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My fiance mentioned we haven't gone to see a movie in theaters in years and it would be fun to go. I checked what was playing and: 2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popco

• stackedinserter 8mo ago
  And out of 2 hours experience, 30 min is ads.
• ctkhn 8mo ago
  What theater is that at? Sounds like a mega chain like AMC or Regal. The local indie theater we go to in one of the 5 largest American cities has never been over $15 per ticket and adding popcorn and a drink is maybe $10 more on top.
  • SoftTalker 8mo ago
    Do they get first-run releases? Around here AMC has some sort of exclusive on that. And their theatres are disgusting. Sticky floors, dirty seats, just gross. I haven't been to a movie in a theater in at least 10 years.
    • tuna74 8mo ago
      If you are expressing your judgement based on experiences from more than 10 years ago you are not really contributing to the discussion.
      • SoftTalker 8mo ago
        Admittedly, it was a while ago. But from what I've heard from friends who've been recently, it's no better, possibly worse.
• femiagbabiaka 8mo ago
  Support small theatres, you won’t get charged like this.
  • g947o 8mo ago
    If they exist. None exists the in 15 mile radius of where I live.
    • gzread 8mo ago
      You could become the first.
    • deadbabe 8mo ago
      In the millennial suburbs some people have converted their garages into small indie move theaters with good sound systems and people from around the neighborhood show up to watch obscure movies together and eat barbecued food.
      • skeeter2020 8mo ago
        pre-millennial here; we call this a party, rather than a "suburban prosumer boutique theatre".
        • senordevnyc 8mo ago
          The only person calling it that is you...
        • Ruthalas 8mo ago
          Why are you quoting a phrase that does not exist in the post you are responding to?
      • 1shooner 8mo ago
        Is this actually a broad trend, or more just your personal experience? There is very little that could get me to move back to the suburbs, but this kind of thing is compelling.
• Jtsummers 8mo ago
  Where is that? Tickets here are only $7-10 each (except maybe some IMAX or similar showings) and two drinks and popcorn would be $15-25 for two people (size dependent). This is in Colorado. EDIT: I was going off of memory, but matinee/child/senior pricing is apparently $9.75 at the theater I usually go to, evening is $13.25 (I never go in the evening, had forgotten what that price was). They have a two drink and popcorn combo for $22.10. So the worst case of evening prices (again, not considering IMAX, just regular screens and seats) for two with that combo is $48.60. That's not cheap, but it's not $86 either. And if you're willing to share the drink and go to a matinee you can cut the price to $34.80. This is a Cinemark, a pretty big theater chain.
  • magicalhippo 8mo ago
    Not op, but in Norway, so includes 25% VAT. IMAX opening week is a lot, $25-35. After a while it can drop to $20 or so. Regular is more like $20-25 opening week and drops to $12-15. I don't bother with popcorn and soda, it's grossly over priced. Like $10 for a small popcorn the size of a pint. I buy a 0.5L bottle at the grocery store next to the cinema and some M (our M&Ms), maybe $10. Though lately I've been going a lot to the local cinemateque. Not only are tickets around $7 regardless, they mostly show classic movies so seldom worse than the new stuff. They show popular movies too, recently saw Heat there, first time I saw it at the big screen since the premiere. Still packed a punch.
    • wafflemaker 8mo ago
      I thought that you're being a little too critical. Others should know that Norway is a country with relatively high costs of living. The minimum wage for a cleaner is 46k per year ($23\h). And your boss better not try any shenanigans, because you're most likely unionized and shouldn't really be messed with. I've found $18 ticket for opening week for Hail Mary in my city. Most of them were at $23, but that's for the premium sall, with shaking seats or other fancy stuff. So a person with a job looked down upon in most other countries can still get one ticket for an hour of work. Reason I've felt compelled to reply was because cinema tickets always felt cheap to me in Norway, compared to more like 2h of work for minimum wage worker in Poland where I originally come from. Compared to any other prices like $15 for a beer at a bar or $30+ for a bottle of vodka in the alcohol shop* they just always felt like a steal. YMMV OFC. *Interesting trivia: The alcohol shop is called Vinmonopolet and it really is a monopoly. The only company allowed to sell alcohol above 4.7% is run by the state. They have shops in towns, and if you live far from one (like most of northern Norway past the polar circle) you're most likely getting your alcohol from homebrew mafia instead.
• Detrytus 8mo ago
  You can watch a movie without popcorn, you know. Not only cheaper but also healthier. This American obsession with popcorn always seemed weird to me.
