Review of The Last Blockbuster (2020) by Jluis_001 — 28 Mar 2021

I was born in 1990. For that reason, through my childhood and adolescence I've been experiencing most of the big technological changes that have occurred in the last 20 years.

I had a walkman, a cd walkman, then iPods and not to mention countless different cell phones.

Obviously the same thing happened with films.

I had my VCR and I had a lot of VHS cassettes, after that the DVD, and so on.

So of course I visited Blockbuster several times. And I have a lot of good memories of that, but frankly it's just that, memories.

They say current generations have it all easier, and just a click away, and it's true, but you know what? I don't miss it. At all.

I'm still a fervent believer in the physical format. In anything. Movies, music and books. I had a Kindle and never used it.

But the commodity of what streaming means, and especially the Internet, has opened doors for us that we would never have thought of.

Especially when it comes to cinema, and how it has been ensured that we can consume films from all over the world with such ease.

So this documentary is just nostalgia, the good kind, I don't deny it, but it's still just nostalgia.

And basically everyone involved repeats the same thing until the end.

It was really good for a moment, but as in everything, you have to move on.