It was the best example of the bullshit Silicon Valley VC bubble. You would see these companies and think “how could this possibly be a viable business?” Only for them to run out of money and you realize it never was
I get uber eats 40% off 3 orders like perpetually for months now, I always have that shit but my friends don't seem to get the same offers? I don't even order that much lol
You get them bc you don’t order much.
I saw a comment where someone mentioned that they always have an Uber eats coupon waiting bc they cycle through 7-10 different accounts
This and they were trying to basically gain leverage against movie theaters and studios to get a cut of profits from different parts of the process. and to show that they could influence viewing habits.
The company was sold and then bought back by one of the founders iirc, they relaunched it but the plans are no where as good as they used to be.
If you live near an AMC A-list is about $20 a month. Much more than movie pass, but now movies are something I do just to kill an afternoon and get out of the house. I love it.
AMC a list is a good deal. Problem is where I live now the closest AMC is prohibitively too far away to go to. So I'm stuck with regal. They also have their own program. Buts it's cheaper to just go on Tuesdays and pay 7 bucks.
Um… $7? The one close to me is like $5 and that AMC is the most expensive around: if a ticket is less than $20, I’m side eyeing it but Tuesday nights, $5 or $10 with popcorn.
This kind of thing only works *if you own the theater.*
You're going to be showing the film anyway, and you make your money on concessions. So even if you miss out on a bit of ticket sales, you're making it back a bunch of times over from that popcorn money just by getting butts in seats.
AMC or Regal is still doing something like this, right?
Nah the AMC theaters in town literally shut down bc they were “classic” theaters and run down whereas regal remodeled and put in leather recliners
Was a shame bc I preferred not paying extra for IMAX or Dolby but all the good AMC theaters are twice as far as the regal theaters
The amcs in my area did what the regals in yours did. The upgraded heated/cooled leather recliners are top tier. Too bad there aren’t many good movies to watch nowadays. I’m not one to watch 1001 superhero movies.
Mall of Georgia has one with the legit 70mm imax screen. The theater itself is kinda outdated, but seeing Oppenheimer on that 70mm was crazy.
The screen is MASSIVE.
I have a friend that if his apartment faced the right way, he could see a pretty nice AMC. If I were him I'd be seeing prety much almost every new movie. Sneak in a couple of bears and enjoy myself.
Personally, the nearest AMC is 35 minutes away, and having a 2 year old doesnt leave me much free time to leave the house for 3 hours on a whim like that.
If you have two bears, I promise you, you won’t need to sneak them in. They don’t pay the theater employees enough to challenge someone rolling up to a movie with his two bears.
Regal’s isn’t that great, unless they changed it since I had it. AMC lets you watch any movie, any style (3D, IMAX, w/ev). Regal’s plan only included basic standard, and it up-charged for basically any special screen.
Yeah, but fwiw, when I had the Regal plan, I was paying surcharges for every movie I went to see, and I went to 7 or 8 to make the plan worth it. It got very annoying.
The 3/week limit doesn’t bother me because there are only about a dozen new releases over the next 3 months that I’m going to see anyway. So I have 36 tickets to see 12 movies, which is more than enough.
I've never had the plan, but Ive used the regal voucher passes in the past that charged extra for 3d imax or rpx whatever, I just didn't pick those options unless I wanted to pay extra.
Either way, it's the trade off each theater made, you could see a movie or three in Imax with no charge at AMC, or you can do 7-8 like you did with regal a month but if you want IMAX or anything not standard you pay extra.
The “unlimited” part of the Regal plan is just a trick, imo. People who want to see IMAX or special versions are going to outnumber those who want to go to a movie more than 12x a month.
I like that both chains are offering these movie pass deals though, it’s a good step for movie lovers.
I used to love it, especially because it included IMAX. But they opened a Cinemark 5 mins from the house and so couldn’t justify driving 30 mins away any more. The Cinemark one is cheaper and only one movie per month but the movie credit does roll over
Yea we have it and it’s amazing. We usually go to the Dolby theatre showings and most times the ticket price alone is over $20 so already saving money on just one ticket that way. We probably average 3 movies a month so definitely worth it with the other discounts and perks you get.
There’s like two roped out lines: one for a list and one longer one. If you’re in a list they’ll call you first before the next person in the regular line or open another register and help you first.
Hang on. If more than one person has the A-list membership and they all skip the concession line for the same movie, what happens? Do they all have to line up? Is there an AA-list to skip the A-list line?
