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I'm just curious…it seems like movie theater prices have increased quite a bit over the past years and it makes it harder and harder to justify buying a ticket to see a move. Have you gone out to see fewer movies because of this? To me, paying $10 per ticket to see a mediocre movie is a waste.
It has to be a very good movie before I even bother to go. I didn't even go see Avatar (probably the only one who didn't). 🙂
I have pretty much stayed about the same. My family and I go to the movies between 5-10 times a year. It really depends on what is playing and how busy we are, we have found ourselves renting a lot of movies because we just did not have the time to go see them in theaters.
A very sharp decline since my son got old enough to go to the movies by himself (and he's 19 now).Last movie that my wife and I went to see in the theater? Wow, I have no idea... Contact with Jodie Foster 15 years ago?
4-6 times per year… Alice in Wonderland last… pretty good and the 3D added to the experience. Needs to be something I want to see, I tend to discount the HYP.
I'm just curious...it seems like movie theater prices have increased quite a bit over the past years and it makes it harder and harder to justify buying a ticket to see a move. Have you gone out to see fewer movies because of this? To me, paying $10 per ticket to see a mediocre movie is a waste.Report to moderator LoggedMovies are worse than ever. My opinion is that 90 percent are not worth a dollar as they are seemingly madefor teen agers, morons, and fans of off color jokes. They have been so dumbed down that plot, characterdevelopment, accuracy and well fashioned story telling have been sacrificed to BOOM BOOM CRASH CRASHWOW WOW. I love movies and discovered them long ago as the 20th Century's primary art form. I discovered foreign films in the 1960's and was astonished that there were movies quite different than those made by the studios with Doris Day and Van Johnson. By the late 1960,s American films were really gettinggood, but today taste, money and the demise of studios have altered the game completely. I get up eachmorning and go to my cable box where I have literally hundreds of movies to choose from. I no longer canbear to watch movies with commercials which I accept an an un-American attitude. If I get one or two filmsto record for the day, I am lucky. My best bets are TCM, Sundance and IFC. I resort to REDBOX which inthis market gets you a DVD one day for a buck--best deal in town.The young people in my family do go to the movies as a social event and the grosser the movie the betterthey seem to want to see it. I no longer talk to them about great films and one niece told me she could not bear to watch a film in black and white--so much for The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre orCitizen Kane. As a newly minted frugal person and a reformed profligate, I would not pay $10.00 to see DickCheeny apologize in a movie--although I would be tempted.Last night HBO had two programs on that were quite good--Pacific and one about post-Katrina New Orleans--they are apparently mini-series. Saturday night Al Pacino starred in an HBO movie about Dr. Kevorkian. He and the movie were outstanding. Guess I will keep the cable. In every dung heap there are a few coins.
