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Maybe your theater is the exception? Are you in a city? Here in central NJ, im seeing the same business as pre-pandemic. I have AMC monthly pass and so I see a

Maybe your theater is the exception? Are you in a city? Here in central NJ, im seeing the same business as pre-pandemic. I have AMC monthly pass and so I see a lot of movies. Apart from blockbusters like Barbie or most superhero movies, the theaters are practically empty. Yes there are weird exceptions such as The Sound of Freedom but that was essentially a scam because many viewers were given free tickets by conservative organizations just to boost their numbers. But normally any non big blockbuster has a small handful of people or almost nothing. AMC is also still closing theaters in places like Charlotte NC which I would normally assume is a growth area.

owlninja 3y ago
Do you mean Sound of Freedom not The Sound of Music :) ?
- nebula8804 3y ago
  Yes sorry. Clearly as you can tell I didn't get a free ticket to watch it. :P
Blackthorn 3y ago
We gave up on AMC in particular because of the obscene amount of previews and ads (I measured it for a movie two months ago, it was forty minutes of them after the published start time!). Others haven't been so egregious at least. But it's no surprise to me if AMC goes bankrupt.
- nebula8804 3y ago
  Thats kind of weird. How long ago was this? What specific AMC theater did you go to? In the AMC app it explicitly tells you if there are previews and typically they don't ever go past 20 mins. Typically they are 15 mins.
softwaredoug 3y ago
Yes you’re right for new movies. People are bored of the formulaic crap. Alamo replays a lot of popular movies, and those have been much busier. Kubrick and Christopher Nolan movies. The recent Dune. Rerelease of The Exorcist. Etc.
- nebula8804 3y ago
  No its not just that. Any small time indie film is also practically empty. Most A24 films for example might have some interested people on day one but then its literally dead for the rest of their two+ week run. I cannot even count the amount of times I walked into a theater with literally no one watching. AMC plays the film regardless and its just sad seeing no one in the theater. I am tired of hearing this "formulaic crap" excuse when its the formulaic crap of superhero movies that bring in a lot of the big bucks.

owlninja 3y ago

Do you mean Sound of Freedom not The Sound of Music :) ?

nebula8804 3y ago
Yes sorry. Clearly as you can tell I didn't get a free ticket to watch it. :P

Blackthorn 3y ago

We gave up on AMC in particular because of the obscene amount of previews and ads (I measured it for a movie two months ago, it was forty minutes of them after the published start time!). Others haven't been so egregious at least. But it's no surprise to me if AMC goes bankrupt.

nebula8804 3y ago
Thats kind of weird. How long ago was this? What specific AMC theater did you go to? In the AMC app it explicitly tells you if there are previews and typically they don't ever go past 20 mins. Typically they are 15 mins.

softwaredoug 3y ago

Yes you’re right for new movies. People are bored of the formulaic crap. Alamo replays a lot of popular movies, and those have been much busier. Kubrick and Christopher Nolan movies. The recent Dune. Rerelease of The Exorcist. Etc.

nebula8804 3y ago
No its not just that. Any small time indie film is also practically empty. Most A24 films for example might have some interested people on day one but then its literally dead for the rest of their two+ week run. I cannot even count the amount of times I walked into a theater with literally no one watching. AMC plays the film regardless and its just sad seeing no one in the theater. I am tired of hearing this "formulaic crap" excuse when its the formulaic crap of superhero movies that bring in a lot of the big bucks.