Holy Cow

[Ghryphen]

Went to see Two Towers and found that the movie prices have gone up since the last movie we saw November. They have gone from $7.50 to $8.25. Not only that the commercials at the beginning have gotten even longer.

Aren't the commercials there to keep the price of the ticket down?

I like to get good seats so I am will be there for the commercials, at least until everyone else starts showing up to the movie 30 minutes after the start so that they don't have to sit through all that :ugh

If they upgraded the theaters to better seating and sound, or digital video it wouldn't be so bad. But now you are paying more for the exact same thing you had before and a downgraded movie experience due to commercials. If anything it should be worth less to see a movie the less enjoyable it is.

I need to make more money so I can buy a huge screen TV and not have to go out.

I wanted to see LOTR so bad but I was dragging my feet because I am really starting to dread the movie theater, it was like a battle of good vs evil; good won the last battle, but evil just keep gettin stronger. :lol

[Stang]

Yeah I cant believe how rediculous it is getting to go see a movie.

[Cerberus]

good movie tho

[KitZune]

This complaint is just like flying in an airplane... people ALWAYS complain about it... but they don't stop to think about the benefit their getting...

You're FLYING forget about how uncomfortable it is and how bad the movie is and how bad the food is...

Same goes with movies.
You get to see a movie before it is released on video on a larger screen with an amazing sound system.
Stop complaining. Either go and see movies, or don't.

And yes, Commercials DO make tickets less expensive... but the movie-going crowd is getting smaller.

[XRogue]

Don't they have matinees where you live Gryph? That is usually cheaper............:redbounce

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

They do have matinees.

There have been many movie theaters that have closed in this area as well. There was one recently near where Stang and BJ live that closed its doors for good.

:(


I don't go to the movies as often as I used to. The food is expensive, the movie ticket prices keep going up, and there just aren't as many good movies anymore (it seems).

Though I would bet some serious cash that if a local movie place slashed their prices (to say... 5 dollars a ticket... that's almost half), then a mad rush would ensue to that movie theater. But they do keep raising prices and driving customers away. It's a downward spiral. :(

[Cerberus]

woops I should have bought all four tickets. I got a military discount 10.50 for two.

[Ghryphen]

Originally posted by KitZune
And yes, Commercials DO make tickets less expensive... but the movie-going crowd is getting smaller.

And yes, Commercials DO make tickets less expensive... but the movie-going crowd is getting smaller.... And yes, Commercials DO make tickets less expensive... but the movie-going crowd is getting smaller.... kind of a vicious circle that will end up with commercials being shown to an empty theater.

Originally posted by KitZune
Same goes with movies.
You get to see a movie before it is released on video on a larger screen with an amazing sound system.

The more expesive it gets the cheaper getting that stuff for your own home looks, and the wait between movie and dvd will seem closer.... which will make the movie-going crowd get smaller and Commercials DO make tickets less expensive .... the movie-going crowd is getting smaller.

Theaters are killing themselves imho, its is one of the few things that gets more expensive and reduces quality. Airplane tickets at least go down the more they cram into a plane and the worse the food gets.

[Spinning Hat]

Uhh- Movie Crowds Are NOT getting smaller. I saw on E! last nite that 2002 was a record year for movie sales, at 9 BILLION dollars.

[Stang]

Its cuz of the commericials, bad sound, rude people, prices on food and tickets is why the crowd is getting smaller. If Im going to pay more I want improvements done.

I noticed when they did the Digital Surround sound thingy not the THX one that it sounded bad, I said to everyone "Mine sounds better than that" and everyone agreed.

If prices are going to continue to go up improve the theatres so that crowd doesnt go down.

Yes it was worth the money to see The Two Towers.

Yeah the General Cinemas closed their doors around here after the New Year. I think some other theatres are looking at the space so hopefully they will remodel cuz they are old theatres. Would love to get some staduim seating :), we went to the ones in Tacoma and loved them.

[Ambush_Bug]

We're getting a stadium seat theatre in C'dale soon, so I hear. After the horrible experience I had watching TTT the first time, I can't wait. Frickin' Andre The Giant and his brother in front me... GAH.

[Spinning Hat]

That was YOU behind me?!?! :lol


j/k ;) I haven't seen it yet. :lol

[Gambit]

Uhh- Movie Crowds Are NOT getting smaller. I saw on E! last nite that 2002 was a record year for movie sales, at 9 BILLION dollars.

Um, with the prices of tickets inflating, how does this translate into headcount? I really wish they would measure a movie by headcount than by box office gross. Makes no sense to me. Well, it does from an accounting standpoint, but not from a popularity one. Makes it nearly impossible to measure something like the original "Star Wars" or "ET" against something recent like FotR.

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

:lol

Stang: have you guys been to the one in Auburn at the Supermall?


It's got good seating. I saw Austin Powers there, and it was a good view. Problem was the sound. East Valley has better sound, IMO (the one by IKEA, near where my parents live).

