https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17482918/amc-subscription-moviepass-stubs-a-list
Moviepass costs 10$/month for one movie a day and can't watch the same movie twice
AMC A-List is 20$/month and includes:
Multiple movies in a day and can watch the same movie multiple times
IMAX/3D/Etc. Included. This also includes dine-in variants.
The benefits of AMC Stubs (5$ off stuff every once in awhile, free refills of popcorn/soda, etc.)
Being able to book tickets before you get to the theater, have up to 3 reservations at a time
food/drink discounts
I'd love this if the AMCs around me hadn't all closed, leaving the only two AMC theatres like 45+ minutes away lol.
Looks like a pretty good service. Shame there's no AMC's in this region, but my parents' town has 3 within 2 blocks of eachother, they might get use of this.
That's a pretty good deal all things considered. I'd actually use it AMC had any theaters that were reasonably close to me, or at least closer than three theaters right next to me.
tbh im gonna abuse that dolby cinema access
best theater room ever made
Dude I saw Infinity War in Dolby Cinema and it was amazing
what will I give up for data mining though?
Hope Regal does something similar. Moviepass is a great deal but they're basically giving away money, I doubt it will last. If we get stable movie theater subscriptions like this spawned out of it that will then compete with each other, Moviepass will have been a great success for the consumer long-term.
Moviepass is napster which gave birth to itunes and all the other music services
are you able to get two tickets for the same showtime with this? seems like the "3 movies in a day" refers to three separate showings of the same movie.
Will this subscription give me friends to go see movies with?
all tickets have to be used by you only.
requires photo id.
Goddamn I might actually get in on this. MoviePass seemed too good to be true, and lo and behold it was. "$10 a month for unlimited movies" eventually became "$10 a month for one movie a week, no repeat viewings, no special events, no 3D, no IMAX, no Fathom Events, also you have to be at the theater when you reserve it, also our system might be confused if you then buy another ticket or some snacks while you're there and permaban you".
I always end up at AMC these days, and the fact that this would allow me to go watch shit like Incredibles 2 as many times as I want is extremely attractive to me. If I was to reserve a ticket online for one of those nice theaters with the reclining seats, the bill would add up to about $20 anyway, so I'd totally be able to make this worth it.
A shame that I'm not an avid moviegoer because that's a great deal
AMC tickets are like $20 here anyway but I only go to the movies maybe twice a year tops
if anything services like this encourage people to become moviegoers.
"hey a movie im mildly interested in is out, better go watch it"
And it's awful.
AMC has routinely been trying to fuck with moviepass because they beat them to the punch, then they release their own laughable version
Here's MP's response
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/134149/a6ea2217-4ba1-4ae9-bc04-138f21f8f1c3/image.png
every theater nearby me or places i go to (like disney) are all AMC theaters.
this is honestly a massive benefit for me over Moviepass
Fair enough but that sounds more like being squeezed by the area like Comcast customers rather than MP having an inferior product. They also happen to be the single theater chain that actively tries to sabotage and trash talk them, so it'd probably be difficult to get into if all that was around was AMC.
Nah man, Moviepass is the itunes of of the cinema subscription world. Sneaking into the the cinema just as the film is starting is the Napster of cinema.
lol
"we want to make movies more accessible, they want to make more profit."
They both want to make more profit.
Fuck businesses that act as if their mere existence is a philanthropic gift.
oh yeah dude, literally flushing 21.7 million dollars a month is totally for-profit
/s
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/burnrate.asp
The statement is true, they're burning cash to try to make movies more accessible, and doing what they can to make it sustainable, AMC's pissed because they weren't first and literally want more money
MoviePass pays for the ticket on its own. The card they give you is a literal credit card that pays AMC the ticket price when you use it. That's why they are adding $20+ million a month to their own debt, it will probably never turn a profit like Youtube, Spotify and other "exists because its nice and convenient" services
MoviePass doesn't make money off of the tickets, it makes money off of the data spawned from the users of it.
and shilling their own movies to MP customers
Didn't one of the bigwigs at MoviePass essentially admit that their strategy is to do what Netflix did, where they present an amazing service for a "too good to be true" price, then gradually jack up the price while limiting service after folks have gotten dependent on the original format of the service?
Like, in the same way Netflix used to be "a few bucks a month for unlimited movies", but now it's "more bucks a month for some movies, but you can pay even more bucks for the original service that gets you all the movies". Something about how, once people are used to having a service, they'll be more inclined to say "eh fuck it, it's only a few more bucks" and re-up a subscription, even if they're getting a wildly shittier deal than the one they initially agreed to.
I fully admit I may be misremembering; if there wasn't an outright statement, then it certainly seems that that's the direction they're going in, moving from "$10 a month for unlimited movies" to "$10 a month for one movie a day, no repeats, no 3D, IMAX, D-Box seats, or special events, also we'll block your credit card if we think you're using MoviePass to buy extra tickets or popcorn or whatever".
They're burning cash to make profit.
It is not a charity.
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