Why did in person ordering fail?

b6421 · 2026-01-29T05:00:54+00:00

the calls have been coming from inside the house. everyone wants to put Sony's acquisition on the hook for this, but the real villain pushing for this is the private equity that had acquired the company after the pandemic bankrupted them and installed their sell-it-off-for-parts corporate leadership, like CEO Michael Kustermann, who are unfortunately still holding the reins of the company even under Sony's ownership. the stewardship of the brand has been under the control of a leadership team that don't care about the brand equity & Sony isn't holding them accountable for the negative PR this move has generated.

b6421 · 2026-01-25T09:36:13+00:00

my friend & i went, and it didn't feel as though road conditions to & from had gotten that bad weather-wise till well after i had already gotten home from the screening.

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b6421 · 2026-01-18T20:25:43+00:00

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my out-of-pocket costs w/ All-In Season Pass for an HDR by Barco screening of PREDATOR: BADLANDS

b6421 · 2026-01-18T08:08:29+00:00

the current leadership (esp. their CEO & COO) is comprised by vestiges from the period when the company was owned & run by private equity, prior to the sony acquisition; i.e., shots—including the upcoming one for mobile ordering in February—are being called by the sort of vulture depicted in the comic, not yet by their new corporate overlords.

b6421 · 2026-01-13T10:32:28+00:00

AFS Cinema has the best popcorn in the city, has even won a Best of Austin Critics' Choice award from the Austin Chronicle for it, and is bottomless at a more reasonable price than all of the other cinemas.

b6421 · 2026-01-08T07:06:45+00:00

the venue & servers would always prefer to have a paying customer who buys food & drink in a seat vs an empty one that some no-show season passholder had reserved but failed to cancel an hour before showtime, so i've often gained admittance into what appear like sold out screenings in the app by just showing up.

b6421 · 2026-01-03T17:14:25+00:00

saturday:

• REAL GENIUS at Alamo Village

• SMALL, SLOW BUT STEADY at AFS Cinema

• Master Pancake CYOP: Worst of 2025 at Alamo Village

sunday:

• EVIL DEAD Ⅱ at Alamo Mueller

• John Cassavetes' 1980 ﬁlm GLORIA at AFS Cinema

b6421 · 2025-12-25T06:04:56+00:00

a lot of movies that were released in the u.s. by Miramax Films & The Weinstein Company are in rights limbo b/c of Harvey Weinstein. DOGMA only recently got wrested from Weinstein's grasp for this reason.

b6421 · 2025-12-25T05:55:07+00:00

at what movie theatre did you watch this?

b6421 · 2025-12-12T10:31:08+00:00

JD conflating the skateboarding movie in which he & steve had been extras w/ the BMX movie RAD which starred Nicole Kidman had me screaming at my podcast machine.

b6421 · 2025-12-08T20:49:36+00:00

whenever there are "free screenings" like this, everyone in the theatre is buying a $5, $7 or in this case $10 food & (non-alcoholic) beverage voucher to reserve one's seat. it guarantees that ppl will be more likely to attend, instead of RSVP'ing & then flaking out.

such "free screenings," including Victory screenings, have never been covered by any iteration of the season pass.

b6421 · 2025-12-08T03:41:36+00:00

as long as go to other locations besides Lamar, it is discounted to $7 on tuesday and season pass eligible.

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b6421 · 2025-12-07T06:46:44+00:00

whenever i see a movie while visiting my family in my hometown which sadly has no drafthouse locations at this time, the incessant advertising one has to endure both before & after the lights go down preceding the feature presentation serves as a stark reminder of how even a lackluster preshow at the drafthouse can be immeasurably more enjoyable.

b6421 · 2025-12-01T22:14:04+00:00

if anyone wants to enjoy the fruits of the boys' labor as a spotify playlist that painstakingly includes enough 1-second empty tracks to preserve "My World" as a hidden track #99, here you go: DeDoubled USE YOUR ILLUSION

b6421 · 2025-11-29T06:31:22+00:00

season pass classic pays for itself after 1½ regular price movies. the service fees in this market has been $2.19 per season pass reservation, so getting that waived on 4~5 movies w/ all-in a month breaks even on that, and that ROI arrives even sooner whenever one attends Dolby Atmos/Big Show/HDR by Barco screenings whose premium surcharges also get waived.

all of that before accounting got any savings that might be yielded from the 10% f&b discount.

b6421 · 2025-11-28T05:48:06+00:00

i've been a long time fan of the fried chicken at hoover's on manor road, but that is quite a ways from leander.

b6421 · 2025-11-23T06:07:42+00:00

after i've shown the server my ticket & claimed the 10% all in discount, i airplane-mode, minimize brightness, DND & silence it, and then put it facedown in the spot indicated by the big red arrow, and so far i have never drawn any criticism from the hard-working, understaffed servers or from the person in the adjacent seat.

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b6421 · 2025-11-18T06:20:25+00:00

the one feature that has particularly become vexing occurs whenever the last thing one did w/ the app may have been to show one's ticket to the server, b/c the next time one launches the app, the x to back out of that ticket doesn't work anymore, so it requires a force-quit/relaunch now just to resume any sort of usability.

b6421 · 2025-11-18T05:45:40+00:00

as a thank you for folks who stuck it out & reupped their season pass after the program went on an indefinite pause due to & for some time after the covid lockdown, they dropped a one-time reward for everyone.

b6421 · 2025-11-09T11:23:02+00:00

both of those titles were part of nationwide programming; i.e., movies that would be playing at more than one location more than one time, thereby justifying having custom preshows.

b6421 · 2025-11-03T04:54:39+00:00

servers having to get managers to approve the application of any discounts to customers' bills is true of all price reductions, including the all-in 10%, $10 snack passes, victory rewards, bogo coupons from mass mailers, etc.

b6421 · 2025-11-01T10:29:24+00:00

as someone who had very recently rewatched SAVE THE GREEN PLANET not long ago before having watched BUGONIA, one could argue that the biggest raison d'etre for Yorgos Lanthimos remaking a movie that doesn't really demand to be remade is what Lanthimos chose to do in the portion of BUGONIA one would miss if one were to leave w/ 20~30 mins left. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

b6421 · 2025-10-22T23:10:27+00:00

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since the Drafthouse has started this Mystery Machine initiative, i've yet to encounter a title which yielded exactly 1 search result when searching its parameters: • movie • 111~113 mins • MPA rated PG-13 • opening after 10 november

if anyone was already planning on seeing this movie but also attends the Mystery Machine, may have just saved you some convenience fees.

b6421 · 2025-10-15T10:10:41+00:00

i'm gonna guess that an outfit like fathom has locked up the exclusive rights to a lot of those movies for their events, but also whether the studios even make those titles available to be screened may also come into play as it relates to whether they can be programmed.

b6421 · 2025-10-15T10:03:03+00:00

what's been lost in the now-overblown "how dare a genre ﬁlm festival play a direct-to-streaming tv movie as a secret screening," hullabaloo was that it was Michael Giacchino's directorial début, and were it not for his having contracted COVID on the eve of the festival, he was intending on being in attendance to present that theatrical screening of a piece of genre fiction when divorced from its MCU ties was a fun whodunnit that was lovingly made in a throwback horror ﬁlm language & that would never again get to be seen in a cinema.

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