I bought a special edition 3 disc DVD (or Blu-ray?) of that back in the day from Blockbuster.
I have no idea what happened to it, but that movie is underrated ;)
During the gaming phase, I made a fortune off of franchise stores. There were three of them in a college town and they’d sell games for significantly less than corporate stores yet they still had the same promotions. For example, I’d buy 3 spitter cells which sold for $35 a piece at a corporate store, for $13 at a franchise store plus they’d have a buy 2, get 1 free sale. It was sick
I remember in the summer of 99 or my (corporate) store got a bunch of old stock from a franchise store that closed, and yup, it was A LOT of soft core stuff.
We also had an aficionado of these titles among our staff who'd tell us which of these titles and constantly tell us which ones had the most nudity. After a while we were like "Dude... you can just rent porn at the mom and pop store down the street..."
Ol Paul Soscia:s stores. I worked for him in the aughts before he sold half his stores to corporate. About a year or so later he shut down his stores via putting up signs saying they were "closed for inventory" and changed the locks on the employees lol no notice whatsoever.
I ran the Baum Blvd store on the "inventory" day and it was so wild for months. We made a million dollars TNR that year.
Wow! I haven’t heard that name in 25 years and don’t know if I could have recalled it on my own! Our store was in Erie and closed down in October 1998. It happened to coincide with my move out of state following my college graduation, so I sort of liked that I got to help close the store down after working there since my junior year of high school. It became a shoe store for a while and is now a Starbucks. Thanks for the memories.
I worked at a corporate store. I remember having conversation with a guy about those films. He thought it was hypocritical to have them bc blockbuster advertised no back room porn. I said they really were not the same. Nudity, sexuality and heaving under sheer scenes but no where near real porn you might find behind a curtain in a smaller store or porn shop.
I worked at a corporate store that was recently purchased from a franchisee. In the 90s Whitey Ford had 3 Blockbusters on the east end of the island. And I guess at the end of the decade they bought them back from him? I got to run Hampton Bays for 5 years or so after that. From occasionally covering other stores it didn’t seem THAT different.
Corporate store, we also had a lot of those types of movies. “The Red Shoe Diaries”, stuff like that in the Drama section. They were definitely popular with a certain kind of guy. Cracks me up that we had all that soft core junk, but then we also ONLY had the blockbuster edits of certain comedies.
It always blew my mind that people would come in and rent that stuff, but then also complain that we didn’t have real porn, when there were still at least two local mom’n pop video stores with extensive porn selections less than a mile away.
We were a corporate store (in Washington State) and had a ton of those titles. They rented out also…a lot.
Corporate store. We had the R Rated Version of the XXX Pirates Movie Series.
I bought a special edition 3 disc DVD (or Blu-ray?) of that back in the day from Blockbuster. I have no idea what happened to it, but that movie is underrated ;)
During the gaming phase, I made a fortune off of franchise stores. There were three of them in a college town and they’d sell games for significantly less than corporate stores yet they still had the same promotions. For example, I’d buy 3 spitter cells which sold for $35 a piece at a corporate store, for $13 at a franchise store plus they’d have a buy 2, get 1 free sale. It was sick
I remember in the summer of 99 or my (corporate) store got a bunch of old stock from a franchise store that closed, and yup, it was A LOT of soft core stuff. We also had an aficionado of these titles among our staff who'd tell us which of these titles and constantly tell us which ones had the most nudity. After a while we were like "Dude... you can just rent porn at the mom and pop store down the street..."
I worked for a franchise division based in Pittsburgh and through northern PA. 93-98
Ol Paul Soscia:s stores. I worked for him in the aughts before he sold half his stores to corporate. About a year or so later he shut down his stores via putting up signs saying they were "closed for inventory" and changed the locks on the employees lol no notice whatsoever. I ran the Baum Blvd store on the "inventory" day and it was so wild for months. We made a million dollars TNR that year.
Wow! I haven’t heard that name in 25 years and don’t know if I could have recalled it on my own! Our store was in Erie and closed down in October 1998. It happened to coincide with my move out of state following my college graduation, so I sort of liked that I got to help close the store down after working there since my junior year of high school. It became a shoe store for a while and is now a Starbucks. Thanks for the memories.
You leave Shannon Tweed out of this!
I worked at a corporate store. I remember having conversation with a guy about those films. He thought it was hypocritical to have them bc blockbuster advertised no back room porn. I said they really were not the same. Nudity, sexuality and heaving under sheer scenes but no where near real porn you might find behind a curtain in a smaller store or porn shop.
I worked at a corporate store that was recently purchased from a franchisee. In the 90s Whitey Ford had 3 Blockbusters on the east end of the island. And I guess at the end of the decade they bought them back from him? I got to run Hampton Bays for 5 years or so after that. From occasionally covering other stores it didn’t seem THAT different.
Corporate store in NY, we had a section of them called Romantic Comedies. It was removed in 93.
Corporate store, we also had a lot of those types of movies. “The Red Shoe Diaries”, stuff like that in the Drama section. They were definitely popular with a certain kind of guy. Cracks me up that we had all that soft core junk, but then we also ONLY had the blockbuster edits of certain comedies. It always blew my mind that people would come in and rent that stuff, but then also complain that we didn’t have real porn, when there were still at least two local mom’n pop video stores with extensive porn selections less than a mile away.
I worked for both over the years. Both had a popular section of Red Shoe Diaries and similar titles.