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As someone who didn't have a movie pass I was too entertained watching this whole thing play out. Venture subsidized products are always a wild ride. I miss all
by sgarman 7y ago
As someone who didn't have a movie pass I was too entertained watching this whole thing play out. Venture subsidized products are always a wild ride. I miss all my VC subsidized food deliveries.
- rolltiide 7y agoSame, and I feel that half way through its lifespan I felt I had already missed the boat to get enough out of it. I also don't go to the movies enough anymore. I watch so much on flights now that more and more things are moved into the "I'll just watch it on a flight in a few months" territory. The flights themselves being pretty cheap or free - subsidized by the merchants that paid for my points.
- nolok 7y agoEh at least those merchants still made money on it, moviepass basically never made a cent
- jedberg 7y agoKeep in mind that movies on flights are sometimes edited and they don't tell you. They especially remove any scenes involving plane crashes. So you know, you might be missing some critical scenes in some movies. :)
- zeta0134 7y agoMy immediate understanding was that the parent poster was planning to watch the movies on his laptop or something similar. But, I don't fly very often; are in-flight movies a popular option? Genuinely curious.
- pkaye 7y ago> But, I don't fly very often; are in-flight movies a popular option? By the fact that I observe all the people sitting next to me on the plane watch in-flight movies, I'd say they are a popular option.
- cbhl 7y agoSome airlines offer complimentary in-flight movies on-demand on the in-flight entertainment system, even in economy.
- Symbiote 7y agoHaven't most airlines had this for a long time, for any flight over about 5 hours? Or, for any plane bigger than a 737 / A320. (Or is this just because in Europe... well, because those criteria mean a flight out of Europe.)
- jedberg 7y agoMost domestic US flights have the "bring your own device" option now, where you watch on your smartphone with their wifi. The long haul flights usually have screens.
- jedberg 7y agoSince OP said it was subsidized by the airlines, I assumed OP meant as an inflight movie.
- rolltiide 7y agoparent poster here: in-flight movies are a popular option. any entertainment I try to bring myself "just in case" really just ends up taking up space/weight and not being used last decade it felt like a luxury to bring my laptop/device for travel, this decade it is a burden if it happens at all.
- icelancer 7y ago>> Keep in mind that movies on flights are sometimes edited and they don't tell you. They especially remove any scenes involving plane crashes. Huh. Never knew that.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoThey do tell you. The blurb always states that in-flight movies may be edited for content, even if in fact you're getting an unedited version. I saw a censored and then uncensored version of Mystic Pizza on the two flights of a round trip with the same airline once. The editing quality is not great; the censored scenes were pretty confusing.
- jedberg 7y ago> The blurb always states that in-flight movies may be edited for content, even if in fact you're getting an unedited version. Which effectively means they didn't tell you. :)
- rolltiide 7y ago> So you know, you might be missing some critical scenes in some movies. :) A tolerable risk. Non-US airlines have wildly different criteria for this such that it really hasn't been in issue.
- simcop2387 7y agoThis is why I bring my own copies of Alive, Die Hard 2, and others on flights. It actually helps keep me from being so anxious on flights.
- paulcole 7y agoThe hill I choose to die on is that Die Hard 2 is better than the original Die Hard.
- jedberg 7y agoI enjoy them both equally. I also like Die Hard 3 just as much as the first two. The rest aren’t worth two hours.
- paulcole 7y ago3 is my favorite. The addition of Sam Jackson and NYC is just great. I honestly don’t even think about anything beyond the original trilogy.
- southerndrift 7y agoWhy do you think so?
- paulcole 7y agoCooler terrorist plot, bigger action scenes, and more variety in the setting: plane, airport, snowy fields, etc.
- henrikschroder 7y ago> subsidized by the merchants that paid for my points. Technically, it's paid for by people paying credit card interest and fees, and everyone who doesn't buy things with a credit card, thereby getting nothing for the inflated prices that merchants pass on to you.
- finchisko 7y agoCall me ecoterrorist, but hearing "flights are cheap", so we flight makes me angry. Flights should not supposed to be cheap. The whole industry contributes significantly to global warming for you to watch movies.
- perl4ever 7y agoFor a very long time, people have made cheap swipes at Al Gore for using lots of carbon, such as for flying here and there and doing things that rich people do. And, for a very long time, I thought, well, that's stupid, because global warming is about the total amount of CO2 on the whole planet, not personal behavior and virtue. It's not a religion, after all. Somehow, everything's reversed, but does this mean that Gore is now a fiend? Or were people right the first time, that it's not about carbon being sinful? A pound of CO2 is a pound of CO2, isn't it? Every time people make a comment about some specific activity, what I hear is "this pound of CO2 is more sinful than that pound of CO2". Or "everyone should get to emit equal amounts of CO2". I don't think these have anything to do with preventing climate change. I really, really, don't believe it's wrong or contradictory for "liberal elites" to fly around on their private jets and still try to stop global warming. But that means I also don't see why people have turned to condemning Joe Blow in the same way. It's not flying that's the problem. You ban flying, and economics would allow the fossil fuel to be burned some other way. You mandate electric cars, or anything else, and you're not doing the one thing we need to do, which is to ration all carbon emissions. All carbon is equal! Maybe we do need to switch to electric cars or stop flying, but I'm saying we can only find that out by first making emitting CO2 more expensive and then letting the market work. It's not that it's a "nicer" solution that's more "free market", it's that there is literally no other option. We are looking for car keys under a streetlight, when we know they were dropped in the sewer.
- baddox 7y agoIn my opinion the “solution” is to just make every pound of CO2 cost, well, its actual cost. It wouldn’t bother me if a factory uses more CO2 than an individual, or even if a meat eater uses more CO2 than a vegan, as long as every party is paying the actual societal cost of the CO2.
- kbenson 7y agoAnd who knows how much longer VC subsidized taxi services will last. Now you've got me wondering, just how much wealth has been redistributed back to the general public from failed VC backed schemes over the last decade?
- Porthos9K 7y agoNot even close to enough.
- OrgNet 7y agoI wonder if they knew that it would never work and were just feeling "philanthropic"
- abakker 7y agoI wonder if you could post hoc write it off as a donation to the public, and deduct it from your taxes... (I mean, I don't seriously wonder this, just hyperbolically)
- jameslevy 7y agoYou definitely can't write off a bad investment as a donation, but you can write it off as a capital loss.
- austinl 7y agoNot sure how active it still is, but there's a site called VC Fund My Life (http://www.vcfml.com/ http://www.vcfml.com/) which catalogs coupons offered by start-ups for growth hacking (likely just VC money).
- newshorts 7y agoLet’s get some healthcare startups funded and we can start taking about real money!
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- stjohnswarts 7y agoI saw sooooo many movies :) . Then it fell like the house of cards that it was.