  • drstewart 8mo ago
    Do Europeans know you can watch soccer without drinking beer? It's cheaper and healthier. Absolutely bizarre obsession you lot have with it.
    • DareTheDev 8mo ago
      Europeans don’t watch soccer. They watch football.
    • quotz 8mo ago
      beer is way cooler than popcorn
    • no_wizard 8mo ago
      It’s a communal thing. It’s more than just the sport it’s also about being out with other fans, showing support and usually friendly ribbing of the opposing teams fans from time to time. That is how it was explained to me when I said something similar
    • mosura 8mo ago
      Soccer without beer would be like college basketball without the gambling.
  • sdoering 8mo ago
    German here. I have never not had popcorn when going to the movies in my younger days. It is just part of the experience. But in my days it was around 12€ for a ticket, popcorn and a coke. And there were cinema days with special deals. Or cheap sneak previews. I would never go when paying for me and my SO is equivalent of one of my subscriptions for a year.
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• g947o 8mo ago
  Then I guess you aren't familiar with the 20 minutes of trailers, 1 minute of Cocacola ad and 2 minutes of other completely irrelevant content before the movie actually begins.
  • reidrac 8mo ago
    I hate this. Like the ticket is not expensive already, they also feel like feeding you ads. And then wonder why people don't go to the cinema and wonder if they can increase the amount of ads to compensate...
    • bena 8mo ago
      Ticket sales typically go to the distributor, those ads are how the theater makes money
      • ericd 8mo ago
        Sure, that needs to change.
      • prewett 8mo ago
        As a customer, though, I don't really care about the theater's pricing structure. If I'm paying for a pricey ticket, I don't expect to be advertised to. If the theater experience is lousy, I won't go to the theater.
  • gs17 8mo ago
    And worse, it's not even consistent, they show different amounts of trailers based on the movie/showing! If you show up 20 minutes late, you might miss the start for some movies and yet still have another 15 minutes of trailers for others.
  • Cerium 8mo ago
    Now that reserved seats are the norm, I leave my house at the specified starting time and never have missed even a minute of the feature film.
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• desireco42 8mo ago
  I can confirm this, it is stupid how much just basic outing to watch a movie costs. I have 3 kids... I am in Chicago but it is like this everywhere
• nipperkinfeet 8mo ago
  It is surprising that such a large number of people continue to fall victim to fraud at the cinema. High-quality televisions and sound systems are now available at a reasonable price. It has been 12 years since I last attended a movie screening. All content will be available on-demand within a month of the theatrical release. Popcorn maker at home and drinks.
  • sfoley 8mo ago
    That's not what fraud is.
  • AIorNot 8mo ago
    Unless you have a private theater room its not quite the same thing as watching first run movie in a darkend crowded theater - and even that misses the social aspect for an anticipated picture The communal experience is special On top of that most people don't have the attention span to sit through a film without opening their phones - film is supposed to be about capturing your attention not just entertainment Otherwise watch it on your laptop for all I care
    • shiroiuma 8mo ago
      >The communal experience is special Yes, but only if your community is composed of well-behaved people. Apparently, this just isn't the case in many places.
• tyjen 8mo ago
  The last movie we attended people were incredibly disruptive throughout the film, to the point that it was difficult to focus on the film. Some people enjoy screaming, laughing, and talking as part of the experience, but it's apparently been normalized beyond my tolerance threshold. Add in the cost and overall movie quality decrease of Hollywood productions, and it's difficult to justify. Presently, we watch foreign movies at home 95% of the time and maybe a Hollywood production when they manage to find their roots and create something worth watching.
  • alwa 8mo ago
    The last time I chose to watch a movie in a theater instead of the comfort of my home, I went for the raucous audience aspect of the experience.
    • socalgal2 8mo ago
      There's a middle ground. I go for the laughter and reaction of the audience. I don't go to hear the 2 people behind me have a conversation during the movie. Nor do I go to have people critiquing the movie out loud as we're watching it. I certainly don't go to watch people pop out their phones and scroll through social media or check their messages.
      • vasac 8mo ago
        One of my better cinema experiences was watching Austin Powers 3 at the theater in some random late-morning screening where there were only three friends and me in the hall, plus two elderly ladies in their 70s. They were laughing so hard that the movie became even funnier for us, because you somehow wouldn’t expect them to find it that hilarious. Also, growing up in a small town in Yugoslavia in the 80s definitely didn’t guarantee a top-tier cinema experience, to put it mildly. But the feeling I had watching the James Bond opening credits from a damaged film reel, with frayed subtitles projected from a decades-old projector, is something I can never quite recreate when watching on a 4K screen from a perfect source. So there's that. </old-man-rant>
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• onlyrealcuzzo 8mo ago
  You can see live theater (albeit without concessions) for less than that. I'm not sure who is going to the theater or why, but I hope they are enjoying themselves!
