The regal unlimited plan came out today via the Regal app update in case any of you are interested. I plan to join the middle tier option ($21 per month)on Thursday and use for first time on Friday.
AMC is closest to my house anyway but Regal can fuck off with this bullshit. "Premium screenings are included with AMC's plan, but Regal Unlimited will tack on a surcharge of $1.50 to $3 per viewing. Regal also charges a $0.50 convenience fee for app bookings, a surcharge absent from AMC's platform." https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/amc-regal-put-final-nail-233000764.html
I signed up for Alamo Drafthouse’s program. $20 month for unlimited movies (one per day) and can reserve up to 7 days in advance. I think I’ll stick with it, depending on how the details are eventually ironed out.
We have tried and really can't ever get to more than 2 a week which still puts us out way ahead of what we're paying even if we see matinees on the weekends
Definitely sir, I work close to a Regal (5-minute walk), which is also a 10-minute drive from our house; the next closest theaters to us (of the chains at least, there's also an independent film Landmark theater with 3 screens about 10 minutes away) are a Regal about 15-20 minutes away and an AMC in the hood (and also 15-20 minutes away). Thus, this Regal plan makes a ton of sense for me, especially after trying to put up with all of MoviePass' headaches over the last year, but would certainly join and prefer AMC Stubs if the situation was reversed and the theaters closest to us were AMCs.
Yep, but I would be surprised if I would be considered a “power user” going to one movie a week. Thinking my problems were just with their shitty app
I still occasionally read the subreddit for Moviepass and it blew my mind that people were still complaining up until Friday that they couldn't get the app to work sometimes. There's no hassle in the world worth giving that company any type of business.
movie pass gets a lot of deserved hate but for a short, magical period, they were the best. It was unsustainable, but that was their problem not mine. I enjoyed going to the movies every weekend for $10 a month. I got out when things turned south and now enjoy AMC A-List, which is only a thing because of MoviePass. So thanks for dying so that A-List could live.
I got in at the $6.99mth / 12 month rate so year plus fee came out to like $85 for the year and got good value out of it
RIP. It was fun while it lasted. I had it for 3 months and saw 38 movies before they offered the refund. Hopefully my shares of HMNY will see something happen with them covering the money pit.
I had mine from 2015-2018. It was big reason I started going back to the movies. Never would've gone to the theater that much if not for Moviepass.
It could have went either way and was a gamble on their part. Moviepass tried to force the film industry into giving them a cut by signing up so many people that they could make a dent in their box office numbers by steering people to/from specific movies or theaters. The industry called their bluff and they had no other sustainable plan. Shocked it was even still going up until this week
I feel a $20/month unlimited plan would have had a much better chance at success and financial sustainability. $9.99 even if theaters had acquiesced seemed doomed.
Definitely the moviepass way to shut down immediately and not to give the users any sort of warning. Granted anyone who was still a user didn't deserve a warning as they are clearly an idiot but still.
I know not ideal but they needed some restrictions on how many movies, and someway to track how many cards people had. I read stories of people having quite a few cards, going every single day and racking up huge bonus points on their movie theater reward cards and never actually walked into see a movie. $20 / month. 8 movies max (I think that's more than fair), partner with the theaters to buy a guest ticket through the app, and somehow track the cards to users to keep people from completely abusing the system. Bam - Doug's New Movie Pass. Now I just need some of that sweet sweet stupid venture capital money.
Only issue I had was the pricing, and having to pay for a full year. And I couldn't muster the energy to go to at least one movie a month. But now, it's essentially half off, so why not?
Yeah, I was thinking it was $100 less than what it is. Still, see 2 movies a month and it's worth it. Not sure if it still is for me though.
Mine is $21 per month plus tax so closer to 23 per month, but would def sign up for the annual now if I could do it over again. And yeah, if you see 2 per month it’s worth it, even with 1 being a matinee. And I haven’t had a problem seeing a few per month thus far—sometimes feeling more motivated to go because of it—but I should also note that there’s a Regal that’s about a 5-minute walk from my office (and it’s also about a 10-minute drive from my house).
Saw Queen & Slim last night. It was pretty good. My gf and I were the only 2 white people in the theater with ~150 black people
Regal cinemas shutting down https://variety.com/2020/film/globa...cinemas-no-time-to-die-james-bond-1234791728/
I don’t think the one in my city ever opened back up but I could be wrong. Not like anything has come out in the theaters that is worth paying $10+ to see anyways since the COVID shit hit the fan.
I think the AMC I usually go to is mainly playing older movies or releases from the last couple years besides the very rare new releases I’ve been tempted to go but have not yet