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MoviePass' Low Subscription Price Just Got Lower (hollywoodreporter.com)
In a move to lure new subscribers, MoviePass has dropped the price of its monthly subscription service from about $10 per month to just under $7. From a report: The company said for $6.95 per month, new subscribers will get one movie ticket per day, a minor catch being that users must pay for a year up-front. There is also a one-time $6.55 processing fee. It's the umpteenth time that MoviePass has changed its price since launching six years ago at $40 per month (before raising it to $50), most significantly eight months ago when it was cut to just $9.95. The change had the desired effect, as subscribers swelled from 20,000 then to nearly 3 million today. Still, MoviePass is not without its critics, as some theater chains -- most notably AMC -- have criticized the service for allegedly cheapening the moviegoing experience. Also, industry executives worry that MoviePass cannot survive (it pays mostly full price for the movie tickets its subscribers use) and wonder if users that are left in the lurch when it folds will ever want to pay $9 (the average price in the U.S.) per ticket again.
... as some theater chains -- most notably AMC -- have criticized the service for allegedly cheapening the moviegoing experience.
Funniest thing I've read all week. Thanks AMC, et al.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It's about having enough movies worth watching at all.
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That's basically cheaper than Netflix and on a better screen.
Sure, but with Netflix you can watch movies in your jammies and eat your own food. (And the floors are probably way less sticky - unless you have kids.)
Okay, okay. You could probably do that at a theater too, but it could be problematic ...
"One day I was kicked out of a movie theater for bringing my own food, so I said: 'C'mon the prices for the food here are outrageous... and besides I haven't had a barbeque in a long time...' " - Steven Wright
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
For four months in a row, the app would not let me reserve a movie. Any tickets I purchased outside the app were not reimbursed. When trying to contact customer service, they never responded. So why pay for both a moviepass subscription and for movies, so for me it cost double so I cancelled. Oh well, I wished it would have worked.
The real issue is will they be around in a year? I might do this, but you better believe I'm going to try and recoup my yearly fee ASAP.
Sneaking food/booze into a theater is basically trivial.
You get a special credit card they fund with the exact price of the movie when you want to go.
Unless you clone it, and it's not chipped, you won't be able to share it as easily as you imply.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Stick it on a secondary phone with a cheap data plan, only allow it to run just before the movie.
They track where you go and what you do before and after the movie. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
To use this app, you basically give them more info about you than your doctor, therapist, and the IRS combined.
Turn off background refresh for their app, and they can't track anything when the app isn't running (on iOS at least). I did this 30s after I installed it.
- Vincit qui patitur.
I started going to the movies again because of moviepass. It has allowed me to remember how annoying people at the theater can be. Even if everyone has their cellphones quieted, they still talk to one another when I'm trying to listen to the movie. Also, the snack prices are all more than I paid to see the movie. So I have a strong incentive to eat beforehand and NEVER eat movie popcorn/candy/sodas. If something happens in a movie, someone will yell out: "Hah!" It's more annoying than you might think. I'm not sure I will renew for the next month. (I used the phone app which allowed a monthly subscription instead of annual.)
When I read that I disabled the app's access to location. If I try to run it it fails since it can't tell where it is. When I get to the theater I'll enable location and turn it back off from inside the theater.
The other thing is you can only see each movie once, at least according to the agreement. I haven't tried to see if I told it I was seeing movie A when really bought a ticket for identically priced movie B.