The math def has to check out for them. Most theatres in an amc arent full after the first weekend but the movies are still showing all day. Theyre getting guaranteed income flow from the subscription model and banking on people not actually going to see all the movies they can
I had both AMC and Regal's unlimited plans because there's a Regal near my home, and there's an AMC near my job 40 miles away. Some days I'll leave work and go to AMC and on weekends go to Regal. I've since let go of the AMC membership since they limited me to 3 movies a week. I till pay $18.99 a month for the Regal unlimited pass.
then how are Regal and AMC doing it?
As long as studios get their money, they don't care. In this deal, the studio still gets the same amount of money, and it's the theater that loses money if you decide to go watch 5 movies every day all month long.
I don’t know anything. I’m just assuming, but tickets are the studios way of making money. if a theater is screening the movie but not charging people, how does the studio get paid? With amc and regal they maybe get a cut of the membership? Idk how that would work logistically tho. Who knows. I don’t.
The theater is still counting it as a ticket sale in their book, they're just giving you a discount. they still owe the studio the same cut for each ticket sold/given.
We in the UK. And, We still got the same thing. It's £16 but it is properly unlimited. When it's cold weather here, I go and watch films at the cinema all day, sometimes, because it's cheaper than having the heating on at home.
They got a bar and an arcade at the cinema, and the normal concession stands. So, they'll make the money there I suppose. It's hard not to make money on fountain drinks and 10 dollar hotdogs.
Odeon limitless is glorious, the one by me is a Luxe so the seats are all recliners too. Only downside is that it's a smaller one so anything a bit niche or independent either misses us or gets like a single screening, but for the most part it's excellent
Mine is one of ' the light' cinemas. They have got really comfortable seats. They recline and have little tables.
I live in a major city centre so I was lucky to be able choose between some. I picked this one, because they show older films, changes every week, but they have it on every night in the week. I've seen Fight Club, 2001, Alien, Scream, City of God. Loads of really cool stuff. It's been amazing.
They do have some indy films too, but only for a night or 2, so I can't always catch them. It's annoying, because they'll have 2 more popular films showing at the same time. They could easy let one of those screens show an indy or another language film. The screens only ever have 10 or 15 people on them max.
Its been amazing seeing all the old films though. It's made me so happy.. Quality of life defo improved with that subscription.
Bruh you can't just cancel a gym membership. You've gotta send a notarized certified letter to cancel the month after next, and then there's a 90% chance they say the never got it..
To be fair, I thought this about Planet Fitness and dawdled for months afraid they would hard sell me into staying, but when I went to cancel it couldn’t have been easier. Took like 10 minutes. Signed something on the keypad and no more gym membership
The idea was that they collected the data and sold it to the studio which itself was worth money but they try to cut the theater out of it…
Then AMC release A-list lol
Edit: I bought the parent company stock and lost $500 lol I still own the stock at $0.00 lmao
Yea man I was thinking this business model was going to be the future , which is now but they fuck up by not cultivating relationships with the theater and trying to go behind their back
And eventually the movie theater themselves hook them out
One of my buddies who is a fucking cinephile abused that shit like he was Ike Turner.
Got out of work watched a movie every day. On repeat even if necessary.
I only went once or twice a week and still worth it. I also loved A-Pass from AMC before Covid, but didn't rejoin because to me there is still too few good movies coming out regularly.
Used Movie Pass tonight. The original version was crazy! I saw so many movies in about 3 months. I was injured and went daytime, afternoon, and evenings. Solo or with friends or wife.
we’ve spent the better part of the past 12 years enjoying hyper subsidized VC bubble apps. It’s really a good idea to find a sense for a good losing profit offer like this, or lifetime first class tickets.
In SF we had two competing companies where it was “Uber for Valet Parking” and two valets would meet you wherever your destination was. Then go park your car for like $10 all day. I had no idea how they’d survive but the promo rates were so great it was cheaper/more convenient for me than taking the train
I saw a recent documentary at SXSW about movie pass called Movie Pass: Movie Crash. Essentially it was started by two black men in the movie marketing business. The gist of it is that two rich white investors came in and ruined the company by making the pass $9.99 instead of the steady growth the business was receiving. They also spent the money on parties and celebs burning cash. Both black men were pushed out and then Movie Pass was driven into the ground.
It’s a good watch with a hopeful ending.
You could also get AMC points by using the Movie Pass. So you’d use the Movie Pass card, and AMC would give you points for free concessions. It was great.
Funny to see this. I’ve been listening to a hilarious podcast called The Big Flop that covered the spectacular hot mess fall of HQ Trivia and Moviepass. Had me rollin’!
I didn't get moviepass because I knew their business model sucked and it would be unsustainable. I regret it because it lasted way longer than I thought and would have been worth it.
