Your state is fucking ridiculous.
At my Texas college town I spend $4 to watch a movie and $7 for 3D.
Movie ticket prices have really gotten out of control in the last ~five years.
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Your state is fucking ridiculous.
At my Texas college town I spend $4 to watch a movie and $7 for 3D.
Gunslinger
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It's about 17 dollars on average here in NYC. Atleast in Queens.
brainchild
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Matinee is the same as its Rotten Tomatoes score!
Remind me never to go wherever the hell you are!
I think it comes with a free small popcorn though!
brainchild
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Honestly, considering how high the average prices for food are at the theaters, that's not AS bad a deal as I original thought it was.
j0hnnix
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Is that sugar loaf mall?
Gunslinger
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Man are tickets really that expensive in Boston? Or is that a special theater? With good very good seatings and maybe free food?Matinee is the same as its Rotten Tomatoes score!
TheAbsolution
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North DeKalb.
brainchild
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This cinema has decent seats with overpriced food on menu. You get that small popcorn and some voucher you can use towards a meal or drink.
Most normal ticket pricing is $12-18 roughly at other cinemas.
Trigonometrize.
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There's a $3.50 matinee where I live.
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Varies wildly around us. The most expensive is the VIP, 21 and up auditoriums at the local Regal. Those end up being $21.50 apiece after online purchas fees etc. But worth it to us for no kids/teens, craft beer, nice recliner style seats etc.
Cheapest well do occasionally is a crappy AMC in a crummy mall in a poorer suburb where the matinees are $6.50 each.
Cheapest well do occasionally is a crappy AMC in a crummy mall in a poorer suburb where the matinees are $6.50 each.
Aaronology
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The downtown Cinemark here in Albuquerque is 5 bucks a matinee and 9 otherwise. It's awesome, especially because I live right around the corner and can walk there faster than I could drive.
UberTag
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Families either hit up the drive-in or the local cheap theater with matinee tickets.
Hell, I could go watch Suicide Squad for $4.50 Canadian on Tuesday.
There are plenty of new movies that don't "fucking suck ass". They're just not the ones everyone is rushing out to see on opening weekend like Ghostbusters, Jason Bourne, The Secret Life of Pets, Captain America: Civil War or Suicide Squad.
Mass market has shit taste and flock to garbage films due to marketing. Those garbage films pay the bills so great independent and art house films get to be made.
SirUltimos
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In my corner of Ontario tickets have been $10 for as long as I can remember, and $13 for 3D. Growing up we had a second run theater called Three-star Cinema and tickets were dirt cheap, and so was food. You could see a movie, get popcorn, pop, and a chocolate bar for like $8.
frankie_baby
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£12 the other week watch the BFG, only ever these days go on days I can use a 2for1 meerkat code so saves a bit
NoblesseOblige
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They're really not that bad unless maybe you're going to the theatre every week. I'd be willing to spend $20 on a ticket.
Now though I only have to spend $6.75 because the big cinemas give hospital employees a 50% discount (I get a free medium popcorn too).
Now though I only have to spend $6.75 because the big cinemas give hospital employees a 50% discount (I get a free medium popcorn too).
Saucycarpdog
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This summer has been really disappointing. A few goods, lots of meh, and some real stinkers.
Razgriz-Specter
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Its been around $10 at the decent theaters here in Birmingham, AL for about 10 years now.
Lie-max being $16+ is the crazy part(especially considering the real IMAX down town is $14)
Snacks are crazy now though.
Large popcorn is on track to hit $10 within a year. Large drinks jump 25 cents every few months.
A freaking hotdog is like $5 now.
Lie-max being $16+ is the crazy part(especially considering the real IMAX down town is $14)
Snacks are crazy now though.
Large popcorn is on track to hit $10 within a year. Large drinks jump 25 cents every few months.
A freaking hotdog is like $5 now.
thewaffles
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Yep they are ridiculous in NYC. I really only pay for a few movies a year, but I'll only see them in IMAX or AMC Prime. I'm lucky enough to be dating someone who gets invited to lots of screenings and I've got friends who get me into them as well. So I've been able to see quite a few movies for free the last few years. And it's a lot better to see a bad movie for free than paying $18/person for it.
NoblesseOblige
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Time is more valuable to me than money so that would seem like a huge waste to me.
