So, like Netflix, they probably have a decent cache of actual DVDs, some of which may even still be playable. What’s going to happen to those? I suppose they must have always had a way to repurpose them, unless they just have a giant warehouse of Green Lanterns and Life of Pi. Did they sell them to libraries or…

I’m really surprised Redbox has even lasted this long. The Redbox at the store I work at hasn’t even changed the film lineup in over a year. I never see anyone take anything out.

people everywhere with a fetish for peering frustratedly at sun-damaged touchscreens while standing in a trash-strewn CVS parking lot

In a post-Redbox world, consider this business model: a Redbox-like that just has a bank of blank DVDs in the box, onto one of which a buyer will select a title to burn and bring home. Made possible via the power of high speed internet. If buyers “return” their purchase to a box, they get, say, $0.50 off the next one …

You need a drink, this was an aggressively over the top response to the other dude’s reasonable opinion. Calm down, man!

I’m going to vote against Trump regardless of what happens, but Biden absolutely needs to step aside.

The operative word here is “guy”. Did Clinton lose because she’s a woman or because she is a Clinton? I have my ideas. There is a war on women going on, whether or not men want to acknowledge it. Women are surpassing men in so many fields; men are pissed. I would like nothing better than to see a woman in the Oval…

::scans grays::

I do think the first Despicable Me movie was actually pretty solid. There’s just no world where we need 4.5 of them.

Biden is an acceptable candidate. If he gets sick or too infirm to serve, he has a Vice President.

Next year when Trump is President and the Supreme Court strikes down gay marriage, “...but he had a bad debate...”

I won’t vote at all if these two are the choices

At least the debacle gave an overzealous conservative movement the confidence to reveal its terrifying and unpopular Project 2025 transition platform.

“If there’s not a candidate I like, all of you can burn in a fascist hell for all I care because I don’t.”

I would also add that tvs got better.  For example, I got a discounted last year OLED screen a few years ago rationalizing the purchase that my theatrical usage would drop, funding the premium I paid for a better, albeit smaller, screen.  So far, I have went to the theatres twice.  Once for endgame where I was…

Oh gee, a mega wealthy guy that lives in a giant mansion in Italy so he can safely be removed from the consequences of a disastrous US election for four years (or realistically given Project 2025, for the rest of his dumb smug life) has some thoughts about how he’d like that election to go? Dooooo go on.

seemingly crossing the line from friendly competition to genuinely vengeful rancor.

...what? my point was that young people are energized and excited about rep screenings and old movies, are actively seeking them out and learning.

I love going to movie theaters, and I have one right across the street. $5 Tuesdays in the Chicago area. However, I’m not seeing much coming out that I want to see. I skipped Barbenheimer. It just wasn’t my cup of tea. I skipped Killers of Flower Moon because it was 3 1/2 hours long. Sorry Scorsese, I don’t want going…

Wait, where’s all the hand-wringing and blaming the consumers? We need another Nicole Kidman commercial reminding us that we the common folk should be putting our collective health on the line in the midst of a pandemic to save the movie theatres.