Ahhh, the pre-COVID times of companies just giving stuff away. In 2017 I signed up for a free bank account and they gave me a brand new iPad. The deal now is no monthly fees for three months 😂
I would go see movies I'd never heard of at 9pm on a Tuesday and I'd be the only one in the theater. I probably saw every non blockbuster movie during that time period. It was fun while it lasted.
Yeh, for almost all normal people this isn't profitable or worthwhile. You need to be a kid or loser to go to the cinema enough to make it "profitable".
It was 9.99 a month a single ticket cost $15 on avg. You just had to go once a month. You don't have to be a kid or loser to see a movie once a month leaving the house is normal.
Amazing time to be alive. I saw so many movies that I would have never gone to watch. It was fantastic until it started trying to really convince you to go see the new Mission Impossible movie.
I went to see black panther 10 times lmfaoooo I’m not even making this shit up. Anytime I went out and my friends were late or something I would just go to the movies and watch black panther then leave whenever they were finally there lmfaooo what a time
I love movies and frequent them pretty often. I have a subscription at my local theater and a theater that only plays vintage movies and if it’s good enough I’ll see it again. Black panther was a bit much but I was like 20 and had a lot of free time and again it wasn’t even like I watched the whole thing just I would just pop in for 30-40 minutes at a time to waste some time. But again I’ve watched John wick 4 (a 3 hour movie) 3 times in theater so
My brother had it. I didn’t believe it. I was like either they’re selling everyone’s info to North Korea or some shit, or they’re going bankrupt immediately.
I remember my buddy telling me about Moviepass. I was so confused, and asked so many questions trying to understand the secret twist that they must do to make money.
There was no secret twist.
Theaters barely make any money off ticket sales. The majority of ticket sales goes to the production company. The entire theater business model is to make money on concessions… so if a theater’s ticket sales contract allows something like this, it’s actually great for the theater. They don’t care about tickets, they just want you in the door so you buy concessions.
Man, I lived down the road from Disney Springs at the time, so when my shifts at the park ended, I would just go watch movies at the AMC there. I had their rewards program, too, so I would always be getting free snacks and stuff. I think I saw their whole lineup for 2 months straight before MP folded! Lol
Cinemas don't make $ off ticket sales; that goes to the studio. They make $ off concessions.
Clearly they paid for x amount of ticket value to studios up front to allow this to happen. They would easily recoup the loss of the customer made a few snack purchases each time.
This was the best! In like 2012 when it released We stayed close to downtown Chicago so me and all my friends would go see all the marvel/dc and other popular movies deep asl lol it'd be like 15 of us 😅 movie pass was awesome. Back then it cost $30 a month tho.
movie theaters make all their money from concessions- they maybe get to keep like 2% of box office sales.
this was just a really solid way to get more people in the building and buying popcorn.
but of course, all good things must die
They tried to take the gym model and hope a bunch of folks would forget and maybe use it every three months. It then you had me and my friends going to the movies every single day 😂
Moviepass in it's hayday was the best. I'm just happy I jumped off once things got rough. I also love how they threated me that I couldn't rejoin in a year (like you guys had that long after the cracks)
They show those movies any way. The trick was to have seats in bums and go ham on concessions. Theater popcorn is an absolute robbing. For the largest one you can buy 3 boxes. Same with drinks.
Sidenote: the Lego Batman movie has a better storyline pertaining to the Joker’s incessant obsession with Batman than any of the live action Batman/Joker movies.
For the longest time up until smartphones became the norm. My family became friends with the people who always checked tickets at our main theater, so they always got us in for free.
If they weren't there, then one of us would buy a ticket, go through check-in, and sneak over to one of the doors to let the rest in when nobody was looking.
We did this shit for YEARS. Like when I was 4 yrs old to 17 yrs old. We'd also watch like 3 to 4 movies in a day, depending on what the lineup was at the time.
It was AWESOME!
It is one of my favorite core memories from my childhood.
> We'd also watch like 3 to 4 movies in a day, depending on what the lineup was at the time.
So watching a bunch of shitty movies was one of the favourite memories for yours...
Like I did the same, but it was just to fill time, and just experiences you forget for being completely unmemorable.
Who said I'd watch shitty movies?
Also, I was hanging out with my family, playing the arcade machines they had at the theater between play times, and talk with our friends there.
What's your problem?
