‘The Pitt’ Heads to Movie Theaters With Alamo Drafthouse Screenings of Season 2 Finale

Oh shit I do remember that. They moved on from the regular menu to a phone app LOL.  Didn’t they reverse that though after everyone said “what the f***?” I haven’t kept up but I thought I heard that. 

Some Alamo Drafthouses are going on strike due to the cellphone ordering thing. It’s so goddamn stupid and you know every employee pleaded with management not to do this.

Figures since they were bought recently and majority owned by Sony. If it was me, I’d let mobile orders before move starts. No food orders during movie in theater. You can go to a kiosk right outside that is also playing the movie sound and video on a small screen The seats have a button for refill requests only : drinks, popcorn , or candy.

This is wrong on the app front. You only order with your phone before the movie starts — anything else during the movie is the old card system. 

Whe did this happen? The one near me was still using menus and such back in December.

Sony bought them. Knew it was a matter of time

Yeah so I live in Austin and have an Alamo drafthouse movie pass so we’re there all the time still. So witnessing this transition. So yeah. Before you had this menu and before the movie, a waiter will check tickets and scan a card, and then you just use the notepad and hit a button during the movie and the waiter will come and grab that card. No transition today, instead of the waiter coming in the beginning, he still comes but directs you to the app, lock in your credit card. You still order on the notepads during the movie itself. But every other seat has a menu which is odd. But also the food is mid, my wife and I try to eat before the movie. Maybe getting a pretzel or popcorn and drinks. But now it seems like every non Alamo theatre has this similar concept. So it’s becoming competitive. Being in Austin though, Alamo is still my go to theatre but I think that’s more on location and less on experience. At the end of the day it’s all the same and I’m just there to watch a movie, that hopefully has an original plot.

I stopped going when they wouldn’t let me in a minute after the movie had started cuz it would be too distracting, even though their servers and people going to the bathroom go in and out of the theater the whole time. I ordered through fandango and it didn’t have a warning about that policy but I couldn’t get a refund because the movie had already started. Like, I understand it’s ultimately my fault that I was in that situation for not knowing the policy, but that doesn’t change the fact that no other movie theater (that I’m aware of) on the planet cares whether you’re on time or not, and as the husband to a chronically behind schedule person I simply cannot risk the ticket money on the chance I might miss the whole movie instead of just a few previews.

Seriously? Obviously it's cost control but just put kiosks outside of the auditorium where people can get up and place an order before or during the movie without f****** over 100 people's expensive viewing experience.

This is sooo much less distracting that having a human walk into an aisle I will never get the issue here.

Not all Alamos are QR-only, but even the ones running a "hybrid" system where you order via QR before the start of the movie and then use paper order cards for refills and anything else afterwards still have the crappier menu and way more reliance on the fallibility of the app and your location's WiFi. And I always liked to tip in cash, and I can't do that anymore...and there's no guarantee that 100% of the tips are going to the staff, since they're going to be passed through so many middleman systems...only to be more easily taxable because they're electronic and not physical.

Have you been to an Alamo since this happened? I've been to movies at Lamar and Mueller since the "big change". Both locations said, order through the app *before* the movie, raise an order card (piece of paper) if you need anything during the movie.

Is this a new thing? I went to my local Alamo only a few months ago and I don't recall seeing this.

Any discussion of The Pitt on Listnook is "will he or won't he" this season, me guessing he won't isn't a spoiler FFS. 

I'm hoping Robbie looks back at the ER as he pulls away on his motorcycle for his sabbatical. Then gets obliterated by a tractor trailer and they have to drag him back into the ER and sew his head back on or something crazy.

I think the only reason people end up staying late this season is to get caught up with charting and finalizing stuff with patients. We had the MCI by this point last season so if anything significant were to happen to keep them later, I figured it would have happened or been hinted to by now

Correct. They even had a very noticeable ADR from Samira talking about staying late to chart.

Now that it's nighttime, it's time for the professional large shows to begin and not just people setting off small ones for fun. I fully predict they are going the route of a large scale firework explosion on the ground/during set-up involving crew and guests attending. The guy's getting hurt earlier and revealing that THEY are the pro's and not some dumb drunk guys setting up is the key foreshadowing.

We've already seen one of the students end their shift to go home.

I called this at the beginning of S2E1 and I'm sticking with it: Dr. Robbie is going to end his shift and ride off on his bike sans-helmet, and crash before he even gets out of the city. The last episode or two will revolve around the staff treating him, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they're going to kill him off. Then next season Dr. Abbot slides into the main role. And if they don't kill off Dr. Robbie, he's going to be in a coma for the first few episodes of S3, and the rest he'll be doing PT and learning how to smell again.

Opening night Brand New Day and Doomsday are going to be fun, then we see the online firestorm after

Yeah I’d see everything in a theater if I could

The real 4D experience and not those disney cinemas that spray mist

No one is going to the movies unless it’s a big budget film.

Oh, wow

Oh that’s just disgusting! I remember listening to IGN podcasts from 10-15 years back where they were excited and making plans specifically to go out and see films at an Alamo Drafthouse

I was there like three weeks ago

At least here in San Francisco that’s how I found out about the show in the first place. A Dr friend mentioned it and I’ve talked to a lot of people since then in the medical professionals field who have said it’s the only show that really gets it right.

My wife has watched Grey's Anatomy and I've seen Scrubs back in highschool, but The Pitt is as real as it gets for medical television shows. I've been hooked and the fact it incorporated a lot of real life events (i.e. COVID/Mass Shootings, etc.) and you see patients from all sorts of political or religious backgrounds interact with the staff in the manner we might experience while at the doctors is accurate. Also, the way the show's episodes work is based off of every hour in their work shift. Episode 1 will be hours 6-7 AM and so on.

Santos is Filipina.

Confirming the lack of media literacy we saw from your first post