• jghn 8mo ago
  For a long time now I've felt that there's only situation where it makes sense. That's movies where it is something about it would make it much more enjoyable on IMAX or similar with a professional sound system. So something in the visual spectacle category. For any normal movie I'd rather just watch it from my couch. But for the once in a while, over the top, blockbuster I'll still go to a theater.
  • no_wizard 8mo ago
    Avatar is a good example. I enjoyed each one in the theater but I tried watching Avatar: The Way of Water at home and despite having an entire media room devoted to good sound, proper lighting well calibrated projector and such it was not all that great. The movie fell a little flat without the theater experience to go with it. I saw the limited run in advance to the 3rd one coming out in theaters again and it was good in that setting, as a reference point for my experience
    • jghn 8mo ago
      Exactly, Avatar was literally what I was picturing when I wrote that. They're not good movies. But damn they're fun to watch in 3D, on a giant screen, and with great sound. That's not to say that all movies in this category are *only* worth watching in the theater like Avatar is. For instance I would have still enjoyed the recent Dune movies either way but they were a lot better with all the pomp & circumstance.
      • mosura 8mo ago
        At that point what you are describing is a theme park ride. It only works a handful of times though before people get bored of it and want something else.
        • jghn 8mo ago
          Pretty much. I only go to a theater about once every 2 years or so at most.
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• Swizec 8mo ago
  > 2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popcorn. > $86 dollars. > Don't know if I'll ever go to a conventional movie theater again. We almost never go to regular theaters anymore. IMAX feels worth it for something like F1 or Top Gun where it’s all about the visual spectacle, otherwise meh. We go to Alamo Drafthouse a lot tho. A little pricey but the experience of watching a movie in comfy seats over a fairly decent restaurant dinner is fantastic for certain kinds of movies. Peaky Blinders was the most recent. Tommy Shelby paired with a good cocktail or two, fantastic. Also I don’t know how Alamo achieves this, but people there are really good about noise and other bullshit. I think it’s because they do in fact kick people out for being annoying.
  • uncletammy 8mo ago
    They no longer prohibit phones during the film. In fact, now they require one to place an order. This has just started and is rolling out to every market. It completely undermined their entire value proposition. Alamo Drafthouse is a walking corpse.
• bena 8mo ago
  Our local AMC theater would be $13 a ticket, $8 a drink, and $11 for popcorn (rounding up and assuming the largest sizes, although the prices are in a narrow band so the price difference between the least and most is under a dollar). So, we’re looking at $53. Which is $33 less than wherever you’re at. I also don’t know how standardized prices are across all AMC venues. So while Pokopia costs $70 everywhere, the same may not be true of theater tickets and concessions. But yeah, it’s typically why we try to avoid theater concessions, because they’ve always been overpriced
• longislandguido 8mo ago
  Most if not all the ticket price goes directly into the studio's pockets. So the theatres stay alive by selling concessions. I'd wager everyone here complaining about prices would also wax poetic about how theatres don't "pay a living wage" to the kids scooping popcorn and would immediately drive home in their $100k Rivians or Teslas so they can give a one star review on Yelp or complain on Reddit about the bathrooms or floors being dirty or sticky. These same people wouldn't bat an eye at paying $14 for a food truck grilled cheese and leave a tip. You can't have it both ways.
  • socalgal2 8mo ago
    Correct, you can't give customers a horrible experience at the theater and expect the theater to do well.
    • longislandguido 8mo ago
      Years ago I was in one of those old kitschy theatres. The seat was wet. I prayed it wasn't urine.
      • tombert 8mo ago
        When my wife and I first started dating, we went to one of those cheap second-run theaters. I liked that theater because it was super cheap (like seriously $1.50 for a ticket because it showed out of date movies). One time when she and I were watching The Purge, I hear this kind of squishy noise from right behind me. I turn around, and a guy is getting a handjob. I motion to my wife that we need to move a few seats over. You know, The Purge isn't the worst movie ever but I gotta admit that it's not a movie that ever really turned me on either. To each their own, I suppose. From that point forward we always called that the Handjob Theater.