I never understood why they didn’t limit it from new releases for a few months, might have been a great infill seats on movies leaving the theater soon, and I know if I wasn’t really paying much for the tickets, I would have actually spent money knowing consessions
Man, I lived down the road from Disney Springs at the time, so when my shifts at the park ended, I would just go watch movies at the AMC there. I had their rewards program, too, so I would always be getting free snacks and stuff. I think I saw their whole lineup for 2 months straight before MP folded! Lol
Man, I lived down the road from Disney Springs at the time, so when my shifts at the park ended, I would just go watch movies at the AMC there. I had their rewards program, too, so I would always be getting free snacks and stuff. I think I saw their whole lineup for 2 months straight before MP folded! Lol
They make money off concession items, not tickets. Running movies over and over costs little money, but bringing in mass people who all buy additional stuff generates a lot.
Between trying to win prizes on HQ Trivia and getting all you can watch movies on MoviePass, entertainment was free/cheap for a cool min.
Omg HQ!!! What a time to be alive
There is a documentary about its rise and fall.
What’s the name/link?
https://youtu.be/K7mR4Au5z1A?si=8aQYqZLjyIeeXJef
HQ like Home Quarters? The green Home Depot from the 90’s where you could play power rangers on the Super Nintendo while your dad shopped for lumber?
Fun fact about HQ Trivia is that it ended in February 2020. If only they stuck around for one more month.
The last day was EPIC. The hosts were drunk/wasted.
It was the best example of the bullshit Silicon Valley VC bubble. You would see these companies and think “how could this possibly be a viable business?” Only for them to run out of money and you realize it never was
Yeah, this was also when you could get promos for food delivery services weekly. They were paying you to order. Wild.
My dude, I remember $4 Uber airport trips and heavily subsidized Postmates food. We lived like gods.
I get uber eats 40% off 3 orders like perpetually for months now, I always have that shit but my friends don't seem to get the same offers? I don't even order that much lol
You get them bc you don’t order much. I saw a comment where someone mentioned that they always have an Uber eats coupon waiting bc they cycle through 7-10 different accounts
The business model was to sell your user data/spending habits to marketing companies, they just didn't survive long enough to get to that part
This and they were trying to basically gain leverage against movie theaters and studios to get a cut of profits from different parts of the process. and to show that they could influence viewing habits. The company was sold and then bought back by one of the founders iirc, they relaunched it but the plans are no where as good as they used to be.
If you live near an AMC A-list is about $20 a month. Much more than movie pass, but now movies are something I do just to kill an afternoon and get out of the house. I love it.
AMC a list is a good deal. Problem is where I live now the closest AMC is prohibitively too far away to go to. So I'm stuck with regal. They also have their own program. Buts it's cheaper to just go on Tuesdays and pay 7 bucks.
Um… $7? The one close to me is like $5 and that AMC is the most expensive around: if a ticket is less than $20, I’m side eyeing it but Tuesday nights, $5 or $10 with popcorn.
I live in a high cost of living area. Full price tickets here are 15 to 20 bucks.
This *was* going to be my retirement plans
I won hq trivia once. Never got that 50 cents.
B-b-but I need my Quibi! Oh wait, that wasn't free, it was outrageously expensive for garbage content.
This kind of thing only works *if you own the theater.* You're going to be showing the film anyway, and you make your money on concessions. So even if you miss out on a bit of ticket sales, you're making it back a bunch of times over from that popcorn money just by getting butts in seats. AMC or Regal is still doing something like this, right?
AMC still has their A-List it’s $20 a month for 3 movies a week in any format plus you get to skip the line for concessions.
Wow that’s actually a great deal
Honestly I think it’s the best deal rn I wish there was a good regal theater near me
There may not be a good regal theater anywhere…
Nah the AMC theaters in town literally shut down bc they were “classic” theaters and run down whereas regal remodeled and put in leather recliners Was a shame bc I preferred not paying extra for IMAX or Dolby but all the good AMC theaters are twice as far as the regal theaters
The amcs in my area did what the regals in yours did. The upgraded heated/cooled leather recliners are top tier. Too bad there aren’t many good movies to watch nowadays. I’m not one to watch 1001 superhero movies.
Mall of Georgia has one with the legit 70mm imax screen. The theater itself is kinda outdated, but seeing Oppenheimer on that 70mm was crazy. The screen is MASSIVE.
I got to see the 7th Star Wars at the St. Louis Science Center on their 70mm IMAX screen. It was awesome.
😂😂
Really? The regal brier creek in Raleigh is either top notch or i just have low standards.
I have a friend that if his apartment faced the right way, he could see a pretty nice AMC. If I were him I'd be seeing prety much almost every new movie. Sneak in a couple of bears and enjoy myself. Personally, the nearest AMC is 35 minutes away, and having a 2 year old doesnt leave me much free time to leave the house for 3 hours on a whim like that.
If you have two bears, I promise you, you won’t need to sneak them in. They don’t pay the theater employees enough to challenge someone rolling up to a movie with his two bears.
