Going to the movies just isn't the same

Erik Olson said:
But it does cost $25 to go see a movie. At least when I go anywhere but the Gem Theater with my kids.
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Exactly.
That was my point - and if the price of the concessions were brought down and commercials were taken away then the price of tickets would have to go up in order to compensate for it (probably much higher than $25). And at that point we'd all be saying ticket prices are too high....
Either way we're paying for it somehow... at least we don't have to buy the overpriced food and drinks to see the movie.

Reminds me of when my wife and I were first dating.
I'm always much more critical of movies than she is - she'll have a good time watching just about anything.
Finally one day walking out of the theater, after I was done saying the movie was just 'okay' she asked me
"how come you never seem to like anything as much as I do?"

I told her, "probably because it cost me $20 everytime we see something and you're seeing it for free."
Luckily she laughed.
:)

I used to enjoy going to Westwood for movies, back when Avco and the National and those others were some of the only ones with THX and 70mm projection.

That was for event pictures. The event picture is dead. Mostly.
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I completely agree - which is why if the 'event' picture doesn't come back in some way then the only hope the theaters have is to somehow reinvent the experience of being at the theater. Right now they seem to be doing everything to give people multiple reasons to stay at home. It's a shame - but I don't see the trend changing much.
 
I think it's kinda funny that folks are complaining about commercials on a board where quite a few folks make their living writing/producing/directing commercials. :beer:
 
My thoughts exactly. But again - it isn't the exhibition hall that is at fault for prices going up and the advent of commercials in cinema.

It has to do with the studios who distribute the films, as well as the Paramount Decree that kinda caused all the theaters to fall to the wayside in profit.

Which is why we will never see the full transition to digital cinema projection - at least no time soon.
 
Last movie I saw in theaters was Revenge of the Sith. Stopped going after that as I just grew sick and tired of the movie crowd, especially teenagers who have no respect for others watching. It annoyed the hell out of me that day so I haven't been back since. Sure I don't get to see movies until several months after but home theater has gotten to the point where I enjoy it much more than a theater so I don't feel like I am missing out.
 
When you see a commercial ahead of the show for AT&T Uverse... that's ours.

:-)

It's a guy who plays almost all the characters in the commercial. A repairman like Schnieder (from 1 day at a time)... and a bunch of other characters like two neighbors talking over a fence, locked down tripod shot, same guy on both sides.

Anyway... enjoy that one... or that half-dozen.

Since the thread is moving so fast I couldn't respond to questions 2 pages back, but the Moolah is RARELY that busy! That's why I said it seems to be Saint Louis' best kept secret! It's CRAZY that it's not busier! We saw IM on Saturday night and still got a sofa.

I like seeing these theaters that are getting back to a full night out experience. I think that's the answer... well, I hope it is anyway... but yeah, I'm sure many theaters are hurting for $.
 
MattinSTL said:
When you see a commercial ahead of the show for AT&T Uverse... that's ours.
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Wow, At&t Uverse gets around.
I've been doing promos and spots for them the last few months.

Mine don't play in theaters though.
You realize you're part of the Dark Side now, right Matt?
 
Since the thread is moving so fast I couldn't respond to questions 2 pages back, but the Moolah is RARELY that busy! That's why I said it seems to be Saint Louis' best kept secret! It's CRAZY that it's not busier! We saw IM on Saturday night and still got a sofa.
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I wish Vancouver had something like that, that would be really cool. Are ticket prices higher?
 
I don't think the start time before a movie has increased, ie, about the same length of commercials/trailers from the listed start time to the actual start of the movie. As for commercials before the start time, that is just replacing the old slides that used to be shown before.
 
i dunno i got every week to the theater so it doesnt bother me. just the army and national guard stuff its so cheap and so blah....
 
Lucky Bastards!

Over here in ole Europe (at least in Germany) the show starts a 8:00.

They let you in at about 7:45

You sit and wait 15 minutes till every Joe Shmock and his kid brother finaly found a seat.

Curtain opens and -ta daaaa- enjoy about 20 minute of comercials.

.... then

the lights go on again and 2 guys crawling between the raws and selling icecream to 300 poeple (takes a while)

If you lucky the film begins at 20:30

Prices are around $15 you spend an other $15-$20 on Parking, Soda & Popcorn.
And NO, there is not only no real butter on the Popcorn - there is no Butter at all - they don´t do that over here.

Frank
 
JConnors said:
I wish Vancouver had something like that, that would be really cool. Are ticket prices higher?
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Same price! If I'm really looking forward to a movie... i.e. Iron Man, Indiana Jones, etc. then I plan for the Moolah. :cheesy: And for a date? Are you kidding me? Leather sofas? :shocked:


Luis... Uverse for you too 'aye? Well we made ours LAST spring... the damn thing should be on the screens any day now. AT&T is waiting for a broadside attack I guess.

JH... you hit the nail on the head man. It's like going to the symphony and having to sit through a couple garage bands first.
 
Barry_Green said:
Okay, first of all, movies have always had commercials -- they're called "trailers." It's just that those were commercials we wanted to see, vs. the other kind.

Second, there was a lawsuit brought against theaters for airing commercials, and the settlement basically came down to that the theaters can show commercials (or whatever they want, actually) before the advertised start time of the film. But once that clock clicks over to when the film is supposed to be on, no commercials can be shown (except, of course, for the trailers).
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Wow, I wish they'd bring that law down under Barry - I went to an 8:40pm screening of Iron Man on the weekend, and it was 9:05 before we reached the opening credits :furious3:
 
I never understood why the cinema was the opportune moment for a date. You can't converse at all...seems like a waste of a date I guess. Maybe it's just me.
 
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