Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Drive thru movies

I will be the first to admit that this idea is dated maybe 15 years and made kind of (but not entirely) obsolete by NetFlix, but I would also like to point out that I thought of it like twenty years ago, so there.

Here goes:

Let's be honest. All the time you are thinking to yourself, "It is Friday (/other weeknight) and I want to watch a movie except not one of these movies that I have and have watched already twelve times this month." And the problem is that you don't want to set foot in the soul sucking pit that is Blockbuster or spend the next six hours trying to crack the advanced logic used to organize Reel (/other rental place that claims to have every film known to creation and some yet unknown, see also: Scarecrow in Seattle).

Therefore, I decided a long time ago that what would be really awesome is some kind of video rental drive thru. Or, better yet, a kind of glorified Pink Dot (and maybe Pink Dot actually does this come to think of it...) where you could call them up and tell them what movie you wanted to watch (and they would of course have it) and they would deliver it to you for next to nothing and you could also have them deliver like pizza, beer, popcorn, etc. that would be actually good pizza/beer/popcorn because that's what you really want to consume along with your movie habit.

Reasons this is better than going to the store yourself:
1. no waiting in line
2. no need to find the movie yourself
3. it may very well be cold outside

So, maybe you like to browse. Ok, fine. But could you not just browse like IMDB, say? And then tell them what you wanted. And order your pizza/popcorn/beer and have it delivered or pick it up yourself from the drive through?

Ways this is different from Netflix:
1. no monthly fee!
2. food comes with your movie!
3. no waiting for 24+ hours for your movie to show up.

I mean, at the very least, couldn't movie rental places have a drive through? Is that so much to ask?

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