Went to a 6:30 showing of Tenet and there was 7 people total. Tickets were 5 bucks.
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Theater Chain Death Watch? Chapter 11s inc
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Ticket share is pretty minimal for the theatres, so that $5 is probably more like $2.50. I didn't buy any food or drinks, and my brother only bought some $7 popcorn, so they made less than $10 between the two of us. Two of the other people there also hit up the dollar store when we did, so they probably didn't buy anything extra, and the other people were teens. That showing probably made them $30 in total, and that's before all the overhead is accounted for.
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Big Phoenix
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As much as I hate Hollywood I do find it sad to see an industry as iconic as movie theaters utterly destroyed solely due to government incompetence.
A lot of peoples lives being upended or destroyed because of a few grand standing pieces of shit.
A lot of peoples lives being upended or destroyed because of a few grand standing pieces of shit.
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Ol Big Phoenix the party pooper
You're right, it is stupid that the theaters are all getting screwed over by politicians pushing the virus. I mean, the theaters have never been "evil" like other companies, even if a lot of them are expensive to visit. I'm sure most of us smuggle in our own food and alcohol anyway. My theater has (had?) dinner service in assigned seats, and most items on the menu are about $10-$15 or so (from what I remember, it's been a god damn year) and honestly tasted just as good as any chain restaurant. And honestly you end up spending about the same as if you went out to eat and tipped, etc. But I've never felt like the theater was trying to actually fuck me like SO MANY other businesses out there. Sure, some people pull out their phones or talk, but it seems less in the assigned seat theater than it was in the ghetto theater across town that still has random seating. Haha @ poor people. And the only way to truly get that insane experience for the best movies is in a theater, with the huge screen and hundreds of thousands of dollars of audio equipment. And going to the movies is truly an American past time.I guess my "joy" in theaters going away is that they never kept up with technology. The best innovation they had is being able to purchase assigned seats online. In the day when we can stream movies, etc, it just makes more sense to not be tied to a specific time that you have to stop your day and get to the theater, and makes more sense to be able to sit at your home and watch things on demand.
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I wonder if one day we will look at movie theaters like we do Blockbuster video.
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Animosity
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Honestly surprised we havent already started moving in that direction. Going to a movie theater is just insanely expensive now and inconvenient.
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I haven't been to a theater in eons. Never will go again. I don't care about the price. Theaters all stink and people can't keep their fat mindless mouths shut.
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The AMC near me had $5 Tuesdays, and it was a nice theater with full recline seats. Day tickets the other days of the week were not that bad either, I guess thats why I don't have the same joy a lot of you do seeing them suffer.
On the other hand I found drive-ins and only wish they were closer to where I live. I don't want either to die off though. Both have a place.
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Goatface
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just checked my local places
Marquee
Normal Screen - $9.25 before 6pm. $11.25 after 6pm
Large Screen - $10.75 before 6pm $12.75 after 6pm
Tuesday - $6.50 Normal Screen - $8.00 Large Screen
3D is $3 extra but they did drop the $2 F/S/S fee lol
AMC
$8.59 before 5pm / $12.29 after 5pm
they are running at 40% seating and closed Wed and Thurs
Marquee
Normal Screen - $9.25 before 6pm. $11.25 after 6pm
Large Screen - $10.75 before 6pm $12.75 after 6pm
Tuesday - $6.50 Normal Screen - $8.00 Large Screen
3D is $3 extra but they did drop the $2 F/S/S fee lol
AMC
$8.59 before 5pm / $12.29 after 5pm
they are running at 40% seating and closed Wed and Thurs
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Theater chains share their own part of the blame for the state of movies today. And perpetuating the insanely stupid rating system. And they've definitely been fucking you, between ticket prices and concession prices and the general decline of theater quality, they are also out there actively lobbying to get more shitty franchise movies made, to make access more restricted so they can gatekeep, they are an integral part of the machine that keeps cranking out bad movies year after year in expectation of record profits.Ol Big Phoenix the party pooper
I guess my "joy" in theaters going away is that they never kept up with technology. The best innovation they had is being able to purchase assigned seats online. In the day when we can stream movies, etc, it just makes more sense to not be tied to a specific time that you have to stop your day and get to the theater, and makes more sense to be able to sit at your home and watch things on demand.
Going to the movies was an American pasttime back in the 50s and shit, since then pop culture has repeatedly been telling us that it still is but modern movie megaplexes dont resemble those experiences, neither do the movies that get shown. They arent innocent bystanders in all this though, they've been fucking up for decades and getting away with it because they had no competition, I have no sympathy for them now.
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