We're watching OLD Classics like "Back to the Future" trilogies, Batman four-packs, Star Wars re-releases on high quality DVDs, and Lord Of The Rings cinematographies unheard of... I really enjoy movies at home... especially if I don't have to take my kids and wife to see a movie that truly sucks... If it is a GREAT movie, I go see it at the theaters... but you won't drag me to see a chick-flick. There's been too many of those to lose money+time at the theaters. Someone said the cost to see the new Batman was $10.75? WTF? Are the seats made of gold, or what??? OK... yes, I get the bootlegs sometimes...
The whole movie going experience is just expensive anyway...I took my 3 kids and my g/f to see Madagascar on a Saturday at about noon...Tickets: $30 Lunch/Snacks: $35...that is a lot of money in my book...Plus the quality has really gone down and I'd rather watch it in the comfort of my own home...
I finally found one thing that I like about St Louis. You can buy a beer at the movie theater. Not some special movie theater like Alamo, the regular freaking movie theater. It was cool to have buffalo wings and a beer at the movies. I agree that the movie experience is way too expensive. I dont want to go like I used to. It doesnt help that there is hardly ever anything good playing anymore. I did really like Batman though.
For me: 1. I avoid Friday/Saturday nights like the plague. I can't stand that I have to show up a half hour early just so I won't be stuck having to go on safari and end up in the worst seats in the house. By the way, to the poster that said the movies are so loud you can't hear the annoying people and phones, that's a crock of ****. I've been at movies that were nearly ruined because of some of the low class garbage going on. 2. The prices are definitely starting to test the wallet. As people have said, it's much easier to look at something like Bewitched and file it under 'wait for it to come out on DVD.' Only time it'll make a difference is big bang movies like SW3 or Batman, where you know you'll regret not seeing it in theaters. 3. They're paying the price for their own decision to go after big opening weekends at the expense of everything else. Theaters aren't keeping movies around for long at all. Take 24 screens, devote 6 to the big opening of the week, 3 a piece to three other new ones, and you start running out of screens real quick. So month-old movies can't make money. And if your big 6-screen opener flops like the Hulk......you just saw all those eggs make a mess of your basket. Evan
There are a couple of theaters in Houston where you can buy beer at, IIRC. We were going to go to one last weekend, but it was closed (too late) so we went and watched Batman at Tinsel Town on Belt8.
