US Movie Theaters Reopening (August 2020)

[ITDEFX101]

Originally Posted by GrouchoFan

They should re-release OUTBREAK and CONTAGION to cinemas.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! 😷

OR just put it back on Netlix/Amazon prime.... I know Outbreak is back on Netflix but Contagion has been gone for years.

[larsknudsen]

Originally Posted by ITDEFX101

This is the DUMBEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN theaters do.

Does everything have to be hyperbole?

[TitusTroy]

Originally Posted by ITDEFX101

But there isn't a MUST see movie out now because most movies have been yanked. How long are they going to keep BoP, Sonic, Invisible Man and so on in the theaters ? How are they going to enforce this? Are they going to put up "out of service" covers on the spaced out chairs?

This is the DUMBEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN theaters do.

Remember that scene in Outbreak where the dude coughs and the camera follows the particles around the theater?

Wouldn't it be wiser to install better air filters? If you do get infected...how do you know it didn't come from someone else in another screen?

AMC will only sell tickets up to 50% capacity...I think anyone that goes to see a movie will naturally just sit a seat or 2 apart from any stranger

[GenPion]

Maybe my local AMC will finally add recliner seats now.

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by TitusTroy

AMC will only sell tickets up to 50% capacity...I think anyone that goes to see a movie will naturally just sit a seat or 2 apart from any stranger

I wonder how non-assigned seating theatres are going to do this? Before this outbreak, at my theatre, I usually get there first and choose the center front seat (best seat IMO) and there would be like 200 other seats but the other 15-20 people coming in will sit behind me, a few seats down from me, etc. It's annoying.

[Himmel]

I would assume every other seat would be void since it's 50%.

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by GenPion

Maybe my local AMC will finally add recliner seats now.

My local Carmike-turned-AMC Classic is a dump. $3.99 tickets before 5pm but their seats are non-stadium. Screens are small. Lights in the theatres are non-existent so you can barely see your way to find seats.

Now would be a great time for AMC to remodel it's Classic theatres.

[TitusTroy]

Originally Posted by Himmel

I would assume every other seat would be void since it's 50%.

even at 50% capacity I'm sure the actual number of people going to each screening will be significantly lower- probably closer to 20%

[Falaskan]

Sailors seen just today on the U.S.S. Paranoia:

[MazeRunner]

Browsing the NY theatres Empire 25 and Lincoln Square and they are ghost towns for their 7pm showtimes.

[Rodney-2187]

Just put "Cats" on half the screens.

[larsknudsen]

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

Just put "Cats" on half the screens.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by slimdude

There is nothing silly about an outbreak of a deadly virus. This is not Hollywood and it's not a movie. It's a real life pandemic, and it's not to be taken likely. When it spreads local it's a major concern.

There's legitimate concerns for sure, but then there's also a significantly disproportionate fear being spread about too in regards to how people are responding to this. By all means take precautions and offer advice to people showing symptoms to isolate etc. for a period of time but putting entire countries into lockdown? How is that serving a society to function in any other way than creating a panic to go buy X, Y, Z before it runs out and nobody can buy anything.

So i stand by my point, the fear seems to be driving people more than the actual facts of what has happened.

[sandman slim]

Originally Posted by larsknudsen

Well, if I wasn't already gay, that gif would have done it.

Malco here in Memphis has joined the herd in going to half capacity. Hardly needed, though; the 7:15 IMAX Bloodshot has sold 16 out of 300 tickets, many of the evening shows I checked are completely empty. And I looked at a dozen matinees earlier, not a single ticket sold on a Friday, and that included this week's new movies.

I guess nobody can go to the movies because they're all at Walmart, panic buying toilet paper. By lunchtime, my store had completly sold out of TP, paper towels, milk, cereal, most of the canned goods, baby formula... Welcome to the apocalypse. Less zombies, more Charmin...

[gambit64]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

Looks like CMX Cinemas is already doing it:

[Show spoiler]

So I guess this is what "sold out" showings will now look like. Cinemas seem to be active tonight. Sucks the limited seating will make it appear like theatre's are dead.

It probably would be better if they staggered the seats like tic-tac-toe. The way it shows here, people can still cough onto the ones seated in front of them.

[Toetke]

all movies theaters in Belgium are closed until further notice
all schools are also closed, everything is going to shut down here.........

[TitusTroy]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

I guess nobody can go to the movies because they're all at Walmart, panic buying toilet paper. By lunchtime, my store had completly sold out of TP, paper towels, milk, cereal, most of the canned goods, baby formula... Welcome to the apocalypse. Less zombies, more Charmin...

why is everyone hoarding toilet paper for?

[Falaskan]

Originally Posted by TitusTroy

why is everyone hoarding toilet paper for?

Because what you comes out can go back in, in the case of the end of the world flu...

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by TitusTroy

AMC will only sell tickets up to 50% capacity...I think anyone that goes to see a movie will naturally just sit a seat or 2 apart from any stranger

I've been doing that for years. Nothing I hate more than being boxed in on all sides by complete strangers at the movies, and not due to worries about viruses, either. I always want as many empty seats between me and anyone else in my row -- or the rows in front of and behind me -- as possible.

[TitusTroy]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

I've been doing that for years. Nothing I hate more than being boxed in on all sides by complete strangers at the movies, and not due to worries about viruses, either. I always want as many empty seats between me and anyone else in my row -- or the rows in front of and behind me -- as possible.

but you can't really control that...even if you have several seats empty on either side of you, there's nothing preventing someone else from coming in and sitting right next to you