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My kid said he wanted to see the Mario Bros movie the day before it stopped playing here. We were the only ones in the theater! How do they stay in business???
by HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
My kid said he wanted to see the Mario Bros movie the day before it stopped playing here. We were the only ones in the theater!
How do they stay in business???
I will say that it was nice that they brought the food to our seats so we didn't have to wait around.
- slavik81 4y agoThe Mario Bros movie is nominally the 24th highest grossing film of all time. Your experience may not have been representative.
- toast0 4y agoIt's also been out for a month, and they went to it on the last day it was playing (at their particular theater), which is usually going to be a wednesday or thursday. Cinema attendance is pretty low mid week. At my local cinema, I have a 75% chance of a private showing if I go to a wednesday showing in the first week; but a larger nearby chain has more screens and larger attendence. I try to go to the local one if I go, because I would like it to stay in business, but they don't carry all the movies. And I just put in a home theater, so it's nice to use that when I can.
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoOh, I fully expected attendance to be low at 4:30PM on a Wednesday. What I didn't expect was to be the only two people watching it.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoThis has been my experience my whole life, growing up in a midsize city. Go to a matinee on a Wednesday and you are basically guaranteed to be the only ones there. It was less common in Austin but would still happen about half the time even pre-Covid.