{"id":1660,"date":"2013-11-13T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T04:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2013-11-13T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T05:49:27","slug":"blockbuster-blockbuster-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/blockbuster-blockbuster-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is the End for Blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blockbuster is finally closing down and it&#8217;s going out with a surprising flash of dignity and humour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The last BLOCKBUSTER rental 11\/9 Hawaii 11PM  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisIsTheEnd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ThisIsTheEnd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlockbusterMemories?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlockbusterMemories<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sethrogen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sethrogen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesFrancoTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JamesFrancoTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonahHill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonahHill<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/RsXABlqfzL\">http:\/\/t.co\/RsXABlqfzL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blockbuster (@blockbuster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blockbuster\/status\/399933729906638848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">Seth Rogen responded:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The last movie ever rented from a blockbuster was this is the end. In high school I would go hang out at blockbuster every day.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sethrogen\/status\/400013696115965952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">Rogen&#8217;s response isn&#8217;t particularly newsworthy but it&#8217;s a little reminder of how ubiquitous Blockbusters once were. Having somewhere to hire entertainment on physical media used to be a standard local convenience like a 7\/11 or a fish and chip shop. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, Blockbusters were soulless hell-holes with fifty new copies of <a title=\"Do not watch Bad Boys 2.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0299930\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Boys 2<\/a> for every scratched and broken <a title=\"The one with the razor and the eyeball... Eww!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Un_Chien_Andalou\" target=\"_blank\">Un Chien Andalou<\/a>, but it&#8217;s hard not to feel a twinge of nostalgia as their fluorescent glare is finally extinguished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Adios, Blockbuster. In your last moments, you actually showed some class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blockbuster is finally closing down and it&#8217;s going out with a surprising flash of dignity and humour. &nbsp;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}