MoviePass on its last legs?

I just posted about this in the other thread. Paid 5 bucks for a 10 dollar ticket to a showing at 11:30 pm in a empty theater

But the weekly “when will the weekly ‘movie pass is dying threads’ end” threads are just beginning

it will die and then AMC will raise the price of its sub service by $10-15

I bought the yearly plan when it was available so I'm grandfathered in with no surge pricing until December. I've been using more often than lately to take advantage before it changes.

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In all seriousness though, I’ve never paid surge pricing and I use MoviePass quite a lot. You just have to bite the bullet and see that 37% on RT by the books action flick Mondays at 7 pm rather than Friday or Saturday at 7 pm

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Used it recently? I looked today out of curiosity around 1pm and every half decent movie had surge pricing.

1pm. On a Thursday.

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How about $6 surge pricing on a $5 matinee ticket?

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I just looked and the most expensive surge price i saw in my area was $4.25 and it wasnt on the "$5 matinee tickets"

it was for the night time, prime time showing of MI:Fallout tonight which doesnt even officially release until tomorrow.

$6 in the By Area sounds like deal to me on any day

Movie pass was created to hook people like me who only see a handful of movies a year. But there are not enough good movies for me to pay 9.99 a month to only go to a few movies, or to go see movies I'd usually skip. The people who have movie pass and are going to the movies all the time are actually killing movie pass.

I was talking about the $9.99 a month fee by Movie Pass. I'm just saying that there are several months a year that I don't go see any movies and I'd still be having to pay a monthly fee. Around 2008-2010 I noticed many less films per year that I wanted to see in a theater. This was also around the time that the super hero movies took over and I'm not really into that stuff. And I personally don't see the point of going to see movies I don't really wanna see or I am on the fence about, just because I (in this example would be paying $9.99 a month for Movie Pass).

It's the 'sunken-cost'fallacy. Like if someone bought tickets to a Dodgers game that was on a Tuesday night and then someone they liked from work asked them to go out on Tuesday night because they were gonna be busy the rest of the week. The person who has the Dodgers tickets might say, 'Well I better go to the game or I spent $50 on a Dodgers ticket for nothing.' But the money for the ticket is already spent, whether they go to the game or not. Then it's not about the money, it's an opportunity cost trying to decide whether to get drinks with the cute coworker or to go to the Dodgers game. So because the $9.99 is spent monthly anyway, no one should feel compelled to see a bad movie just to feel they get their money's worth.

But Movie Pass was designed to get people who don't go to a lot of movies to go to a few more movies. The problem is that people who go to a lot of movies anyway are getting Movie Pass and going to even more movies. While this is happening, not many people like me are getting Movie Pass and so the people going to a shite ton of movies are killing it. But I don't blame them for going to a lot of movies.

It was a horrible business model from the start and unless a significant number of people who only go to a few movies a year, are willing to get it, and not use it very often, then it cannot sustain much longer without investors putting up capital.