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Honestly, this has been standard at every chain theatre I've been to for a decade or more. Once reserved seating became the norm, we just show up fifteen minutes after the 'start' time and walk in to the house lights dimming.
Agree with your review of Dune though.
I stopped going to movies after covid, but i was at one movie whereca fight broke out in that exact scinario. A group showed up right as the previews were ending to find other people had taken their seats. Its escalated where the girls were physically fighting and the manager had to break them up.
AMC restarted the movie and gave everyone a free ticket to another movie after this 2 girls were escorted out.
I'll take random throw downs over a Twister reboot trailer.
I generally only go to matinees when I go, so if someone's in my seat it's no big deal to just take another one, thankfully.
This is the way.
I probably won't be back until Dune 3, but by then 3 years will have passed and I'll have learned nothing.
reserved seating
I'm so out of touch what the hell is this?
Assigned seats
Assigned seatings basically. You pay for specific seats when you buy your ticket, kinda like when you purchase theater tickets.
Pretty much every theater does assigned/reserved seating nowadays. You choose your seat numbers when you buy the ticket. No need to show up early to try to scout the best seat or score 5 in a row or whatever. They’re just saying they go to their ticketed seat.
Huh. Do you have to pay more for some seats?
Did they at least start selling beer and having decent food?
20-30 minutes of previews/ads has been standard for at least a decade now. That's not an AMC thing - that's just what most theaters do.
More than a decade... particularly with tentpole films like Dune.
That is insane. I know i fidlike ads way more than the average joe, but how is that acceptable?
I don't see any ads at all anymore so I kinda like it.
Unpopular take, but I like theatrical previews. They're like bonus mini-movies, similar to the shorts before Pixar films. (I hate spoilers so this opinion only applies to movies I wasn't planning on seeing anyway, however I'm not much of a cinephile so that ends up being most of them.) Also it's nice having a buffer for any latecomers to get settled before the feature film starts.
I liked them until they became so full of spoilers, now I actively avoid them. It would have been so much cooler if I hadn't known Spider-Man was going to make an appearance in Civil War.
Trailers have been full of spoilers since at least the 1930s.
That's why it's a mini-movie, you probably don't need to see most of them if the plot can be fully developed and resolved in 2 - 4 minutes.
It's not so much the trailers that people complain about, but all the ads.
They're basically all the same. I also saw dune IMAX yesterday and was very annoyed at sitting through 30+ minutes of ads.
They all have the exact same "epic" music, tone and pace. Non of it was creative and bored the hell out of me.
Dune pt 2 was amazing through, I recommend.
I like trailers and previews, but at home while wearing overly revealing shorts. That's the ideal clothing.
This is intentional, it's to give the edibles time to kick in.
AMC Mountain High, with CBD Jujyfruits and Indica Caramel Popcorn!
Shit. I did mine hours too late.
The previews are part of the experience in my opinion. We can def do without the Nicole Kidman so many years celebration. This probably belongs more in unpopular opinion more than anything else. Some home setups even preroll future trailers. It’s an option in Plex.
Upvoted for your opinion, but also
No.
That's how all cinemas near me have done it for ages, and the main reason I don't go, apart from it costing more than a 4K blu ray for the both of us to go.
Only 10 minutes of ads? I think it's normally more than that. And there's always a Kevin Bacon one in there.
Look for a theater in your area that serves food (not just snacks). They generally have a better clientele, they usually kick people out who don’t behave, and they don’t waste time on corporate rah rah nonsense like ten minutes of Nicole Kidman commercials.
I'll take 10 minutes of Kidman fever dream over the trailers for every fuckin movie in existence.
I generally prefer Regal for the screening options but the one thing AMC do better is the seating. Way more comfortable.
The seat was very comfortable, I sat in it for 30+ extra minutes.
Hey, at least you can recline while you sit through the third pickup commercial!
Why do people go to theaters? My home is nicer
My home doesn't have Dune 2 playing and I got water coolers to talk around.
