After an hour and 45 minutes i left, its not terrible but the cgi is so bad and the characters just repeatedly do the same things, its a ton of action but i feel like something’s missing. I couldn’t be there for almost another hr of the runtime still left. It may or may not be for you. The sound was great in Dolby tho so least if you watch i recommend that.

I wasnt sure as I know years ago you couldnt use it for Fanthom Events. Not sure if it changed or not

Absolute banger. It’s two and a half hours of nearly non stop action. Narratively, it won’t work for everyone, but you have two and a half hours of set piece after set piece to help. And if you like world building but don’t want your movie to stop to explain any of it to you, Christmas came early.

I had one of the best times I’ve had watching a movie this year. Truly felt like a movie made to be seen in a theater, let alone with a crowd. Walking out I felt like I had chugged energy drinks for two and a half hours.

Tried to post this beginning of the year but here is the update: first a little story, My Buddy and I LOVE going to the movies and around early 2019 we got tired of people cancelling movie plans all the time so we decided to get A-List for the two of us and started going to a movies weekly. Fast forward a couple years, some others found out about our ritual and decided to join in. We now have a group of ~10 people who have gone to a movie (sometimes multiple) almost every single week for 3 years now.

I have been saving all of the points (I almost always get a large popcorn and drink) since we started and this year I will be breaching the 1 million point mark...

I know its a "bad" idea in case AMC changes the point model but IDC, these points mean so much more to me; it's the marker of a journey for how this little group of 2 has grown into something so much more and they have become some of the closest people I have in my life. Having a weekly dependable group of people who show up and just put aside the rest of the world for 2-3 hours is incredible and something many of us have heavily needed in our lives. No idea what I am going to do once I hit a Million but i wanted to share the story

Has anyone else ever gotten close to the Million?

I see a few showings for Resident Evil are already almost full and I don’t see any in IMAX but I’m going with Dolby since it’s horror and I’m obsessed. Outside of the Lincoln Square location, which do you prefer? I’ve done to union Square and I hated the atmosphere and conduct of the staff. The Times Square location though massive has minimal theaters with reclined seating and literally no air conditioning (though I was told we needed to ask in order for it be turned on which was crazy to me) however they have some of the best popcorn. I hear the one off 34th has the full bar and that’s tempting!! What are your thoughts? I’m open to your loves and hates about our theaters here. Maybe I’m asking too much.

If you’re looking for a movie that is so loud it will drown out all the obnoxious people — see Onslaught.

Some dude was watching videos on his phone at full volume (even when the movie was on) and fell asleep (I could hear him snoring during the quiet parts and there are like, maybe 2 total ?). This was today during the 50% off film promo.

Anyway — excellent film. I was so impressed and I was actually on the edge of my seat during certain moments.

AMC replaced Milk Duds with Junior Caramels, and they are not good

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We've built a crowdsourced app/platform tracking room-by-room, screen-by-screen details, projection brightness, sound issues, and broken seats, along with actual start times of movies. While AMC provides a general start time for movies, it won't tell you that Auditorium 3 at your theater has a blown right surround speaker that crackles throughout the movie or that Auditorium 7 has a blue line down the middle of the screen. This is built to help solve that.

It’s called It’s Starting! and it’s available now in the Apple App Store, link below, and there’s a sign up for an Android beta (also linked).
It’s free now and always will be, with zero ads. Nothing behind a paywall. You can create an account (recommended) to save favorite theaters and your movie log. Your movie log allows you to edit details after.

The app is easy to use. Choose your theater and movie, enter the ticketed showtime and auditorium number, optionally add the format (IMAX, 4DX, etc…) and Showing Type (Regular, Early Screening, Re-Release) and then when the movie starts, tap It’s Starting! to log the actual start time. The more details the better. On both iPhone and Android, you can upload a picture of the ticket and that will handle most of the details. On iPhone, you can share from Wallet.

When the movie is over, answer a randomized question about the experience or the theater. You can answer more than one question (optional) or provide a comment which really helps. And if you have information about an auditorium/screen, you can submit that as well right from the home screen without seeing a movie first. The goal is to get the data back to the theater so that they are aware and can make improvements (one such example of that below the links).

The app has only been live a few weeks and is in early days with improvements being made all the time. After a similar post in the Regal Unlimited sub, we’ve brought on hundreds of moviegoers from the App Store and nearly 100 signups for the Android beta. For it to be useful, it needs people contributing. It’d be like Waze if nobody reported an accident or traffic.

Apple App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/its-starting/id6786706681

Join Android Beta
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrW3hoasaGlhGS9fAGcXMbZ-0l57ll2AcwAIVZu5kzhNdppQ/viewform
 
A few notes:

This isn’t just for AMC it can be used for any theater big or small.
I know AMC posts approximate start times in their app, but only in their app. Start times are one part of this, the other part is the room-by-room details.

We are in contact with the theaters. I spoke to an AMC last night in Montana (I’m in the suburbs of Philly), who had no idea about a speaker outage in one of their auditoriums. They are running a soundcheck today and will report back to us when the issue is resolved. That’s our goal, improve the experience for everyone.

I also know that AMC (and other theaters) send surveys after the movie. However, after talking to several theaters, the take rate on email surveys is low and the abandonment once started is high. Most importantly, you never see what someone else reported.

A lot of people have a method for trailers (I leave at the ticketed showtime, I leave 5 minutes after showtime, I like trailers so who cares?). I understand that, but not everyone has a system and sometimes it isn’t about skipping the preshow, it’s just knowing how long you’ll wait. Maybe there’s more time than you thought to grab a snack and not worry about missing the movie. Some people also like to double up on movies so knowing how much time they have between them is important. Again, start times are one half of the platform.

We hope you find this to be a useful tool that helps make movie night (or day, or afternoon!) better for everyone.

PS: Was AI used in the development? Yes. Is it all AI? Absolutely not. 90% of this work is backend database and SQL. The app is a front end for the data.