I have MoviePass and no, there really aren't any "catches" with it - except that you cannot see the same movie twice and you cannot share the pass with others (your name is embossed on the card). It's $9.99 a month and you can see one movie per day. When you are in the theater parking lot (or somewhere in front of the theater) you open the app and select the movie you are there to see. Then go to the ticket booth and hand them your MoviePass card as payment. As for Moviepass making money - they are counting on people like me who were billed the monthly fee and didn't see a movie (husband and I were a little busy in May). I have also heard that they are working on some sort of data collection (gender, age, what movie seen, etc.) to sell to movie production companies and possibly theater owners so they can track movie attendance habits . - I remember that the data they would collect seemed much more beneficial to others than my examples, but I've forgotten the logistics.
I have started taking my millennial daughter to see the TCM series on the big screen. The first one I took her to was Gone With the Wind. I knew that there was no way she was gonna sit on the sofa and watch a 4 hour movie with all of her electronic devices readily available and GWTW is always at it's best on the big screen anyway. She loved it and thanked me profusely for taking her - in fact she's enjoyed ALL of the films that I've taken her to see. Though I've seen all of these movies multiple times, I really like seeing them on the big screen as well - the black and white films are so vivid and clear as compared to a television screen. The last one we went to see was Sunset Boulevard. Not a big fan of West Side Story, so I think we'll pass on this one.
