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« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2005, 08:45:09 am » |
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An evening movie here is about that price, Bram, but daytime shows are more like $6 here. We used to have a $1 theater that showed older movies about the time they started to leave the regular theaters (so you could save a ton of money if you were willing to be 3 months behind) but the faster import-to-dvd times killed that one off.
For $20/unlimited I would surely abuse that. But we do have Netflix, which is awesome.
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« Reply #31 on: December 07, 2005, 09:00:25 am » |
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Ever seen "Wild Wild West"?
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« Reply #32 on: December 07, 2005, 10:57:27 am » |
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The subscription Bram describes raises a question for me: how do they calculate that into movies' box office gross? My first thought was that they can't. If they can't figure it into the gross of any individual movie, maybe that's why the price is only around twice a single movie---the theater doesn't have to give a cut to the studios from the subcriptions. I find myself fascinated at the potential licensing complications of this.
My town still has student discounts that make tickets $6.25; I think the regular is like $7 or $7.50. I'm pretty sure if tickets were $10 here, they would have reduced by 90% the number of times I've gone to the theater in the last three years, and I'm already a every-other-month-maybe customer.
I'm definitely not going out of my way to see Aeon Flux when critics have so clearly trashed it. (Also, Kowal speaks persauasively---who wouldn't listen to a man with such refined taste?) I might see it at some later point, but this is a busy time of year; I have to make up for all the slacking I did in the whole semester, all in just two weeks. I think I'm still gonna make time for Narnia though. Because, ya know, when someone spends $200 million dollars to animate an enormous fantasy army, I am totally willing to be suckered in. (King Kong also falls under the "okay, you spent enough to animate a sufficiently enticing trailer, I'm game" category.)
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« Reply #33 on: December 07, 2005, 11:08:00 am » |
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I don't precisely know the answer to that question, but I do know this (from several sources who actually work in / run various cinemas): cinema's don't make money selling tickets. They make money selling food and drinks. That's why the concession stands are so horribly overpriced (and I'm talking 9 euro's or well over 10 bucks for a large coke and a decent sized bucket of popcorn here) and why they check so rigourously that noone brings their own food.
The margins on that stuff are so insane they make up for the practically nonexistent markups on ticket sales. And ofcourse, if you were to use the Unlimited pass on a daily basis and never buy food there (which is perfectly legal as long as you don't bring your own stuff), you're basically chating them out of their profits. But in reality, especially when visiting the movies with friends, you buy a Heineken longneck and a bag of crispy M&M's regardless.
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« Reply #34 on: December 07, 2005, 01:02:36 pm » |
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Yeah, I don't think I've paid less than about $9 for a movie in a good five years. Where the hell do you people live? $7.50? Student discounts? Do they have a unicorn tear your ticket? Do chocolate-covered elves show you to your seat? Do they stand next to you during the movie so that you can snack on them? Are there scantily-clad soda-girls who bring you any beverage you desire, nestled snugly in their cleavage?
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« Reply #35 on: December 07, 2005, 01:11:36 pm » |
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The two-star movie is worse than the one-star movie, because at least the one-star movie isn't boring.
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« Reply #36 on: December 07, 2005, 04:56:15 pm » |
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scantily-clad soda-girls who bring you any beverage you desire, nestled snugly in their cleavage? I really think I need to open a chain of theathers using this as the basis for sales...it should really bring in a lot of customers that wouldnt regularly go to the movies...It could be rough however on family movie viewing prospects. Perhaps I need to run this idea past an analyst and see how much money I could aquire making this idea reality. |
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« Reply #37 on: December 07, 2005, 05:07:22 pm » |
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scantily-clad soda-girls who bring you any beverage you desire, nestled snugly in their cleavage? I really think I need to open a chain of theathers using this as the basis for sales...it should really bring in a lot of customers that wouldnt regularly go to the movies...It could be rough however on family movie viewing prospects. I just had the image of dutch girls carrying beer between their breasts. And, I vote yes on whatever proposition this is. |
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« Reply #38 on: December 07, 2005, 06:04:20 pm » |
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Yeah, I don't think I've paid less than about $9 for a movie in a good five years. Where the hell do you people live? $7.50? Student discounts? Do they have a unicorn tear your ticket? Do chocolate-covered elves show you to your seat? Do they stand next to you during the movie so that you can snack on them? Are there scantily-clad soda-girls who bring you any beverage you desire, nestled snugly in their cleavage?
