Across the Spiderverse
Jun. 2nd, 2023 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperJulie really wanted to see the new film, "Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse", so we headed out to the theater tonight to see it. This was a bit of an experience.
We liked the film quite a bit. It was a bit distressing to discover that it was Part 1 of 2, but we'll get to see the rest of the story (presumably) in about nine months. So that's the good part -- it was an entertaining film.
Here's the bad part: for an industry that is suffering greatly, the movie theaters are finding lots of new ways of being annoying. For the price of one ticket, we could buy a month of everything on almost every streaming service. That's before buying popcorn. And I downloaded a $5 reward onto my card before going to the theater, *presented* the card when buying the popcorn, and somehow managed not to get the reward deducted from my bill. Ok, it was busy.
Also, they have now decided to nickle and dime the people who are actually willing to get up and come to the theater instead of watching something on streaming at home, because they are charging an additional $1 per ticket for "premium" seats, which roughly translates to "anything with the sight lines I usually like". Now, because Julie really likes the seats on the side with the tables which they aren't surcharging for (yet), I didn't end up paying this. And to be honest, I'll sit a bit off center just to save the buck, because I'm rather tired of this sort of nonsense.
So, AMC, are you making so much money off that extra $1 that it's worth annoying your customers? Or are you just giving us one more reason to stay home?
Well, you'll figure it out eventually. But you're making a month of Netflix -- or maybe Paramount Plus or whatever they're calling it now -- look better and better.
We liked the film quite a bit. It was a bit distressing to discover that it was Part 1 of 2, but we'll get to see the rest of the story (presumably) in about nine months. So that's the good part -- it was an entertaining film.
Here's the bad part: for an industry that is suffering greatly, the movie theaters are finding lots of new ways of being annoying. For the price of one ticket, we could buy a month of everything on almost every streaming service. That's before buying popcorn. And I downloaded a $5 reward onto my card before going to the theater, *presented* the card when buying the popcorn, and somehow managed not to get the reward deducted from my bill. Ok, it was busy.
Also, they have now decided to nickle and dime the people who are actually willing to get up and come to the theater instead of watching something on streaming at home, because they are charging an additional $1 per ticket for "premium" seats, which roughly translates to "anything with the sight lines I usually like". Now, because Julie really likes the seats on the side with the tables which they aren't surcharging for (yet), I didn't end up paying this. And to be honest, I'll sit a bit off center just to save the buck, because I'm rather tired of this sort of nonsense.
So, AMC, are you making so much money off that extra $1 that it's worth annoying your customers? Or are you just giving us one more reason to stay home?
Well, you'll figure it out eventually. But you're making a month of Netflix -- or maybe Paramount Plus or whatever they're calling it now -- look better and better.