Flixster’s Movies

Originally issued in October last year, the Flixster’s Movies application for iPhone and iPod touch is useful for the ones who are into seeing movies theatrically. The app reveals a list of movies which shows what movies are playing in the neighborhood’s theaters at the moment or it can simply display the list of the favored theatres you have previously saved. This month’s novelty of this application is one of the features that takes you by surprise while trying to have a look at the Flixster’s Movies; it is showing the “user reviews” allowing you to access viewers’ opinions on a set of present movies. But let’s not hurry up the paces.

For the users of this application, the latest version displays the Flixster’s developers intentions to bring a number of improvements to the old version of Movies. It looks like this new version offered as an optimization for iPhone OS 3.0 update is more stable, displaying a geo-location that works better compared to the one from last year; this happens due to a ZIP code you have to enter or using the GPS helping you to locate the theaters that are in your area. The user reviews is that surprise feature mentioned at the beginning which enables you to browse films according to Rotten Tomatoes ranking, but this one can vary from the Flixster ratings, but it is a variation (to be read as ‘others’ point of view’) one way or another.

Another feature which might be somehow appealing is that the application offers photo galleries to go with the movies and from there you are free to select one in case you like to save it as your wallpaper. OK, up to now these features look like lollipops for the kids, now let’s go to the refined chocolate bonbons for the grown-ups. Flixster Movies app for iPhone allows you to entertain a strong social network with your friends by introducing the Facebook Connect where you can log in with your Facebook account and rate movies, check the ones you want to see at the same time share the ratings with your mates. Next to this, there is a possibility for you to download pretty fast thousands of movie trailers and watch the videos, but this happens only if you own a 3G, EDGE or a functional Wi-Fi connection.

Now with the Movies application being improved it is the other feature that deserves being mentioned: buying tickets online. The earlier ability possible was to access the Movietickets.com which had the worst interface ever seen, whereas the new version delivers easiness in reading and navigating. Yes, I agree there are some other Movies applications out there in the world of iPhones, such as “Now Playing”, “Fandango” or “Movies & Theaters” but still they lack some of the features present in the Flixster application. So, movies fans are better off opting for Flixster’s Movies app in case they want to have a useful tool to explore the land of the latest blockbusters.