OK, a couple ground rules:You have to go see the movie, it's a theater experience, downloading flicks and watching them on your laptop won't count. How will I know? Cause you gotta give me your ticket stub to get the points. If you ever wondered what use is a ticket stub, now you know.
1) Point system breaks down like this:
Seeing any movie between May 1 - August 31 = 5 points
The movie's US release date must be between May 1 - August 31.
2) You can earn bonus points go to the pre-determined "Blockbusters"
See a Blockbuster during opening weekend (Fri - Sun) = 6 points
See a Blockbuster on opening night (Opening day after 6:30PM) = 7 points
See a Blockbuster on a midnight showing/preview screening (pre-Opening day) = 8 points
Yes, critic screenings count
3) To validate your points, you need to submit your ticket stubs/online print-outs with the movie title, time, and date to me.
You can do it whenever you want, before September 15. And I'm sure we'll have some summer cookoffs which will be Official Ticket Drop-Offs as well.
4) The point is to get out to the theaters and enjoy the summer - downloading movies, watching them from someone else's computer, any shenanigans won't count.
5) Along those lines, you can only get credit for a movie once. Just cause you go scour trash bins for ticket stubs doesn't mean I'm gonna count it.
6) Grab your own handy scorecard below!! It has a list of all the predetermined blockbusters as well! Enjoy.
The Prize? Besides eternal greatness, you'll get sweet sweet swag.
The grand prize will be an actual I-tunes Giftcard valued at $25!!! The only way to win the Grand Prize is to not only win the contest, but actually beat my point total. Good luck with that one, chumps. Now, I don't know if its expired, but I do know that I never used it so that's a cool $25 in your pockets.
Enjoy, and don't go theater crazy!
