$15 for a movie now????

[SAWYER]

Who gives a shit about the experience and seeing it with people cheering etc? Other people reacting or enjoying a movie has no impact on me enjoying a movie

 

[chalmers]

Who gives a shit about the experience and seeing it with people cheering etc? Other people reacting or enjoying a movie has no impact on me enjoying a movie

Know what else drives me crazy? People that clap after a movie. Who are you clapping for? It's a movie screen.

 

[Fritzo]

I'll wait for the dvd. Watch at home in a whooping cough /TB / contagious disease free environment.

:hmm:

I think you're maybe going to a porn theater....

 

[Ns1]

Unreal. I heard that theaters make like $.25 per movie ticket sold or something, and that most of their margins come from concession sales.

lol no

50% is a rough estimate.

 

[PimpJuice]

Not sure if you are srs ... :hmm:

Let me clear it up for you....

Your joke was so lame that he thought you were being serious and offered a link to the redbox site in an effort to educate you which obviously went over your head and you don't have the sense to let it go. Let the bad joke die and you don't look like a retard.

 

[Homerboy]

I'll be seeing TRON tonight
$16.50

There are very few movies that I make it a point to go see in the theater. Movies like TRON, Avatar etc, where there is an "experience" seeing it on an Ultrascreen, in 3D with blasting sound and with 150 other people (not saying the movies are good, but the experience is what makes them worthwhile) I will go and pay the price. Or of course when my kids want to see the latest PIXAR etc. But movies like True Grit, dramas, and even a lot of comedies, I'll wait for the DVD.

Honestly, its quite painful to take the family. I mean 4 of us, at even an matinée, after food and drink can be pushing $75.

 

[BoomerD]

I remember even louder reactions when

Spoiler

the Millennium Falcon escaped in Empire Strikes Back and the theater nearly exploded when Darth chucked the Emperor down the reactor shaft in Return of the Jedi.

I don't remember any reactions like this in the prequels, except maybe the gasps of horror and the look of shocked faces after seeing The Phantom Menace.

HEY! Spoiler Alert!!

 

[zinfamous]

Know what else drives me crazy? People that clap after a movie. Who are you clapping for? It's a movie screen.

yeah, this is like some new phenomenon or something. The first time I ever saw this was the first showing of Phantom Menace. It made sense: the years of anticipation, the credits suddenly rolling left little time to actually absorb the fact that what was witnessed was utter tripe, people were overwhelmed.

I think those that were quote young at that time have gone on thinking that every damn movie is a fucking "event." So they clap. I don't get it.

I rarely go to opening weekend anyway, and this is generally the only time I see such displays. The opening weekend crowd is generally a piss-poor movie-going crowd as it is.

 

[zinfamous]

I'll wait for the dvd. Watch at home in a whooping cough /TB / contagious disease free environment.

not to mention being surrounded by all the dopers...

 

[zinfamous]

lol no

50% is a rough estimate.

K1052 should chime in.

I think Chalmers is pretty close on that. I don't think it's anywhere near 50% for the theater's take.

 

[KeithTalent]

K1052 should chime in.

I think Chalmers is pretty close on that. I don't think it's anywhere near 50% for the theater's take.

Well Ns1 is an accountant at a major studio...

KT

 

[zinfamous]

Well Ns1 is an accountant at a major studio...

KT

Oh, I know. K1052 (family) owns a chain of theaters. I think these two look at different books.

I remember asking him if he hated me for theater hopping. He was like, "Nah, we don't make anything on ticket sales, anyway. As long as you buy a coke, it's cool."

EDIT: it could be that what NS21 is seeing is 50% return from the theater. I'm pretty sure that if that's true, then maybe 80-90% of the theater's take goes into the cost of running these flicks. I'm not sure if the studio's take includes the delivery and showing fee that they charge to the theater--those big-ass film canisters are expensive as hell to ship and show for weeks at a time--or if that is pure profit. Otherwise, that would go into the theater take as well.

I think the main point is that the theater actually profits maybe $0.25 from a $10.00 ticket, as so much goes into cost. This is why they are constantly pushing concessions.

 

[KeithTalent]

That does make sense to me; probably part of the reason the concessions are so damn expensive too. I'm a sucker for movie theatre popcorn though, so I pretty much always buy me some when I hit the movies.

KT

 

[Homerboy]

That does make sense to me; probably part of the reason the concessions are so damn expensive too. I'm a sucker for movie theatre popcorn though, so I pretty much always buy me some when I hit the movies.

KT

100% this.
Did you know that most theaters will let you just go in and buy corn? I've done it a few times. I just tell the ticket jockey (16yr old kid) "I'm just here to buy some popcorn".

Soooo... good.

 

[vi edit]

and a home theatre will never ever replace the actual movie theatre experience, sound and picture wise.

I will respectfully disagree with that. The only thing I can't compete with picture wise is 3D. But I've never paid for that at a theatre anyway. But a good HT setup will most certainly rival a retail theatre for sound and video experience if not completely destroy it.

What a home setup can't compete with is a *good* crowd interaction. People screaming at a horror flick or cheering on good scenes or the awkward laughter at certain points. That part I will concede to the theater experience that I can't equally replicate at home.