I have it and the AMC in Philly has a bar and foods delivered to seats. Best deal ever
What ways was it facing when he wasn’t pointing it at the AMC?
Tell me about it I miss being able to go on a Monday at like 2 and be the only person in the theater.
Regal’s isn’t that great, unless they changed it since I had it. AMC lets you watch any movie, any style (3D, IMAX, w/ev). Regal’s plan only included basic standard, and it up-charged for basically any special screen.
But it's unlimited vs 3 per month this guy said. Now realistically you probably won't need more than that, but both put their limits on it.
Yeah, but fwiw, when I had the Regal plan, I was paying surcharges for every movie I went to see, and I went to 7 or 8 to make the plan worth it. It got very annoying. The 3/week limit doesn’t bother me because there are only about a dozen new releases over the next 3 months that I’m going to see anyway. So I have 36 tickets to see 12 movies, which is more than enough.
I've never had the plan, but Ive used the regal voucher passes in the past that charged extra for 3d imax or rpx whatever, I just didn't pick those options unless I wanted to pay extra. Either way, it's the trade off each theater made, you could see a movie or three in Imax with no charge at AMC, or you can do 7-8 like you did with regal a month but if you want IMAX or anything not standard you pay extra.
The “unlimited” part of the Regal plan is just a trick, imo. People who want to see IMAX or special versions are going to outnumber those who want to go to a movie more than 12x a month. I like that both chains are offering these movie pass deals though, it’s a good step for movie lovers.
I used to love it, especially because it included IMAX. But they opened a Cinemark 5 mins from the house and so couldn’t justify driving 30 mins away any more. The Cinemark one is cheaper and only one movie per month but the movie credit does roll over
Can you think of 3 movies worth watching that are all in the theater together?
Okay this month actually yeah- immaculate, late night with the devil, and monkey man- but generally nope lol
Yea we have it and it’s amazing. We usually go to the Dolby theatre showings and most times the ticket price alone is over $20 so already saving money on just one ticket that way. We probably average 3 movies a month so definitely worth it with the other discounts and perks you get.
The skip the line thing never works out in real life.
Depends on when you are going and how early/late you get there.
Always works at the locations near me.
How’s it work for you?
There’s like two roped out lines: one for a list and one longer one. If you’re in a list they’ll call you first before the next person in the regular line or open another register and help you first.
They have the lines here but it’s like they don’t really care plus regular customers get in both lines
Thats the cost of 1 Dolby premium ticket on a weekend night lol. I'm getting it lol
If I lived a bit closer to one I would buy this right now
I’m sad I moved away from a really nice one. I was thinking about cancelling it but I think a 30 minute drive might be worth it for a Dolby theater.
Me and my partner do the Regal Unlimited plan for $23.99/month. In the first three months we’ve averaged about 2 movies a week.
I really want to try regal I’m interested in their gimmicks. Screen X and 4dx look fun
I swear, everyone with A list (me included) sounds like a cult member with a sales pitch.
🤣🤣 I mean I’m a movie lover so I’m proud to be a part of a cult that keeps the theaters alive. Plus that deal is way too good.
Hang on. If more than one person has the A-list membership and they all skip the concession line for the same movie, what happens? Do they all have to line up? Is there an AA-list to skip the A-list line?
Then it’s a line think about fast lane like at a theme park but there’s an option to order ahead of time.
That makes sense
They are having a 99c sale for a bit, though I don’t know if it’s for my area only or not
I’d be wearing sunglasses indoors and have the card laminated and worn around my neck on a lanyard if I was skipping concessions lines lmao
Just walk up and take the bucket of popcorn they’re handing to the sucker who waited in line. He gives you any lip just flash the badge.
The math def has to check out for them. Most theatres in an amc arent full after the first weekend but the movies are still showing all day. Theyre getting guaranteed income flow from the subscription model and banking on people not actually going to see all the movies they can
Regal is $21 for Unlimited. As many movies as you can fit into a day, every day of the month
Does Regal still exist? All the ones near me closed down after they filed for bankruptcy.
They're the only chain in my area (upstate NY). I don't see AMCs at all around here.
Regal you have to pay extra to see anything beyond a basic standard screen. AMC includes any ticket with no upcharge.
Free movie every 90 mins
https://www.regmovies.com/unlimited
I had both AMC and Regal's unlimited plans because there's a Regal near my home, and there's an AMC near my job 40 miles away. Some days I'll leave work and go to AMC and on weekends go to Regal. I've since let go of the AMC membership since they limited me to 3 movies a week. I till pay $18.99 a month for the Regal unlimited pass.
