Movie Theater Subscription Services • Page 70

They hand me the tix, I take pix. Done and done

 

haven't seen surge pricing yet...do you have to be at the theater to see it?

 

Nope. It will show up on the app as a lightning bolt next to the showtime.

 

Yeah, the picture thing is definitely not even an inconvenience in my mind. Take the tickets out of the kiosk, snap the picture, close the app, then head in.

 

I don't think it's an inconvenience, I just think in comparison to other companies and programs, there could be a better way. Everything can be improved upon!

 

yeah so in between me posting that and now, it turned on for me. I was planning to go see unfriended 2 (I just watched unfriended last night in preparation...love me some trashy horror mkay) but its got a grey lightning bolt for the showing 2+ hours in advance and as of right now Sorry to Bother You doesn't have one so we are planning on seeing that instead

 

Sorry To Bother You isn't playing at my local theater. Worth it to drive 24 miles to see it?

 

I drove to a city 75 miles away to see it the other night (225 miles if you count the night before when I drove all the way there before I realized I left my fucking wallet at home lol) and I definitely don’t regret it.

 

What...

 

Wow. That's commitment. But I do crazy driving like that too.

 

I grew up in the middle of no where so I've had to drive an hour+ to do anything my entire life. Luckily I don't have to as often anymore but the city where I live now doesn't get many indie/limited release movies so I still have to travel a little bit to see the good ones.

 

My semi-local theatre finally has a showing for Won’t You Be My Neighbor.

I’m the only one in the theatre.

 

Saw Sorry to Bother You and have to recommend it to all of you. So good, and nails so many of the social, corporate things going on today. Lots of similarities to Get Out, though this isn't at all a horror flick. Speaking of big corporations, used the AMC A List tonight and the experience is 100 times better than MoviePass. No weird credit card thing, photos, or surge pricing. Just went on the app, picked my seat, and boom. Ticket was on my phone instantly. Beautiful.

 

I'm gonna use this to watch Princess Mononoke this weekend. Apparently there's a Studio Ghibli event which happens from time to time.

 

I thought moviepass doesnt cover those

 

I haven't even checked so it you're probably right. Can't wait to be disappointed!

 

I never really realized how many trailers Regal has before movies until yesterday.

My usual theater is a local chain and they usually only do like 3/4 trailers before a movie but Regal has been having like 6 trailers every time I watch a movie.

 

In my experience Regal is light on trailers compared to AMC. I think Regal averages 17 minutes while AMC averages around 22-25.

 

there were about 30 minutes of trailers at amc last night before sorry to bother you. it was honestly dreadful

 

it might have just been sorry to bother you having so many trailers because that's the movie I saw and it was just tiring.

after like the 5 trailers people were going UGHHH can this start already

 

AMC definitely has more trailers, at least from my experiences. I am a fan of trailers and I could probably watch them all night on YouTube, but when I'm at a movie theater and I came to see that specific movie, I don't want 25 minutes of my time wasted.

 

I used to love trailers but now that I have MP and see way more movies it is a chore to sit through the same ones almost twice a week. I don't even know how many times I saw that Sicario trailer.

 

Surge pricing hasn't affected me at all yet. I live an hour away from the ~big city~ and so far the only surges I've noticed were for Ant Man which I would never see anyway lol. But like I saw Sorry To Bother You in Portland with no issues, and Mamma Mia 2 just opened and isn't surge either.

 

I was anxious because every screening of Mamma Mia before 9:30 had a lightning bolt but because I was able to get there 3 hours early I didn't have to pay anything, but it said it was going up to $6 which is a lot, like I don't mind paying $6 extra to see Mission Impossible next week but if you only watch one movie with this you lose money and 2 movies makes it more expensive than the AMC thing

 

Honestly. Half the posts in here just blow my mind lol. It’s like seeing in real time that Louis CK bit about the guy complaining that the new airplane wi-fi stopped working