Simply because my interest in films generally begins and ends with the science fiction / fantasy / superhero / action / martial arts genres. This is no reflection on any decent movie outside of those genres; I’ll probably eventually see it, if it’s good enough. I just don’t want to bother getting into the car and blowing a bunch of cash on a ticket (and even more on snacks*) unless it’s something that I just gotta see now. But here’s the thing: when the fifth or six person that I’ve previously quietly tagged as a contemptible, six-pounds-of-sh*t-in-a-five-pound-bag miserable suckweasel tells me that a flick is antithetical to everything that they personally believe in… well, I start to believe them.
So I figure that I’ll go see this tomorrow or Wednesday. Probably a matinee seat won’t be sold out, right? …Well, hopefully.
Moe Lane
*It’s not the same when you smuggle the food in.
When you smuggle food in, you only hurt the movie theater. They make no money on the tickets…. their only income is from the food and drinks, which is why the prices for those are so high.
I call BS on that claim.
If it were true, ticket prices would be pretty uniform. And they aren’t.
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Up until a couple of months ago, we had healthy competition between theaters here. It cost 5 bucks to see a movie, and the theaters were still operating at a profit. (In this instance, possibly legitimately from concessions.)
Now, with the retirement of the local operator, the surviving national chain increased the costs of tickets and concessions by over 100%.
And I’m sure if you asked, they’d tell you how expensive it is to run a monopoly.
Its that Dang Imax dontcha know. Beating Regal by having even more expensive tickets.
Call it what you want. My daughter is a manager at one of the chains.
As I was saying…
BTW, this is why discount theaters can show movies that have been out for 2-3 months, and why their concessions are cheaper.
Nice try. But both theaters were showing new releases.
I’ve also lived in a couple of places where rural ticket prices were less than half the prices in suburban locations an hour away.
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I’ve seen these claims quite a bit, but they run counter to my observations.
I’ve also seen at least as many claims, from the same sources, that most movies lose money.
Quite bluntly, I ain’t buying it. In a contest between believing you, or my lying eyes, my eyes will win 100% of the time.
So now smuggling in food is the equivalent of illegal downloading? Really?
Yep, so I feel about the same as I do about not pushing a shopping cart into a cart corral at the grocery.
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Not much, in other words. If the artistes wish to get paid, then they need to not hide the damn tip jar!
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I check iTunes and Amazon music services before downloading, I look for food I’m not allergic to at the theaters.. Finding neither, they must not want my money….
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Mew
It was worth seeing the in theater, Moe. It’s one of those rare movies that the crowd reaction enhances, rather than detracts from.
As Phil said, the audience reaction was interesting. I go to very few movies where people clap, because, what’s the point? The actors can’t hear you.
I heard a caller to a radio show last evening remark that when the movie was over, people clapped, and then while exiting it was much like people leaving a funeral at a church. It was very, very quiet as people shuffled out.
Some movies you have to go to not exactly as an obligation and certainly not for the entertainment value. There will be a lot of conversations around the office today. “Did you see that move.” “Yeah….”
I work with a lot of vets. I’m a vet and worked in Iraq after I retired. I guess my only gripe about the movie is that libs are complaining that Kyle hated Iraqis and “brown people.” He is not shown as interacting with Iraqis in a positive way. His interpreter is shown as a faceless automaton.
That didn’t ring true. We were very dependent on those guys and they did far more than interpret. Their instincts and intuition were critical in knowing what was going on. You wanted that guy right there. Most of the ones I worked with are in the U.S. right now. We left a lot of them behind to face ISIS unable to get visas. I’ll bet there were some Iraqis at his funeral.