{"id":7398,"date":"2017-08-08T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T22:17:23","slug":"digging-graves-at-amc-theatres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7398","title":{"rendered":"Digging Graves at AMC Theatres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t go to movies often. <\/p>\n<p>However, my dear family suggested that we see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22The+big+Sick%22&#038;t=hu&#038;ia=web\">The Big Sick<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was delightful, but the AMC experience, not great.<\/p>\n<p>We viewed the film at Madison&#8217;s former Sundance Cinemas, now <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=Madison+amc+dine+in&#038;t=hu&#038;ia=places\">AMC &#8220;Dine-in&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>$45 for three of us, yet AMC subjected us to twenty (20!) minutes of previews.  Four of the six were terrible, version 2 and 3 of <em>why bother<\/em> films.  The last two, somewhat of an improvement, but after paying $15 each, the length of in your face advertising was beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/08\/amc_bad_experience_former_sundance_madison2017.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>All that said, I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/07\/25\/this-facial-recognition-system-tracks-how-youre-enjoying-a-movie\/\">not terribly optimistic<\/a> that the theatre world will abandon their invasive practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t go to movies often. However, my dear family suggested that we see &#8220;The Big Sick&#8220;. The movie was delightful, but the AMC experience, not great. We viewed the film at Madison&#8217;s former Sundance Cinemas, now AMC &#8220;Dine-in&#8221;. $45 for three of us, yet AMC subjected us to twenty (20!) minutes of previews. Four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}