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Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

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Post by zulux »

avidiax wrote: post #12
andrewtorkbaker wrote: post #2

Hey HN! 150,000 people bought IMAX tickets to see The Odyssey the first day they went on sale. I was not one of them. So I built a site to watch every 70mm IMAX screening in the US and alert me when good seats open up. More details on Twitter: https://x.com/andrewtorkbaker/status/2078540178713629119

I was able to see The Odyssey yesterday in 70mm, and it had a preview of Dune 3. I wasn't planning to see Dune 3, but that preview made me want to see it. Can we monitor seat availability on Dune 3 70mm as well? Maybe a beta? I think right now it's just the 4 days of early release tickets, all 100% sold out of course.

I say this as a fan of Frank Herbert, and I've read all the Dune books:

Thank god the Dune 3 movie looks like it isn't a strict adaptation of "Children of Dune".

Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

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Post by andrewtorkbaker »

pettijohn wrote: post #19

Please add Vancouver BC

On the backlog! My initial data provider only supports the US. I think there are only two 70mm IMAX theaters in BC, right? My advice in the meantime: Chrome + Codex / Claude Code are pretty good at keeping an eye on things for smaller data sets like this

Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

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Post by gcanyon »

cinntaile wrote: post #8

Is this a very limited release or why not just give it a few weeks and you'll get seats without any trouble?

The IMAX screenings are pre-committed to future movies -- it might be the case that Spider-Man takes over in two weeks and the window for The Odyssey is closed, even if more people want to see The Odyssey in IMAX than Spider-Man.

Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

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Post by swang »

andrewtorkbaker wrote: post #9
swang wrote: post #7

I built my own script to get a seat near the middle and towards the back at the Metreon but so far I have not seen many available. My guess is checking 15 minutes is too slow. And also I've been getting rate-limited by Cloudflare. Not sure if I want to pour more resources into getting around it. The Metreon is running IMAX 70MM showings for 24 hours straight today started at 3AM, [half hour for previews, 3 hour movie…

+1 to the AMC Metreon being one of the toughest. Of all the theaters I'm monitoring, it's probably in the top 3 of fewest seats opening up. My best guess is that SF is just a market where demand far exceeds supply. But I am seeing a few every day, and I'm guessing it will get better after opening weekend too. My system checks every 10 mins leading up to 24 hours before showing, then ramps up to every 60 seconds. Re:…

Yeah I'm directly calling the GQL. For some reason it is only doing the check for today's seats. Very weird.

Re: Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

zulux wrote: post #23
avidiax wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was able to see The Odyssey yesterday in 70mm, and it had a preview of Dune 3. I wasn't planning to see Dune 3, but that preview made me want to see it. Can we monitor seat availability on Dune 3 70mm as well? Maybe a beta? I think right now it's just the 4 days of early release tickets, all 100% sold out of course.

I say this as a fan of Frank Herbert, and I've read all the Dune books: Thank god the Dune 3 movie looks like it isn't a strict adaptation of "Children of Dune".

You're not implying that the two firsts were strict adaptations in any way or shape, are you?
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