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Topic: AMC's New Web Design
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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-02-2016 01:08 PM
My initial test for a web site like this is "helps me to find the information that I need quickly and efficiently." This one completely fails.
For a movie theatre, I generally know what I want to see, so I need information about show times, pricing, and locations. This is what I set out to find for the AMC Loews Boston Common 19 (my local AMC). It would be good to also have information about the titles that are playing, including descriptions, running times, ratings, etc., but that is secondary.
First, the main page is rather slow to load.
Next, I clicked on "see a movie," hoping that it would take me to a list of theatres and showtimes. I, intead, got a list of movies with no indication of which ones are playing near me (since it had not asked for my location).
Picking "our theatres" and "find a theatre" took me to a listing of markets. I picked "Boston" and the page just reloaded. The same thing happened when I chose the "states" option and "Massachusetts - Boston" (at which point the header changed to "AMC Theatres in null").
No list of titles, no showtimes, no location, no nothing.
Presumably, they are still working out the bugs.
Does this even work at all for anyone? I am using Firefox on a desktop computer.
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Sam Graham
AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues.
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From: Waukee, IA
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted 12-04-2016 03:30 PM
I played around with the site on my iPad and, uh, it worked fine and was laid out nicely on the screen.
I searched by theatre, chose the Omaha market, and AMC Council Bluffs 17. Scrolled the movies and selected a showtime. The seating chart popped up instantly. Selected a seat and got the ticket type page (where you select regular, child, or senior rates). Taken to purchase page. Everything worked instantly with no latency except the purchase page, which took about three seconds to load.
And my old direct link to this theatre's page DID still work. But it went to a summary page for this theatre. I had to click Showtimes, and that gave me Council Bluffs' showtimes.
On the iPad, if you look at it in Portrait mode, it shows the movie titles and showtimes. If you move to landscape mode, it adds a fixed cell to the right with a summary of whatever feature you have centered in your scroll. The feature auto-changes as you scroll.
Buck, to get to the Showtimes scroll for a theatre from the Market list, select the blue "Showtimes" under the theatre address. If you click the theatre name and get the summary oage, cluck "Showtimes" at the top right of the page,
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