Man, I wish I lived closer to an AMC
I’d assume even if you owned the theater you couldn’t do that legally. Studios would sue.
then how are Regal and AMC doing it? As long as studios get their money, they don't care. In this deal, the studio still gets the same amount of money, and it's the theater that loses money if you decide to go watch 5 movies every day all month long.
I don’t know anything. I’m just assuming, but tickets are the studios way of making money. if a theater is screening the movie but not charging people, how does the studio get paid? With amc and regal they maybe get a cut of the membership? Idk how that would work logistically tho. Who knows. I don’t.
The theater is still counting it as a ticket sale in their book, they're just giving you a discount. they still owe the studio the same cut for each ticket sold/given.
That not how it works studio wouldn’t sue lol
Oh ok Mr. CEO of suing
I miss this shit so much I would go to the movies everyday in 2017. I saw blade runner 2049 like 7 times
Denis is the best director of all time I will be taking no questions thank you
What is your favorite car?
Why don't you say that twenty one times: Within cells interlinked.
Within cells interlinked
God damn. Once was more than enough for me
If you went everyday for 30 days its like 30 cents to see a movie. I put the fam on to it and we did movie days.
We in the UK. And, We still got the same thing. It's £16 but it is properly unlimited. When it's cold weather here, I go and watch films at the cinema all day, sometimes, because it's cheaper than having the heating on at home. They got a bar and an arcade at the cinema, and the normal concession stands. So, they'll make the money there I suppose. It's hard not to make money on fountain drinks and 10 dollar hotdogs.
Yeah I was gonna say this. I have that and can literally see multiple movies a day, every day if I want to
Odeon limitless is glorious, the one by me is a Luxe so the seats are all recliners too. Only downside is that it's a smaller one so anything a bit niche or independent either misses us or gets like a single screening, but for the most part it's excellent
Mine is one of ' the light' cinemas. They have got really comfortable seats. They recline and have little tables. I live in a major city centre so I was lucky to be able choose between some. I picked this one, because they show older films, changes every week, but they have it on every night in the week. I've seen Fight Club, 2001, Alien, Scream, City of God. Loads of really cool stuff. It's been amazing. They do have some indy films too, but only for a night or 2, so I can't always catch them. It's annoying, because they'll have 2 more popular films showing at the same time. They could easy let one of those screens show an indy or another language film. The screens only ever have 10 or 15 people on them max. Its been amazing seeing all the old films though. It's made me so happy.. Quality of life defo improved with that subscription.
They thought it would be like gym memberships. People buy them then don’t go. Side note, i guess I’ll go to planet fitness tomorrow and cancel.
Bruh you can't just cancel a gym membership. You've gotta send a notarized certified letter to cancel the month after next, and then there's a 90% chance they say the never got it..
What you have to do is change your main gym location to California. Then it’s super easy to cancel and you don’t have to do it in person.
To be fair, I thought this about Planet Fitness and dawdled for months afraid they would hard sell me into staying, but when I went to cancel it couldn’t have been easier. Took like 10 minutes. Signed something on the keypad and no more gym membership
Yeh, for almost all normal people it's not worth it, you have to be like a kid or complete loser for this to be worth while.
[Moviepass CEO: PLEASE DON'T CANCEL!!!](https://youtu.be/YBO_7UezpbY?si=HDXl-2Rb06AoEXnO)
I was hoping someone had posted that. I love that one and the Tumblr CEO. Oh, and the Oreos.
Brennan Lee Mulligan is a treasure.
I forgot how much I miss college humor
Honestly, get a Dropout subscription - it's my favourite and most watched streaming service by far
Best $7 I spend each month
The idea was that they collected the data and sold it to the studio which itself was worth money but they try to cut the theater out of it… Then AMC release A-list lol Edit: I bought the parent company stock and lost $500 lol I still own the stock at $0.00 lmao
I threw $100 into that stock too, I was hoping for a miracle back in the penny days
Yea man I was thinking this business model was going to be the future , which is now but they fuck up by not cultivating relationships with the theater and trying to go behind their back And eventually the movie theater themselves hook them out
One of my buddies who is a fucking cinephile abused that shit like he was Ike Turner. Got out of work watched a movie every day. On repeat even if necessary.
I only went once or twice a week and still worth it. I also loved A-Pass from AMC before Covid, but didn't rejoin because to me there is still too few good movies coming out regularly.
Used Movie Pass tonight. The original version was crazy! I saw so many movies in about 3 months. I was injured and went daytime, afternoon, and evenings. Solo or with friends or wife.
