Wait, are you telling me the billionaires who own the theatres and the billionaires who own the movie production companies were too stupid to figure out a path forward so both their industries didn’t collapse?? Color me surprised…
Good. I took my wife and kid to a movie the other night and spent $150 for stale popcorn, shitty candy and a few sodas plus movie tickets. “nO oNE gOEs tO MOVie tHeATrEs ANyMoRE!!!”
Yeah no shit I wonder why?
You need a better theater.
And you realise you chose to buy that stuff, right?
Do you need popcorn and candy?
When I was growing up, and even into adult hood, never bought theater food. Not until I found a theater that has real meals and and their own craft beers.I’m genuinely dumbfounded that you even managed to spend that much at the movies.
Its $10 for a damn soda, and has been for 20+ years (which is about when I stopped going to the theater for the most part).
Eaay to do with 4 people. I have no idea what tickets cost these days.
Y’all don’t sneak in snacks? It’s cold out and it’s easy to sneak in soda bottles in a jacket. I snuck in a KFC meal in my jacket to watch Avengers Endgame.
Yeah I called bullshit that you got stale popcorn. Considering how fast movie theaters go through popcorn. And if you’re spending $150 then you’re doing something wrong. I mean that means that you spent about 50 bucks per person since it was only three of you. I see in another comment that you mentioned it was $32 each for movie tickets and you’re in New york. I mean that’s simply the case here is that you live someplace that’s very expensive to do anything. And you chose to go to a movie theater that charges quite a bit. You could simply do something like a movie club like Cinemark or AMC’s movie club or something like that which is a whole lot less per month you get free movie tickets and you get discounts on everything. I go to the movies three or four times a month and even with a family of four I typically won’t spend more than $100 in my area. And that’s usually buying the most expensive tickets as well which are usually like IMAX and d-box tickets etc.
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Rookie mistake. The movies are still pretty affordable if you plan it right. Go to a matinee or special pricing days. Smuggle in your snacks and drinks. Hell, I’ve walked in with a whole ass fast food meal before.
The rectum can hold a surprising amount of food if buttered.
People still go to the movies?
Yeah! I try to hit at least two a month!
If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.
Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)
if you’re breaking even on the subscription + discount concessions, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to not subscribe and not feel obligated to go to the movie if you don’t or can’t want to? Also are you limited to 2 free movies a month or could you go more if you wanted to?
I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.
I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.
That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.
I like movies 😊
To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.
That’s awesome, thanks for explaining.
I recently started going a little bit more, because a new one with certified IMAX (but not the biggest screen) popped up around 25 mins from home. It’s technically in another (smaller) city and for some reason not a lot of people know it exists so it’s never full and still very clean. The IMAX tickets on discount Tuesdays are $5, so we try to go to matinee screenings on those days. There’s usually fewer than 10 people whenever we go and there have been times where we had the entire theater to ourselves.
I would otherwise never go if my only options are the AMCs, Cinemarks, and Regals in my area. The only other theater I go to is the stand-alone huge true IMAX cinema that I’m lucky to have in my city, but only for special movies.
Yeah, there’s a Europa Cinemas network with theaters in bigger cities. They show good movies from all over the worlds. The tickets cost 6€. I visit mine from time to time. I saw really nice Mongolian movie not so long ago.
It’s crumbling because of shitty superhero movies and reboots, not mergers.
Superhero movies and blockbusters are what’s keeping theaters alive.
2025 saw lowest box office $ in history, excluding COVID lockdowns.
Hollywood is generating a tremendous amount of shit not worth watching off PirateBay.
If I owned movie theaters, I’d start making my own movies. Hollywood is a dying star, heading towards black hole status.
And at this point, a drooling idiot could make better movies than Disney or most of Hollywood. Always excepting Guillermo del Toro, of course! He’s amazing.
Lose myself inside your schemes
Go for the money, honey
Not the screen
Be a movie star, blah blah blah
Go the whole hog
Be bigger than God
Burn Hollywood burn, taking down Tinseltown
Burn Hollywood burn, burn down to the groundBy the end of four years. Our country will be in ruins. Good job MAGAts.