        • bacchusracine 8mo ago
          >I turn around, and a guy is getting a handjob. I motion to my wife that we need to move a few seats over. To get a better view, right?
• jasonlotito 8mo ago
  $20 for the tickets. $20 for 2x soda and popcorn, but they've always been on the expensive side compared to tickets. Tickets are a bit more for IMAX. Less than an hour outside Philly. The theater is recently renovated too and has nice recliner seats, and everyone has their own armrest.
  • embedding-shape 8mo ago
    Seems crazy to me, always had to (presumed) view that cinema was cheap in the US, otherwise how is the business so big there? In Spain I went to regular cinema this Sunday, 8 EUR per ticket per person, + ~10 EUR per person for snacks, so ~20 EUR per person for me and my wife. Also got tickets to see Project Hail Mary at IMAX, 2 tickets for the premiere, and I paid 29.80 EUR for two tickets, thought it was expensive, but seems we're luckier than I thought :)
    • jasonlotito 8mo ago
      I was pricing for 2 people ($20 for 2 tickets, etc). It seems the pricing is about the same as yours.
• Tadpole9181 8mo ago
  It's not even price for me - I'm happy to pay for an experience. I'm more annoyed that the theater is basically the worst place to watch a movie now. The silver screen has a contrast ratio in the hundreds. A $300 consumer TV now looks significantly better than the blurry, muted, and muddled projector image. Then the audio at theaters is always totally blown out and overly bassy and siblant. Fine for action, I guess, but it makes listening to dialogue exhausting. And unless you get your favorite seat, you have to watch the movie skewed. God forbid you get a seat in the front and have to crane your neck the whole hour. Meanwhile I can stay home, not deal with driving 20 minutes and interacting with the public, pay less, eat better food, get blitzed with friends, talk with my wife, have better visuals and audio, etc. Other than nostalgia, there's just no reason at all to go to a movie theater. It's become kind of outdated in an era of modern TVs to me.
  • khazhoux 8mo ago
    I enjoy going to the theater to hear the guy next to me eating popcorn with his mouth open and maximum mandibular crunch. Also, I do enjoy the woman behind me that with her constant non-stop vocal reactions to everything onscreen (anything mildly sad --> "awww"; anything vaguely surprising --> "oooh"; ...). Other highlights include the super bright EXIT signs flanking both sides of the screen -- helps me get immersed in the scene. The occasional loud bass rumble from the action movie playing one theater over also helps.
• AbstractH24 8mo ago
  I still go to arthouse movies regularly, mostly because it forces me to give them undivided attention Although, I’ll admit I go way less often than two years ago when I was full time WFH. Which begs the question if I just went for a reason to leave the house
• projektfu 8mo ago
  Where I go it's about $33 for two tickets bought online and probably $20 for those snacks, though we usually share a drink and a popcorn. The theater is still usually empty. The market-clearing price is nearly zero except for some new releases. Oppenheimer was sold out in its first weekend, for example. Anyone who went to movies before about 1999 remembers them being a lot more popular.
• lordmoma 8mo ago
  if you love cinema enough
• fhdkweig 8mo ago
  I don't know where people get these crazy prices. Try to find a little hole-in-the-wall theater. I like the local Landmark Cinema. It is about $8 a ticket and I skip on the junk food. There is another theater on the other side of town that does midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Those kinds of places are also cheap.
  • wombat-man 8mo ago
    I think it's more relevant to talk about theaters showing current new movies because that's kind of what Hollywood is focused on. I'm in a more expensive city where a weeknight non-matinee will run $20 a pop for a current release. Comfort is average but food is pretty solid. Not Alamo, but similar service level. Not unusual for a couple to leave paying more like 80 after concessions.
    • uncletammy 8mo ago
      Alamo food and service have absolutely tanked over the last year. They no longer prohibit phones during the film. In fact, now they require one to order food. They have completely undermined their entire value proposition. Alamo Drafthouse is a walking corpse.
      • khazhoux 8mo ago
        Huh? Aziz Ansari is very clear that this is now a quiet zone and you'll get no more warnings.
      • wombat-man 8mo ago
        Yeah I don't go to the actual Alamo near me anymore. But another local one that copies the parts I like.
• bradlys 8mo ago
  The people going to movies regularly are playing a different game. The prices you see upfront like this are for "suckers". People who come in, don't think about price, and just pay whatever the cost is. McDonald's is like this now too. People who are concerned about price though - they use the app, they get deals, and so forth. I've gone to movies and done the same thing - two tickets, two drinks, 1 popcorn and it was $30. This is because these movie theaters run "deals" all the time for this stuff. You'll have to get used to this paradigm as it's the main way everything is priced now. There's not going to be a "one price for everyone" thing anymore. It's going to be dynamic and different pricing for everything.
