Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Aziz Ansari wants you to boycott AMC for running 'fake IMAX' theaters

Posted by Justin Kendall on Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:59 AM

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AMC and IMAX are on Aziz Ansari's shit list. Ansari (the guy from The Office knockoff Parks and Rec) ripped AMC and IMAX on his blog after seeing Star Trek (by the way, it's awesome) at an AMC theater in Burbank. He dropped an extra $5 to see the flick on IMAX, but the screen was barely bigger than a normal one.

Here's his graphic:

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And here's his explanation for why his IMAX experience at AMC sucked:
Basically IMAX is whoring out their brand name and trying to trick

people. These new "IMAX" theatres are really just nice digital screens

with good sound, but they ARE NOT IMAX, in that they don't have the

huge 72 ft gigantic screen which people would expect. However, they

still charge $5 more for tickets as they would for the regular IMAX.

REGAL, AMC, AND IMAX - YOU ARE LIARS!

Boycott them. Fuck them for taking advantage of people and charging them $5 extra.

That isn't he only problem with the IMAX Digital Screens. Slash Film says they're also a much lower resolution.

So save the extra $5. Or bitch about it like Ansari (he's tweeting his boycott), and you might get free popcorn and soda or movie passes.

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Yes, this is bull.

But I don't think AMC/Regal are going to change anything until they think it's going to hurt their bottom line.

Please sign my petition here to tell them we're not going to put up with this crap:
http://bit.ly/liemaxpetition

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Posted by petitionguy on 05/14/2009 at 5:11 PM

Yes, this is bull.

But I don't think AMC/Regal are going to change anything until they think it's going to hurt their bottom line.

Please sign my petition at bit.ly/liemaxpetition to tell them we're not going to put up with this crap.

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Posted by petitionguy on 05/14/2009 at 5:11 PM

Sorry for accidental double post.

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Posted by petitionguy on 05/14/2009 at 5:11 PM

Wow, did Pitch piss off a friend of Aziz?

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Posted by Ponce on 05/12/2009 at 4:19 PM

completely different characters, completely different story, and doesn't even fully commit to Office's pseudo-documentary aesthetic....by your logic all documentaries are a knockoff of "Nanook of the North"

And Aziz Ansari is awesome.

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Posted by Office Knockoff? on 05/12/2009 at 12:32 PM

At last, a cause for the myopic and self-interested to get behind. AMC tea parties everybody!

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Posted by wormwood on 05/12/2009 at 11:29 AM

if AMC uses "social media" to advertize their wares, it's only fair when it's used against them. I hope they are tracking down the negative reactions.

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Posted by meesha.v on 05/12/2009 at 9:33 AM
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