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excalibur ◴[] No.41855145[source]
I just watched a video earlier today about how if you find a working redbox, you can get movies out of it without getting charged, although you still have to enter your payment info. This prospect suddenly sounds even less appealing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucsYziSl7xk

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1. JKCalhoun ◴[] No.41855546[source]
Seen what the rentals are on a Redbox?

Every time I would go browse their movie collection I always walked away uninterested in anything. Most of it was what I call direct-to-inflight-video.

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2. shiroiushi ◴[] No.41855585[source]
Judging by the movies I've seen on international flights in the past few years, I think this is really unfair to inflight video. (i.e., the available movies were all highly-rated theater movies, not direct-to-video garbage.)

Perhaps a better description would be "even worse than Netflix originals"...

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3. Larrikin ◴[] No.41855709[source]
I question if this has ever been true outside of old timey planes of decades back where everyone had to watch the same movie. If you were on a decent international flight you could sometimes even see a movie still in theaters.

The only real regression I've seen in my life time in in-flight entertainment is ANA removing their partnership with Nintendo to run SNES emulators to all the seats. A 14 hour flight to Narita used to involve Super Mario All Stars

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4. ipaddr ◴[] No.41856037{3}[source]
I didn't bring 5 dollars cash the first time I took a plane to SF from the east coast. You end up watching a movie on a projector screen without sound. I end up reading through Microsoft foundation classes books. On the way back I had my 5 dollars ready.

The movie was about a brother who returns to a small town to visit his sister in a southern town. He ends up staying and helping her with the kids. But his irresponsible ways causes frustration with the sister and the kids he is watching. He leaves. End of movie.

Truly awful. I wonder what the first movie was like.

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5. vitorfblima ◴[] No.41859327{4}[source]
I'm 'kinda curious to know which movie is this.
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6. ipaddr ◴[] No.41861250{5}[source]
I've been trying to figure it out for awhile.

It would be in the early 2000s. Let me try AI. Found it. What an age we live in.

You Can Count on Me - 2000 Sammy is a single mother who is extremely protective of her 8-year old son. She is satisfied with living in the small town she grew up in and working in a local bank. When her brother Terry visits he fits the void in the life of both her and her son. Temporarily free of the constraints of single motherhood she begins to break free of her normal routine. In a string of traumatic events Sammy is torn between helping her brother and her maternal instinct to protect her son from getting hurt.

95% rotten tomato score. Someone liked it.

7. Cyphase ◴[] No.41910986{5}[source]
I did find this while looking for it the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Buck