I haven’t been in a theater since college back in 2011… I really should walk into one and check the prices some time
At the AMC near me it’s $15 for a large popcorn and drink with unlimited refills. Not horrible since my wife and I share. But I only go like once or twice a year if there is a movie we want to see enough to make a night of it. The nostalgia of being in a theatre is pretty much worth it alone for me. It’s a pretty good time.
Ive been to the movies many many times over the years. I’ll get a soda. But all the snacks are in my pocket.
They’re all staffed by teenagers. They don’t gaf
I read that in Texas you’re expected to tip the concessions stand people at movies.
Nah, that’s not really a thing, not sure where you read that?
Source: in Texas (unfortunately.)
I read it in a substack post discussed here: https://lemmy.world/post/8890057 Now that I look at it again, it seems it was a Republican from New Mexico who was trying to make tipping in theaters a thing in Texas for some reason.
Your tipping culture is fricking wild man.
There are tipping options at gas station convenience stores in some places. Like, you can tip them for ringing up your candy bar and soda that you grabbed yourself.
Hilarious
I decided to take my girlfriend out to see Deadpool and Wolverine over the weekend. After tickets and snacks it cost $70! No wonder people don’t want to go to the movies anymore.
For $30 more you could have gotten a very happy ending at the massage parlor.
Why would he underpay his girlfriend though?
I’d pay 100 dollars to not watch a movie with strangers
The popcorn hits though. Sadly I am slave to my stomach
Popped popcorn is too obvious to sneak in.
Better method is to smuggle in a microwave and bags of microwave popcorn. Turn on the microwave during loud battles where the kernels popping blend in with movie gunfire. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.
How do you sneak in the 200ft extension cord?
Wrap it around your waist like a belt.
Just bring a small diesel generator with you, then you won’t need a cable as long
large popcorn
Because I can’t watch a movie unless I’m eating some dry, flavorless stuff I wouldn’t eat in any other circumstances. (At least I don’t taste it because I’m not paying attention to it.)
Kilogram of candy and a small bottle of whiskey goes well in pockets, optionally get a large cola from theater for mixer
You don’t go to the movies because soda costs too much.
I don’t go to the movies because I can’t pause the movie to go to pee.
We aren’t the same.
FYI: there is an app called “RunPee”. It’ll tell you when it’s a good time for a break in a movie.
Deadpool movie was such a poor choice for me. I paid ridiculous amount for a “small” soda, finished it before the movie started, then was suffering having to pee halfway through with no way to pause
And pause so you can check IMDb to see if that actor is the same as the one in some other show you’ve seen.
Went to Deadpool this weekend. $40 for two tickets. $8 for just a soda. Movie was meh.
3/10. Should’ve just waited like I said I would.
I watched it oun youtube yesterday. It was vetter than i expected, but seems like a horrible movie to watch with strangers.
It was kinda fun when REDACTED walked on screen and everybody cheered. But other than that I was just reminded of why I don’t like going to movie theaters.
$13 for a small soda and bag of gummies
Everyone here’s keeps going on about how much going to a movie sucks anyways.
Sometimes it’s just nice to get out of the house. Cheap date nights use to be things like bowling, dinner, movie, mini golf, pool, or a number of other things and now you can’t even step out your front door without spending $100.
For reference when my wife and I started dating in 2008 $50 got a couple of teens an amazing night out and now $100 gets you a movie. People wanna live simple lives and we were robbed of that.
It’s been easily 15 years since anyone has checked my bag when I go to the movies. I think one of the teenagers working there asked once, I said no and he shrugged. They aren’t paid anywhere near enough to care, and usually the manager on duty is like 17.
I always stop at the dollar store and grab snacks and drinks. Heck, I grab a burger or two and stuff even in that bag if I’m hungry enough. Literally nobody cares.
I’m just too lazy. It’s a half hour drive to the cinema I usually hit. You want me to think far enough ahead to have food, take it on a 30 minute drive, and carry it into the theater. That’s just too much hassle.
On the other hand I historically didn’t see value in snacks at a movie. However my kids finally got me hooked.
I dunno, it’s expensive, but concession sales are the only way that theaters stay in business; ticket prices go almost exclusively to the studios. I’ll sneak in sugar-free candy (mmmmMmmM, zero-calorie “food”!), but I’ll buy the popcorn and soda combo for another $20. If I want to keep being able to see movies in theaters, people gotta do that.
But I get it that not everyone wants the experience of seeing a film in a theater, when it can have a ton of other people, and you can’t pause. Me, I like theaters, because I can’t be distracted by my cats, or by checking phone notifications. Being in a different place helps me focus on the film.
That only stretches so far, and concession prices are way beyond that. You violate the compact to screw your customers; No sales for you
- Think of it like commercials: we accepted a reasonable number during shows as a cost of doing business, until broadcasters/streamers decided that wasn’t enough. One of several reasons many of us stopped watching TV. You violate the compact to screw your customers; No ads for you
- think of it like www ads: we accepted banner ads and clearly identified search result ads as a cost of doing business until web publishers decided that wasn’t enough. Now many of us use ad blockers as a way to make the internet useable. You violate the compact to screw your customers; No ads for you
I used to goto a drive-in where they made their own food, had more interesting choices than the standard diabetes in a bucket, and more importantly reasonable prices. Don’t get me wrong, they were still high, just not ridiculous. I was happy to pay their concessions as the cost of doing business
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.)
The last time I was in any kind of theater, “breathable air” hadn’t been invented yet.
