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]