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Hands down the best movie experience I've had was this old refurbished theater in my hometown in the 90's and early 00's. Two weekends each month they showed an
by asciimov 6y ago
Hands down the best movie experience I've had was this old refurbished theater in my hometown in the 90's and early 00's. Two weekends each month they showed an old movie. Classics from Casablanca, Laurence of Arabia, Fiddler on the Roof, to The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet and War of The Worlds.
Tickets were $4-5, boxes of popcorn and soda's of reasonable size were a $1-2 each, all movies lead with a cartoon and had an intermission.
Best of all the ushers. They would kick you out if you made too much noise and wouldn't let you take your seat if you got up too often.
It's a real shame that movie studios have cut the theaters margin on movies so thin that the theaters can't bring their snack prices down, nor offer a better experience (like kicking people out who can't shut up).
- r3trohack3r 6y agoThis is exactly the reason I love Alamo Drafthouse. Zero tolerance policy on noise and cellphone screens (which they've actually enforced when I've been there). Food prices are comparable to other theater chains, but the _quality_ is much higher. Real food (not concession stand quality), adult milkshakes, etc. Seats are lazy boy quality recliners. Plus the ushers shimmy around on the floors to come take your order and bring it to your seat. You get these little menu cards you can fill out during the movie. The ushers look for folks who have a card ready and come grab it.
- sandworm101 6y ago>> the ushers shimmy around on the floors to come take your order and bring it to your seat. Transpose "usher" with "waiter" and it has become literal dinner theater.
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- asciimov 6y agoI'd actually like Alamo Drafthouse more if they skipped the whole dinner thing. I mean the dinner thing is great, but I do find the extra movement distracting. The drafthouse I typically go to doesn't have stadium seating so it is noticeable.
- thrusong 6y agoFilm rental has actually gone down a lot since the studios forced all the chains to go digital from 35mm film. It wasn't uncommon for 80-90 per cent of ticket sales to go to the studios in the first week of a blockbuster's release, which would drop down to about 50 per cent in the fourth week or so. It was around 35 per cent for second run. The average rental since the switch to digital has been about 50 per cent, although it's been a few years now since I was last running projectors in a real cinema.
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- wolco2 6y agoI always hated ushers. A little bit of power can go to your head. Why do we want this back? If someone is making too much noise let them know.
- Krasnol 6y agoBecause you don't have power and they don't give a damn about you complaining. It may even get them motivated to piss everybody off even more. Makes you wonder why you _hate_ them...
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6y agoYou are a little too understanding of the general population. What percentage of people will quietly apologize and change their behavior instead of becoming combative for being confronted for their assholery? In my anecdotal experience it’s probably like 75% of people in general become combative and you need staff to deal with them.
- asciimov 6y ago> Why do we want this back? Because people can't behave. It's not too much to ask for people to act appropriately in certain situations. During a movie, or stage production, it is not too much to ask for people to shut up and stay off their damned phones. If you can't be relatively quiet for a few hours, maybe going to a theater is not for you.
- mikestew 6y agoI always hated ushers. A little bit of power can go to your head. I think we've found the talker/cell-phone-using cinema-goer. If someone is making too much noise let them know. I suspect that you've not tried this more than once, or maybe not even at all.
- wolco2 6y agoI have. You start with a half turn, then the full turn, then say something. People are much more afraid of confrontation than they use to be.