Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for September 23, 2009

not much change in the movie experience, I see

“Southgate Cinema 3000” sounds familiar: I think I’ve been there. I like today’s point-counterpoint, with Opus as the voice of common sense….

The Boondocks animated series had a show with the same topic. Granddad had the kids sneak in pretty much a full course meal, and when one of kids pointed out the sign saying “No Outside Food”, he said “That’s why we hide it INSIDE our clothes!”

Only six bucks for a Coke? Those were the good old days!

Berke - you left off all the Left-wing Hollywood quasi-scientific documentaries on global warming, romance flicks featuring Babs, Redford, Hoffman, Beatty, and the endless stream of horror/slasher bombs. Yep, the industry has come a long way in 30 years!

ah, what good service

NOT!!! :-)

I’ve noticed that most people in my region go to the budget theatres because they can’t afford the prices at first run threatres. I drive by the neighborhood budget theatre and the parking lot is jammed - and this is in the afternoon. I couldn’t figure out why this would be until it dawned on me that all these people are on unemployment and have nothing else to do.

My wife and I both work and go to the budget cinema. We have better things to do with our money than spend $30 + snacks for the family to go to a movie.

Are we supposed to be impressed because jrbj is too vain to save money? hah! That’s what’s wrong with the economy.

The darned second-run “dollar” show costs $2 now. I haven’t eaten or drunk anything in a movie theater for many years.

Pepsi RULES!

In the future, all movies will go directly to video because no one will want to shell out $45 for a ticket. A shame, really, since some movies are best viewed with an audience; during the school play scene in The Addams Family, I was laughing and cheering along with the people around me, and it was great.

I hope most people realize that movie studios are the ones responsible for the outragous prices at movies, not the theater’s themselves. Studios take about 90% of each ticket price. That’s why theater’s have to make it up with food and drinks. Just like software and CD’s, I think movie studios are pricing themselves out of potentially more, if not eventually fully out of, business.

A few (just a very few) places in the country still have drive-ins. SoCal may still have a couple or three. “Movie? What movie? We couldn’t see for the steamed-up windows anyway!”

Wow, a movie coke was only six dollars back then??