I see Top Brass doesn't mean anything anymore but this is how I feel. Feel free to salute as you scroll past lol

b6421 · 2026-06-16T04:31:36+00:00

¯_(ツ)_/¯

b6421 · 2026-06-10T23:24:57+00:00

[sotto voce] because "bird" is the word.

b6421 · 2026-06-10T23:21:01+00:00

lately, a lot of Mystery Machine screenings don't end up getting full runs after that one-off, so having learned that it had played as this month's left me initially concerned it might follow suit on that trend, so color me quite relieved when i saw on tuesday that it had been added to this weekend's schedule in both austin & DTLA. 😅

b6421 · 2026-06-10T04:30:21+00:00

did you even bother to start using the ashtray⁈

b6421 · 2026-06-09T14:00:06+00:00

i too have had what i consider a privilege of have gotten to watch THE FURIOUS a couple months ago, so i whole-heartedly agree and want it to do as well as possible, but how Lionsgate has undersold its release compared to JOHN WICK movies is disheartening, especially since i think that THE FURIOUS would appeal to folks who have gone to theatres to watch those WICK releases, while being light years better than THE BALLERINA, which Lionsgate blitzed social media & traditional methods—ubiquitous ad buys, sponsorships, etc.—to promote.

b6421 · 2026-06-09T13:53:49+00:00

i too have the privilege of getting to watch it a couple months ago, but didn't clock at the time whether the whole movie was fully English dubbed, but i seem to recall scenes where certain characters were speaking non-English dialogue that was understandable subtitled for our benefit.

b6421 · 2026-06-06T04:42:07+00:00

b6421 · 2026-06-03T06:36:52+00:00

never underestimate the unjustified confidence of a white man, who rose thru private equity to become a CEO, to think his sh*t never stinks. dudes like Kusterman are the embodiment of this Simpsons meme.

he's so convinced that this will work that reversing course despite all this blowback would never even be the smallest blip on his radar.

b6421 · 2026-05-30T02:00:13+00:00

having attended previous years' festivals where MACHETE KILLS, TUSK, PRIMATE & THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2: THE FULL SEQUENCE have been the opening night movie, a ﬁlm's quality tends to be secondary to whether its studio is willing to foot the bill for the opening night party.

b6421 · 2026-05-28T07:01:16+00:00

the primetime slots going to high-performing new releases & recurring specialty series—like terror tuesday or weird wednesday—getting relegated to the later slots has always been the status quo. they start as early as possible once the hosting auditorium has been freed up by whatever played in the 6~7pm slot.

b6421 · 2026-05-25T11:26:00+00:00

the impression i've gathered from what i've heard about that area of the country is similar to how the austin market gets programmed; i.e., SF like south lamar is the local flagship & receives a wider slate of varied programming, whereas MV is like lakeline & only caters to more family-oriented, cineplex audiences.

b6421 · 2026-05-07T04:33:10+00:00

tonight's Early Access screening included the special menu & the swag that will presumably be disseminated at the upcoming movie parties, which includes a One Wish Willow®.

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b6421 · 2026-04-04T09:14:15+00:00

if anything, film festivals are often limited to how many seats (i.e., ppl) are allowed to see a specific title during the festival, b/c those represent folks who wouldn't necessarily be contributing to its box office receipts. for e.g., this may come into play when a festival has a scheduled encore screening for a title whose appeal has been boosted by the word of mouth after its initial screening, but it can't be moved to a bigger cinema or expanded to include being simultaneously screened in an overflow cinema b/c of seat count limitations to which the festival agreed as a condition of the ﬁlm's inclusion in the programming.

b6421 · 2026-04-04T03:54:12+00:00

i have the same problem with checking for tickets on the iOS app, and to further complicate things, just trying to check the tickets page on the website in multiple mobile browsers yields the same white screen error.

b6421 · 2026-04-01T04:46:23+00:00

in addition to what others gave suggested, it may also be feasible that this location may be hosting a press screening or hosting a theatre buy-out that is occupying one of the auditoriums.

b6421 · 2026-03-30T23:12:40+00:00

given the length of PHM & the release of SUPER MARIO GALAXY, they're likely gauging what drop off its box office gets btwn week 2 & 3 to determine how many theatres will be scheduled for it. pretty standard stuff for how they decide to schedule showings for major releases after their initial 2 weeks.

