AMC Movie Theaters Will Reopen On Aug. 20 With 15-Cent Tickets (fortune.com) 118
schwit1 writes: Moviegoers will have to pay only 15 cents for tickets at AMC cinemas on Aug. 20, when the chain starts to reopen amid the coronavirus outbreak. The cheap tickets will be available at more than 100 theaters across the U.S. The deal, a throwback to the price the company charged when it was founded in 1920, is intended to lure customers who may be worried about venturing into a theater because of the risk of contracting COVID-19.
Grandfather Nurgle is pleased (Score:4, Funny)
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I have a mental image of Matt Frewer as "Pestilence", the first of the four horsemen. ... but Nurgle works for me as well.
I think it needs to be more than 15 cents (Score:2)
So they are going to give me 15cents? no way I want more than that
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I get that they want to make money (Score:5, Insightful)
But being in a closed room with a bunch of other people for an hour and a half is just insane during a pandemic and no, I'm not paying 15 cents to contract COVID
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... no pause button.
Can't change the channel either.
When my wife and I watch movies at home, I often lose interest and open my laptop. She is ok with that as long as I stay and sit beside her. This doesn't work in a theater.
I will be happy to never go in another theater. Ever.
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As a licenced "some dude on the internet" I'd say if you can't concentrate on a whole movie, then in a best case scenario you should demand more input in choosing the movies or you might have a dopamine resistance.
Hoping for the former but you might want to look into the latter.
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or you might have a dopamine resistance.
Or they might just be shitty movies that fail at holding our attention.
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Something something, the only winning mov(i)e is not to play
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That would fall under ’more input in choosing the movies
This is like suggesting that someone from a terrible home "should have picked better parents".
How do you know in advance that the movie you choose will turn out to be good? You don't.
Sometimes I pick a movie I think will be good (or at least fun to watch) and it turns out to be shit. That can't be my fault 100% of the time.
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I will be happy to never go in another theater. Ever.
For once we agree on something 100% with no qualifying factors.
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I'm with you man. I'll take my big plush sofa and oversized flat screen every time. My wife is the same. As long as I'm in the room it counts as quality time. We aren't always into the same kinds of movies so when that happens the other one just tunes out and does something else. It's all good.
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Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!
Re: I get that they want to make money (Score:1)
You must not have kids to get away from.
Re: I get that they want to make money (Score:1)
For intermissions to come back weâ(TM)d need to go back to movies longer than 90 minutes.
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But being in a closed room with a bunch of other people for an hour and a half is just insane during a pandemic
Note how a lot of the locations participating in the AMC promo [businesswire.com] are in states where coronavirus infections are still high: Georgia, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, etc.
Re:I get that they want to make money (Score:5, Insightful)
But being in a closed room with a bunch of other people for an hour and a half is just insane during a pandemic
Note how a lot of the locations participating in the AMC promo [businesswire.com] are in states where coronavirus infections are still high: Georgia, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, etc.
But being in a closed room with a bunch of other people for an hour and a half is just insane during a pandemic
Note how a lot of the locations participating in the AMC promo [businesswire.com] are in states where coronavirus infections are still high: Georgia, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, etc.
Note how humans love to double-down on their stupidity and ignorance these days. It's as if suddenly humans love to smell farts coming from every asshole on the planet.
Because of the popularity of that shit, companies are open, and offering COVID infections for only 15 cents in confined areas during a global pandemic.
Remember when numbers coming out of New York were enough to shut down a city? Yeah, for a brief moment people actually listened to Common F. Sense. Not anymore.
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companies are open, and offering COVID infections for only 15 cents
Those fools! Don't these people know they can get COVID for free just by riding the subway?
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Like they used to say in old books: "That and 15 cents will get you a dose of the covid".
Re:I get that they want to make money (Score:5, Interesting)
I suspect those locations were chosen with substantial consideration given to regional political mindsets.
