B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 04, 2009

Besides that, the receipt is another $3.00.

Snacks costing higher than the movie is kinda a rip.

What did it cost to get into the movie?

Butter is extra.

All the money that cinema is raking in sure isn’t being put into their equipment, judging by that antique cash register.

I’ll have the smaller popcorn.

And what’s worse, given the size of the cinema the screen must be about the size of a laptop screen…an ant’s laptop screen.

I go to the movies on weekend mornings for $6 (only before noon, after that it’s regular prices), but the popcorn and drink cost me double that… It’s ridiculous… With the money going into their establishments, they could “clean” the place a bit better than they do now… quite disgusting…

AH! Life in America.

That’s why I don’t eat popcorn or buy the candy or the drink in the movie’s I bring my own into it at lest the candy and drink that is for I don’t like popcorn.

That’s a small popcorn?

I’ll wait for the DVD. And I can make my own popcorn at a fraction of the cost…if I want popcorn that is. Sometimes I go for the cheetos. Mmmm, cheetos.

I’m with you BC13,

I’ll watch the DVD. But you can’t beat theatre popcorn!

I remember that I used to be mortified when my mom would sneak candy bars into the movie theater, but as an adult, I totally understand.

shades_is_here: that wouldn’t work here. You aren’t allowed to carry your own food into the theaters here.

Isn’t justice supposed to be blind? My point of view on this is just the opposite! Because we don’t see the eyes of the employee I would say injustice is blind!

Lonewolf I agree, but with extra butter. Mmmmmmmm, butter! Feel the cholesterol coursing through your veins!

I’ll often bring my own drink into a theater (they’re easy enough to sneak in), but I’ll buy popcorn on-site, butter halfway through. Most of the theaters in SF are using real butter again, or at least a better fake than they used to.

Home video is no substitute for the Big Screen, I find. I try to hit 2 or 3 current movies in the theaters a week, and use my NetFlix queue for old or obscure stuff.

Of course, it helps that I live in a city where I have access to foreign and/or independent movies, not just the latest Hollywood Blockbusters (although I see those too).

The one advantage that my DVD player has over heading down to the Infiniplex for a good old communal experience in the dark is that I can pause it if I need to use the bathroom.

fritziod In all honesty, I don’t miss the theatres. Always chatter & laughter, whatever from the movie-goers, so that you miss lines (at least at home you can rewind the tape/DVD) , and freezing theatres forcing you to go to the bathroom at the most inconvenient moment.

Comedies in particular are better when you’re in a theater full of people who are laughing along with you; laughter is contagious (that’s the theory behind laugh tracks on sitcoms). Of course, that assumes that the movie is actually funny to begin with. Sitting in a crowd at an ostensible comedy when nobody is laughing is deadly.

And of course, movies that are largely spectacle (and there’s nothing wrong with that per se) are far more effective when the explosions, sweeping landscapes, and monumental sets completely FILL the field of vision.

Even “kitchen sink”-type dramas carry greater weight when the actors’ faces are 10 feet tall, and you can see every miniscule half-smile or eyebrow twitch. It’s a paradox, but the enormity of the movie screen allows for far greater subtlety in the performances.

Frankly, unless there are people chattering away fairly near me (and I have no qualms about shushing them if they are), I find that I can concentrate on a film in a theater far better than I can in my living room.

I wonder what is the price and looks of an ant’s-eye-view of a large popcorn.

i have my own theater…..67 inch screen with blue ray dvd cable and sat. in a room 14 X 18 and no windows. make my own popcorn drinks (beer or mixed) and sit next to my candy !!

Yup. That’s something else the theatres don’t have…a bar. The also don’t have a lazy boy!

Check and mate, cholldekkgher stenst…

The receipt is $3.00 because they kill a tree for every single item you buy.

I went to Safeway and bought a quart of milk. The receipt was 2 feet long. It’s getting out of hand. And meanwhile, I get scolded for even thinking about printing out an email.

The last time I went to a movie, it was to hear the Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ playing for the accompaniment to the silent movie!

And I thought I hadn’t been to the movies in a long time. The last movie I saw in the theatre was The Hunt For Red October.