But the best I think is at Pacific Place near Westlake. The problem is that the tickets are like 10 bucks. :(

That's reserved for special occasions. :(


Also, I think that the movies got a record year cause everything is so damned expensive. If I had a hotdog stand and charged customers 10 bucks, and I had 100 customers, that's 1000 dollars. But if I charged 20 bucks and had 75 customers, I'd make more money (1500). It's good in short term, but bad in the long run. They're driving themselves out of business. :(


At least the movie theaters don't have CEO's that write themselves 300 million dollar bonus paychecks (on top of their 100 million dollar salaries), then lay off a huge number of their workforce.

[Ambush_Bug]

Oooooh, don't even get me started on that vile despicable behavior, Asha. It's one of the few things that makes me want to forget all restraint and visit righteous fury on someone's head without warning.

Dammit... now I'm started.

The screwed up thing is that where I'm at, if I could make, say, 60K a year while single, I'd be living like a king. But that's because my 'kingly standards' include only a nice Buick, a house in good repair, enough computer hardware to support my hobbies, plus all the regular expenses. The rest would be pitched into savings.

Then I see these CEO's pulling in six or seven figures, and it just boggles my mind. I mean, if I pulled in a million a year... just a million a year, I'm certain I could live anywhere I damn well pleased, and comfortably, too, all while socking most of it away.

I guess I just don't understand avarice and the need to live the 'high' lifestayle. It just makes me boggle, really.

[Stang]

We like (or I should say Gryhon) to go to the last showings of the night so there is a low crowd so driving 45 mins to go to a movie just isnt appealing to me. Then having to drive home again after the movie at 12am, nah. And the ones in Lynnwood are like the ones here in Everott.

I can live thru the sound they just need to improve it with the ticket prices going up. Or we will only go to movies that truely appeal to us and we cant live without.

[Spinning Hat]

How many of us here buy concessions at the theatres? That is the revenue for the theatre. I know I've said it before, but its the honest truth. Every red cent you pay for a ticket goes to the movie company, and the Theatres have to exist on the few people who do buy concessions, hence the "commercials" at the beginning of the previews. I know it sucks, so I just don't go to movies that often. The Last one I saw was Drumline. I paid $7.50 for a late showing, and it was, IMO worth the ticket price. Would I go see that movie in the theatre again? No, probably not, but I will buy it on DVD.

I know the theatre is all about the effect of good sound, and true to life pictures, and that goes along with the suspension of disbelief and all, but most of us have a DVD player, and it'd actually be cheaper for us to wait till it comes out on DVD, Buy it, and then throw it away after you were done watching it when you want to go to the theatre. I mean hell, Wal-Mart knocks off 3-5 dollars off the normal prices of the more popular DVD's even on release day. Like when Lilo and Stitch came out on DVD, it was $13.98 on release day. Now, Disney has a nasty habit of selling their DVDs for more than that everywhere else, because it's Disney, but hey- I got it cheaper, and that makes me happy. Especially since it's such a good movie.

[Gambit]

I haven't bought movie concessions in AGES.

[Ambush_Bug]

Yeah, once the concessions went over the prices you'd find in a convenience store or something, it wasn't worth it any more. Though every once in a great while I'll succumb and buy a tub of popcorn and a drink, just because I'm in the mood for it.

Of course, like any sane person, I don't eat or drink anything when I go to see a LOTR moving. :)

[Xenocidez66]

Funny the way theators have gotten in recent years, I don't even go and see movies any more. I saw Ep. 2 in the theator but I don't even remember the last movie I saw before that. I have no intention of going to se LOTR even though my family is going tonight I can wait for another 3 months and sit in my own home and watch it.

Most people can name 10 to 20 movies and I haven't seen any of them. I just don't like movies. Does that make me lame or jsut a rebel aginst the giant media machine

[Ghryphen]

We buy popcorn, candy and pop when we go. You just can't match the greasy health hazard popcorn at home. Candy we get even though it is expensive, just cause we are at the counter, and the pop, well you need to wash down the popcorn and candy :D

[XRogue]

I don't go see movies all that often, and when I do, I subsist on the peppermints and candy I keep in my purse. I don't drink things at the movies, ever. I always end up needing to go out if I do, or spill it as well. Not worth that, if I'm going to spend money on the tix, I'm going to stay in there thru the movie.

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

It sure is fun to throw those 10-cents-a-skittle bag of skittles, one skittle at a time, at people that won't shutup. :D


Then "accidentally" spilling your 5 dollar drink all down the front of their shirts.


Oops!


Hehehehe. :p

[Stang]

Oh thats such a great idea Asha :lol

I think that since the prices have gone up and seeing the no good slection of candy now at the theatre Ill sneek my own stach in from now on. But Ill buy the popcorn and pop though, Im a popcorn freak! :corn:

Like when we went to the Two Towers with Jester and Jode last week. Jode was asking Jester were the pop she brought, at the store, and he didnt know so we figured it rolled down to the front of the theatre. Never found it so they had to go buy one :(. And came back with some ice crea too :).

[Spinning Hat]

DoH! nevermind... it works now....