I once rode a bus from Boston to NYC in the middle of a winter storm at night. The bus got lost and the trip ended up taking close to 7 hours. These buses had TVs for showing video tapes, and so partway through, the driver decided to show “The Ring”. Let me tell you, an involuntary horror movie screening in the middle of a blizzard is quite a memorable experience.
The seat-back screens on planes are mostly crap. Thick, heavy, poor color and brightness, and shitty software. They should just get rid of them and instead provide a bracket for the tablets or phones that everybody already has. Would save a decent amount of weight too. I'd still want a moving map and video feed from the tail camera, but they could just stream that over WiFi.
A fair bit to unpack about forced viewing of this film in particular. The subject is largely about how people aren't connected while being spoiled with opportunity