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- From: randle@nosc.mil (Mike Randle)
- Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.193527.10312@nosc.mil>
- Summary: Rebuttal
- Sender: Mike Randle
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- References: <1992Dec20.221339.17333@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec21.005238.20089@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:35:27 GMT
- Expires: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:00:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.005238.20089@en.ecn.purdue.edu> syd@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Dennis P Hilgenberg) writes:
- >Six reasons not to patronize Blockbuster:
- >
- >
- >4. Refusal to carry unrated movies, causing a good deal of,
- > for example, foreign films not to be represented. Also,
- > selective censorship (e.g. no "Last Temptation of Christ").
- > I don't recall whether or not they stock NC-17 films.
- >
-
- As pointed out by Carl Gritter, Blockbuster does carry unrated films.
- My local store carries Almost Pregnant, Crime of Passion, Heny: Portrait
- of a Serial Killer, Re-Animator, etc. as unrated. It also carries
- The Last Temptation Of Christ. The "selective censorship" is not a
- national policy.
-
- Though I do rent from Blockbuster, I am not trying to advocate blind
- devotion to that store. Many of your other complaints are valid. I
- hate over-categorization and slow checkout personnel. I hate the prices
- $4.25 for a new release. And though the foreign section is the best
- on my side of the island, it still stinks. I an almost never find a
- particular foreign movie. I would love to be able to rent films by
- Marcel Carne and Pagnol, a good selection of Kurosawa and Mizoguchi, or
- Satyajit Ray. But that's life.
-
- Mike Randle
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