The importance of seeing movies on opening weekend

[dvdjunkie]

Why not plan your movie watching on the weekend when most theaters have matinee pricing. Who says you have to buy stuff in the snack bar. Have a good meal before going to the theater, buy your matinee-priced ticket and sit back and enjoy the show. Seeing any movie, Disney or otherwise, is a lot better on a big screen with the big theater sound, than sitting at home and watching it on television.

[kbehm29]

Why not plan your movie watching on the weekend when most theaters have matinee pricing. Who says you have to buy stuff in the snack bar. Have a good meal before going to the theater, buy your matinee-priced ticket and sit back and enjoy the show. Seeing any movie, Disney or otherwise, is a lot better on a big screen with the big theater sound, than sitting at home and watching it on television.

I agree. I have five kids - and I'm not rich by any means. I always go to the matinee - I can't even remember the last time I've seen a movie at night. Sometimes I buy my kids bags of candy at Wal-Mart beforehand and sneak them in my purse. A LOT cheaper to pay $1 per bag than $3.50.

Also - I made the comment at the end of my post that this wouldn't work for everybody in all cases. I do realize that there are people who really don't have the money to go to theaters. I'm talking about people who have the means to go, who plan on going anyway - why not go during opening weekend when it can make an impact on those people who are on the fence about seeing the movie?

[dvdjunkie]

I know that it varies from city to city and town to town, but I wonder exactly how many 13 and under went to see "Scary Movie 4" without their parents permission, or even without their parents. This gross, crude, toilet humor is definitely not for everyone, but here in Kansas, the rating system is strictly enforced, and if the film is PG-13, as "SM4" is, parents must accompany the child into the movie, they just can't come up to the box office and buy the ticket and say it's okay for them to go see the flick.

Don't know how they enforce the ratings system in other cities, but I am relieved as a grandparent and parent, to know that my kids and grandkids can't get into a PG-13 or R-rated movie without me.

[kbehm29]

I don't know about PG13, but at our theater last year I was carded several times to get into an R rated movie (and I was 28 with 4 kids at the time!).

I've never seen a theater enforce PG13, but as a parent I wouldn't allow kids under the age of 13 to go to the theater alone anyway.

[Karushifa]

I know that it varies from city to city and town to town, but I wonder exactly how many 13 and under went to see "Scary Movie 4" without their parents permission, or even without their parents. This gross, crude, toilet humor is definitely not for everyone, but here in Kansas, the rating system is strictly enforced, and if the film is PG-13, as "SM4" is, parents must accompany the child into the movie, they just can't come up to the box office and buy the ticket and say it's okay for them to go see the flick.

Don't know how they enforce the ratings system in other cities, but I am relieved as a grandparent and parent, to know that my kids and grandkids can't get into a PG-13 or R-rated movie without me.

Where I live (Central NC), R-rated movies are really the only ones that are strictly enforced: everyone under 17 MUST be with an adult, and a lot of theaters won't let anyone under 6 into evening R-rated shows at all. Personally, I think that theaters could go a lot further with this policy, and not let anyone under, say 10, into ANY R-rated shows, parents or no parents; kids so young aren't going to get much if anything out of such films, and they're only going to get tired, cranky, or scared, depending on the content. Get a babysitter, people!

Anyway, sorry for the rant, there

[Disney Lover]

Why not plan your movie watching on the weekend when most theaters have matinee pricing. Who says you have to buy stuff in the snack bar. Have a good meal before going to the theater, buy your matinee-priced ticket and sit back and enjoy the show. Seeing any movie, Disney or otherwise, is a lot better on a big screen with the big theater sound, than sitting at home and watching it on television.

While that is all well and good but I can't always go to the movies on the weekends because I work most of them. Working retail kind of does that to you. When I do go though I always go to the matinee showings since they are cheaper. Also, no matter how much I eat before going to the movie I always have to have popcorn...a movie isn't a movie without somehting to munch on.

To comment on the inforcement of the PG 13 and R rated movies and letting kids in with or without parents. I think my theater only inforces that with R rated movies. Though I've never been around when kids under 13 have tried getting into a PG 13 movie without a parent.

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