![]() The sound was nice, but again, this theater has all new equipment. Nice picture, but it wasn't anything I wouldn't expect from a new or well maintained theater. $11 for the 11:40 am showing, versus $5.50 for the regular. I went and saw Bourne Legacy at Regal yesterday at a Regal Premium Experience showing. Would love to hear some opinions from those in the know or those who have been to an RPX theater. Is anything but a premium ticket now going to mean misframed picture, blown speakers and seats in disrepair? Also seems like this could just be an excuse to let the quality of non-premium tickets go to crap. I don't want to have to start taking hearing protection to the theater as if I'm at a concert. If its just a bigger screen and LOUDER sound, I don't think I'd like it. Not almost doubled, but its a 40% markup. Regular non-matinee showings are $10 or $14 for RPX. Tickets to the shows are at a premium, like Imax, but are they worth it? For instance, looking at a matinee showing for the new Bourne movie today - $5.50 for a regular ticket, $11.50 for RPX, which is almost double. They can charge a premium ticket price but not have to pay licensing fees to Imax. Regal has "The Regal Premium Experience", AMC has "The ETX Experience", Cinemark has "XD Screens", etc. Apparently since Imax dilluted their brand with what gets called "Imax-Lite" or "LieMax", the other theaters chains have created their own brands of premium experience to compete. Other than 3D, isn't the above what you would normally expect at just about any theater anyway?įound this article, which is a few years old, but RPX is new to my area so I'm just hearing of it. ![]() The 3D thing is marked with a little caveat that films may be 2D or 3D. ![]() A new Regal theater just opened in my area, and I noticed some movies marked with an RPX logo, which is their abbreviation for "Regal Premium Experience". ![]()
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