Yeaaaah, AMC is borked. Got through the Fandango line, and it can't load the seating chart. AMC app won't even show movies right now. It also logged me out. AMC website won't load the seating chart either. Fuck me.
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See I did this last year for Infinty War and while I did enjoy the larger picture, the old school movie theater seats just weren't cutting it. Even standard cinema showings at my local theaters have recliners now. It's literally just IMAX that puts you into the uncomfortable seats where you have to share the arm rests.
Dolby for me this time. I'll catch an early IMAX matinee a week later when I can hopefully not have seat neighbors.
So glad i waiting in the queue on my phone as well. After being kicked to the queue from putting in my CC info in for an hour it only gives me an error. I'd be pissed if i waited an hour and it pulled this shit and I had no alternative.
Well when I say release date is the 26th, these are the "early preview" showing times at my local AMC on the 25th:
Basically every blockbuster film gets a 4-day opening weekend now. Oftentimes even more if there are early showings weeks in advance (like with Shazam).
With time zone differences I believe most of Europe is still about a day ahead though.
Same happened to me. Got to payments and it didn't go through.
My IMAX has seats that lean back pretty nicely. Not as good as Dolby seats that fully recline, those are the best. What frustrates me is there really is no PERFECT choice, especially if you have lots of IMAX and Dolby Cinemas in your area. They both have advantages, so you have to weigh what is most important to you. If your IMAX still has the old style seating, then yeah I can understand that being a downer.
I think most people who got tickets got them before 8 AM EST when they were "supposed" to go up. I knew this wasn't usually the case so I was up at 7:30 AM EST refreshing the page, which turned out to be the right choice.
My personal experience is that I'm usually able to buy anywhere from 2-10 tickets for opening week at an 'upscale cinema' (where tickets are about $20 each - not IMAX/Dolby either) without any issues. If I try to go to any AMC or Regal cinema for the same time frame, I'm going to be faced with some of the issues people in this thread are having (in fact, I took a glance and I was thrown into a 40 minute "queue" for tickets at an AMC theater local while the one I got my row still has 2 rows (out of 5) available in the same showing I bought an entire row out). This is for any show from Thursday (25th) to Sunday (May 6th).
Got through the Fandango line finally but it just breaks on the AMC theaters anyways. This is fucked.
Not quite sure how the Fandango wait line works (tied to a specific theater location perhaps?) but I went with a theater that's more regional-based as opposed to nationwide
Well when I say release date is the 26th, these are the "early preview" showing times at my local AMC on the 25th:
Basically every blockbuster film gets a 4-day opening weekend now. Oftentimes even more if there are early showings weeks in advance (like with Shazam).
With time zone differences I believe most of Europe is still about a day ahead though.
Ah, so it's not as drastic as I thought. Seems that America just doesn't have the midnight release on the 24th and the morning/matinee showings on the 25th.
Managed to get mine at around 7:40. I was out walking and basically kept refreshing the AMC app until they were available.
Local chain only had a 9:30 PM showing in their IMAX Atmos theater, decided to wait til 7:20 on Friday for the pure experience rather than settling for a pleb theater on Thursday. A little annoyed I missed my alarm but happy to still get great seats. We're almost there!
I wish there could be a 2-in-1 Dolby IMAX theater. Dolby has the screen real estate, the 26% cut is basically just IMAX licensing.
RIP to the AMC Helps Twitter team this morning. I hope someone gets you donuts or something.
Yep. Also several times, after breaking over and over, it told me the seats are no longer available.
Not sure how true that is
i'm trying to get tickets for a Regal theater on Fandango, Regal and Atom right now and it simply isn't working lol
It took me over 30 minutes to get tickets for Sunday morning from their website. The app wouldn't even load the terms and conditions.
Regal has been messed up too. lol
When I bought tickets to the TCL on Fandango it went through super easy because that's not a path that has a lot of traffic.
I don't think this is a Fandango issue.
I was resfreshing Alamo's site at 7:55 and got in at 7:56. I've been going back occasionally just out of curiosity and 80% of the time their site won't even load.
ugh tickets still aren't on sale at my local theater and now I have this paranoid fear that they're going out of business before the movie opens
probably just due to them not being part of a big national chain, though
probably just due to them not being part of a big national chain, though
I can get to the seat selection page on AMC. Showings that said sold out are now available. Site shits the bed at checkout, though.
Why does Bruce Banner look like he's having a bad time at a party?
"Everybody here's got more useful powers than me."
"I can't even turn into the Hulk anymore."
"I wanna go home."
"My feet hurt."
Same for me. It went right through at the Chinese theater even though going to their site instead of fandango said not available. Not ideal seats, but at this point I am just happy to have them.
Now Odeon have gone from 503 errors, to deciding that my two local cinemas simply don't exist.
Edit - And now back to 503s
Edit - And now back to 503s
Hopefully Marvel Studios makes BossLogic their go-to poster guy.
I must have gotten super lucky, I tried Atom around 7:45, wouldn't let me purchase, tried the AMC app and every seat was available, got my choice for Dolby Cinema. Hyped!
