{"id":67546,"date":"2018-08-01T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67546"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:08","slug":"if-you-think-movies-are-expensive-now-wait-until-theyre-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67546","title":{"rendered":"If You Think Movies Are Expensive Now, Wait Until They&#8217;re Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MoviePass is a particularly dimwitted startup &#8211; it sells, basically, transit cards to movies, in theaters, allowing people admittance to\u00a0<em>n\u00a0<\/em>movies per month, which in the age of Netflix and Hulu seems a bit like selling season tickets to Jesse Ventura&#8217;s old Indoor Football league.<\/p>\n<p>As one might expect, the company &#8211; which seems a throwback to the sort of startups that glutted the market\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>popular culture during the DotBomb era, before 9\/11 &#8211; is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>Which has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/5632\/moviepass-shutting-down-nationalization?zd=2&amp;zi=xmyflnrg\">one of the most brilliant &#8211; dare I say,\u00a0<em>Onion<\/em>-like &#8211; bits of satire<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We should let the privately owned MoviePass die, so a nationalized, public MoviePass can live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole hilarious thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already picturing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Amy Klobuchar or Maxine Waters or Ilhan Omar solemnly testifying before Congress about the moral imperative for the Federal Government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to transfer tax dollars to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant, brilliant satire.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 \u00a0It just occured to me &#8211; what if the writer\u00a0<em>wasn&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>being satirical?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoviePass is a particularly dimwitted startup &#8211; it sells, basically, transit cards to movies, in theaters, allowing people admittance to\u00a0n\u00a0movies per month, which in the age of Netflix and Hulu seems a bit like selling season tickets to Jesse Ventura&#8217;s old Indoor Football league. As one might expect, the company &#8211; which seems a throwback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[208,403,406],"class_list":["post-67546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","tag-a-klo","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-tide-pod-evita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67550,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67546\/revisions\/67550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}