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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on August 27, 2010, 09:16:40 pm
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Can anyone say "price gouging"? (http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/gauging-gouge-theater-price-increases-find-their-limit-20368)
The price is right ... but probably not for much longer.
At least so far, theater owners have gotten away with the biggest year-to-year increases in ticket prices ever -- with average admission costs spiraling upward more than 40 cents in 2010, or over 5 percent. Meanwhile, attendance has stayed largely flat, dropping less than 1 percent, according to the National Association of Theater Owners.
But with domestic theatrical revenue on pace to shatter 2009’s record $10.6 billion haul, it's becoming increasingly evident that exhibitors are close to maxing out consumer patience.
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I don't even see movies in the theater anymore, so as far as I'm concerned they can go ahead and raise the price, it'll only dissuade people like me from going.
(I don't pirate, I wait for them to show up on the TV or watch them a year later on the airplane)
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$5.25 for a soda
outrageous
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$5.25 for a soda
outrageous
wait srs? :wtf:
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pretty soon its gonna be cheaper to buy a dvd than to go see the movie in the theater. i dont like dvds, i really only watch a movie once. i kinda like going to the movies, you get a screen bigger than your house and a badass audio setup, you get to watch in film grain resolution and the only way they could improve things was to get rid of the audience and give me a pause button so i can let out some of my drink in the middle of the movie. add beer to the concessions stand and i may even consider shelling out 12 bucks to see a movie. there arent many movies that i have to see anyway. im luckey if 3 catch my intrest a year. i would have seen predators while i was in juneau had they not swapped it out for a chick flick a day before i got there. i frown on box office successes, as anything thats popular cant be worth a damn, il pirate those to show my disgust, i enjoyed watching a poorly done rip of avatar (well not really the plot was horrific). i wish they would bring back b movies and exploitation flicks, those were always more interesting to me as well as independent films and crime dramas from the 70s. if they played those in movie theaters id go more often. i like seeing what a good director can do with crappy actors and a low budget and a bad script, i dont think every movie needs the special effects and polish that pretty much every film that reaches the big screen has.
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wait srs? :wtf:
More or less. There's a reason I see maybe two or three movies a year in the theater.
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we've luckily got an old-style theater right by campus here. tickets are $5.75. they serve beer, drinks are expensive but you can get refills, and the popcorn is MASSIVE for the same price as the tiny **** at big theaters.
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Legends at Village West, $5 tickets Mo-Thurs. Heck yes.
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Last movie I saw in a theater was Star Trek IV. Yea when it was first released.
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If attendance hasn't changed, then basic economics suggests there's room for the price to grow further. Demand still remains.
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I still think that you can't match the 'cinema experience' by parking your ass in front of your new 50" television and watching some pirated load of ****. I see in excess of 20-30 movies a year with my mates, and I doubt another $0.50 on tickets is going to affect me.
And also, **** cinema food guys. I always head to the movies with a backpack (and baggy trackpants with an ocker accent :P ) and the lot of us stash McDonalds food in there and save ourselves another $20 on popcorn. We've done it so often all I have to do is turn to one side and the zips on my bag will be opened and closed within thirty seconds. :P
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Last movie I saw in a theater was Star Trek IV. Yea when it was first released.
The one with the whales?
YOU MUST BE ANCIENT!
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Old enough to tell you to get off my lawn but not old enough to wave a cane. Pistol yea, cane no.
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I don't even see movies in the theater anymore, so as far as I'm concerned they can go ahead and raise the price, it'll only dissuade people like me from going.
(I don't pirate, I wait for them to show up on the TV or watch them a year later on the airplane)
I don't even watch films anymore. The latest film I watched was James Cameron's Avatar.
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I don't even watch films anymore. The latest film I watched was James Cameron's Avatar.
That was released in December. Your argument is invalid.
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I'll do you one better, I'm old enough to have gone to "The Last Starfighter" in a theatre.
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Okay I'm going to be dreadfully honest.
I went to see Inception today precisely because this thread reminded me I still hadn't seen it. Yeah, I am a massive hypocrite. :nervous:
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Why and how haven't you seen Inception yet?!
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For many of the reasons listed in this thread. :P
Also it's probably my last chance to see it before I return to the UK, where the price would probably be prohibitive instead of just an expense here.
I also didn't have any popcorn or drinks while watching.
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I don't watch movies in the cinema - Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception. I'd rather help the terrorists win by pirating an R5 of it in the comfort of my own home than give money for a ****ty experience like what I've found out is the norm in theatres here, visual and audio setup notwithstanding.
By the way, didn't the MPAA or RIAA introduce a tax on CD-RW's to mitigate them being used for pirating movies or something?
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Oh, I also forgot to mention that someone brought a ****ing baby to Inception, which started crying halfway through and didn't stop until near the end. No joke. Who the **** brings a baby into a cinema, anyway? :rolleyes:
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I don't watch movies in the cinema - Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception.
Heh, I was watching Sherlock Holmes about 7/8 months ago and these 11/12 year old kids behind me wouldn't stop reading out the text on the ads on screen. Most ****ing annoying thing ever. Especially when they wouldn't stop after being kindly asked about five times by us and the other group of people in the cinema.
Annoying child: Just cars, just insurance!
*Dilmah gets out of his seat grasping his ginger beer bottle tightly in one hand*
Dilmah: Argh! Shut the **** up!
Annoying child 2: Aaaaah!
Annoying child: No!
*Dilmah jerks the bottle violently as if he's about to smash it against the seat and lunges over the back of the seat towards the children with the left side of his body*
Both children crawl into the very back of their seats and brace for impact. Dilmah's friends chuckle quietly.
