Well, it looks my slight hiccup using MoviePass as few weeks ago was not an anomaly. Reading the news over the past couple of weeks, it looks like MoviePass may not be around much longer because of recent mishaps (service downtime, pointless peak pricing and recently announced monthly price increases (from $9.95/mo to $14.95/mo (which is still a great deal, but…)). I’ll be disappointed if it closes up shop because I have LOVED using it since joining in September 2017.
I’m okay with them raising their monthly fee to $15/month because it’s still a good deal and covers the price of 2 evening showings. Not only that, but my annual membership that I upgraded to in January will (*maybe* at this point) still continue until January 2019. So I’m still locked in with my current rate of $6.95/mo until I have to renew my annual pass. If I then have to pay $155/year (a strictly made up price of $12.95/mo, discounted for paying for a year up front?), it’s still worth it to me since I average 4 movies a month. That’s still $3.22 per movie ticket for that annual membership price.
I’m also not that upset about their announcement that they will be limiting access to blockbusters during the first few weeks of the run, such as the recent fiasco with “Mission Impossible: Fallout.” Since I only go to theaters that have reserved seating, I typically wait 2-3 weeks to see the blockbusters since those showings are mostly sold out anyway. So my modus operandi won’t change in that respect. The only reason I’d be unhappy is if I wait 2-3 weeks to see something and still am forced to pay peak pricing, as one guy experienced when he went to see “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
My last MoviePass movie was “Ant-Man and the Wasp” in mid-July. Since then I’ve gone to see “Teen Titans Go To The Movies” with my son and had to pay cash for my ticket because of the initial app outage. I was a bit miffed because TTG is not the kind of movie I’d normally be okay with paying full price to see. But we were already at the theater, so we soldiered on. I’ll have to continue monitoring the news coming out about MoviePass to determine if it’s worth sticking with or bailing. I don’t want to bail, but will if it seems like the program won’t work anymore. We’ll see.
