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You know what sucks? Having friends that are "poor"

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I don't have 15 bucks to go not enjoy myself for 2 hours either. More than willing to spend 400 on the 5k 9mm bullets (reloading components) I just picked up though.

EDIT: Its ok, I know some of my friends think I'm poor too since they're flying around first class all the time and driving around 100k cars.
 
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I think they should raise the minimum ticket prices to $15. Main fare about $25.

Eliminates about 90% of the problem at a theatre. Bet it would general more ticket sales, and a much higher profit after reduced vandalism and hair products ruining seats.
 
Maybe instead of bitching about them being poor you could offer to buy them a ticket. I've been the most affluent guy in my friend group and I've been the poorest in my friend group, so I've gotten to experience both sides of the divide. When I have money and my friends don't, I'm generous; I'd rather spend more for a chance to hang out with them than complain that they don't make enough. And it goes both ways; when I was dirt poor, people bought me drinks because I was the guy who had covered them in the past. If you're that concerned with how your friends' financial situation impacts you, you sound like kind of a bad friend. Not that you should let people mooch off you, obviously, because then they're just taking advantage of you (which makes them bad friends)... but have a little sympathy for them not earning as much as you.

And, for what it's worth, $15-20 is a shitload to spend on a movie when you're living paycheck to paycheck and your overall entertainment budget is less than $100 a month.
 
Insomniator said:
Avengers looks like too stupid of a movie for 25 year olds to go see.
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I'm 31 and am going to see it. Then again I have some comic book nerd friends who go to comic con etc and they got some amc gold tickets or something from an online deal. I am the friend that goes along just because I guess. I'm that guy. Don't really like movies since well .... you sit in a dark room with friends and can't talk while passively watching. Not that interesting.

Now that i think of it i went to Thor because of this and saw iron man 2 on Netflix. They were kind of mediocre but watchable and entertaining. They are really milking this comic book movie thing. Sadly I'll be missing part of an nba playoff game that I really want to watch for a movie about comics .
 
I recently paid 40.00 for a bottle of beer. I wouldn't pay 15 to see a movie. I'll wait for it to be vudu or some other HD service and watch it comfortably.
 
They are just giving you an excuse not to see the movie. Offer to go see Battleship and they will be waiting in line to join you. I would, because Im going to see it. 🙂
 
it could be 5$ and i would have said no, its not a money issue, its a i have no interest in the movie and it looks dumb issue
 
MeowKat said:
They are just giving you an excuse not to see the movie. Offer to go see Battleship and they will be waiting in line to join you. I would, because Im going to see it. 🙂
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Oh, yeah. Movies based on comic books are so last week. Movies based on board games; that's the wave of the future. I hear they're coming up with a movie based on Risk where a group of Indonesians starts building up a massive army and then does absolutely nothing except yell "Come at me bro!" to anyone within ear shot.
 
TwiceOver said:
$15? That's ridiculous.

2 People $30 + concessions $15 (share a soda). $45 to sit in an uncomfortable seat, have your ass fall asleep, and not get the privilege to pause the movie when you have to piss. Not to mention the other hundred+ asshats that are sharing the experience with you.
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Am I the only person in the world that has never had the have to take a piss during a movie issue? 🙂

I guess here in the midwest we don't have most of those issues. Prices are about $10/ticket. The consessions are expensive as hell but we just don't get them, and for the most part the audience is respectful. My biggest problem is that the screens keep getting smaller and smaller and the sound lower and lower. Went and saw Cabin in the Woods last weekend and it was the first time I'd been to the movies in a long time and I was like hell this would have been just as good at home.
 
You could of offered to pay, they were probably trying to let you down easy without telling you they don't care about the movie 😛.
 
I also do no understand this conditioned mentality of having to have a drink and snack during a movie. Can people really not go two hours without a drink and snack?
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Maybe instead of bitching about them being poor you could offer to buy them a ticket. I've been the most affluent guy in my friend group and I've been the poorest in my friend group, so I've gotten to experience both sides of the divide. When I have money and my friends don't, I'm generous; I'd rather spend more for a chance to hang out with them than complain that they don't make enough. And it goes both ways; when I was dirt poor, people bought me drinks because I was the guy who had covered them in the past. If you're that concerned with how your friends' financial situation impacts you, you sound like kind of a bad friend. Not that you should let people mooch off you, obviously, because then they're just taking advantage of you (which makes them bad friends)... but have a little sympathy for them not earning as much as you.

And, for what it's worth, $15-20 is a shitload to spend on a movie when you're living paycheck to paycheck and your overall entertainment budget is less than $100 a month.
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I have paid for a lot in the past for friends. Last year we paid (as a group, which I put in about $100 on) for a friend to go who has every other year but couldn't afford to last year on his own. I regularly pay for drinks and pool with friends, because as you point out it's about hanging out with the friends and not the money since I can afford it. I just am annoyed by it being such a regular situation with many of my group of friends that if I want to do anything with them, and this isn't the first or only time recently it's happened, it's a situation where I'm expected to pay if it happens.

Meh whatever. I'll go on my own... or just sit at home and study for certification exams and masturbate (not to the certification exam study material though)
 
Actually poor friends are great, they are never calling you up and asking you to go waste $15 to see a movie that you'll be able to get on redbox for $1 in a few months. Its not like going to a movie is a real social experience anyway. Take your $15 go buy some ground meat and invite your poor friends over for some burgers.
 
If someone said to me "Hey wanna go see [x] movie tonight?" I would say "No, its too expensive".

I can afford it. But why should I? I can buy it for basically the same price and watch it on my home theater system at home as many times as I want. Or I can get it through the subscription service I already have. Theater prices are ridiculous.
 
Deeko said:
If someone said to me "Hey wanna go see [x] movie tonight?" I would say "No, its too expensive".

I can afford it. But why should I? I can buy it for basically the same price and watch it on my home theater system at home as many times as I want. Or I can get it through the subscription service I already have. Theater prices are ridiculous.
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That's not how the conversation went. It was, "sure lets go, I'm free Saturday night!" Then others joined in saying that works. Then the one saying lets go Saturday came back saying, "oh yeah I can't go... I don't have money"

It's not a case of not wanting to go see it, or spending too much seeing it when it can be torrented for free, or things like that.
 
Deeko said:
If someone said to me "Hey wanna go see [x] movie tonight?" I would say "No, its too expensive".

I can afford it. But why should I? I can buy it for basically the same price and watch it on my home theater system at home as many times as I want. Or I can get it through the subscription service I already have. Theater prices are ridiculous.
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because some people want to see the movie as soon as it comes out? and some people prefer seeing it on a 200ft screen with sound that causes earthquakes instead of watching it at home?

it's really not a hard concept to grasp.
 
Deeko said:
If someone said to me "Hey wanna go see [x] movie tonight?" I would say "No, its too expensive".

I can afford it. But why should I? I can buy it for basically the same price and watch it on my home theater system at home as many times as I want. Or I can get it through the subscription service I already have. Theater prices are ridiculous.
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If a movie is too expensive, you cannot afford it. You mean you could pay for going, but that's the same as everyone believing they can afford a $100k car since they make more than the payment would be.

People go to see movies to hang out and discuss them after, to see them when they come out instead of months later once all the twists are known, etc.

Many you like watching an old movie and telling everyone 'see I knew that was going to happen' or giving away the twist right away.

I don't tend to watch movies more than once with all the content out there now. I buy some, I see some. Some I go solo too, others in a larger group.

I don't see it as 'expensive' for a decent two hours of my night. It's not a bargain though.
 
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