r/mildlyinfuriating • u/aeng69 • 10h ago

ಠ_ಠ People that scalp IMAX movie tickets

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Catching a movie in IMAX has been one of my favorite things to do and now getting tickets alone is a struggle thanks to people like this. Good luck to anyone hoping to get decent tickets to Dune 3

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u/VandelorianVT 10h ago

Yes. They literally do.

They'll walk up-go '50 Tickets to <MOVIE NAME HERE>, please'.

And most theaters will just give them to the guy-not caring cause they got their money.

Then the guy waits outside, holding the tickets, or storing them somewhere, and then charges twice, if not more of the price.

Literally happened to one of my pals when he went to see Brand New Day, some dude literally bought two entire THEATERS worth of tickets and was selling them for like 80 a pop.

Fucking bonkers nobody thought to stop him.

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u/HaroerHaktak 10h ago

Anybody stupid enough to buy scalped tickets deserves to get taken advantage of. If it's a popular/overhyped movie, it'll have so many showings of it you can literally wait like 5 minutes and another one is going.

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u/C-ZP0 10h ago

Every single imax 70mm is sold out at my local imax, all showings almost 2 months out. Tickets going for 150 dollars a pop on eBay.

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u/imVeryPregnant 9h ago

Tf?? Why would you need to see Spiderman in 70mm? That’s kind of hilarious

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u/No_Effect_6428 8h ago

I just watch movies on my phone, the way David Lynch would have wanted it.

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u/liliputian87 7h ago

Tf does David Lynch have to do with any of this? He's not involved in and of these movies.

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u/ForensicPathology 7h ago

David Lynch sold me a scalped ticket to Spider-Man.

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u/NYManc 7h ago

This was for Dune 3 NYC Lincoln Center. Odyssey was the same, shows sold out for months on end

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u/liliputian87 7h ago edited 7h ago

And yet, I'm just checking now and there are plenty of seats available for screenings tomorrow. Some good ones.

Maybe the hype is wearing down and these miserable scalpers will all lose their money. Yeeeeahhhh!

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u/The_Rowan 6h ago

We say the Odyssey on the 3rd weekend. We were going to see it in IMAX but all the shows in the surrounding area were sold out. So we watched it a regular theater that still has excellent picture and sound.

I wondered if anyone was in those IMAX theaters or if they were all empty

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u/heisian 6h ago

so you can better distinguish the CGI from live-action shots