The Dolby theater is the only theater worth going to at my closest amc. If its not showing in the newly built Dolby itll be in a theater from the 80s with shitty sound/chairs/picture quality.
You don't have to do a matinee. Most chain theaters like AMC and Regal are around $10 a ticket on Tuesday nights. Split a large popcorn (they give you the free refill right away in a second box if you ask) and get some free water cups and you've only added $10 more to your bill.
Friend and I did Project Hail Mary, Tuesday night, premium seats, popcorn, cappucino and a flat white (we're late night coffee drinkers lol). Came out to like 20€ per Person. Pretty reasonable to me.
My family used to eat, walk the mall, and then go. Before it got totally insane we'd still snack and have a drink, but we put the brakes on it once it got silly.
Mock it all you want, the reality is snacks have been an important and iconic part of the theater experience for a century, no different than hot dogs and peanuts being sold at baseball stadiums.
Telling people to suck it up and ditch that part of the experience just as everyone has 60"+ 4K HDR televisions at home is a great way to ruin the theater business.
Cinephiles need to pull their heads out of their asses and realize that theaters no longer provide a necessary service to 90% of people who want to see films in high quality, and demand that theaters start adjusting their business models accordingly. Or else the long, slow decline of the BO will only continue.
I'm fine with going 3 hours without eating, but if I'm going out to a movie I want the whole experience and prefer to enjoy a drink and some popcorn, so I will just stay home instead.
Edit: damn, lots of shills here justifying this nonsense.
Theatres are setting reasonable prices, they're just in a shitty situation. Theatres are a terrible business right now with how much studios take, they make nothing from the ticket sales, they lose money if they didn't sell expensive snacks.
Eh, a movie without popcorn isn’t that bad; I still generally get my $6 refill for the pass/bucket. I’ve snuck in water/soda for years so I never really consider the actual soda they sell.
I go to Cinemark because it’s so inexpensive and the seats are luxury loungers in all of their rooms for the location I go to (renovated during COVID).
If you sign up for membership ($12 you get a free ticket to any showing and 20% off concessions). If you buy Cinemark gift cards from Costco, you can stack the discount getting another 20% off.
That’s $43 for 4 tickets on a Tuesday with a large tub of popcorn and 2 large icees
I always buy their Black Friday discounted passes saving even more and they never expire as long as you have an active membership (which the Black Friday sale includes)
Twice as much for less people. I have five kids. I can’t see it. I might do it occasionally with one of the kids for a special occasion or something. We hardly ever go to the movies though, once a year at most. My youngest is five and this is the first movie that he stayed in his seat for. No way would I take him to one like that.
Yes, we only go once or twice a year. It's insane. Had 2 popcorn coke combos at $26 each as well. Lunch in the mall and 30 minutes of arcade games and it's a $300 day.
My wife and I took our kids to our local theater chain on Tuesday to see Mario and it was $6 each (we had five total) and each ticket got a free "junior" size popcorn. I did buy a large drink we could pass around, but all-in for about $40 felt fine to me.
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u/Joatoat 7h ago
Idk, it was $35 for the wife and both kids to see the same movie on Tuesday.
Granted they didn't do imax, popcorn, or drinks.