Over the holiday season, something like 7.5 million people will step foot in an airport and take to the skies. That's a lot of delays, a lot of airport beers, and a lot of wondering about how the person in front of you has seemingly never gone through a security checkpoint before. But it also means a lot of in-flight entertainment. So, before the chaos-fueled travels begin, The Ringer is proud to introduce Airplane Movies Day, in honor of the things we watch on our tiny seat-back screens to get us through the flight.
You plop down into a seat that's too small for your six-hour flight. You look to your right and see a 6-month-old baby. In the row ahead is an elderly person texting on their phone—massive fonts, and the keyboard sounds are still on. It doesn't feel like the AC is working, and you start to wonder whether someone has brought Panda Express onto the airplane. (Spoiler: Someone definitely has.) Five minutes in the air, and the person in front of you has already reclined
