I guess movie theaters around me aren’t that outrageous to me. (I can’t find their concession prices online, which is not a surprise.) I don’t think of them as violating the social contract, both because prices for popcorn and soda don’t seem utterly outrageous, and because I can see how busy they are and extrapolate how profitable they are based on the number of people going to movies (e.g., barely scraping by). EDIT - we went to see Deadpool & Wolverine the day after opening. While is was a very, very early show, there were still under 10 people in the entire theater.
I remember waaaaaaaaaaay back in the golden days of the very late 90s that I could go to the second run movie theater, get the endless popcorn for $5, a soda for $4, and then watch back to back films for six hours. I guess I could still do that, but tickets are more like $15-20 now, and there’s usually not more than one movie I have any interest in at any time. I miss those second run theaters though.
But, again, I’m not going to tell people that there’s only one way to enjoy cinema. God below knows that just how much shit I pirate, so I’m not some lily-white choir boy here. But, when I have the option, and when it’s a film that my partner is interested in, I prefer a theater. (They don’t like horror though, so I gotta watch In A Violent Nature on my own.)
I guess movie theaters around me aren’t that outrageous to me. (I can’t find their concession prices online, which is not a surprise.) I don’t think of them as violating the social contract, both because prices for popcorn and soda don’t seem utterly outrageous, and because I can see how busy they are and extrapolate how profitable they are based on the number of people going to movies (e.g., barely scraping by). EDIT - we went to see Deadpool & Wolverine the day after opening. While is was a very, very early show, there were still under 10 people in the entire theater.
I remember waaaaaaaaaaay back in the golden days of the very late 90s that I could go to the second run movie theater, get the endless popcorn for $5, a soda for $4, and then watch back to back films for six hours. I guess I could still do that, but tickets are more like $15-20 now, and there’s usually not more than one movie I have any interest in at any time. I miss those second run theaters though.
But, again, I’m not going to tell people that there’s only one way to enjoy cinema. God below knows that just how much shit I pirate, so I’m not some lily-white choir boy here. But, when I have the option, and when it’s a film that my partner is interested in, I prefer a theater. (They don’t like horror though, so I gotta watch In A Violent Nature on my own.)