I have a lot of issues with the timing of this... but even setting aside any concerns about COVID-19 - I doubt I’d even be tempted. I’ve just gotten too used to having a pause button for those times I need to use the bathroom or decide I want a snack. Also, it’s bloody convenient being able to rewind fifteen seconds to re-hear the dialog I missed because my wife was asking me “Who is that? Is that the same girl from earlier or is it someone new?”
Disclaimer: we watched a long movie last night, and all of those came into play.
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Agree. Mine can’t stand waiting for the movie reveal so there are a lot of questions that would be answered in 5 minutes.
[John]
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I've had this conversation:
Other: That's stupid! I don't understand why something-something-something
Me: The show's not over and they're explaining it right now if you'll just listen.
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That makes a lot of business sense; they wouldn't get many customers in states that aren't overrun with fucking idiots.
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Don't worry, baby, those 15 infections will be down to near zero real soon now!
Feb. 26: “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” — Trump at a press conference.
So yeah, it's totally under control, Larry! Look at the "pretty good job" he did!
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$.15 to enter, but a chance to win a fortune in lawsuits!
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I totally agree. Besides, they won't give a discount on the overpriced soda or popcorn anyways. ;)
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More room for me.
I already had the weak ass virus and not surprisingly I didn't die. Stay in your closet.
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But being in a closed room with a bunch of other people for an hour and a half is just insane during a pandemic and no, I'm not paying 15 cents to contract COVID.
You're going to get COVID from being in a very very large mostly empty room where people are not only forced to sit apart but also forced to be quiet and not talk to each other?
Man if you're that afraid of COVID-19 then you've already got it. Probably beamed to you via 5G.
Re:I get that they want to make money (Score:4, Insightful)
You're going to get COVID from being in a very very large mostly empty room where people are not only forced to sit apart but also forced to be quiet and not talk to each other?
Why not? That's typically how you catch every other kind of virus, by being in enclosed spaces with other people eating and talking. That's a classic transmission route, so I don't see why you think this is so outlandish.
But you're right- no one ever caught a cold or flu sitting in a theater. No one ever.
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You mean, like the flu? Or strains of the common cold? Those are pandemics as well you know.
All the word means is "prevalent over a whole country or the world" (like the flu or cold). The current hype is to make the word a terror laden cudgel.
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Okay, you're not paying 15 cents to contract COVID-19, we can certainly understand that. But what if it was only 10 cents?
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If I wanted COVID19 it would have been enough to go clean our cottage after the bitch held her frelling wedding reception there over the weekend in spite of the Airbnb listing that clearly said no visitors and no parties. Reserved for 4 people for the weekend, had 7 stay, had over a dozen there getting ready for the ceremony, and then a couple dozen for the reception afterwards. Not a mask to be seen anywhere. We had to wait three days before we dared go into the house, to find a literal pickup load of t
Re:I get that they want to make money (Score:5, Insightful)
Good, then there will be more free room. I don't have pre-existing health conditions, I am in great shape and I don't place stock in fearmongering conspiracies, therefore the COVID-19 scamdemic poses absolutely zero threat to me.
Who is "Herman Cain"? Aw, shucky ducky.
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I'd say "good, enjoy your Covid" but you're probably taking no precautions and will spread it to dozens of other people.
I bet you drive drunk, too. And you don't obey the seatbelt conspiracy.
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4,400,000 are hurt in car accidents. Every year.
That's right- fuck wearing seat belts! Blunt force trauma injuries from vehicle accidents are FAKE NEWS!
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Nope, it was the conservatives who freaked out after 9-11 and said that we had to protect ourselves from the scary brown people who worship the wrong god.
15 cents is for the cheap seats (Score:1)
The Virus Free® section costs fifty bucks.
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Let's see...
There are some things money just can't buy. For everything else, there's someone stupid enough to do so.
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One month in intensive care? 127,000 dollars.
Is that all? oof! At that price I can catch it twice!
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We've already seen the million+ dollar hospital bills.
My wife spent 5 stays in various hospitals betwen November of last year and April of this year. The "explaination of benefits" we recieved from her Medicare Advantage plan for all of those stays was close to $975K, and the final ICU stay of only 5 days was over $325K alone. So roll the two together and you're at a $1.3Million... And at the end of the ICU stay, she died of Covid-19 complications of COPD/Asthma.
