Moviepass - Get One

Why anyone with half a brain thought this was a viable plan, I have no idea.

 

Oddly enough though - theaters have been worried about the competition from streaming and home viewing. The theater industry should come up with something to encourage more people to come through the door and buy over-priced concessions.

 

The idea itself isn’t bad. There’s just no way to make money off of it as a third party. AMC might have success on theirs.

 

MoviePass is raising the price of its standard plan

More money for less movies.

 

Sounds like I get one more $10 month. Mine renews tomorrow.

Still worth it at $15/month for me. I see 4-5 movies a month. There are enough theaters around that I don't need to see first-run movies

 

Bye, Moviepass.

Monthly renewal was due today. Gave it one more shot last night. App seemed to be working throughout the day. When I got to the theater, it said there were no more showings for any movies that day. Was showing that for many theaters in the area. That's a failure Thursday and a failure Monday. With it going up to $15 and not working, I'll go back to waiting for the DVD. Got my $$ worth, though.

 

I got out just in time.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/how-..._source=fb&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture

 

It's still a good deal at $9.99 a month for three movies. That's assuming it works and there aren't any blackouts or more meltdowns. I'm sure it's going under before the end of the year but I'm going to use as much as I can until it does.

 

CEO Mitch Lowe told the Journal that this change will not impact the majority of MoviePass users. “They will not be affected at all by this program, and even better, they’ll stop hearing MoviePass is going out of business,” Lowe explained.

Ha ha ha.

 

I guess I know where all of the former newspapers execs are now working.

 

That's my thinking as well.

Like TheSportsPredictor, I ran into the issue where the app was showing movies being available all day, and then when I went to the mall that night for a movie, suddenly nothing was available. Hopefully that issue is ironed out. For the immediate future, I have enough flexibility in my schedule to buy my tickets early in the day to sidestep that.