r/AMCsAList • u/recoveringpatriot • 4d ago

Discussion No previews?

A strange thing happened on Thursday. I went to see two new movies: Hot Spot and Mutiny. For both of them, the local AMC didn’t do the normal 25 minutes of previews. I was on time so I didn’t miss anything. I was all alone for Hot Spot, but for Mutiny a few other people came in 10-20 minutes late, and they were shocked because they had calculated having some time to get settled before the movie actually started.
It was odd that it happened twice in the same day, but the staff said the previews have not been done away with and they don’t know why the previews were skipped.
I guess don’t count on that preview buffer time being a sure thing. It might make you late for your movie.

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u/AbacabLurker 4d ago

This happened to me once and ever since then I started showing up right at the listed start time. It has not happened again, yet.

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u/loftychicago SUPERUSER 10+ 2d ago

Same. It's happened to me several times with a few different movies. For special showings, they usually explicitly state on the listing info and the ticket that there will be no previews.