A local franchise has a monopoly on theaters around here, charging $10 a ticket ($12 on opening night), and an obscene amount more for concessions. Thankfully they have $5 tickets every day before 11am and on Tuesdays, in addition to free popcorn. At this point that's pretty much the only time I go to movies anymore.
Edit: Reading through this thread I think I'm actually lucky
Edit: Reading through this thread I think I'm actually lucky
Haha definitely. My family is in Jersey and this was just a fun fact I learned when I visited last weekend and coupled my visit with a viewing of Star Trek.
Ticket+Popcorn+Softdrink = 20 Euro ($22) where I live.
About 12 Euro ($13) for the ticket and 8 Euro ($9) for Popcorn and Softdrink.
Not cheap, but I only have to pay for myself, so it's still ok. If I had to pay for a family of four though...don't think we'd see more than two movies a year :S
About 12 Euro ($13) for the ticket and 8 Euro ($9) for Popcorn and Softdrink.
Not cheap, but I only have to pay for myself, so it's still ok. If I had to pay for a family of four though...don't think we'd see more than two movies a year :S
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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https://www.cineworld.ie/unlimited
Unlimited scheme is bae. Go the pound shop and get sweets and a drink for a couple quid each time, no bother,
Unlimited scheme is bae. Go the pound shop and get sweets and a drink for a couple quid each time, no bother,
UberTag
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I've given out two 8s for wide releases at the box office this summer season... to Star Trek Beyond and The Nice Guys (the latter being a 7.5 I rounded up).
Everything else - Captain America: Civil War, Central Intelligence, The Conjuring 2, Finding Dory, Ghostbusters, Independence Day: Resurgence, Jason Bourne, The Shallows - I've scored worse. Heck, I've given FOUR of those films a rating of 4.5/10 or lower. That's pretty lousy.
I do the same. Though if there's a movie that I want to get the "movie theater experience", I don't mind shelling out the cash to see it.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I agree.
Tuesdays $6.50 all the time for me.
Ain't nobody got the time and money for anything else.
Tuesdays $6.50 all the time for me.
Ain't nobody got the time and money for anything else.
You don't have the audience at home though. For most movies I admit that's more of an advantage than a disadvantage, but for select movies it can make the experience so much better.
For example, I watched One Piece Film Gold in cinema recently. Ran for one day, one of four or five screenings in the entire state. Naturally the audience was only composed of fans. Everyone was in a great mood for the entire movie and many gags had all of us in stitches. That's something I won't get to experience when I buy the BluRay and watch it alone at home in a couple months.
The Hamburglar
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They put the price up on certain movies it's bullshit. Place I went to today had bumped up the price for suicide shit squad
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
To be fair this year has been exceptionally bad for blockbusters.
I don't go to the cinema often but I'm lucky I get a discount via my work so I can get UK cinema tickets for about £6.50-£7.00 where the normal prices range from £9-£11.
Also I'm wondering do American chains do an unlimited subscription like places like Cineworld and Odeon do in the UK? For less than £200 a year you can see literally as many movies as you like. You need to pay a small extra for 3D or IMAX screenings I believe. I've not got one myself but as I get older it seems like a good value proposition. I do want to see way more films and keep up with what's out there, the good and the bad, but I ain't paying up to £10 a film. If you even watch two films a month that subscription pays for itself!
Also I'm wondering do American chains do an unlimited subscription like places like Cineworld and Odeon do in the UK? For less than £200 a year you can see literally as many movies as you like. You need to pay a small extra for 3D or IMAX screenings I believe. I've not got one myself but as I get older it seems like a good value proposition. I do want to see way more films and keep up with what's out there, the good and the bad, but I ain't paying up to £10 a film. If you even watch two films a month that subscription pays for itself!
Skellig Gra
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$4 for a Saturday evening movie? Or like a Wednesday morning?
Aztechnology
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Our movie tickets now are still pretty cheap but the way our theatre work have made it so you have to consider fees as well.
Our tickets for 2D at my local regal are $8.50 matinee or $10.59 normally. 3D are $12.50 matinee and $14.27. Then because it's reserved seating with awesome recliners (make the price worth it) you have to pre-order your seats fairly well in advance tacking on another $1.75
Our tickets for 2D at my local regal are $8.50 matinee or $10.59 normally. 3D are $12.50 matinee and $14.27. Then because it's reserved seating with awesome recliners (make the price worth it) you have to pre-order your seats fairly well in advance tacking on another $1.75
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