{"id":1639,"date":"2013-01-12T04:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T08:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2023-10-25T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T03:29:00","slug":"moviepass-movie-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"MoviePass &#8230; movie subscription?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movies have become rather expensive these days, no? Why spend $10 or more when I can wait a year and spend $1 renting a disc? It better be a movie I really want to see.<\/p>\n<p>I have argued before that a subscription service would be nice. A monthly fee for unlimited trips to the theater.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what it looks like the new MoviePass service will provide. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.moviepass.com\/moviepass-launches\/\">this article<\/a>: &#8220;MoviePass provides film enthusiasts the ability to attend unlimited [regular 2D] movies for a monthly fee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh boy!<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.moviepass.com\/moviepass-membership-faq\/\">elsewhere<\/a> they say, &#8220;MoviePass members are able to see up to one 2D movie per day.&#8221; And you can only see a film once. I think these are&#8230; gee, what are they called&#8230; <em><strong>limits<\/strong><\/em>. I would run out of movies every month.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d prefer it if the movie theater companies themselves offered such services. This seems a bit clunky:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/50560470?h=f4e360fd08\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"    allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Right now, the only plan they seem to have is $35 a month for an annual plan. That&#8217;s $420 a year. I&#8217;d have to see quite a few movies in theaters for that to compete with rentals from Netflix. Doesn&#8217;t really seem like that great of a deal. But currently the service is only in a &#8220;limited private beta&#8221; so perhaps their offerings will improve later on down the road.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll see where it goes&#8230; with their current offerings, I think I&#8217;ll pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies have become rather expensive these days, no? Why spend $10 or more when I can wait a year and spend $1 renting a disc? It better be a movie I really want to see. I have argued before that a subscription service would be nice. A monthly fee for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[209],"tags":[659],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-qr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}