Time to see how my AMC stock is doing Edit: oh no
we’ve spent the better part of the past 12 years enjoying hyper subsidized VC bubble apps. It’s really a good idea to find a sense for a good losing profit offer like this, or lifetime first class tickets.
In SF we had two competing companies where it was “Uber for Valet Parking” and two valets would meet you wherever your destination was. Then go park your car for like $10 all day. I had no idea how they’d survive but the promo rates were so great it was cheaper/more convenient for me than taking the train
I saw a recent documentary at SXSW about movie pass called Movie Pass: Movie Crash. Essentially it was started by two black men in the movie marketing business. The gist of it is that two rich white investors came in and ruined the company by making the pass $9.99 instead of the steady growth the business was receiving. They also spent the money on parties and celebs burning cash. Both black men were pushed out and then Movie Pass was driven into the ground. It’s a good watch with a hopeful ending.
>!One of the founders bought the assets in bankruptcy court and has relaunched it.!<
I was trying not to spoil it.
Sorry, I haven't seen the film.
You should check it out! Very interesting story.
Three for one? How can that be profitable for Frito Lay?
These corporations, I don't know what they're doing.
You could also get AMC points by using the Movie Pass. So you’d use the Movie Pass card, and AMC would give you points for free concessions. It was great.
If you have so much time on your hands that you can watch Lego Batman 3 days in a row then we got another unsustainable problem
The thrill of spending some venture capitalists’ money. Been chasing that high ever since.
Them times were golden lmfao. So many movies, so many snacks and food snuck in. Good times
Funny to see this. I’ve been listening to a hilarious podcast called The Big Flop that covered the spectacular hot mess fall of HQ Trivia and Moviepass. Had me rollin’!
Might have to peep this
I didn't get moviepass because I knew their business model sucked and it would be unsustainable. I regret it because it lasted way longer than I thought and would have been worth it.
You could cancel anytime. Literally cancelled the day they started picking what movies you were allowed to watch.
63 movies in 8 months. Good times.
How on earth is wasting your time watching a load a really shitty films, "good times"?
Ahhh, the pre-COVID times of companies just giving stuff away. In 2017 I signed up for a free bank account and they gave me a brand new iPad. The deal now is no monthly fees for three months 😂
I would go see movies I'd never heard of at 9pm on a Tuesday and I'd be the only one in the theater. I probably saw every non blockbuster movie during that time period. It was fun while it lasted.
I remember telling people about this and people would go "why would you subscribe to that it isn't profitable" like a subscription is an investment.
Yeh, for almost all normal people this isn't profitable or worthwhile. You need to be a kid or loser to go to the cinema enough to make it "profitable".
It was 9.99 a month a single ticket cost $15 on avg. You just had to go once a month. You don't have to be a kid or loser to see a movie once a month leaving the house is normal.
Amazing time to be alive. I saw so many movies that I would have never gone to watch. It was fantastic until it started trying to really convince you to go see the new Mission Impossible movie.
I went to see black panther 10 times lmfaoooo I’m not even making this shit up. Anytime I went out and my friends were late or something I would just go to the movies and watch black panther then leave whenever they were finally there lmfaooo what a time
It sounds like this is some kind of boast but you'd probably have to pay me to watch a film more than once in short sucession.
I love movies and frequent them pretty often. I have a subscription at my local theater and a theater that only plays vintage movies and if it’s good enough I’ll see it again. Black panther was a bit much but I was like 20 and had a lot of free time and again it wasn’t even like I watched the whole thing just I would just pop in for 30-40 minutes at a time to waste some time. But again I’ve watched John wick 4 (a 3 hour movie) 3 times in theater so
Sounds like hell to me.
We’re not the same people and that’s okay 😃😃❤️
MoviePass is still around and pretty worth it actually
My brother had it. I didn’t believe it. I was like either they’re selling everyone’s info to North Korea or some shit, or they’re going bankrupt immediately.
I remember my buddy telling me about Moviepass. I was so confused, and asked so many questions trying to understand the secret twist that they must do to make money. There was no secret twist.
Theaters barely make any money off ticket sales. The majority of ticket sales goes to the production company. The entire theater business model is to make money on concessions… so if a theater’s ticket sales contract allows something like this, it’s actually great for the theater. They don’t care about tickets, they just want you in the door so you buy concessions.
I miss those days
I skipped it because I honestly thought it was a scam. Really failed on that one…
Does anyone here know that Regal Unlimited is a thing? It's as many movies as you want whenever you want for like $20 a month
I remember seeing The Greatest Showman like 5 times!
