Practicalmadness

The Wall Street Journal (via IMDB's StudioBriefing) reports that while all of the web's movie ticketing services may have their flaws, there's one very untapped source for quick e-tickets that's perhaps the easiest of all: the automated box office (ABO) machine, which online ticket buyers use to pick up their tickets.

The article said that using the ABO at a theater in New York's Times Square was "a snap -- partly because most moviegoers apparently are clueless that many ABOs sell tickets. During our visit, the box-office line was about 100 people long -- but not one of the 15 ABOs was being used."

I've done this before, and it has always saved me lots of time. The best part: unlike MovieFone or MovieTickets.com, ABOs do not charge a service fee.