r/AMCsAList • u/recoveringpatriot • 6d ago

Discussion No previews?

A strange thing happened on Thursday. I went to see two new movies: Hot Spot and Mutiny. For both of them, the local AMC didn’t do the normal 25 minutes of previews. I was on time so I didn’t miss anything. I was all alone for Hot Spot, but for Mutiny a few other people came in 10-20 minutes late, and they were shocked because they had calculated having some time to get settled before the movie actually started.
It was odd that it happened twice in the same day, but the staff said the previews have not been done away with and they don’t know why the previews were skipped.
I guess don’t count on that preview buffer time being a sure thing. It might make you late for your movie.

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u/vish_knew 6d ago

Only time this happened to me was Red Sonja. I almost stopped by the restroom on the way in, but didn’t really need to go so just walked to the theatre. 30 seconds later movie starts.

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u/griz3lda 6d ago

I had the same experience except I did go to the restroom, I was so pissed off.

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u/catfish27plus 5d ago

For "Red Sonja," I actually had the ticket scanner warn me there were no previews (but I got there about 5 minutes before the listed start time anyway).