eldred
Loved the video store talk. My family owned a video store from 83 to 96. Our "Blockbuster takeover" story is a bit different than the one that the documentary is telling. Blockbuster tried every dirty trick in the book to drive us out of business, including opening a store across the street from us, but we consistently kicked their ass everyday of the week. Our parking lot would be overflowing on the weekends and it would be crickets over there. They bought us out for an obscene amount of money just to get rid of us. But they idiotically didn't buy the land. So they continued to pay us rent until the store finally closed in the 2010s. Even funnier, we sold out to them in 1996, pretty much at the absolute peak of video stores in the 90s. If we wouldn't waited just a couple of years it would've really hurt us. But we were able to cash out, take the big corporation for a mint, and milk more money out of them for nearly two more decades. Based on stories like this, I was not surprised when they went out of business. I was on an episode of Retronauts a few years ago talking about this. If you google "Retronauts video stores" I'm sure you'll find it, if anyone is interested in hearing more about this!
Dan Sillesen
Vinny's shoutout to Immortal Hulk was cool. That series is sooo great.
