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Voyager I posted:The example you listed was some frictionless vacuum hypothetical with as much connection to reality as those Walmart employee finance guides that assume you don't own a car or heat your apartment. Okay. . .but as I said you can just do google and see how similar that estimate on that blog is to the actual prices people are charging for the service or listen to the person who posted in the thread and said who did something similar and the price didn't sound outlandish to them. FlamingLiberal posted:Would you like to see how movie theaters die faster Lmao drat, was this always the end game for assigned seating? Seems very dumb and I say that as someone who generally prefers to sit in the front as long as it's not a 3D movie.
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I’ve been getting emails from MoviePass about their re-launch. Perhaps they’ll save the theaters? 
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Having worked in the industry, that kind of seat pricing is extremely normal for live theatre. I'm actually surprised it took this long to jump to movie theaters. No idea if it will work out. I know that I wouldn't even blink to buy tickets that way for a live performance, but I think I'd probably be annoyed to do the same for a movie. On the other hand, I'm hardly the target demographic, given that I don't think I've been to a movie theater in like three years.
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Lemony posted:On the other hand, I'm hardly the target demographic, given that I don't think I've been to a movie theater in like three years. Why, did something happen about three years ago?
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Zugzwang posted:I’ve been getting emails from MoviePass about their re-launch. Perhaps they’ll save the theaters?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Would you like to see how movie theaters die faster quote:AMC Stubs A-List members will be able to reserve seats in the Preferred Sightline Section at no additional cost. Sounds like they're just trying to push people towards AMC's subscription service (which is good value if you like to watch movies). But I also get the feeling that they'll slowly start pushing the price up on A-List, which I think already got a $1/mo increase this year? GrandpaPants has a new favorite as of 19:06 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Feb 6, 2023 19:01
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FlamingLiberal posted:Isn’t this the re-re-launch? I’ve lost track I assumed from the pricing that it was some kind of temporary movie studio investment set up to harvest data on moviegoing habits. Nope. The company was just that dumb.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:08
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Zugzwang posted:If we went to the movies even once a month - and we did - MoviePass was losing money on us. They were hoping to make it up in volume.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:15
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That person who said they bought a black panther movie ticket via that app subscription just to use the bathrooms which were better than the malls bathroom was the best use of that service. Godspeed you, man.
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value-brand cereal posted:That person who said they bought a black panther movie ticket via that app subscription just to use the bathrooms which were better than the malls bathroom was the best use of that service. Godspeed you, man.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:20
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Who tf goes to movie theaters lmao
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Feb 6, 2023 19:25
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I do, most films do in fact look better on a larger-than-life screen. But man the big theaters have problems. (I do wonder if they might do better if their pre-shows weren't the chintziest poo poo imaginable.)
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Feb 6, 2023 19:27
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Here's how I would improve the (AMC) theater-going experience. - 3 trailers at most per movie, instead of like, 15-20 min worth of trailers. - Get rid of Nicole Kidman's promo thing. Goddamn. - Get rid of IMAX/Dolby promo thing. Like we're already in the drat theater. There, that saves everyone like 15 minutes of their life each time they go to the theater.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:41
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The worst part of the movie theater experience is the people. I’d pay a premium if theaters policed and chucked out disruptive audience members.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:44
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GrandpaPants posted:Here's how I would improve the (AMC) theater-going experience. Trailers are fine, it's the commercials for other things that are the problem.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:47
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Vegetable posted:The worst part of the movie theater experience is not being able to smoke weed during the movie. FTFY. 
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Feb 6, 2023 19:48
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How else Will i know what Maria menudos is up to?? The gas pump??
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value-brand cereal posted:That person who said they bought a black panther movie ticket via that app subscription just to use the bathrooms which were better than the malls bathroom was the best use of that service. Godspeed you, man.
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A movie theater is one of the places I feel least safe these days which sucks because that was my favorite thing to do. I got Movie Pass before the big price slash (although hilariously because I needed to turn it off during a broke patch they said if I could cancel I could never come back, their business was always bad even before the gimmick) and it was even worth it to me then (although, just barely). But yeah no more signing up for movie pass to me.
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Feb 6, 2023 20:26
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iMax Dolby is great because of all the insane stuff they do. Here's a cow. Now it's a chopper. Now it's overhead. Now an alien ray is scanning your butt. Plus all the visuals. I used to love the dumb digital CD thing that Cineplex Odeon used to run to let you know you were listening in full DTS splendor.
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:How else Will i know what Maria menudos is up to?? The gas pump?? Lol
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Zugzwang posted:They have to be one of the most baffling companies ever. In 2018, my wife and I both joined with a prepaid $8/mo plan. Tickets cost like $15 per person where we lived at the time. If we went to the movies even once a month - and we did - MoviePass was losing money on us. Their hope was to get a big enough foothold that movie studios would invest in them to set up data harvesting on moviegoing habits (or theaters would invest in them because subsidizing the ticket cost was worth the concessions profits), but it never happened.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdAy7GIMpTk AMC offers upgrade to Schlaaang super seats when??
