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Gone are the days when you could take your family to the movies — complete with popcorn and soda — without it costing as much as your mortgage payment. It’s insane how much we have to spend to enjoy blockbusters.

So it shouldn’t surprise you that movies are no longer played from massive reels of film. Instead, our favorite films arrive in indestructible boxes.

Pelican cases are extremely durable. Basically, these boxes transport the hard drives that hold movie footage.

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First developed for scuba divers, they are airtight and watertight, and they can handle extreme amounts of pressure. They’re also used to carry military equipment.

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We all know how fickle hard drives can be, so these cases have to be able to withstand anything.

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The hard drives are just as secure as the boxes that carry them. They can only be accessed with a special key, and information cannot be copied from one hard drive to the next.

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These drives only contain the movie and any associated trailers.

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When loaded up, the movie takes about an hour to work its way from the drive to the server. But when it comes to seeing blockbusters on the silver screen, I don’t think any of us mind the wait (even if it did cost next month’s rent to see it)!

During the summer of 2012, Aurora, Colorado, resident James Holmes made headlines across the globe. Holmes opened fire in a crowded movie theater in his home town during a packed opening night screening of The Dark Knight Rises. The shooting left 12 people dead and another 70 injured. After Holmes was taken into custody, he warned police that he had rigged his apartment with booby-trapped explosives. Luckily, police defused the bombs with a robot. Still, they were in for a quite a scene when they entered the apartment.

Inside, they found extensive stockpiles of bombs and bomb-making materials.

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For the first time, the Aurora Police Department released photos taken inside Holmes’ apartment after the traps were removed.

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That does not look very safe.

Aurora Police Department

Earlier this year, Holmes pled guilty by reason of insanity, and a judge sentenced him to life in prison.

Aurora Police Department

Aurora Police Department

(via NBC News)

I knew that James Holmes was bad news, but seeing these pictures makes me even happier that he’ll be spending the rest of his life behind bars.