Last month, Dish Network Corp announced that two Hawaii Blockbuster video stores were among the 300 locations closing nationwide.

With the shuttering of stores in Hilo and Wahiawa, that leaves just three Blockbusters in the islands — in Kahala, Ewa Beach and Kihei.

While most movie fans have long moved on to Netflix, Redbox or some other spiffy service, I have stubbornly stayed a Blockbuster customer.

More closures makes me sad, just like when Borders Books & Music went away.

Kahala’s my store. I started renting there after the two stores near Ala Moana Center closed.

It’s been a long habit. My most recent Blockbuster card was issued Nov. 14, 1996, at the store that used to be at Market City Shopping Center.

(Trivia: The first Blockbuster opened in Dallas in 1985.)

I used to belong to Diamond Head Video, too, before it went belly-up, driven out of business by the Internet. When the store had its clearing-out sale, customers paid bargain prices for the videos, many of them of the X-rated variety … so I’m told.

I’m so old school; I still say “video” instead of “DVD.” I don’t have Blu-ray.

I like Blockbuster for a number of reasons.

The store clerks have always been friendly, and they are happy to share their opinions on movies. Asked about The Hunger Games, for example, a clerk told me that, while it’s a visual treat, audiences won’t have the same insight into what the Jennifer Lawrence character is thinking. You’ll have to read the books, I was advised.

While checking out Biutiful, another clerk told me that Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have been known to visit the Kahala store.

I am not the only one who makes the Kahala store part of my routine. Returning a video — er, DVD — one Monday morning, I found a line of men waiting for the doors to open.

What’s the occasion? I asked a clerk after the store opened.

“New release,” she said. “Looper.“

All copies of the Bruce Willis sci-fi shoot-’em-up were quickly scooped from the shelves.

Which leads to a complaint about Blockbuster.

For the longest time the air-conditioning was on the blink. Not a selling point for a store in the tropics.

There’s also a limited selection at Blockbuster, heavy on fare that appeals to a broad swath of America — i.e., movies involving guns, car chases, explosions, bling, comedians and beautiful young thangs. Unlike life, most films have a familiar arc and end happily.

Films are not always accurately categorized. Clint Eastwood’s Letters From Iwa Jima is to be found in the “International” section (yes, the film is mostly in Japanese with subtitles).

In recent years, as the other stores closed, it seems the inventory was moved to the stores still in operation. While the cases of first-run films are still positioned on the shelves with the cover facing out, most older flicks are stacked horizontally in clusters, making it difficult to read the titles.

But there are surprises. I recently picked up an unrated director’s cut of the Matthew McConaughey film Killer Joe.

“I didn’t know we had this,” said the clerk.

Bet she doesn’t know they also have an R-rated version of the X-rated Caligula with Malcolm McDowell. Wonder if anyone ever rents it.

Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed that the “Coming Soon” promo behind the cash registers has been left blank. A portent of imminent closure, perhaps?

A store manager assured me that the Kahala Blockbuster, which seems to so decent business, would remain open at least through the year.

That makes me happy.