AMC Won’t Require Masks, CEO Says, Fearing ‘Political Controversy’ | Talking Points Memo

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Plain old public health advice is perhaps too “political” for a nationwide theater chain set on opening its doors.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1315727
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You’d think they wouldn’t want us to know how every show will end.

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We don’t want to require using bathrooms. We don’t want to inconvenience those people who think pissing in the aisle is ok.

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AMC doesn’t know its audience. They’ll take a big hit for this.

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In California AMC won’t have a choice
face coverings are required by Sacramento now.

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Well, that should be the final nail in the AMC coffin. It’s not like the days when the only option to see a movie was to go to a theater. If I don’t mind waiting a bit, I can buy a DVD of a movie for the price of an over-priced jumbo popcorn, and watch it as many times as I like. Or that Netflix thingy…

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“Wait, we can be held liable for someone contracting COVID-19 at our theaters?” Mr. Aron was later overheard asking.

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Unless you plan to show “The Birth of a Nation” there is NO political controversy.

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Perhaps it’s just my own summing up of the situation, but I’d say that AMC’s effort to avoid political controversy has hit a few snags.

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Thanks. The decision of where to spend my entertainment dollar just got easier.

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Boycotts will get Hollywood’s attention real fucking fast and the pressure from there will do the rest of the work.

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Well amc’s chairman just took a trumpian political stance. Also, just put his company into chapter 7.

Ask the airlines ( now belatedly enforcing mask wearing) how the “we don’t enforce it” went.

CEO’s that watch FOX are a threat to their shareholders.

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Competitor chains Regal and Cinemark also won’t require audiences to wear masks, though the latter company’s CEO told Variety that it would “strongly encourage” viewers to wear them

I’m going to (somewhat) miss going to Regal Gallery Place.

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I’m done with them.

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I miss drive-ins, with that great monaural car window sound.

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Let’s hope the same goes for their effort to avoid going out of business.

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We still have one in the area, that is doing exceptionally well. But it’s gone high tech that instead of the crappy speaker on a wire, you can tune in on your car radio.

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They probably really think that face masks will get in the way of popcorn sales.

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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives…

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power."
John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 )”

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Give them some political controversy: boycott AMC.

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