Ha, or so. Out of the 27 movies I’ve seen in September so far, MoviePass paid for 14 of them.
SenorBeef, mine does that too, multiple listings of the same movies, but with different showtimes. It started doing that since the Great Crash. It doesn’t mean anything that I can tell.
I’m still waiting to receive the goddamn card. I signed up on Aug 17.
They have zero customer service. I wonder if I will even get to use the thing once before the company goes out of business.
Please tell me that they have waived the monthly fee until you receive the card.
They charged the first month immediately upon signing up. *Supposedly *they are not going to charge the second month until one month after I finally get the card activated. (So if the card arrives Oct 1, the next billing date should be Nov 1.) I have my doubts, as this is perhaps the shoddiest run company I have *ever *had business with, and if I get charged again this week I will be filing a complaint with my credit card company.
I’ve looked at movies, I can’t think of any I really want to see until ‘happy death day’ comes out next month. American made with Tom Cruise may be worth seeing though.
I worry I will not be able to find the 2-3 movies a month I need to justify the cost. Since I have endless thousands of movies and TV shows available to me at all times at home, it is hard to find something that justifies going to a theater, sitting through 20-30 minutes of ads, and not being able to pause the movie at will that feels it is better than what I can get at home.
This.
Also, the snacks I like to have while watching movies are not the snacks concession stands usually carry. The last few times I went to a movie, I brought in my own drinks and snacks (thank you, Trader Joe’s!). I might reconsider doing this if they’d branch away from candy, soda, and shitty popcorn with fake butter and give me real food like almonds, cheese and salami, and quality ginger ale or unsweetened, lightly flavored sparkling water. And beer. Theatres should have good microbrews.
Oh this is most definitely a service I would take full advantage of, especially in the coming months when all the potential Oscar nominees gets released. But this major fuckup of how they are sending out the cards is leaving quite a bad taste in my mouth with regards to how the company is being run. I don’t expect them to be around in 2018.
So I *finally *received the card on September 28.
Now that I have it, I’ve used it twice so far and each time has worked smoothly! I used it at a major AMC theater (“American Made”) and a small independent movie house (“Loving Vincent”) and both times had no issues.
I don’t know if they finally fixed all the shipping errors so new sign ups will receive their cards quickly or not, but I can confirm that once you do have the card, it works exactly as stated, with my next billing date being October 30 (the original fee I paid on Aug 17 is being used for the month of October.)
Someone was telling me about Moviepass, and I’m thinking of signing up. The website does show me the Honolulu theaters without an account yet, so I guess that’s fixed. I don’t have a smartphone, but the wife does, so we can probably use hers. (At least, I don’t think mine’s a smartphone. It’s better than the 2G I used for years in Thailand, and I can use the Internet, but it’s not a fancy one like the wife’s.) We don’t watch movies nearly as often as we did back in Bangkok, but we do go often enough that this would be worth it. As with everything else in Hawaii, movies are expensive.
I think you need one smartphone per account. I don’t know if there’s some sort of double account available.
Our neighbor thinks you don’t need a smartphone now. She just signed up her brother on the mainland, and he doesn’t have one. He’s supposed to get some sort of card. What would the smartphone be needed for if you have a card?
You need both a smart phone and the card.
Hmm. I’ll mention this to my neighbor. She signed up her brother because she thought the card alone was needed. She said he doesn’t have a smartphone.
He needs to have a smartphone to log into a showing at the theater, which will then load the funds onto the card. Just having a card with no phone is useless. His card will stay at $0 with no way to actually use it.
Finally met someone I know personally who has the card and as someone who (a) sees a ton of films in the theater–206 features so far this year–, and (b) usually goes to movies by himself, it certainly sounds like it’s worth investigating. Will sign up today and expect to have the card in hand by the time I get back from my Thanksgiving family trip, primed for the Oscar bait/holiday season.
I signed up last week and paid my first payment of $9.95. If it works out, I’ll get one for the wife too.
I tried it the other day, and it paid for itself the first time. $9.95 for my first monthly installment and got a $16 recliner seat at the theater. So we’ve ordered one for he wife.
But this is annoying. Unlike me, she has an iPhone, and that iPhone is registered in Thailand, where she purchased it. So she can’t download the Movie Pass app, because she can obtain apps only from the Thai apps store, and Movie Pass is not there. It looks like I can use my app for both accounts to check in though.
That’s the fault of Apple, not MoviePass.
Yes, I know. We’re working on that.
Is this true, because the only thing holding me back is that I need 3 accounts, one for me and one for each of the kids, and the kids don’t have smartphones