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AMC had exclusive distribution rights to Arco in my area and decided to make zero screenings available with the original French dialog audio, just the English dub.

So I'm waiting for streaming, avoiding traveling across town, paying to park, paying a premium for mediocre snacks and drinks all for the pleasure of sitting through 30 minutes of ads before the movie I paid $20 to see in a language not fit for the movie. 👍

I regularly go to the theater. There hasn't been a movie released in months that I'm willing to go pay for

Consistently crappy theaters, other customers who don't care about the movie, on their phones and talking, and staff that are both not paid enough and told not to deal with those problems.

All of that for now 20 per ticket, double that if you want snacks. My local indie house shows movies with none of those problems.

More annoying that AMC bought out basically every local theater and then shot themselves in the foot, so there's not many alternatives.

Local theaters usually do community events and have a play theater for live productions that keeps the business going.

AFAIK AMC only does latest releases and sometimes reruns during low traffic.

My spouse has gone all in on the gd rumble-seats in Cinemark theaters. Even dumb movies we’d never go see, they’re like “does it have rumble seats? ‘cause I’m there.”

For me it’s just the comfy-ass recliners. One of the Regals near me swapped out all of the chairs with comfy recliners and— my god— sitting through a 3 hour movie was a comparative cakewalk to how it used to be.

I haven’t got any AMCs near me, but it sounds like they haven’t put in the same efforts on seat situations. You can have all the Dolby, XD, THX etc stuff you want, but the chairs are a big part of it.

—that said, we also have a lovely historic theater near us that’s oozing character and ambience, so… it’s an uphill battle for all chain theaters in our area afaic

My usual Christmas routine is to get a group of friends together for a restaurant meal and then a movie. Usually we'll pick something like Jumanji or Aquaman or Anchorman II.

Last two years, no one wanted to see any of the movies playing. Not 'I don't feel like going to the theater today' it was that none of the movies showing appealed to anyone.

Announce what time the movie actually starts and pay ushers to enforce good behavior and you’ll fix those attendance drops right quick. There’s still demand but the movie theater experience is so awful even cinephiles won’t brave it anymore.

The last movie I saw in an AMC theater was Avatar: Fire & Ash in IMAX ($20 for the 3D, which imo was worth it for the 3 hours), and before that was Way of Water a couple years before.

I went to an amc for the first time in about seven years last week and despite there being a giant “Dolby” logo out front that made me think they’d at least have decent sound, the soundtrack in the theater I was in was hardly stereo, with the voice channel coming from the upper left of the screen and the music and sound effects from the lower right. Was not a good experience.

It's more than 20 usd for a ticket in sweden (snacks unreasonable priced here as well) and amc is the same chain just with another name to make people belive it is national (Filmstaden). How is it in other countries?

Bummer, I like going to the movies.

I have little to no interest in going to a movie theater. Not just now, but very likely ever again.

I just don’t see the appeal—the crowds are so consistently awful, unless you wait until a given movie’s theatrical run is almost done and no one else is there. But by then, sometimes the movie is already in streaming and I can watch at home.

I CAN be convinced to support business models which seem innovative, however.

For instance, theaters have offered different ticket prices for both age (children/seniors) and time of day (matinees). I would ENTHUSIASTICALLY support a theater which innovated on those points.

For instance, keep early movies cheap for kids. However, retain special “child” pricing throughout the day. I would love to see ticket pricing for children increase by lower ages and later times.

Take a 2-year old to an 11a movie? 5-bucks.

Take a 2-year old to a 9p movie? 500-bucks.

Also, usher enforcement of etiquette should become more aggressive. I wouldn’t mind a police detail enforcing that shit…just be clear with the tickets.

You want a police detail enforcing a ”quiet” theater—buy that ticket and pay the higher price.

You want a cheaper ticket and watch with a bunch of people playing on their phones and talking, go cheap and don’t complain.

Some people love the theater—it’s big, it’s loud, it’s fun. If you like it, go for it. In my opinion, anyone with even a modestly decent modern TV and sound system can wait a bit to catch their movie on streaming and always have a better experience.

I won't even go to AMC at all anymore because they're the only (non-indie) theater around that still has crappy seating.

Nevermind how few movies are worth seeing, paying $20+ to see a movie, how the concessions are expensive garbage, and shows have 20-40 minutes of ads before they begin.

Give me an Alamo Drafthouse or similar and better movie selection, and I'll be at the movies nearly every month.