I saw some people lined up outside of movie theaters before I headed out to work this morning at about 8:00 a.m.
Damn. Which theater was it? I've got tickets for tonight. It's at a good cinema but the place gets overlooked so I have my fingers crossed it might be okay that I'm not typing this on my phone from the tent in front of the theater. Wonder what sort of crappy seats I might get stuck with.
I remember being forced to watch LOTR: FOTR from the front of the theater on its opening night thanks to late-arriving friends of my friends (sitting in front being a distinct possibility for today's showing; might get my money back and go on Saturday or Sunday if this is the case ). Had a crick in my neck and bugged-out Gollum eyes all through the next day.
The ballots for presidency better have this same out pour of support. I want to see people lining up early in the morning for that. If this only happens on a black friday or a freaking star wars movie, humanity is doomed!!!
edwards greenway 24 is not showing it out of protest again. Guess I have to go to ipic. I wish they would get this crap worked out. Seems insane for them to just boycott huge movies out of spite.
My friend thats going has assigned seats. I'm surprised most if not all theaters didn't employ this for such a big release.
So that's what that's all about. I went by there several weeks ago because I thought the theater had failed to update info with fandango or other sites. Sure enough, they weren't showing "Spectre" (or "Hunger Games", for that matter, although this wasn't a problem for me). Now I just read an article about all that. Which also explained how AMC helped kill a new(-ly planned?) Spanish-language (dubbed and subtitled) moviehouse when they started showing their movies in the format back in 2013, which at the time elicited a big "WTF?" from me. Once AMC got the other place killed, they promptly went back to doing business as before. Wow. Price be damned, I wish I had tickets to go see Star Wars at iPic just to tell Edwards to go to hell.
iPic is great. I bought my IMAX tickets at Edwards Marq-e months ago, but I'd do anything to swap them out for the Premium Plus seats at iPic. It's definitely over the top and probably not worth the money, but it's hard to beat watching a movie in that kind of environment. It's the closest experience to being at home. I solely want to give iPic my business from now on to tell the big theaters to kick rocks.
what's the reasoning behind this? why are they not showing it? i have tickets for the Edwards Marq-E for Saturday night.
Some sort of in the loop fight against ipic. I don't know what their end game is though. ipic isn't going to close it's doors. ipic charges almost 30 bucks for their premium seats but I think only pay the studios a percentage of the 16 dollar base price and they get 100% of the add on fee.
http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/mo...o-small-for-ipic-and-edwards-greenway-7937455 Sounds dumb to me... like the Comcrap/Astros fight, we're the only people that really lose.
I live 5 minutes from the butthurt Edwards Greenway and I've been driving out 15 minutes to Sundance for years (where I have my assigned seating Star Wars tickets reserved for Sunday). That's the only way I'll watch a movie close to its release date (with assigned seats). iPic is 5 minutes from me, I'll have to check it out at some point. Hope it sticks.
It seems ridiculous that all movie theaters don't offer a pick your own seat option at this point. It would make it so much easier on both staff and consumers. I wouldn't even consider seeing this movie without having already reserved the seats.
The problem is you have to have people make sure they actually sit in their assigned seat instead of just letting it all work out on it's own. I don't see how it is easier on staff. crap, should have went there
Company A gets mad because they're getting direct competition from a new and arguably superior competitor named Company B. So Company A decides to protest Company B's existence buy not selling the most in demand product of the decade. Thus pushing customers over to Company B, even though many of said customers would've likely gone to Company A had they have offered the product. And in turn, now Company A may permanently lose customers to Company B once the customers realize that Company B is superior to Company A. Bonus points to the first person able to identify Company A. Which of the following organizations is Company A? a. Blockbuster b. MySpace c. BlackBerry d. AMC Theaters e. Doesn't matter, they're all companies that have or will eventually fail.