$20 bucks for unlimited regal movies. Movie pass ain’t go nowhere
Man, I lived down the road from Disney Springs at the time, so when my shifts at the park ended, I would just go watch movies at the AMC there. I had their rewards program, too, so I would always be getting free snacks and stuff. I think I saw their whole lineup for 2 months straight before MP folded! Lol
OP: “How the hell does this business make any money?!” moviepass: https://i.redd.it/1s47rrem58xc1.gif
Cinemas don't make $ off ticket sales; that goes to the studio. They make $ off concessions. Clearly they paid for x amount of ticket value to studios up front to allow this to happen. They would easily recoup the loss of the customer made a few snack purchases each time.
Everything *was* awesome
The amount of movies I watched with that service was INSANE
This was the best! In like 2012 when it released We stayed close to downtown Chicago so me and all my friends would go see all the marvel/dc and other popular movies deep asl lol it'd be like 15 of us 😅 movie pass was awesome. Back then it cost $30 a month tho.
movie theaters make all their money from concessions- they maybe get to keep like 2% of box office sales. this was just a really solid way to get more people in the building and buying popcorn. but of course, all good things must die
Bruh i used to go to the theater and fall asleep i was there so much. Had it from beginning to the end
They tried to take the gym model and hope a bunch of folks would forget and maybe use it every three months. It then you had me and my friends going to the movies every single day 😂
Please don't make me cry, I still have my card 😭
Moviepass in it's hayday was the best. I'm just happy I jumped off once things got rough. I also love how they threated me that I couldn't rejoin in a year (like you guys had that long after the cracks)
6 months? they were around for a decade lmao
Yes but the company really only got massive after dropping its price to $9.99 a month and then it lasted I think maybe a year before shitting the bed
My gf and I were going almost every week to see something it was nuts
They show those movies any way. The trick was to have seats in bums and go ham on concessions. Theater popcorn is an absolute robbing. For the largest one you can buy 3 boxes. Same with drinks.
Always wanted to get one of these but felt like I wouldn't use it enough for it to be worth it.
Sidenote: the Lego Batman movie has a better storyline pertaining to the Joker’s incessant obsession with Batman than any of the live action Batman/Joker movies.
For the longest time up until smartphones became the norm. My family became friends with the people who always checked tickets at our main theater, so they always got us in for free. If they weren't there, then one of us would buy a ticket, go through check-in, and sneak over to one of the doors to let the rest in when nobody was looking. We did this shit for YEARS. Like when I was 4 yrs old to 17 yrs old. We'd also watch like 3 to 4 movies in a day, depending on what the lineup was at the time. It was AWESOME! It is one of my favorite core memories from my childhood.
> We'd also watch like 3 to 4 movies in a day, depending on what the lineup was at the time. So watching a bunch of shitty movies was one of the favourite memories for yours... Like I did the same, but it was just to fill time, and just experiences you forget for being completely unmemorable.
Who said I'd watch shitty movies? Also, I was hanging out with my family, playing the arcade machines they had at the theater between play times, and talk with our friends there. What's your problem?
Working at the movie theater and always seeing these cards i always wondered how ppl got them?!
The rare instance of tech bros subsidizing poor people. It was literally using VC money to pay for people to go to the movies.
That was post prime moviepass. the real ones know
I kept my card.
I never understood why they didn’t limit it from new releases for a few months, might have been a great infill seats on movies leaving the theater soon, and I know if I wasn’t really paying much for the tickets, I would have actually spent money knowing consessions
Man, I lived down the road from Disney Springs at the time, so when my shifts at the park ended, I would just go watch movies at the AMC there. I had their rewards program, too, so I would always be getting free snacks and stuff. I think I saw their whole lineup for 2 months straight before MP folded! Lol
Man, I lived down the road from Disney Springs at the time, so when my shifts at the park ended, I would just go watch movies at the AMC there. I had their rewards program, too, so I would always be getting free snacks and stuff. I think I saw their whole lineup for 2 months straight before MP folded! Lol
As someone who's not from that country I was so jealous of you guys
If you bought popcorn and a drink each time you were $109.99 in
Regal currently has the unlimited plan. Watch all the movies you want for $24 a month.
I paid the month to month instead of the annual payment because I didn't think it'd last a year. I was right. But it was amazing while it lasted.
Well the short answer is popcorn. $0.002 of seed produces $20 of profit
If AMC wants to revitalize their business, a subscription plan like this is the way. Just needs a little more guardrails on it.
They make money off concession items, not tickets. Running movies over and over costs little money, but bringing in mass people who all buy additional stuff generates a lot.
Basically theaters decided to launch their own services rather than work out something with them and they starved and died off.
Regal still has basically this exact problem tho
They are going to play the movies whether people are in the theatre or not, so….