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One month in intensive care? 127,000 dollars.
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There's nowhere in the US where you can spend a month in ICU for only $127K. You might squeeze a week out of that (barely) but a month? No way.
America: Home of the "No Insurance Company Left Behind Act"
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Still time to change it, but not a lot. Good luck to all
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Still time to change it, but not a lot. Good luck to all
If the Gropenfuher gets another 4 years, we're well and truly fucked. This country won't be worth living in.
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Even if he doesn't win, civilization cannot withstand the support he gets. To have such vile people anywhere in the government is a bad reflection
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Even if he doesn't win, civilization cannot withstand the support he gets.
Maybe, but I say let's boot his ass out and then go about cleaning up the mess he's made, both at home and abroad. It'll take decades to erase the stain he's left on this country.
To have such vile people anywhere in the government is a bad reflection
He and his cronies, errr, I mean "best people" are a cancer upon the nation and the world.
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He and his cronies, errr, I mean "best people" are a cancer upon the nation and the world.
Don't forget the 63 million that made it all real...
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One month in intensive care? 127,000 dollars.
FAR FAR too low an estimate. My wife was in ICU for 5 DAYS, and the "explaination of benefits" from her Medicare advantage plan showed $325K was paid via medicare, and since she'd been in one hospital or another for most of the time between April of this year and November of last year, we'd made the annual deductable and this last stay in ICU was 100% covered. Of course, I couldn't see her, other than thru a closed sliding glass door and at the end of those 5 days, she passed away due to Covid-19, as she wa
no way that tenet will be $0.15 more like $15.99 (Score:2)
no way that tenet will be $0.15 more like $15.99 with AMC getting 0.01% of each sale
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Of course Tenet won't be $0.15. The $0.15 ticket offer is only valid for movies shown on Aug. 20, 2020.
Tenet won't be released until Sept. 3, 2020
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Enjoy the $25 bag of popcorn.
Which is about as big as the bag of peanuts they give you on the airplane
I might consider it (Score:3)
I might consider it if the following conditions are met:
Back in reality: i just don't enjoy the theater experience - I'm even guilty off having been using the pandemic as an excuse not to go with people since around March, long before things were even remotely bad where I'm at. Does this make me a bad person?
Re:I might consider it (Score:5, Funny)
I'm even guilty off having been using the pandemic as an excuse not to go with people since around March, long before things were even remotely bad where I'm at. Does this make me a bad person?
No, it just means you're in the proper demographic to be commenting on Slashdot
Re:I might consider it (Score:5, Insightful)
So, $150 - $250 for the whole room? Bring 10 of your bubble friends. Each one chips in $15, and you get the whole showing to yourselves.
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Maybe that's what AMC are hoping for?
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Some movie theaters are actually letting you buy out all of the seats. Alamo Drafthouse [variety.com] started a program, it's $150 for the theatre and $150 minimum food purchase, capped at 30 guests. You get to pick the movie from a limited slate, unfortunately no new releases. A quick search online shows a few other theaters trying it out too, including North Carolina [newsobserver.com], Texas [click2houston.com], and Pennsylvania [thecolonialtheatre.com].
I wonder if you'd have to pay a corkage fee for BYOB (bring your own bleach)? Maybe circle yourself with large diameter fans to p
Super Spreader event (Score:3)
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along with restaurants, Churches & Schools Movie theaters are pretty much a Super Spreader event waiting to happen. This plus the schools should overwhelm our ICUs nicely in about 2-3 months.
You left out the Sturgis motorcycle rally that's taking place from Aug 7, 2020 to Aug 16, 2020 in South Dakota
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Simple solution there. Nobody leaves South Dakota until 3 weeks after Sturgis.
And no outside medical assistance enters.
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Wait, is that motorcycle rally taking place indoors?
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In every bar in Sturgis.
So... (Score:2)
$6.00 gets you 40 seats. It's a steal.
k.
At that price just buy all the tickets. (Score:2)
-Load up the family bus, we goin' to the movie.
