A year ago a neighbor—sorry I forget who (ah! Old age!)-mentioned moviepass and getting to go see free movies once a day, 365 days, for a year which immediately got my interest as I am and have been a big movie GOER since I was a kid.
Seem they were having a special of $89.95 for a year’s membership so I joined. For my membership I saw 71 movies for that $89.95 and there are two ways of looking at that, the first being the fee paid for about the first 10 movies I saw and the other 61 were free or I paid $1.26 per movie. In either case I got a great deal and, maybe, I saw a dozen pictures that I may not have normally seen.
One of the questions everyone asked was how they could sustain it and, obviously, they couldn’t. This past summer they sort of took a nosedive with a plan that charged $9.95 per month to see 3 movies a month which is still a good deal though not as good but my special was still okay until September and then I was put on that 3 a month deal to finish out the 3 months I had left.
The only problem was that you were restricted to movies, theatres and times they picked and most times that was never clear on their app, but I persevered though at times it almost drove me crazier than I already am.
An aside: my favorite theatre in Fort Lauderdale is the Classic Gateway that I have been going to since I lived in Miami Beach (that was in the Ice Age!) Since I have lived in Fort Lauderdale from 1979 it is my theatre of choice because they cater to everyone having blockbusters, documentaries, gay and independent films and were an ‘art’ theatre before anyone else. (Not to mention the owners and the folks who work there are class people!)
Okay, back to moviepass. I decided when my membership was up I would give it a try for a month thinking that if I got 3 movies to Gateway a month I would be ahead. As an example—if I went to 3 Tuesday matinees, when they charge $7 for those who have their reward cards that would be saving me $12—even if I went on Fridays when it cost $9 I would still be getting 2 free movies.
I spent 2 hours on the Internet and another 2 on the phone—they have no record of my ever being a member or my renewing for the month of December so bye-bye moviepass but thanks for the year!
Sort of turned itno a rant--sorry! :O)
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A year ago a neighbor—sorry I forget who (ah! Old age!)-mentioned moviepass and getting to go see free movies once a day, 365 days, for a year which immediately got my interest as I am and have been a big movie GOER since I was a kid.
Seem they were having a special of $89.95 for a year’s membership so I joined. For my membership I saw 71 movies for that $89.95 and there are two ways of looking at that, the first being the fee paid for about the first 10 movies I saw and the other 61 were free or I paid $1.26 per movie. In either case I got a great deal and, maybe, I saw a dozen pictures that I may not have normally seen.
One of the questions everyone asked was how they could sustain it and, obviously, they couldn’t. This past summer they sort of took a nosedive with a plan that charged $9.95 per month to see 3 movies a month which is still a good deal though not as good but my special was still okay until September and then I was put on that 3 a month deal to finish out the 3 months I had left.
The only problem was that you were restricted to movies, theatres and times they picked and most times that was never clear on their app, but I persevered though at times it almost drove me crazier than I already am.
An aside: my favorite theatre in Fort Lauderdale is the Classic Gateway that I have been going to since I lived in Miami Beach (that was in the Ice Age!) Since I have lived in Fort Lauderdale from 1979 it is my theatre of choice because they cater to everyone having blockbusters, documentaries, gay and independent films and were an ‘art’ theatre before anyone else. (Not to mention the owners and the folks who work there are class people!)
Okay, back to moviepass. I decided when my membership was up I would give it a try for a month thinking that if I got 3 movies to Gateway a month I would be ahead. As an example—if I went to 3 Tuesday matinees, when they charge $7 for those who have their reward cards that would be saving me $12—even if I went on Fridays when it cost $9 I would still be getting 2 free movies.
I spent 2 hours on the Internet and another 2 on the phone—they have no record of my ever being a member or my renewing for the month of December so bye-bye moviepass but thanks for the year!
Sort of turned itno a rant--sorry! :O)
