Remember when, for like a solid minute, Redbox was the best way to rent movies? Sandwiched between the fall of Blockbuster (RIP) and the rise to digital streaming, everyone was going to their local grocery store or gas station to rent the latest and greatest movies. While they’re not as ubiquitous as they once were, Redbox is still alive and well renting movies to those that…don’t use computers? And now, they’ve released what is their Top 15 most-rented films of all time. Spoiler alert – they’re not great choices.
Before we break this down, take a gander at their Top 15 most-rented films of all time:
1. The Hunger Games
2. 21 Jump Street
3. Identity Thief
4. The Avengers (2012)
5. We’re the Millers
6. The Heat
7. Flight
8. Grown Ups
9. Just Go With It
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
11. Captain Phillips
12. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
13. World War Z
14. Divergent
15. White House Down
Right off the bat, there’s a trend that appears. Redbox customers love some sub-par comedies. We can give a pass to “21 Jump Street,” but “Grown Ups” and “Just Go With It”? Come on! The rest of the list just paints the picture of the average Redbox customer stumbling up to the machine, drunk and not thinking straight, and picking a random title. How else can you explain “White House Down”?
However, not everything in that top 15 is garbage. You have to imagine that the recognizable faces of Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hanks are the only reasons that “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Captain Phillips” are on the list. Try as I might, there’s really no explaining “Divergent.”
Overall, the moral of the story is that those movies that film geeks snub their noses at are the ones keeping Redbox afloat. And from now on, you might just judge those people huddled around those machines a little more harshly than before. [Uproxx]
Flight is a very interesting movie; it doesn’t all come together into the film I seems to want to be, but it really highlights what Zemekis does best – giving time to emotion; he’s often criticized for his corniness, but I can’t think of another old-hollywood style filmmaker that has such gentle patience with letting simple but powerful emotions have room to come out. I recently rewatched Cast Away, and the scene where Hunt shows him his old car is totally breathtaking in this way. An underrated, unique filmmaker.
Wow, for such an overtly liberal site, you can practically feel the elitism in every word in this article.
Just a few possible reasons why Redbox is still going strong:
-It is cheaper to pay $2 to rent something for 24 hours than pay $6 for 48 hours
-Maybe people don’t have very strong internet or no internet at all (I know that’s shocking internet journalists like yourself but since you guys just love to lambast Trump so much, I’d think you’d be a bit more considerate of the less fortunate.)
-Maybe someone is on a road trip and doesn’t have the space to download an entire media file
-Redbox has frequent 2 for 1 sales and other deals aimed at families
I guess it’s easier to feign knowledge of the industry and compensate with snark than to actually do some research on a business but there’s yet another example of why the playlist is staffed by almost entirely by sanctimonious pricks.
Shut up Frank.
Any actual response or is that it?
I said, SHUT UP Frank. Don’t make me.
Don’t make you…what? Nap? Eat? Pray? What?
Bet you wouldn’t say that to my face, you fake tough guy.
You seem real steeped in masculinity for a guy telling people to shut up over the internet, not that I would expect much in the way of intelligence from someone telling people to shut up on websites.
But hey, whatever gives you fullfilment
SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!! I will find you ghoul. I will find you.
I’m sure you will, lord knows you have enough free time for it..