The theater chain was supposed to release the schedule for the upcoming 10 Oscar Best Picture Nominees in two weekends watching program yesterday, but they released a statement saying to return Monday night. The schedule was never released and as of 9:30 Tuesday night they still don't have an idea when it is going to be ready.
AMC Theatres has already stated that Avatar would be shown in 3D on Feb. 27 and people were given the option to vote what the other four movies would be to go with it. I threw out an idea on AMC's facebook page to use the following schedule.
Feb. 27:
A Serious Man
Up
Precious
Avatar
The Blind Side
March 6:
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterd
An Education
The Hurt Locker
District 9
My schedule splits the two frontrunners with the best chance of winning the Oscar (which is Avatar and The Hurt Locker) and it also splits the two science-fiction movies between both days. Another good thing about my schedule is the run times for both days end up being separated by only two minutes (Feb. 27 ends up running for 6 hours and 2 minutes; March 6 is 6 hours flat).
After posting my schedule, another guy then listed his idea. Basically we were showing AMC that it shouldn't take this long to put together a schedule of 10 movies. The business said they have to take more things into account than just run times and genres, but they should have already had a good idea of what the schedule would be prior to the end of voting. Just my opinion.
Wednesday Morning Update:
Still no schedule. By this point it isn't even the fact that tickets go on sale Friday but nobody even knows what movies are playing on what day. The point of it all now is being told we would have a schedule ready on Monday and two days later we're not even sure if it will be ready any time this afternoon or tonight.
The company's Facebook page was turning ugly with frustrated voices like mine being heard regarding the wait, but now people are stating as long as it is out before Friday they don't mind. They are stating how great it is AMC is being so open about the wait and apologetic. However, AMC really isn't being that honest about the whole thing. I'm not saying they are lying to us by any means. But they just aren't updating that much or giving a time table of any sorts.
If they would just say, "OK, we'll be ready on Thursday night. We promise. Check back then," it would be all good. It is this constant aggravation of having to repeatedly check their Web site that is ticking me off.
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