Actually, it's not just just AMC. It's every theater that was said to be supposedly participating. MoviePass just said the theaters were participating without consulting any of them. So all of them raged against this.

I don't even have AMC here so I wouldn't know about their practices. Carmike runs things here. In fact, every theater around here is Carmike with the exception of two. One of those being Regal which is just a "dollar theater" (I put that in quotations cause it's sadly no longer a dollar for each ticket). And the other being Rave.

And yes, that's $50 per person.

We have a similar theater here (one of the Carmike ones) that has a VIP section. Costs a bit more (not $30 though) and they'll serve you real food/meals there (of course you have to pay for the food as it's not included in the price of the ticket). Plus they serve beer and wine in there. All while kicking back on a comfortable Lay-Z-Boy recliner. It's definitely nice.

And there are a few others mentioned in the article along with AMC, just AMC was more vocal about it I think (and more pissed off). Plus, they were only in the beta, so only a few theater chains were even effected as it was only set to take off in San Francisco this weekend. So those few chains were the only ones involved so far.

As for the price, I think it's way too expensive. I'm just not going to spend that much to go to the theaters each month. Tickets here are $9, with matinees being $5-6 depending on where you go. And half the time I go, it's to a matinee. So I'm having to go at least 5 or 6 times just to "break even". And programs like these aren't driven by allowing customers to "break even". It needs to be set up where I'm getting to go to the theater 5 times for the price of like 4 or 3. It needs to be an actual deal.