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Theater Prices
Topic Started: Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:14 pm (317 Views)
VioletCloud
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I'm sure we have talked about this before...but dang. Going to the movies is so expensive in my area.

We saw the regular viewing of the Hobbit... No 3D or anything. $12 a person. good grief.
For the 24$ we spent we can buy the blueray Verison got that price in a few months.

Im getting to the point that the experience of the big screen isn't worth it.

Then my friend goes and tells me her parents, said the price of a movie in their small town in north Carolina is $3.75. :blink:


If you go to the Theater how much does it cost for you?
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$11.50 for a regular movie and $14.50 for 3d. I get points toward movies on my bank card and we pretty much only go to a movie when I can pay for the tickets with it. Otherwise it's $100 for the family. Makes it a couple times a year treat.
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Well, I went to see a matinee 3D showing of Gravity in the big Cineplex & it was $12, including the glasses, which you have to buy each time. It's getting to the point now that the only reason to go to see a movie in a theater is for something you can't get elsewhere, like IMAX or 3D. With the tech & pricing in home theater systems today, you can see an ordinary movie just as well at home, which is what I do mostly

However, here in town we still have one old school movie house left, & they have older releases, smaller billings, or even classic movies show there, & they still only charge $1.75, for any show, which is only up $0.75 since I was a kid, some 30 years ago, when we had dollar movies there. Ironically, while posting this, I checked their site, & they also have 3D movies show there occasionally, with a $1.75 glasses rental. Currently, they are showing one old release Thor: The Dark World, one smaller billing Last Vegas, and instead of a classic movie, they are currently running a kids movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

They are a real gem, for figuring out how to offer such low rates by having fewer showings, one theater, and bargain movies. It's a brilliant thing really. The place has always been known as "The Hollywood Theater" but apparently they got bought by a corp. named Zurich Cinemas, which owns several other cinemas about the upstate N.Y. area, but only our Hollywood still offers movies for under 2 bucks. It's miraculous. I haven't been there in a while. Maybe I'll go see Last Vegas there, while it's showing

There's also one art movie house left in town too, which shows only indy films or foreign films. However, they charge 8 or 9 bucks now too
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Ooo! One of Zurich Cinemas' theaters is a drive-in way out in Elmira N.Y. I didn't even know there was still one anywhere near here. I might have to plan a trip there this summer
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i haven't to the movies since 1999, so i had to look it up.
(the last time i went it was like $7.00 & any show before 5 p.m. was half price)

Ticket Pricing:
Matinee, Adult: $7.75
Evening, Adult: $9.75
Adult (Fri-Sat): $10.25
Child: $7.25
Senior (65-older): $7.25
Additional 3D Surcharge: $2.50 [don't know if this includes the glasses]
Child (Fri-Sat Ages 3-11): $7.75
Matinee (Fri-Sat): $8.25
Senior 65 (Friday-Saturday): $7.50
Super Bargain (4:00-5:30pm): $5.50
Late Shows 2D (after 11:00): $12.25
Late Shows 3D (after 11:00): $15.25
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About $10 a ticket.

But, we have one of the older theaters recently made obsolete by our new cineplex that sells tickets for $4. but those are older and less popular movies.

We go two - three times a year so I don't mind paying the higher prices for the nicer theaters. I am more discriminating about which movie gets my money. Like Elaine and her sponges.
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Yes...we are very discriminating about which movies get our money as well...

If tickets were still $7...I guarantee id go to the theater 3 times as much
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back when the matinee was half-price we'd go 5 or 6 times a year.
but then again, i think the movies were better once up on a time.
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5or 6 times a year!!! I went every weekend!!!
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At thé $7 price that is
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we weren't the type to see the same movie 3 or 4 times in the theator.
if that's what you mean.

and maybe it was 7 or 8 :mojo: :idon'tknow: we never kept track
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Not been to a cinema in a loooong time, but then we don't need to - if there's a movie we'd like to see, the dvd is usually released about the same time as the movie, and our big-screen tv gives a cinema-like experience, and we're in a 'theatre' we know and like - our home. Plus the dvd usually has extra content you don't get at the cinema, for example 'The Appendices' on the LOTR dvd's, which give hours more entertainment !!
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When I was a teenager I worked at a theatre and it wasn't unusual for me to see two movies on friday night and then rent videos. ( we knew the guy in town who owned the rental place)
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We went to a matinee of Hobbit 2: Electric Boogaloo yesterday, and it was $6.50 apiece. We aren't old enough yet for senior discounts. This was regular and not 3D, which I suspect would provoke a vasovagal response in me. We rarely go, and we don't have a big, honkin' TV, but the truth is that the vast majority of what we watch on TV is sports and the weather (we get most of our news from online).

At some point, possibly in '14, we will have to buy a new TV. I am not looking forward to the expense, but ours is old enough that the aspect ratio is now more or less completely off.
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:lol:

Well, our 'big, honking tv' is a Samsung rear-projection tv with a 42" screen that we got used (not new), which probably accounts for it's memory problems, needing to be 'tuned-in' nearly every time we use it !!

Having said that, I did want to get a home cinema system that gave both tv and dvd play, but I was 'persuaded' to get a more regular-looking tv. But this was before the influx of giant flat-screen lcd/led tv's.......but yeah, tell the truth......this is a big honking tv too !!
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9 bucks, 12 bucks for 3D
What?!?!?!?!
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Movie theatre prices are awesome here in Jamaica compared to the investments you have to make in the US
If Size Doesn't matter why don't they usually have three inch dildos???
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Around £9 here, a bit more if you want to sit in the VIP Joey & Chandler from friends lounger type seats.


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Do they serve beer at the movie theatres in other countries? (I know they don't i the US)
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Well if I may reminisce for a moment. Back when I was a kid, cinemas were known as 'flea-pits' and if you were lucky the seat was bolted to the ground, if you weren't it would rock around during the whole time you were sat in it. There were 'love seats' at the end of each row - two seats with no arm divider - where couples could get romantic, and where ushers could stop it if it got a bit too romantic !!

Saturday mornings there would be a singing contest on the stage, before the film started, with some not-too-expensive prizes. There were short episodic features (Batman for example), that were shown on a weekly basis, so we had to turn up week after week to find out what happens next - considering all the kids that were in there, the cinema didn't do too bad !!

Yeah cinemas in those days were very basic, nothing compared to the luxury 'pleasure palaces' these days. Heck if a modern cinema was transported to back then we'd never have used it, thinking it was only for royalty or somebody important. Different times and differing standards, be nice to see a cinema of the future !!
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