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Fidget1234 wrote:$4 before 5PM
$6 after 5PM.

Drive-in theater is $7 per person & u get to watch 2 movies back to back.

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I remember when you paid by the car not the person for drive ins and you got to see 2 flicks

MICKEYMOUSE wrote:I try not to go to MOVIES anymore. I think it is so stupid!!! You spend like $10 for the movie, and like $5-6 on something to eat. Save the money wait a few months, and let it come on DVD (with lots of extra you don't see in the theaters)!!! That is how I have been doing it for awile now. The last movie I saw in the theaters was I think THE RING 2 (Stupid movie by the way).

I enjoy some movies on the big screen and surround system with my big bucket of popcorn (Batman Begins and Star Wars for exapmle). It's not the same as it is at home. Also, to hear a crowd chearing at the end of the movie is lots of fun!

DisneyFan 2000 wrote:

MICKEYMOUSE wrote:I try not to go to MOVIES anymore. I think it is so stupid!!! You spend like $10 for the movie, and like $5-6 on something to eat. Save the money wait a few months, and let it come on DVD (with lots of extra you don't see in the theaters)!!! That is how I have been doing it for awile now. The last movie I saw in the theaters was I think THE RING 2 (Stupid movie by the way).

I enjoy some movies on the big screen and surround system with my big bucket of popcorn (Batman Begins and Star Wars for exapmle). It's not the same as it is at home. Also, to hear a crowd chearing at the end of the movie is lots of fun!

The popcorn there is like five dollars and something and it has tons of calories

well, if someone can pay for them, and want to is our problem.
I love the popcorns and a soda when I´m watching a movie.
anyway, you pay for something that you like

I have just discovered that my local multiplex costs £6.10 for adults and £4.30 for kids! Scarily, I seem to remember when that the price was at least £1 lower a meer five or so years ago. Inflation, inflation, inflation...

I think it really depends on 2 things:

1. Where you live

2. How good the theater is.

Alan wrote: The popcorn there is like five dollars and something and it has tons of calories

I don't know what your popcorn is made of that it costs so much... Here it's roughly $2.5 at most. And what's your point with the calories issue?

Locally it's $5 for a matinee, and $8.50 for regular adult admission.

We also have a handful of cheaper theaters that play "older" movies (that have been out a few months), ranging from $1-$5 for regular adult admission, but I have to drive out of town. I actually watched Spirted Away at one the very night before the DVD release.

I think it's well known that theaters make the most profit from their concession stands. Does anyone here realize how much fat is in that popcorn? If I want to have snacks while I watch, I sneak them in, but I usually skip out on that altogether because we usually have dinner before we go.

The closer to the release date the film is, the smaller the percentage of what the theater can make off of it.

I remember going to a movie some years ago and it was $2. This theatre did this four weeks and we had a coupon from the Bay. They were on a Saturday. I wish they'd do it again.

I lied.
I said that a ticket at my theater cost $5.00, well I just discovered that when I went to go see Star Wars Episode III on Sunday, it cost only $4.75. Now I'm not sure if that was because it was a Sunday or what not, but I lied and I appologize.

Well I work at the local movies here so I get in for free. But I think that it is $6.25 and then around $8 at night. Did you know that the theatres make barely any money (close to $0.10) on the tickets? All their money is made from concessions sales!

goofy108 wrote:Well I work at the local movies here so I get in for free. But I think that it is $6.25 and then around $8 at night. Did you know that the theatres make barely any money (close to $0.10) on the tickets? All their money is made from concessions sales!

I was not aware of that. Does this guy know how to party or what?

Up here we can get movie tickets in advance as well as from airmiles rewards program. You get a certain amount of airmiles at particapating places. For 175 airmiles, you get 2 movie tickets, 2 soft drinks plus a bag of popcorn. I'm currently wating for it in the mail.

Well my local cinema is Odeon. Its still around £5.00/£5.50. But i normally use my student discount card and can get in for around £4.00.
Unless i go on Tuesday nights (which is cheap night at my odeon), and can get in for around £3.90.

Anyone in the UK take advantage of Orange Wednesdays? For people in the US Orange is a mobile network in the UK and they do an offer every Wednesday to text 241 to 241 or something and they send you a text back with a code, you then go to your local cinema tell them the code and you get 2 tickets for the price of 1. Only costs you however much your text costs (around 10p) and you get a free cinema ticket. Its great.
I normally try and go on Wednesdays just for this deal...

by the way, on my local cinema there´s a special card that it cost you 5 dollars, but every time you go to the movies and you buy your tickets or something you show it and they add you the 10% s you an use it later.I mea, when I go with my girlfriend to the cinema, we spend like 20 or 25 dollars(betwen the ticket, a coffie after the movie, the sod and popcorns) and they add to my card 2 or 2 and a half dolars, so I can spend them later.

Anyone have one of this programs?

goofy108 wrote:Well I work at the local movies here so I get in for free. But I think that it is $6.25 and then around $8 at night. Did you know that the theatres make barely any money (close to $0.10) on the tickets? All their money is made from concessions sales!

I might want to volunteer at the movie theatres. What sorts of things do when you work there?

Normally 7€ here. When I was younger it was only 2. :/

Alan wrote:

goofy108 wrote:Well I work at the local movies here so I get in for free. But I think that it is $6.25 and then around $8 at night. Did you know that the theatres make barely any money (close to $0.10) on the tickets? All their money is made from concessions sales!

I might want to volunteer at the movie theatres. What sorts of things do when you work there?

Well I definetly am not volunteering there. I work there many times throughout the week. I do concessions. Anything the people order I have to get or make. It kinda gets old but it pays like $7 an hour so the paycheck is nice. And since I work there I get benefits, too. I get free movies for me and two friends, 50% off anything in the restaraunt (a STUDO EATS that we have in our theatre), and if I bring my own containers (a cup, or a plastic bag) I can have all the free drinks and popcorn I want. Its pretty sweet!

*Andy* wrote:Anyone in the UK take advantage of Orange Wednesdays? For people in the US Orange is a mobile network in the UK and they do an offer every Wednesday to text 241 to 241 or something and they send you a text back with a code, you then go to your local cinema tell them the code and you get 2 tickets for the price of 1. Only costs you however much your text costs (around 10p) and you get a free cinema ticket. Its great.
I normally try and go on Wednesdays just for this deal...

Mmm...Orange Wednesdays actually disadvantaged us once. We don't use Orange (my brother and I don't anyway, not too sure about my parents' phone, but anyway, they pretty much refuse to have anything to do with mobile phone technology ). We went into a cinema one Wednesday night last Summer and were stuck in queues that were too long.

DisneyFan 2000 wrote:

Alan wrote: The popcorn there is like five dollars and something and it has tons of calories

I don't know what your popcorn is made of that it costs so much... Here it's roughly $2.5 at most. And what's your point with the calories issue?

Popcorn has like a lot of calories, and too much is bad for you and you can get obese and have heart problems and heart attacks. I sure don't want that to happen to me