• freetonik 8mo ago
  Here in Finland this would cost about 50 euro, which is still a lot, but for me the main reason to never go to a movie theater again is that even after paying all of this money, the first 15 minutes is filled with advertisement, then 15 more minutes of movie trailers, then some "IMAX" or whatever intro video. By the time the movie starts, I feel like I've been watching tiktok for a day.
  • pants2 8mo ago
    Movie theaters around me (even the high end ones) have 30 minutes of commercials and previews before the movie, so I typically arrive 25 minutes after showtime, no problem. However it is still frustrating that they expect you to tolerate 30 minutes of commercials after paying so much money.
  • khazhoux 8mo ago
    Do you not have reserved seats? We simply arrive late.
• JoeJonathan 8mo ago
  Not a conventional theater, but I recently went to Vidiots in Los Angeles and enjoyed myself so much I went back a week later. The location I went to has two theaters—37 seat and 270 seat, both with comfortable seating and an excellent picture/sound. Most people who go are kind of movie nerds, so everyone was super respectful. And they don't really play blockbusters, so you don't get that kind of crowd. They seem to be doing well, and I really hope the model works and is reproducible. Oh, and it was $11 for one of the tickets, $13 for another. I don't remember how much a beer cost, but it was on par with (and maybe less than) local bars.
  • mentalgear 8mo ago
    > they don't really play blockbusters This seems key, the more comments I read here about cinema theatres and their crowds. Maybe the local (indie) cinematheque is the best movie theatre for money/quality ratio.
  • jayd16 8mo ago
    At least in LA/Hollywood movies still hold a little bit of respect. People are in here complaining about trailers before a movie, like it's not a 100 year tradition.
    • HDThoreaun 8mo ago
      Some traditions are bad
• LightBug1 8mo ago
  WTF? Where are you based? Cheapest tickets are £2.50 where I am in London. Maybe £4.50 at a stretch. £10 worse care scenario. Granted, I don't know about sodas and popcorn, as we always bring or eat beforehand. Having said that, home theatre is hard to beat but I'd still check a cinema every so often just to experience the group vibe. Nothing beats the collective vibe around a great movie - and worth the risk of shitty neighbours. Maybe I just love cinema.
• jdprgm 8mo ago
  Where do you live? I'm in a HCOL area and just checked that same combo for a Friday night premiere and it's more like ~$70. The markup on concessions has always been a thing but it really is just insane to think the unit economics on 2 sodas and a popcorn must be like 50 cents and selling it from $26 (in my area). Clearly they must make the most money this way but it is just crazy that anyone outside of significant disposable income even considers buying concessions. It's priced in such a way where anyone outside of the top 5% income brackets should just laugh at the price and view it as an extreme luxury good and not ever even consider buying anything.
• khazhoux 8mo ago
  Can you break down the prices? Because my local AMC has tickets right now at $20, and soda+popcorn is another $20.
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• treis 8mo ago
  This isn't why Hollywood is dying. Hollywood is dying because it's cheaper to make movies elsewhere. We're (probably) still going to have movies for a long time. In the same way that we still have cars long after Detroit "died".
  • dyauspitr 8mo ago
    I wouldn’t even say that. It’s dying because people are spending a lot of time watching YouTube, instagram and TikTok. A lot of people now just don’t watch a lot of long form content.
  • shiroiuma 8mo ago
    Yep, there's lot of great movies and series coming out of other places, like UK, Europe, Japan, Korea, and many more. And a lot of stuff people think is "Hollywood" is actually being made in Canada.
• nabbed 8mo ago
  I stopped going sometime mid-2000s, not because of the cost or the quality of movies, but because of the quality of my fellow movie watchers, who were pretty awful to be honest (at least in Silicon Valley at the time): - Lord of the Rings: a family came in after the movie started with a cluster of helium balloons, each of which eventually got loose and floated around the theatre. A small balloon creates an outsized shadow on the screen when it floats in front of the projector (e.g., sometimes a third of the picture would disappear). - A Beautiful Mind: Several guys, in different spots in the theatre, would wait for a quiet moment in the movie and say loudly "Oh my beautiful mind". One guy had a squeaky seat, so each time he said his bit, he would squeak his chair 5 times. - Panic Room: Two people directly behind us just laughed hysterically at seemingly every line in the movie. Also, the advertisements went on too long (20 minutes maybe?) and were also rock-concert loud. Last night, I watched Wolfs (Apple TV) in my living room with my spouse and we enjoyed it. It's not a great movie, but it's good, there are no ear-splitting advertisements, and the audience is well behaved. Edit: Later in the 2000s I did see a few Coen brothers films in the theatre, and those were good experiences, but I still avoided the theatre for the most part.