If your town was HALF students, your theaters would have student discounts, too. |
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« Reply #39 on: December 07, 2005, 09:11:02 pm » |
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Ever seen "Wild Wild West"?
This is without a doubt the worst movie ever made. It can't possibly be worse than Pluto Nash. That is exactly what I was thinking!!! The Hulk was horrible imho, but the graphics keep it out of that level... I talked to someone who saw the flux movie today and he said worst movie evarRrr! |
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« Reply #40 on: December 07, 2005, 09:19:34 pm » |
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Back home in Maine, if you go during the day tickets are 4.50.
So I never see movies at school here in Albany because tickets are like $11.
Bram is right in that theatres don't make any money on tickets, all the profit is in the concessions. I think that's the only thing I got out of Intro. to Communication Theory.
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« Reply #41 on: December 07, 2005, 09:57:45 pm » |
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Back home in Maine, if you go during the day tickets are 4.50.
foul lies and untruths. While that may be true in the wilderness you call auburn, the civilized southern portion of the state has no such deal. |
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« Reply #42 on: December 07, 2005, 10:58:04 pm » |
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If your town was HALF students, your theaters would have student discounts, too.
No, that's the thing, when I lived in Berkeley that was precisely the reason there *wasn't* a student discount. It would be functionally equivalent to simply lowering prices across the board. I mean, what are you gonna do, not go to the movies? Unthinkable. Also, guys, dibs on the Soda Girls idea. Patent pending. |
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« Reply #43 on: December 07, 2005, 11:52:33 pm » |
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If your town was HALF students, your theaters would have student discounts, too.
No, that's the thing, when I lived in Berkeley that was precisely the reason there *wasn't* a student discount. It would be functionally equivalent to simply lowering prices across the board. I mean, what are you gonna do, not go to the movies? Unthinkable. Also, guys, dibs on the Soda Girls idea. Patent pending. You should come back to Cali. Almost every theatre not in the ghetto known as Berkley has a 6.50 price before 6pm. I know the entire Century chain has that deal. BTW, agree with JP. Maybe not the worst movie ever, but it brings incompetence to a whole other level. |
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« Reply #44 on: December 08, 2005, 01:09:57 am » |
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No, that's the thing, when I lived in Berkeley that was precisely the reason there *wasn't* a student discount. It would be functionally equivalent to simply lowering prices across the board. I mean, what are you gonna do, not go to the movies? Unthinkable.
It's that way in Terre Haute. There's no such thing as a student rate because everyone who goes is a student. |
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« Reply #45 on: December 08, 2005, 04:26:16 am » |
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Are there scantily-clad soda-girls who bring you any beverage you desire, nestled snugly in their cleavage? There's several cinema's over here where you can do that. You pretty much sit in a barka lounger, are allowed to smoke, and at the touch of a button girls will come up to bring you alcoholic beverages and McDonalds food. Needless to say, such cinemas are not covered by the aforementioned Unlimited Pass (different chain of cinemas), because, well, if they would, it would be direct proof of the existence of God. |
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« Reply #46 on: December 08, 2005, 07:01:49 am » |
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Big surprise, the Dutchie hijacked the thread. I was looking forward to seeing the army of people that think Klep is wrong and that this movie sucks.
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« Reply #47 on: December 08, 2005, 11:59:58 am » |
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At the right theater, a student discount here will get your movie down to $5.
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« Reply #48 on: December 08, 2005, 03:59:11 pm » |
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I saw this movie and it was indeed terrible. However the production values alone made it much better than a lot of movies already mentioned in this thread, so it's not the worst movie ever made. So, if that was holding you back, go and see this very bad movie.
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« Reply #49 on: December 08, 2005, 07:46:24 pm » |
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There's several cinema's over here where you can do that. You pretty much sit in a barka lounger, are allowed to smoke, and at the touch of a button girls will come up to bring you alcoholic beverages and McDonalds food. Needless to say, such cinemas are not covered by the aforementioned Unlimited Pass (different chain of cinemas), because, well, if they would, it would be direct proof of the existence of God.
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« Reply #50 on: December 09, 2005, 08:39:45 pm » |
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Big surprise, the Dutchie hijacked the thread. I was looking forward to seeing the army of people that think Klep is wrong and that this movie sucks.
Get me a pitchfork and torch and I'll see that stuff like this doesn't get made... ever. |
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« Reply #51 on: December 09, 2005, 10:14:15 pm » |
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