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There isn't even an AMC theater near me, but I did go to a movie theater a few days ago out of sheer boredom. I paid for a specific seat in one of the small screen rooms for Puss in Boots, but ended up watching the latter half of Megan, and then going to the movie I paid for and watching the latter half of it. How strict is AMC about movie hopping during slow hours?
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Space Robot posted:There isn't even an AMC theater near me, but I did go to a movie theater a few days ago out of sheer boredom. I paid for a specific seat in one of the small screen rooms for Puss in Boots, but ended up watching the latter half of Megan, and then going to the movie I paid for and watching the latter half of it. How strict is AMC about movie hopping during slow hours? Assigned seating at least at the theaters I go to is kind of a suggestion.
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Rick posted:Assigned seating at least at the theaters I go to is kind of a suggestion. Which is the big difference between movies and live theater as some goon brought up earlier - you can charge more for better seats if it's pretty much the only way people can get those seats. (and they can't just wait until the day of to see what's available)
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In the before times, the Alamo Drafthouse down the street from my last place had you choose seats when you bought your tickets. When you sat down, you had to set your ticket on the little table each seat had, and the servers would make rounds before the movie started to make sure you were in the right spot before taking your ticket.
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I had a wild experience seeing Broker at a Regal theater last month. There were no pre-show ads and no trailers or promos except a brief clip of Koreeda saying "I hope you like my movie". The people who showed up 15 minutes after showtime must've been pissed when they realized that they had missed the whole opening sequence. (Whatever executive signed off on giving Broker a wide release in the hope that it would be the next Parasite must have been pissed too, but for a different reason.)
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Rick posted:Assigned seating at least at the theaters I go to is kind of a suggestion. From my experience working at a theater for my first job, unless the manager is breathing down your neck, if the house isn't packed, I don't think the 17 year old making minimum wage sweeping floors is really going to give too much of a poo poo if you're sitting out of your seat. Really the only way I can think it would become a problem is if whoever actually bought those seats makes a big deal about it, which happens sometimes, even if there's maybe 10 people in the screening. In that case, just move to a different seat.
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Vegetable posted:The worst part of the movie theater experience is the people. I’d pay a premium if theaters policed and chucked out disruptive audience members. Alamo Drafthouse does this. At least they used to. There was an AP frontpage article about this in recent years that claimed PoC were being removed more frequently than other demographics, so it's possible they've changed their policies since then. e: I can't seem to locate the AP article. It's the only news I read, but I guess it's possible I read about that here on SA. Ofecks has a new favorite as of 16:46 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Ofecks posted:Alamo Drafthouse does this. At least they used to. There was an AP frontpage article about this in recent years that claimed PoC were being removed more frequently than other demographics, so it's possible they've changed their policies since then. They throw out people who generate complaints, so certain patrons treat it like how some goons just itch to report posting enemies for minor infractions. I doubt they'll just drop the policy because I know it's part of why I and literally all my friends refuse to go anywhere else. Or we did before the pandemic lol.
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lavaca posted:I had a wild experience seeing Broker at a Regal theater last month. There were no pre-show ads and no trailers or promos except a brief clip of Koreeda saying "I hope you like my movie". The people who showed up 15 minutes after showtime must've been pissed when they realized that they had missed the whole opening sequence. I genuinely wish that theaters actually returned to real show times, even if it means marking it as ReelTime(tm) or some nonsense. My kids insist on sitting through all the trailers so we must get there on time, but I'd really love to not need to guess.
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I haven’t seen the inside of a theater since before Covid because I moved around the time they started reopening and none of the theaters around here serve beer. I want to drink while I watch a movie dammit
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Coasterphreak posted:I want to drink while I watch a movie dammit Hip flasks exist for exactly this reason
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Coasterphreak posted:I haven’t seen the inside of a theater since before Covid because I moved around the time they started reopening and none of the theaters around here serve beer.
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I work in live theater, and obviously charging differently for different seating is a big thing. But also a big thing is that just because a seat is empty doesn't mean it's available. There are tons of reasons we have open seats around the theater. Projections, lighting effects, cast interaction with the house, drop zones for flight paths, all sorts of poo poo. So just taking a seat because it's empty is a good way to get asked to leave. On our last show run we had people go get freestanding chairs from one of the opera boxes, take them down the hall and up a short flight of stairs, and set them up in one of the piano boxes we were using for ZFX. They had to have done it in-between top of show and intermission, or the ushers would have caught it. The spot ops called it into us. When they were removed they left behind a bunch of fancy purses and stuff we turned into the front desk. That's probably much less of an issue at the movie theater. That being said the ushers know what seats are what, and will often offer better seats to people if they are available just to be cool.
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https://twitter.com/MKupperman/status/1624103845532925955 Perfectly normal and above-board behavior.
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how did it get her email? I’m a little skeptical, I have to say
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Subjunctive posted:how did it get her email? I’m a little skeptical, I have to say Yeah. Sounds pretty bullshit
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