Tracking Real Start Times and Theater Quality (mod approved)
We’ve built a crowdsourced app/platform to help moviegoers answer the question “what time does the movie really start?” (clearly a favorite question on this sub), and then decide which room/screen is best…or which to avoid.
It’s called It’s Starting! and it’s available now in the Apple App Store, link below, and there’s a sign up for an Android beta (also linked).
It’s free now and always will be. You can create an account to save favorite theaters, review log history and connect to Trakt.tv.
The app is easy to use. Choose your theater and movie, enter the ticketed showtime and auditorium number, optionally add the format (IMAX, 4DX, etc…) and Showing Type (Regular, Early Screening, Re-Release) and then when the movie starts, tap It’s Starting! to log the actual start time.
When the movie is over, you answer a randomized question about the experience or the theater. You can answer more than one question (optional) or provide a comment which really helps. And if you have known information about an auditorium/screen, you can submit that as well. The goal is to get the data back to the theater so that they can make improvements.
The app has only been live a few weeks and is in early days with improvements being made all the time. But for it to be useful, it needs people contributing. It’d be like Waze if nobody reported traffic or accidents. I’ll add a comments about a user in Albuquerque and the 15 logs made in the past 10 days, as well as reports on a Regal in the suburbs of Philly.
Apple App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/its-starting/id6786706681
Join Android Beta
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrW3hoasaGlhGS9fAGcXMbZ-0l57ll2AcwAIVZu5kzhNdppQ/viewform