Fresh off our breakfast of penis and robot pancakes, @amandarichards and I went down to Movie Madness, a video rental store (yes, really) which is kept in business pretty much by the pure novelty value of renting physical movies.
Wrap your head around that. A place where you can still go to choose a Blu-Ray, DVD or VHS(!) to take home with you. Then view it, and return it at a later date. How do you like that shit? That's some real Flintstones shit right there. I could smell the hipsters before even setting foot inside.
Besides being a video rental store, Movie Madness serves as a museum of movie history. The costumes and models on display are for the most part not replicas, but the actual costumes and props used in various famous movies.
For example, that's the apartment building from Blade Runner. Made me want to pretend to be a kaiju and smash it while roaring.
A facehugger used in Aliens (1986). The fingernails reminded me that in Alien Covenant it's revealed that human body parts and DNA were used by the android David to engineer the xenomorphs. That's...apparently canon now.
Hard to see due to the reflections, but here's one of the xenomorph heads made for that film. The inner mouth is kind of fucked up. Yet another celebrity whose health was ruined by a lifestyle of booze and drugs.
This guy looks like I walked in on him during some kind of BDSM thing. Where I just slowly back out of the room and we never discuss it.
You like evil bongs? Of course you do. They made more of these movies than Land Before Time sequels. I want to say the Evil Bong sequels have more justification to exist though.
But really? This many? An evil bong isn't even enough of a premise for a single film. To stretch that out to five films is frankly kind of impressive. I'm sure they sold plenty well, maybe I'm the idiot for not cashing in on this idea myself.
More figures. Try to identify which film each is from, and win a prize: Air! The tasty, low calorie snack!
The human remains from Wishmaster. I wonder how I could write this purchase off my taxes.
More figures. I'm glad they don't make these for porn films. Or maybe they do. I am scared to Google.
Oh, what's this? The saucy adult film section, blocked off by a Gate Of Shame™. Just so you know you're crossing the shame threshold when you enter.
Look at all these beautiful yellowing labels. The cracked plastic sheaths, like so many tape condoms, bearing the dried spooge fingerprints which testify to many enjoyable past viewings. Each has a history and a story to tell. And don't get me started on the smell!
If just one movie rental place survives, it should be this. It does seem to be doing well too, and it's plain to see why. Besides the novelty angle, they've got the movie museum angle working for them. It's just another gem in the crown of Portland as a mecca for hipsters, culture connoisseurs and novelty hounds.
Stay Cozy!
That looks awesome! The rental places we used to have back in the day in my home country used pirated VHS tapes.. we used to rent stuff daily though. Used to be a big boom when I was a kid. We used to rent movies and gather at home to watch. Good times! Don’t believe you can find any of these still functioning though..
Holy shit this scared me seriously. I hate facehuggers from Alien the most.
They with their sticky limbs trying to kiss you and make you pregnant with a xenomorph.
If I only had those toys when I was a kid. I'd fly to the Jupiter from happiness.
For one day. Before I break them all :(
Wow amazing , that thing Hanging over the ceiling looks cool , bdw there was a pic where it seemed like something is written in Arabic, it looks like Arabic , but the artwork looks bang on
Dig the post.
Long live the video rental store!
Good power and energy to you.
Renting Blu-Ray, DVD or VHS, well that's a good thing I think, you don't have to buy, you just have to rent it for few days. Penis and robot pancakes what kind of a breakfast is it? it sounds weird to me, the costumes and various things in the museum are simply awesome.
Penis and robot pancakes seems little bit odd in a breakfast
Movie madness is such an amazing place ..specially the museum is really fanstastic.. But due to Internet these kind of stores lost their value now.
Thanks for sharing your travel experiences with us. Enjoy
Hava a nice day.
the people over here never return anything !
bdw i dont mind remembering the names of that shame collection
Gate of shame 😁😁
Would love to visit that section.
STOP, Adults only.
HA HA HA
I have never seen and heard movie museum.
Thanks for the great post
Maybe it's flinstones shit where you live. It's still how we do business here. Though they're not nearly as good as the this store
I'm nostalgic for back when Blockbuster was a thing in the US but they're all closed now.
Fun times...
I remember a time when blockbuster was a giant evil corporation that relentlessly smashed all the ma and pa VHS rental stores.
Its like a heaven for movie maniac person. He for sure won't love to these places. Anyways i wonder do they let us try these costumes or not?? If they are not they are the biggest fools because movie freak person will love to get some photos in such outfits..
There's a video rental store that recently opened where I live that seems to push VHS first and has a big selection of old, obscure and out-of-print horror films. They rent everything though, including laserdisc, dvd, blu-ray, video games, etc.
It might be a novelty for some, but the selection of movies on streaming services seems to be getting worse as time goes on. If you want to watch certain movies, DVDs and tapes are the only way to do it without resorting to piracy.
Hm, I hadn't considered that. Good point.
We need more movie rental places like this in existence.
In case you haven't seen it, you should grab a VHS copy of Evil Dead 2. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Army of Darkness? One of the finest films ever made.
Hell yeah, glad to see someone else appreciates Bruce Campbell's exploits in film.
believe me .... Bruce Campbell is a myth!!! I love this motherfucker!!!!
i think people should wear those dresses before visiting that stop section
I recognized about 70% I think of all those figurines. I guess I like B movies.
Wow never expected places like this also existed. Thanks to you I am getting to know a lot of this and a lot of knowledge. This place seem to be really fun. Have fun brother.
good art
Where is art in it?
weather was looking really nice... i love to watch movies sir... Really nice travelling photos...☺
I THINK The post written on the adult topic.
I guess movie madness is awesome then. Renting the movies is great and does that mean you can copy the movies too. Oh yes you can.
That's really good and in addition to that it's a museum as well. Must be fun to see the costumes of the old movie stars
This place is like having all things present there...what ever you want is present there ...
Place where i live dont have the adult theme ...wish it had been here ....i wud have seen each one of them😁
Very fun, has a place of rent as well as museum for films. become the main attraction. can educate us when to get there.
a place like this I think needs to be maintained to keep history.
Have fun brothers
thanks for sharing your travel experience and also your post is good 😊
This place looks real cool. We never had such a place here.
Your blogs no doubt are awesome, and having such cool and beautiful pics attatched to them is like icing on cake.
wow very very amazing this post , I really like it .
This place is so awesome! Would love to be here sometime.
wow really amazing place. wonderful movie. i wish your travel. have a great day. thanks for share.