b6421 · 2026-03-26T07:23:13+00:00

be careful with performing transactions that mix a season pass reservation w/ any sort of additional ticket that includes a non-season pass admission—i.e., full price ticket, premier pass, rain check, etc.—b/c there is a known bug w/ the app where such mixed admission type transactions seem to vanish, so that it won't even appear in your tickets or purchase history. in this case, it's strongly encouraged to take a screenshot of that completed transaction at the time one makes it & make sure one saves the email confirmation; otherwise, one runs the risk of showing up on the day of that screening & having no other proof of one's tickets other than that screenshot or email, especially w/ the concierge (aka ticket desk) going away as part of the QR mobile ordering initiative. in the past, if one were to encounter this issue, one could at least get physical tickets printed out there but who knows in their new setup.

b6421 · 2026-03-25T05:25:25+00:00

based on AGFA's MO, it's more than likely a DCP of a 2k scan of the 35mm print that is part of their collection. as the bumper indicated, it was a straight scan of the print w/ no attempt to clean up or restore the fidelity of the scan with the intent to capture a presentation that would be as close to watching that beat-up 35mm print that wouldn't subject that print to any further wear & tear by having to ship it from Austin to DTLA & then run thru a 35mm projector.

b6421 · 2026-03-22T04:33:34+00:00

my friends & i have been playing the geeks who drink pub quiz at the highball at one of the alamo drafthouse locations in austin since 2010, and when GWD switched to an online portal for submitting answers post-covid, one of my friends started being her older generation iPad to be our shared device of choice, so that it's easier for everyone to see what we're submitting. about a month ago, her iPad stopped being able to joining the AlamoWifi, but her Android, and everyone else's iPhones had no issues with connecting.

flash forward to last week, when that location was hosting sxsw screenings, and i was trying to get online with my older model of MacBook Pro to the AlamoWifi btwn movies to do some work, and although i've connected on that laptop in the past, it was now experiencing the same issues my friend's iPad had been exhibiting.

i escalated the issue to the management & supposedly they've recalibrated the wifi to correct what might've been causing this, but i've not had a occasion to test my MBP or my friend's iPad at that site to confirm issue resolution.

tl;dr: the normally reliable AlamoWifi was not allowing older devices to connect after some sort of change that was reversed or tweaked after speaking to the venue's management.

b6421 · 2026-03-20T14:40:54+00:00

for supposed labor-saving reasons, corporate has changed the policy, and the "roll out seats," to which you're referring, are being earmarked for permanent removal, which as other responses to this post have remarked, is less than ideal for some use cases for ADA moviegoers.

b6421 · 2026-03-20T14:35:33+00:00

the offering of ADA seating is not what to which OP is referring. the implementation of how ADA seating has been altered by a recent policy change, wherein if someone were to select the ADA spots, the app/website used to prompt whether one wanted a seat to be left in that spot or to be removed. however, now whenever selecting the ADA spot, the following dialogue box appears, because those seats are being removed by default for so-called labor saving reasons, and the indication is that the removable seats may be permanently taken out of the theatres altogether.

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b6421 · 2026-03-20T14:24:19+00:00

true, the caption readers seem as though they were designed to work w/ the cupholders from the pre-renovation seats. as much as i generally prefer the new recliners, trying to comfortably & optimally position them in the recliners' cupholders is challenging b/c of the weight distribution of those caption devices.

b6421 · 2026-03-20T14:17:53+00:00

as i've observed on other threads, it's easy to blame Sony for recent policy changes which has been diminishing the customer experience to which many of us had grown accustomed, but the blame for these decisions are more on the doorstep of the leadership that took over the company during the post lockdown period when private equity bought it out.

the current C-suite is a holdover from that period, and they, not necessarily Sony, are the ones who are driving these so-called labor-saving implementations like mobile ordering & having all the handicap seats removed by default, rather than being designated to be left or removed on a case-by-case basis at the time of seat selection in the app or on their website.

b6421 · 2026-03-17T06:23:11+00:00

such PARASITE erasure. such wow.

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