MoviePass, MovieCrash (2024) (2024)

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• Review by Matt Singer ★★★

  If you like when dudes in blazers say the word “disruptive” as a positive descriptor of a terrible idea, MoviePass, MovieCrash is your Citizen Kane.

  This talking-head-driven doc does a decent job going blow-by-blow through the MoviePass debacle. But it sort of lost me when it tried to portray the MoviePass concept as this brilliant (and disruptive!) innovation, while also admitting that this ingenious (DISRUPTIVE) app ensured the company lost money every single time every single customer used their product. Even before the two executives who drove MoviePass into the ground got involved, the company was losing money; that’s how the two executives got involved in the first place.

  That’s the literal bottom line, and no amount of talk about the value of customer data or John Travolta movies could change that. On the other hand, what’s more disruptive than losing tens of millions of dollars a month?

• Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 5

  As it was the case for many mostly outside the US, I learned about Moviepass out of the blue because the whole 10 bucks and watch all you want plan ended up being the beginning of the end for them. At that time, I made the decision to ditch public transportation and walk to college, a decision prompted by the rush hours and my desire to lose weight. As a form of entertainment, I began to listen to various podcasts, many of which focused on movies, to pass the time. I also started watching movie news on YT channels like SJU, etc. I closely followed the entire fascinating and tragic saga.

  So by the end of this documentary, because I…

• Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★★½ 10

  Pretty good doc that spotlights the original black founders of MoviePass, Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt. Made me nostalgic for that glorious and short-lived era that was the MoviePass unlimited movies for $9.99/mo. Shameful what Lowe and Farnsworth did to that company, their investors and their clients, but at the same time it was sure fun while it lasted. 😆. I was really glad to find out that Spikes is behind the new iteration of MoviePass, because I have been using it since it’s reemergence and have been extremely happy. 🤩

  Degrees of Kevin Bacon: 2
  1. Dennis Rodman and Mickey Rourke in Double Team
  2. Mickey Rourke and Kevin Bacon in Diner

• Review by jstoobs ★★★½ 2

  RIP movie pass. Letterboxd would have loved you.

• Review by Paul Scheer ★★★ 1

  Big Surprise White Hedge Fund Dudes Fucked it Up.

  Investors should have pulled out when Dennis Rodman was their 1st Celebrity Spokesman

• Review by Robert Daniels ★★★★

  From the outside, the implosion of the movie ticket subscription app MoviePass feels far too convoluted for a 90-minute movie. But documentary filmmaker Muta'Ali has found an easy, approachable explanation: It was greed that killed this beautiful beast. That avarice, which took MoviePass from a tiny, fledgling tech startup to a corporate behemoth and then a cautionary tale, was an outside virus added to a company that initially espoused the high ideal of making moviegoing simpler and more accessible. Muta'Ali briskly retraces the origins of the business from the mouths of the people who built it, making its glossy red card debit card a symbol of a worthwhile dream that was ultimately destroyed in 2018.

  In MoviePass, MovieCrash, there are…

• Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 4

  The devil is in the details.

  As an initial subscriber, I made it WORK for me, seeing over 300 movies in a year.

  When I resubscribed to MoviePass 2.0, I was willing to pay more. I did. And I milked it while I could. But both times MoviePass went from allowing customers to see one movie a day to a limited number (I was limited to 3 movies a day the first go around, and for MoviePass 2.0 the upper tier was removed and the most movies you could watch was 4/mo. at the price of $40).

  The whole idea of MoviePass was that people would pay into the system and then forget they were subscribers!

  “But people were going…

• Review by JBird ★★★

  MoviePass started out with a splash,
  Like most startups hemorrhaging cash.
  Enter new CEOs,
  So the story goes,
  Eventually diving towards Crash.

• Review by anna nomaly 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ★★★ 2

  Points off for not placing the “2018” title card over B-roll of me buying a ticket to see JULIET, NAKED.

• Review by Joel Hilke ★★★ 14

  When MoviePass originally came out, I didn't bite due to the "high" costs. Then they went mad and offered the $10 a month plan and I figured they were absolute lunatics. But eventually I shrugged and said, "Hell, it's your money. I'll ride this plane right into the dirt". And I did. Burn, MoviePass, burn!

  This (HBO) Max documentary is about the MoviePass service and how it started sane, went insane, and then went out of business. They get a lot of execs, peons, and fans to talk about it... and throw each other gleefully under the bus.

  I wish I liked this doc more but it doesn't really reflect the daily chaotic madness of having been part of the…

• Review by anna cate ! ★★★½

  it’s not illegal to be stupid ‼️‼️

• Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★

  Mitch Lowe really looks like a fucking comic book villain