*Dilmah sits down and resumes drinking his ginger beer.*
Unsurprisingly, the children didn't say a word for the rest of the movie. :P
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See the real problem is not the idiots, it's the complacent ones - Etiquette. We're all taught(I like to think we are) not to talk in the cinema, and then when people actually do it, everyone else stays quiet because of the unspoken rule - Don't talk, no matter what. An annoying form of peer pressure.
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By the way, didn't the MPAA or RIAA introduce a tax on CD-RW's to mitigate them being used for pirating movies or something?
Yes, but only on any cd-r/rw that's labeled for audio use. Any cd-r/rw not labeled for audio use (but can still be used for audio nontheless) does not have the tax. It's a stupid and illegal tax. How was a business allowed to levy a tax?
I stopped pirating a while ago. There's a lot of free games and media i'm just loving the hell out of. When i get highspeed internet i'm sure going to get netflix (maybe combine it with a little program called recordmydesktop). Yes, you can rip silverlight video ;)
But, i think i'll go see inception first since that one actually looks decent. It could be worse for the stupid **** in theaters that make people want to pirate stuff like monsters vs. aliens (of which the only saving grace was steven colbert). Someone rented that movie, and i've been racking my brain over how an alien is drinking an earth beverage before it visits earth for the first time (that movie is also very loosely put together).
This makes you beg the question, is some of these movies not even worth pirating since a good deal of them aren't worth watching. I drop the big yes bomb.
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Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception
Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.
but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater. Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.
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Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception
Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.
but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater. Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.
But no less annoying, in my experience.
In fact they might even be able to get away with worse stuff since there are fewer people in the theater. Like bringing babies in.
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Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception
Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.
but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater. Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.
That's what boggles my mind - I went to see Star Trek with my brother, and we did indeed wait. I remember going "this is not gonna work" over and over again in my head as we were walking there. Turns out, when we got there, assholes were amongst the other cinema-goers, and not just the assholes you can hush, the "Please be quiet!" - "YOU be quiet!"-type. And it ended up with two guys cornering and attacking me in the small hall leading out of the room as I exited to find a staff member. Somehow I managed to break free from the stranglehold of one of them, and the fight continued into the main hall. Police wasn't called, no-one went to help. At my insistence, I got my money back. Later I watched it with my brother at home. In light of this whole situation, the only thing that would make me consider going to a cinema again would be having some sort of weapon with which to defend myself.
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Too many stupid people, screaming kids, and all-around annoying people, without exception
Glad to know I'm considered stupid and all-around annoying.
but srsly, I bet if you don't go see a premier or close-to-premier showing of the movie, you'll get a lot less retards in the theater. Waiting a week or two means that theater crowds drop from packed to near empty.
But no less annoying, in my experience.
In fact they might even be able to get away with worse stuff since there are fewer people in the theater. Like bringing babies in.
This has been my experience, every time.
And I refuse to see premiere shows, on principle.
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You guys have some ****ed-up theater crowds near you. I don't think I've ever had an overtly-negative experience when going to see a movie.
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Me neither.
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Actually, the newest way they gouge you is the whole D-Box thing. Regular admission is $10.50. Add $3 more to see it in 3d. Now if you want the D-BOX experience, it's an additional $8.
Total cost of the movie: $21.50
And the worst thing is that they ripped out all the seats in the middle of the theatre, the prime ones, and replaced them with these huge ugly DBOX things. And you can't sit in them even if the theatre is full...unless you paid the extra 8 bucks.
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WTF is a D-Box?
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DBOX is their term for motion sensitive chairs. You know how if you go to universal studios or disneyland, they'll have an attraction that's like a movie but the chairs move as well in time with the action on the screen?
That's DBOX, but less pronounced. The chairs vibrate and shift in time with the action on the screen to give you a more "immersive" experience.
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Right...ok...any theatre manager that puts those in in place of probably 2x the number of normal seating is out of his non-existant mind.
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Right...ok...any theatre manager that puts those in in place of probably 2x the number of normal seating is out of his non-existant mind.
Actually, by the pricing above, it's a slightly better deal for the theater to go for the DBOX seats if the demand exists.
Or is the free market now out of its mind?
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This DBOX sounds retarded as hell. Sounds like a great place to put your baby during the movie.
Eventually watching movies will be as horrible as that one scene from war inc. where they're watching the news on what is the equivalent of an amusement park ride.
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See the real problem is not the idiots, it's the complacent ones - Etiquette. We're all taught(I like to think we are) not to talk in the cinema, and then when people actually do it, everyone else stays quiet because of the unspoken rule - Don't talk, no matter what. An annoying form of peer pressure.
Last time someone did that to me I told them to shut the **** up. Literally. :p
I remember that NYC once passed a law saying that there would be a $50 fine for talking in a movie theatre. They should have made it legal to beat people to death for it. :p
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Has nobody seen the "Our Mrs. Reynolds" episode of Firefly? Apparently there's a special level of hell reserved for people who talk too much at the theaters, and they share it with the child molesters.
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See the real problem is not the idiots, it's the complacent ones - Etiquette. We're all taught(I like to think we are) not to talk in the cinema, and then when people actually do it, everyone else stays quiet because of the unspoken rule - Don't talk, no matter what. An annoying form of peer pressure.
Last time someone did that to me I told them to shut the **** up. Literally. :p
I remember that NYC once passed a law saying that there would be a $50 fine for talking in a movie theatre. They should have made it legal to beat people to death for it. :p
It's alright...when I'm in a theater I just "LOL INBD IDK MY BFF JILL" text my friends
Seriously do people under 18 actually talk to each other or just LOL text?
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Lulz?
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:nervous:
*runs*