MoviePass Is Limiting Selection To 'Up To Six Films' a Day (techcrunch.com) 65
MoviePass is changing things up once again. In an email, CEO Mitch Lowe outlined the latest updates to the once-unlimited subscription plan. Most notable among the changes is the limiting of selection to "up to six films to choose from daily, including a selection of major studio first-run films and independent releases." TechCrunch reports: On top of that, there may be further limitations on showtime availability for the selected titles, based on "the popularity of those films on the app that particular day." The company has already begun limiting access to specific films, starting with a barring of major blockbusters and moving toward limiting selection generally. Now users can go to the "This Week's Movies" page to see what's available. Right now, there's a semi-consistent, rotating selection. Which movies are chosen and when will likely be at least partially dependent on deals struck between MoviePass and studios/distributors.
Buy the Upgraadde pass (Score:2)
A double dose of the pimpPass. You see a pimp's love for a woman is different than that of a square.
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Re:I'm launching pimpPass (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not "you can watch 6 movies in a day" it's "there are up to 6 movies you can choose from". You can only watch 3 movies a month. And the movies selection sounds like it might be even more limited, e.g. theaters will use it to fill up showings that would otherwise be empty.
In other words, you might as well just buy a ticket at the box office.
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SO basically like Showtime or HBO.
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Sounds like a good bussiness model. Better than HBO, more movies on rotations, and released sooner than HBO gets them.
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and in a theater.
You say that as though it's an advantage.
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Except you have to go to the theater at the limited set of times that MoviePass makes available. It sounds like you are going to be seeing a lot of Saturday matinees. From the limited selection. Thanks, I'll take Netflix.
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It is more limited. Right now in the app it lists a bunch of movies that are unselectable (greyed out).
Lame.
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Looks like Moviepass is addressing this directly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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I tried to go to the movies this weekend. I was given the choice of seeing slenderman or nothing for every theater in a 50 mi radius. I thought it was a glitch and tried to use the in app chat, but received an automatic message saying chat was only available to people at the theater. Despite my message clearly stating that I was at the theater. That automatic message suggested emailing support@moviepass.com I did that and received a canned message saying that my email support ticket had been automatically c
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Mind you, I got "re-confirmed" a couple of days after I cancelled, but that was just pure scumminess.
I do think it's fascinating how every negative thing they do to their service instantly impacts all of us who pre-paid, but "improvements" are always in the
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Teading compehension fail. They're not limiting the watching of films per day; they're limitin the number of films available to choose from.
Re: I'm launching pimpPass (Score:1)
Moo Cows (Score:2)
They aren't doing this to be jerks. (Score:1)
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They were jerks for launching something that could never, ever be sustainable (*).
(* The only way it could ever have been sustainable is if the theaters capitulated and started working with MoviePass, and reducing the cost of tickets... dramatically.)
Re: Why is anyone still using MoviePass? (Score:3)
Old person here. Back when I was a teenager, before you could stream movies and almost nobody had a "big screen tv", we would often just drive to a movie theater and pick something to watch based on the posters on the wall. We did end up watching a lot of shitty movies, but also a lot of great movies we otherwise never would have seen. There was also something abouy going into a movie having absolutely no idea what it was about or if it was any good. Overall, I miss the experience.
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I had kinda the same experience with TV when I was growing up, here in Norway there was only one TV station. And even though we got VHS tapes after a while, there was still only one family TV so I ended up watching a varied selection. When I think back it was okay, but I think that's only because there was never really any alternatives. Today, if I knew there was plenty other channels and Netflix and plenty other electronic entertainment I'd be bored in two minutes and ready to kill myself in ten. It's kind
Three per month? (Score:2)
What happened to the viewing limit being three per month?
https://news.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
Re:Three per month? (Score:5, Informative)
Re: Three per month? (Score:4, Informative)
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"up to" 6. 6 is the max, not the guarantee.
I am altering the deal (Score:5, Funny)
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Yeah, except this isn't like the Empire Strikes Back "altering the deal" scene you so fondly remember. It's more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Not "changing things up" (Score:3)
"AMC Stubs A-List" $20 a month for 3 movies a week (Score:2)
AMC Theatres has a new thing called "AMC Stubs A-List". For $20 a month (+ tax) you can watch 3 movies a week at any AMC theater. All formats (2D, 3D, Imax), showtimes, and movie selections are included, and your watch list resets every Friday morning. Special event movies aren't included. I signed up 2 weeks ago and watched 2 movies each week (4 so far) so the plan has already paid for itself this month. https://www.amctheatres.com/ [amctheatres.com]
The Onion (Score:4, Informative)
Success! or failure? (Score:4, Insightful)
Now that theater chains are offering these same services I believe they have succeeded in their goal of making a subscription service available to the people. However it is not their service so if their end goal was to be profitable (I don't see why anyone would ever think that was possible) well then they failed.
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I believe they have succeeded in their goal
Moviepass was founded in 2011. I have had subscriptions to a variety of cinemas on and off since 1995. Its one of the things I was worried about losing when I moved to the other side of the world where none of the chains I was used to existed .... took me about 2 weeks to find a similar offer from the local chain when I arrived in Europe.
I think I will start a car company with the goal of making the internal combustion engine popular.
The solution (Score:2)
Is to stop doing business with the company. I have shredded my moviepass card.
New week, new deal (Score:2)
Seriously there's like an article here every week on how MoviePass is changing the terms. If I had been a customer the number of changes by itself would be reason to say fuck this, I'll just go buy a ticket when I need one. They're like a fat fuck jumping around trying to find the magic diet that'll make them slim in a week, it ain't gonna happen.
Just... (Score:3)