Wait, are you telling me the billionaires who own the theatres and the billionaires who own the movie production companies were too stupid to figure out a path forward so both their industries didn’t collapse?? Color me surprised…
Good. I took my wife and kid to a movie the other night and spent $150 for stale popcorn, shitty candy and a few sodas plus movie tickets. “nO oNE gOEs tO MOVie tHeATrEs ANyMoRE!!!”
Yeah no shit I wonder why?
Rookie mistake. The movies are still pretty affordable if you plan it right. Go to a matinee or special pricing days. Smuggle in your snacks and drinks. Hell, I’ve walked in with a whole ass fast food meal before.
You need a better theater.
And you realise you chose to buy that stuff, right?
Do you need popcorn and candy?
When I was growing up, and even into adult hood, never bought theater food. Not until I found a theater that has real meals and and their own craft beers.I’m genuinely dumbfounded that you even managed to spend that much at the movies.
Its $10 for a damn soda, and has been for 20+ years (which is about when I stopped going to the theater for the most part).
Eaay to do with 4 people. I have no idea what tickets cost these days.
Y’all don’t sneak in snacks? It’s cold out and it’s easy to sneak in soda bottles in a jacket. I snuck in a KFC meal in my jacket to watch Avengers Endgame.
Raising a big eyebrow at the prospect of mega-corporate consolidation of movie theater venues collapsing in the face of mega-corporate consolidation of movie production companies.
I think it should say something that you can stream a thousand different movies at home for $20/mo, but you can’t license a movie for public viewing at less than $300/day. The real big blockbusters can demand north of $2000/day, then demand 50% of the ticket price on top of the licensing fee. If you’re wondering why you can’t get into a theater for less than $20/ticket or why the old 3-5 screen cinemas all died out a decade ago, this is why.
It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don’t know about it.
It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don’t know about it.
Students at my high school were doing that (with the science classrooms rather than in an abandoned mall) like ~20 years ago. They were watching fansubbed anime though, not Hollywood movies.
It’s already crumbled.
By the end of four years. Our country will be in ruins. Good job MAGAts.
Isn’t cinema already experiencing agonal breathing?
Now you know how we all feel about the impending AI unemployability apocalypse.
People still go to the movies?
Yeah! I try to hit at least two a month!
If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.
Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)
if you’re breaking even on the subscription + discount concessions, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to not subscribe and not feel obligated to go to the movie if you don’t or can’t want to? Also are you limited to 2 free movies a month or could you go more if you wanted to?
I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.
I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.
That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.
I like movies 😊
To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.
That’s awesome, thanks for explaining.
I recently started going a little bit more, because a new one with certified IMAX (but not the biggest screen) popped up around 25 mins from home. It’s technically in another (smaller) city and for some reason not a lot of people know it exists so it’s never full and still very clean. The IMAX tickets on discount Tuesdays are $5, so we try to go to matinee screenings on those days. There’s usually fewer than 10 people whenever we go and there have been times where we had the entire theater to ourselves.
I would otherwise never go if my only options are the AMCs, Cinemarks, and Regals in my area. The only other theater I go to is the stand-alone huge true IMAX cinema that I’m lucky to have in my city, but only for special movies.
Rarely, because there are very few movies that are worth going to a theater to see instead of just waiting for it to come to streaming.
I do, but mainly stick to the 2nd run theaters that play older movies. Last movie I saw in a theater was Carpenter’s The Thing a couple weeks ago.
Lose myself inside your schemes
Go for the money, honey
Not the screen
Be a movie star, blah blah blah
Go the whole hog
Be bigger than God
Burn Hollywood burn, taking down Tinseltown
Burn Hollywood burn, burn down to the ground
