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I find your message hilarious. Do you have better alternatives if you're calling this horrible?

by nyrulez 8y ago

morsch 8y ago
Netflix
- deathanatos 8y ago
  > 3.4. Changes to the Price and Subscription Plans. We reserve the right to change our subscription plans or adjust pricing for our service or any components thereof in any manner and at any time as we may determine in our sole and absolute discretion. Except as otherwise expressly provided for in these Terms of Use, any price changes or changes to your subscription plan will take effect following notice to you. And there is a forced arbitration clause (and as much as I think those are a mockery of our legal system), this would seem to allow fairly substantial changes at any time.
  - EpicEng 8y ago
    Yeah, except for the fact that historically they have never pulled any crap approaching the ongoing drama that is MoviePass. The biggest shift I recall is the move to split the DVD/streaming services, which I think was completely reasonable.
ulkesh 8y ago
I'm glad you find it hilarious. Does MoviePass have competition? If not, then of course I have no better alternative since they're the only ones in this space. Better alternatives to what I laid out? Sure, restrict to, say, three devices so if I forget my main phone, I can use my work phone, or I can let my wife go see a movie from time to time, etc. Feel free to pick everything apart, I'm simply speaking in terms of a subscription service being reasonable for usability. This is why it's always been horrible. And keep in mind, I paid for a one year contract at $30/mo for it, so it's not exactly armchair criticism.
- logfromblammo 8y ago
  The competition is always to not go see movies in theaters. Theaters have just barely been holding on to my business for weekend matinees, between 0 and 2 times per month. I get that the movies-in-theaters industry seems ripe for disruption, but people are already doing that by not going [as frequently] any more. It's nice that MoviePass is trying to throw a flotation ring to the theaters, but when I heard Disney was unilaterally upping its take from certain movies that it will be distributing, and pulling out of Netflix to pursue its own streaming service, I started looking for ways to replace certain elements of my entertainment. The industry itself is killing the golden goose, and I may just go back to reading fantasy novels by the shovelful, and trying out all those games I licensed on Steam/GOG/Humble and never played, and binge-watching niche shows on Netflix/Hulu that would have been canceled from regular television.
TheCoelacanth 8y ago
Buying a ticket directly from the theater? It's not as cheap, but they won't change the deal on me after I have already paid them.
- nyrulez 8y ago
  I find this argument confusing. Rationally, this is still more than 3 times cheaper than any theater. My goal isn't to take revenge on them but to spend my dollar wisely.
jackmodern 8y ago
Stubs A-List through AMC.
- nyrulez 8y ago
  That is cool. I don't know why they don't advertise that option more aggressively, even in the theater
s73v3r_ 8y ago
Just about every other way of buying a ticket (either AMC A-List, Sinema, or even just buying a normal movie ticket the old fashioned way) offers a much better, and much more consistent experience.
- nyrulez 8y ago
  Well MoviePass was competing on price, not on experience. Is that why people flock to MoviePass?

I find your message hilarious. Do you have better alternatives if you're calling this horrible?

morsch 8y ago

Netflix

deathanatos 8y ago
> 3.4. Changes to the Price and Subscription Plans. We reserve the right to change our subscription plans or adjust pricing for our service or any components thereof in any manner and at any time as we may determine in our sole and absolute discretion. Except as otherwise expressly provided for in these Terms of Use, any price changes or changes to your subscription plan will take effect following notice to you. And there is a forced arbitration clause (and as much as I think those are a mockery of our legal system), this would seem to allow fairly substantial changes at any time.
- EpicEng 8y ago
  Yeah, except for the fact that historically they have never pulled any crap approaching the ongoing drama that is MoviePass. The biggest shift I recall is the move to split the DVD/streaming services, which I think was completely reasonable.

ulkesh 8y ago

I'm glad you find it hilarious. Does MoviePass have competition? If not, then of course I have no better alternative since they're the only ones in this space. Better alternatives to what I laid out? Sure, restrict to, say, three devices so if I forget my main phone, I can use my work phone, or I can let my wife go see a movie from time to time, etc. Feel free to pick everything apart, I'm simply speaking in terms of a subscription service being reasonable for usability. This is why it's always been horrible. And keep in mind, I paid for a one year contract at $30/mo for it, so it's not exactly armchair criticism.

logfromblammo 8y ago
The competition is always to not go see movies in theaters. Theaters have just barely been holding on to my business for weekend matinees, between 0 and 2 times per month. I get that the movies-in-theaters industry seems ripe for disruption, but people are already doing that by not going [as frequently] any more. It's nice that MoviePass is trying to throw a flotation ring to the theaters, but when I heard Disney was unilaterally upping its take from certain movies that it will be distributing, and pulling out of Netflix to pursue its own streaming service, I started looking for ways to replace certain elements of my entertainment. The industry itself is killing the golden goose, and I may just go back to reading fantasy novels by the shovelful, and trying out all those games I licensed on Steam/GOG/Humble and never played, and binge-watching niche shows on Netflix/Hulu that would have been canceled from regular television.

TheCoelacanth 8y ago

Buying a ticket directly from the theater? It's not as cheap, but they won't change the deal on me after I have already paid them.

nyrulez 8y ago
I find this argument confusing. Rationally, this is still more than 3 times cheaper than any theater. My goal isn't to take revenge on them but to spend my dollar wisely.

jackmodern 8y ago

Stubs A-List through AMC.

nyrulez 8y ago
That is cool. I don't know why they don't advertise that option more aggressively, even in the theater

s73v3r_ 8y ago

Just about every other way of buying a ticket (either AMC A-List, Sinema, or even just buying a normal movie ticket the old fashioned way) offers a much better, and much more consistent experience.

nyrulez 8y ago
Well MoviePass was competing on price, not on experience. Is that why people flock to MoviePass?