A Growing indifference to Cinema Going

hopewrites said:
It wasn't a mutual experience because he just shut down once he got his seat. And I never had any say in what we watched, or the concessions we ate.
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How rude!!

No wonder you feel as you do! The experience was tainted for you. :(
 
It is true to say the food and drink prices at cinemas are a horrendous rip-off, but because of demand they don't make any effort to reduce them.

I have also noticed with some cinema chains is that just prior to the film starting they start to emit food aromas through the air con in the auditorium - aromas not too dissimilar to hot dogs, pop corn and burgers. A very nice way of hooking patrons into buying food they hadn't considered before being assailed by such appealing odours
 
I did forget to mention another thing I dislike is the amount of advertising that precedes the film. I timed the adverts at 10 minutes when I saw Rogue One. That, and the discourteous viewer are the major faults of the cinema.
 
elvet said:
I did forget to mention another thing I dislike is the amount of advertising that precedes the film. I timed the adverts at 10 minutes when I saw Rogue One. That, and the discourteous viewer are the major faults of the cinema.
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I remember the good old days when there were no commercial advertisements at the movies. No commercials was the primary advantage they had over television. :(

Ironically, some the commercials have better writing then the feature films .:D
 
BAYLOR said:
Because they gouge people. If the theater owners were smart, they'd reduce those prices.
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Do you really think the business people that run these enormous theater chains are really that stupid? They are just greedy idiots that don't understand supply and demand, and would rather sell one $6 bag of popcorn than ten $3 bags?
 
RX-79G said:
Do you really think the business people that run these enormous theater chains are really that stupid? They are just greedy idiots that don't understand supply and demand, and would rather sell one $6 bag of popcorn than ten $3 bags?
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If the movie goers decide to stop buying their popcorn, how much money will the theater owners then have?
 
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BAYLOR said:
It seems to me that if they cut the price ,more people would buy the popcorn .
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I agree.

The excuse I've heard is that they've raised concession prices so high to keep the ticket prices down. But with the volume they've lost, that makes little sense.
 
Cathbad said:
I agree.

The excuse I've heard is that they've raised concession prices so high to keep the ticket prices down. But with the volume they've lost, that makes little sense.
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Overall movie attendance has been been going down the last few years hasn't it ?:unsure:
 
BAYLOR said:
But If fewer people are going to movies wouldn't that translate into fewer concession sales as well? :unsure:
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You tell me. You guys are saying that concession sales have gone drastically down, but they haven't. Which facts do you want to use to make your case?
 
Well it depends on what "concession sales" numbers you look at doesn't it.

20-25 years ago options were: pop corn, 3-6 flavors of soda, 3-5 types of candy. hotdog or nachos if it was a snazzy place. prices were lower than today, and movie goers had to pump box office numbers to convince studios to send the show to vhs.

Now, there are a lot more options at the concession stand, prices have climbed more than inflation can account for, and while the number of times the average citizen visits the theatre has gone down, population has come up.


So are you looking at total sales revenue? number of transactions? or quantity of goods sold?
 
hopewrites said:
So are you looking at total sales revenue? number of transactions? or quantity of goods sold?
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I remember going to the theater early, because I knew it would take forever to get through the concession line. Now, there may be two or three in a line - if there's only one or two lines open.
 
Funny, I don't recall ever being bothered by people at the theater, except when I can't see over them because I'm too short. But our theater here is rarely even half full, at least when I go -- I don't insist on the first possible showing, for one -- and I generally pick a row that is two behind the nearest people, and nobody sits in between. But people talking, kids getting restless, I just don't notice.

Anybody live where they still have a drive-in movie theater? We used to have than when I was a kid, and, more important, when I was a teenager. Double feature for $5 a carload, bring your own snacks even though there was a concession stand, can't beat that. But alas, it's gone. There's still one in Colorado, a few hours away I think, but I haven't been to it.
 
I went to a drive in a couple years ago and the sound was terrible.
 
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