 

[KeithTalent]

100% this.
Did you know that most theaters will let you just go in and buy corn? I've done it a few times. I just tell the ticket jockey (16yr old kid) "I'm just here to buy some popcorn".

Soooo... good.

I had no idea. :hmm:

I swear they sprinkle a little crack on the stuff; freaking love it. :awe:

There is a one-screen theatre two blocks away from my house (probably the best theatre around actually and only a couple of years old) that sells beer and wine, so grabbing a big thing of corn and a beer then watching a flick in the giant, comfortable seat on a massive screen is freaking awesome.

KT

 

[vi edit]

That does make sense to me; probably part of the reason the concessions are so damn expensive too. I'm a sucker for movie theatre popcorn though, so I pretty much always buy me some when I hit the movies.

KT

I can back that up too. I worked at a theatre in high school. It was a little single screen, 2nd run theatre. We got prints 2-3 weeks after initial release. In 1995 a print would run $1200-$1600 depending on the movie & studio. Our ticket prices were only $1.50 at the time. We seated 300 people and would regularly have 200-250 on Friday & Saturday nights. Sometimes more for the more popular shows. But through the week it would drop down to like 60 people or so. We rarely covered the print costs with ticket sales. All other operating costs had to be made up through concessions.

 

[bfdd]

Tron was pretty decent. I think I had some expectations that I shouldn't have, but it's sound track seriously makes the experience so much better. Best movie soundtrack I have heard in awhile. I listened to it last night for the first time and it was like re-watching the movie in my brain. Daft Punk should win an award for it.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Anyone saying they go to the theater for the "experience" has never been to one here. I personally hate paying $10+ for the "experience" of having my seat kicked, dudes sitting with their legs in my space, a hundred assholes texting out in the open in a dark theater, people talking, coughing, throwing stuff, babies crying because the parents are too cheap for a babysitter, etc. etc.

Plus our theaters are all shit. The one AMC theater that has an IMAX screen is in the middle of one of the biggest ghettos in the city. I'll wait til it comes out on Bluray or Netflix.

Though, honestly, I went with the GF to see "Little Fockers" the day after it opened because I had B1G1 Fandango tickets at the AMC theater, and it wasn't that bad. Might have been because we went at 4:00pm.

 

[bfdd]

Know what else drives me crazy? People that clap after a movie. Who are you clapping for? It's a movie screen.

lol yeah seriously, it's not like the people who made it are there to appreciate your applause so wtf?

 

[KeithTalent]

I will respectfully disagree with that. The only thing I can't compete with picture wise is 3D. But I've never paid for that at a theatre anyway. But a good HT setup will most certainly rival a retail theatre for sound and video experience if not completely destroy it.

What a home setup can't compete with is a *good* crowd interaction. People screaming at a horror flick or cheering on good scenes or the awkward laughter at certain points. That part I will concede to the theater experience that I can't equally replicate at home.

You have a 50' screen at home? :hmm:

I can back that up too. I worked at a theatre in high school. It was a little single screen, 2nd run theatre. We got prints 2-3 weeks after initial release. In 1995 a print would run $1200-$1600 depending on the movie & studio. Our ticket prices were only $1.50 at the time. We seated 300 people and would regularly have 200-250 on Friday & Saturday nights. Sometimes more for the more popular shows. But through the week it would drop down to like 60 people or so. We rarely covered the print costs with ticket sales. All other operating costs had to be made up through concessions.

That makes perfect sense. $1.50 is crazy cheap though; yowzer.

KT

 

[vi edit]

You have a 50' screen at home?

I've got a 100" screen at 10' of distance which is in spec for THX standards. Size isn't all that matters, it's also a function of distance from viewer.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Size isn't all that matters, it's also a function of distance from viewer.

That's what she said?

 

[DrPizza]

Seriously, going on opening night is about the worst thing to do, even with fans there it's even worse. I make it a habit to never go unless a movie has been out for at least a week or two and never during peak times. Babies crying, people kicking your seat, cellphone on, talking, crappy seating, etc.

By opening night, I don't mean Friday night - I mean Thursday night when everyone has to get up and go to school/work the next morning. The midnight showing. There's no one there except fans - and the theater is generally packed. The last opening I saw was Clerks 2. I can't recall a single baby, cell phone, etc. (And got there early enough to get a decent seat.) For a film like that, the theater experience is much better - the rest of the people also know all the inside jokes, previous plot references, etc. Absent are the "well, what movie should we go to tonight?" people. The real theater experience is about the contagious laughter, etc.

If by real theater experience, you mean a deserted theater on a Monday morning, that's just a big screen with good sound system experience - easily duplicated at home.

 

[Crow550]

So is everyone okay with the price increase they said will happen in 2011?

Let's say they decide $5-$10 more for the matinée ticket price. Plus the extra for evening tickets usually after 5pm and if you decide to see a 3D film you will still have to pay even extra for that.

However I think they also said that Blu-Ray and DVDs may get a price increase too?

As well as charge more to rental companies which might raise rental rates as well.