Moviepass (Score:1)
They still have a chance! Moviepass stock's going to the moon!
inflation? (Score:2)
15 cents in 1920 to amounts to $1.94.
Looks like they have really high operating costs now than a century ago.
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15 cents in 1920 to amounts to $1.94.
Looks like they have really high operating costs now than a century ago.
A century ago they didn't have air conditioning, no minimum wage for employees, no social security taxes, and the chairs were half the size.
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Re:inflation? (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, the 1920s were when AC was rolled out to a few retailers and...a LOT of movie theaters. That was where most the public first experienced it.
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I didn't help that the first movie people saw when they first experienced AC was Snow White.
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Almost all of the cost of movie tickets goes to the studios, which charge theaters a per-person licensing fee to be able to show the movie. Theaters make money only on concessions, which is why the food costs so much.
Thinking this through (Score:2)
The bigger question (Score:1)
Eh (Score:3)
Not bad (Score:2)
Rumor has it there a nickel theater showing a double feature of Green Lantern and Justice League.
Popcorn is $127.98 before tax.
Not here in WA... (Score:2)
Since Inslee said he would have his state police beat them to death. He is really mad at movie theaters. He even had his WSP beat people that saw Avatar in 3D.
Cheapest ticket to death around (Score:2)
Freedom and safety can both be had. But it has to (Score:1)
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Last I heard, there was a few new cases in New Zealand and those weren't from any contact with outsiders.
Are there no rules about this in the USA? (Score:2)
Here locally the Cinema is about the most socially distanced place you can be. Max 2 people with 2 people gaps with only odd rows and the inability to go to the bathroom during the showing. The cinema is filled in a way to prevent people from walking near other people, you have to book ahead, you're not handed paper tickets, restricted sessions that leave large gaps between viewings (viruses don't survive long on dried surfaces), then they spray the seats with disinfectant anyway, etc.etc.etc.
At this point
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Six feet is not enough. People will be taking off their masks to eat. And two seats between is fuck-all.
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Six feet is plenty. Don't be a fear monger.
Droplets can be transmitted over distances of more than twenty feet, and you think that six feet is plenty? Maybe outside in full sunlight when the wind isn't blowing.
Six feet is a minimum, not a guarantee of safety.
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Oh no a droplet! The point is not to prevent 100% of infections 100% of the time. 6ft is more than enough when the other party isn't projectile sneezing with they're top line capacity.
Don't be a fear mongerer. 6ft is more than enough for you to not have to freak out unless you're a crazy germophobe.
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"he point is not to prevent 100% of infections 100% of the time"
Straw man
"6ft is more than enough"
6 feet is the minimum distance. It's not more than enough by definition. The most you could conceivably say is that it is enough.
"when the other party isn't projectile sneezing with they're top line capacity."
What do you base that on? Answer, you made it up. Air circulation systems will carry droplets produced while breathing, eating, laughing etc. much further than six feet.
"Don't be a fear mongerer"
Don't be a
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Straw man
Not at all. Fundamentally the point. You are scared of your own shadow. Grow a pair and take reasonable measures. Or do you also not cross the road at the green light because there's the off chance someone else may not stop for red (another safety measure made in your name).
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Not at all. Fundamentally the point. You are scared of your own shadow.
Please do tell me all about how I feel, because you clearly know more about it than I do. I am amazed at your psychic powers! You win TEH PRIZE!11!
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It's not an airline. 2 seats is over the requisite 1.5m and the reality is I've not had anyone sitting the 3rd seat over from me either.
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What, are they fucking in the stairwell or something?
If it looks safe, I'd go (Score:1)
25% full theaters- max.
Anything over that- isn't worth the risk. I'm 59.5 with co-morbidities.
Errrrr, NO. (Score:2)
I have news for them- most people won't risk their life for 15.
They couldn't pay me to sit in a movie theater right now. Offer me $1000 to sit through a movie in a public theater, and I'd say "No thank you."
(I never really liked the whole "movie theater experience" anyway, but this seals the deal for me.)
Why bother (Score:2)