That deliberate sabotage theory never sat right with me. While I don’t think AMC is the most stand-up company in the world, I don’t see any real motive for the company to intentionally reduce its own income and damage its relationship with a studio that is clearly gaining traction with the public.
However, it’s entirely possible that a few troublesome employees, or even a manager, are true believers in the left’s narrative that the right is just a bunch of evil conspiracy theorists who hate everyone, then they would have no issue doing something untoward to stop the film from being seen.
They could simply flip a breaker or turn off a unit. It wouldn’t be hard to do.
They stop the film from being seen as much as they can and they get to feel like they’ve really done some good in the world by sticking it to those far-right evil people who…want to stop kids from being trafficked and sold into slavery.
It might not make much sense in the grand scheme but I’ve never credited the leftists with an abundance of intelligence. They’re operating off of feelings, not logic. The thing is, they can do this from time to time and the higher-ups at AMC won’t be any wiser. People can write it off as a coincidence and call the people who think it’s all a little too weird “conspiracy theorists” just like those Q-Anon folks.
At this point in time, I’m willing to believe AMC, THE COMPANY, has nothing to do with these troubles, but I’m open to the possibility that AMC has employees that want to make trouble.
I don’t think AMC, the company, is orchestrating this either. And it is other theater chains too. I think it is employees and maybe managers. Mainly the purple-haired misfits that seem to gravitate to that sort of job. There are probably internet chat rooms where they share what they did. It is just another part of the culture wars going on in society and it gets more polarized every year.