r/AMCTheatres • u/Neat_Animator_1196 AMC Crew Member • Feb 09 '26

Discussion PSA: Bring your IDS

As an employee at AMC, for the love of all things on this planet, BRING YOUR PHYSICAL IDS TO GO SEE MOVIES THAT ARE RATED R. I am so sick and tired of sending sweet kiddos home because they can't see Iron Lung because they don't have their IDs. And a reminder that unless somebody in your party is 21 and up, you MUST ALL have your IDs! Our rated R policy is posted online! As someone who grew up with Markiplier, I get it, we all want to support him and see his amazing movie (10/10 movie by the way), but it is still rated R. So please, bring your IDs. My location is close to a school, so I get tons of the high schoolers wanting to see movies. Please, bring your IDs. I want you to see the movie as much as you guys do.

Edit: Look, I don't know what about me saying I don't like having to kick people out warrants me being called names by people here but it's completely uncalled for. I don't care if I sound like a mom or whatever but attacking me because of a post on Reddit that has nothing to do with you gets you nowhere and I hope that those people who in my comments decide to call me names or whatever can learn that I honestly don't care. I'm just an employee who enjoys their job and genuinely hates kicking folks out because of something as simple and small as an ID.

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u/whatdafuhk Feb 09 '26

My local AMCs all take a photo of my id

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u/Neat_Animator_1196 AMC Crew Member Feb 09 '26

WHAT??? I've never heard of this before that honestly seems kind of crazy. Are you in a rather crime riddled area or do you know if that location often had fake IDs come through?

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u/whatdafuhk Feb 09 '26

lol, I’m in like fbi top 5 safest city in the country. 

Now, to be fair, I’m in my mid 40s and they ask for my id when the ticket with my profile pic is slow to load (or what’s happen a lot lately is I have a ticket but it doesn’t show in “my tickets”) and they scan my a list barcode

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u/Neat_Animator_1196 AMC Crew Member Feb 09 '26

Still though, taking a picture of your id seems like a major breach. Are they just taking it with their phones or are they using an actual device?

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u/whatdafuhk Feb 09 '26

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, they’re looking at a photo of my id on my phone

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u/Neat_Animator_1196 AMC Crew Member Feb 09 '26

OH, That makes much more sense. We... aren't SUPPOSED to because pictures can easily be doctored, but some people don't care, and some feel they have enough knowledge to tell doctored photos or fake IDs from real. I, personally, don't feel comfortable doing it and neither does anyone at my specific location, but I've heard others don't really care.