• m463 8mo ago
  we did the same thing and had to sit far right 2nd row because you need reservations long ahead of time to sit far enough back somewhere near the middle meanwhile I saw a 50-inch tv at costco for $239, and a 98-inch tv for $1299
• raydev 8mo ago
  I remember my parents complaining about how expensive concessions were when I was a kid in the 90s too, and sometimes we would hit the gas station first and stuff snacks in my mom's bag to sneak them in to the theater. They also complained about prices if we couldn't do the Tuesday matinee. Not sure anything's changed. The movie theater experience has always been expensive and I think your bill is pretty much in line with inflation.
  • seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
    > The movie theater experience has always been expensive. I don't think they were that expensive in the 1930s and 40s, maybe into the 50s. Supposedly, in the 1930s, they were around 25 cents, which $5 in today's money. We've just seriously gone of the rails on pricing for some reason, but it probably started before I was born (in 75) and has just gotten a lot worse over time (so in the 90s, they were expensive, but are even more expensive today).
    • raydev 8mo ago
      Why are you comparing prices from a time when most people in the US weren't even born yet? Comparing with the 90s seems reasonable because nothing is dramatically different about the experience except there are generally better seats now.
      • seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
        If someone says “it’s always been like that”, I definitely take that as a historical pre-birth statement.
        • raydev 8mo ago
          Luckily I'm near the median age, so it actually has been like that for most people. :)
• goatlover 8mo ago
  Eat somewhere cheaper right before watching the movie in a theater. The concessions are way overpriced.
  • shiroiuma 8mo ago
    No, because then you need to use the toilet in the middle of the movie.
• mancerayder 8mo ago
  Personally, I don't understand why people go to see films with a bunch of strangers and a nod to the HN crowd: with potentially disruptive or reactive people that distract the enjoyment. Unless it's some sort of film festival or a premiere where the director is there, movies are for teenagers and parents with children. I'm not talking about the 1990s Times Square theaters with a whole other 'type' of audience, eh, member.
• the_af 8mo ago
  > 2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popcorn. Skip the sodas and the popcorn. Go eat before or later. It still won't be cheap, but at least the meal will be better!
• jemmyw 8mo ago
  I don't mind the higher price. The place near me is a small cinema and not a chain, the food is excellent and they bring it to your seat. And if you go during the week it's pretty quiet. I'm sure they make most of their money from the restaurant anyway. There's another place like it a bit of a further drive but it to be even quieter, most times we've been it's just us.
• snthpy 8mo ago
  Different currency, same conclusion. Plus add on the cost of the baby sitter and the fact that TVs now provide a home Cinema experience.
• tomcam 8mo ago
  Fine. You get to miss the novel pleasures of filthy floors, constant use of bright cell phones, and vigorous conversations during the movie
• pjmlp 8mo ago
  That is the problem, everyone complains about Netflix, Prime and co, but going to cinema currently can pay for a couple of months in subscriptions. I get the experience and that there are employees to pay, and such, but if companies want people to still go the movies, they need to ramp those prices down in some way. In Europe I only go to alternative cinemas which happen to be part of the movie pass network, called Gildepass in Germany.
• xadhominemx 8mo ago
  I spend much less than that at a chain theater in Manhattan.
• pheouk 8mo ago
  Regals unlimited pass and their snack saver has made movies a no brainer for me and my friends coupled with their monthly themed events showing older movies we almost always have multiple things we want to see and often go multiple times a week, especially during the gloomier winter months! At last check i was at almost 25 visits this year, just saw F1 again on saturday and off to see Project Hail Mary tonight
• opan 8mo ago
  I don't wanna come off as defending any of this, but even 20 years ago I'd bring my own snacks or eat nothing at the movies, the stuff they sell was always considered overpriced. So I'd definitely skip the sodas and popcorn. That being said, I don't go to theaters anymore either. I'd rather watch stuff from the comfort of my home, at any hour of the day. If I have to wait a few months for web/BD releases, no big deal. I have plenty to watch in the meantime.