Will The Cinema Ever Decrease In Price?

[DAVIE]

Why is the cinema so expensive? It's getting ridiculous! Are they even making profit?
I usually wait and just rent or download the dvd now, it's pointless paying around £7 or £8 to watch something once that lasts around 2 hours and you have no idea if it's going to be absolute dire or not!
What do you think?

[CrystalGeezer]

Why is the cinema so expensive? It's getting ridiculous! Are they even making profit?
I usually wait and just rent or download the dvd now, it's pointless paying around £7 or £8 to watch something once that lasts around 2 hours and you have no idea if it's going to be absolute dire or not!
What do you think?

I hope they figure something out. I love going to the movie. I know they're germy and expensive and you have to hear people chew and all that, but I love the big screen and strangers sitting together in a room all experiencing the same thing at the same time.

[Death Disco]

Why is the cinema so expensive? It's getting ridiculous! Are they even making profit?
I usually wait and just rent or download the dvd now, it's pointless paying around £7 or £8 to watch something once that lasts around 2 hours and you have no idea if it's going to be absolute dire or not!
What do you think?

The thought of going to the cinema makes me want to vomit. Sitting in a dark room with strangers, eating junk food, watching a screen that's too big and volume that's too loud. I can't even watch a full film, I have to break it down into 30 minute parts and watch it over the course of several days. Even then, I always sit there wondering why I'm even watching it in the first place: "NONE of this is real" is a recurring thought.
Not liking films puts a surprisingly large dampner on your social life, it seems to be the first thing people suggest when they want to meet up.

[CrystalGeezer]

I hope they figure something out. I love going to the movie. I know they're germy and expensive and you have to hear people chew and all that, but I love the big screen and strangers sitting together in a room all experiencing the same thing at the same time.

The thought of going to the cinema makes me want to vomit. Sitting in a dark room with strangers, eating junk food, watching a screen that's too big and volume that's too loud. I can't even watch a full film, I have to break it down into 30 minute parts and watch it over the course of several days. Even then, I always sit there wondering why I'm even watching it in the first place: "NONE of this is real" is a recurring thought.
Not liking films puts a surprisingly large dampner on your social life, it seems to be the first thing people suggest when they want to meet up.

So I take it it's never going to work out between us.

[billybu69]

The thought of going to the cinema makes me want to vomit. Sitting in a dark room with strangers, eating junk food, watching a screen that's too big and volume that's too loud. I can't even watch a full film, I have to break it down into 30 minute parts and watch it over the course of several days. Even then, I always sit there wondering why I'm even watching it in the first place: "NONE of this is real" is a recurring thought.
Not liking films puts a surprisingly large dampner on your social life, it seems to be the first thing people suggest when they want to meet up.

Wow Ive never come across anyone who doesn't like movies before, not something I thought would bother someone, it must be difficult, films everywhere, but not being able to loose yourself in it and be constantly aware this isn't real, would make movies unwatchable.
They'll bring the prices down when people stop going.but I don't think this will happen its still affordable for core audiences 15 to 30 years olds.

[CrystalGeezer]

Wow Ive never come across anyone who doesn't like movies before, not something I thought would bother someone, it must be difficult, films everywhere, but not being able to loose yourself in it and be constantly aware this isn't real, would make movies unwatchable.
They'll bring the prices down when people stop going.but I don't think this will happen its still affordable for core audiences 15 to 30 years olds.

I heard a statistic on the radio a couple weeks ago that said, in America at least, that this was the WORST year for movie ticket sales of all time. But that more people than ever are watching movies...just at home.

[Kewpie]

The thought of going to the cinema makes me want to vomit. Sitting in a dark room with strangers, eating junk food, watching a screen that's too big and volume that's too loud. I can't even watch a full film, I have to break it down into 30 minute parts and watch it over the course of several days. Even then, I always sit there wondering why I'm even watching it in the first place: "NONE of this is real" is a recurring thought.
Not liking films puts a surprisingly large dampner on your social life, it seems to be the first thing people suggest when they want to meet up.

I'm glad I will never see you in cinema.

If I ever win a lottery I'll start my own cinema (no food, no mobile phone policy).

[the raytownian]

Personally, I am so uninterested by 100% of the films that see wide theatrical releases (meaning, films that even make it to theatres where I live [Huntsville, AL... which is not exactly a thriving metropolis, but, I mean, it's not the middle of nowhere... We have NASA across the street from my old high school FFS]) that I don't ever go to see them (or even buy/download them).

The last few times I've been to see a movie (I could probably count the total number of times in the last 5 years on one hand), it was always or almost always when someone offered to take me and paid for my ticket, and it was never my suggestion...

I've seen a few small-release movies that I actually paid for, but those don't really count as "cinema" so much as low-budget docus and "art" films at small local establishments.

The reason they charge so much is probably because they suck so much ass that they have to make up for a lack of attendance (I can't be the only one who feels apathetic about every fucking wide-release movie in the last decade, right?).

[the raytownian]

PS: I am not much of a "movie" person... much more interested in wasting entire weeks of mny life on records instead.

I do like going out to see Rocky Horror, and do the Time Warp while drunk on Mad Dog and Wild I. It's become a sort of tradition for me... I like any public viewing scenario where I can drink, really, haha... Regular cinemas are not really my bag though... It's always fun to get stoned with friends at their house while watching movies, or watching weird old movies alone in bed to. The standard "commercial" movie theatre is just such a boring suckhole that never shows anything worth seeing...

All that said, I still don't watch a ton of movies very frequently, or, if I do, I have kind of a marathon of viewing, and then watch nothing for a really long time... same way with games... I can play a game for weeks//months, and then not play a single thing for months (or years in some cases).

[Death Disco]

I'm glad I will never see you in cinema.

If I ever win a lottery I'll start my own cinema (no food, no mobile phone policy).

I'd maybe just buy a warehouse, one seat, a projector and a screen if I were you. I can't imagine the no-fun cinema would be that popular.
You'll never win the/a lottery anyway, dear. You're a born loser. There aren't many films about cats you could show at the KewPlex, are there? Apart from The Aristocats. And maybe the Don't Do That To My Pussy series.

[Kewpie]

I'd maybe just buy a warehouse, one seat, a projector and a screen if I were you. I can't imagine the no-fun cinema would be that popular.
You'll never win the/a lottery anyway, dear. You're a born loser. There aren't many films about cats you could show at the KewPlex, are there? Apart from The Aristocats. And maybe the Don't Do That To My Pussy series.

LOL!!

Yeah, I'm a born loser because since I've lived in the UK I won:

some theatre tickets
some books, DVDs and CDs (one of them is PJ Harvey Mercury prize winning autographed CD and photo)
numerous film preview tickets (one of them was Fargo)
£500 voucher of Habitat
2 YATQ CDs (standard and deluxe on courtesy of X FM)
Some live concert tickets (Bjork MTV Unplugged, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand etc)
£7753.80 lottery winning to the date (missed £7000 x 6 because my numbers matched only 3 out of 4 )

[Death Disco]

LOL!!

Yeah, I'm a born loser because since I've lived in the UK I won:

some theatre tickets
some books, DVDs and CDs (one of them is PJ Harvey Mercury prize winning autographed CD and photo)
numerous film preview tickets (one of them was Fargo)
£500 voucher of Habitat
2 YATQ CDs (standard and deluxe on courtesy of X FM)
Some live concert tickets (Bjork MTV Unplugged, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand etc)
£7753.80 lottery winning to the date (missed £7000 x 6 because my numbers matched only 3 out of 4 )

I can't believe you sat and typed all that up. Sad little person.

[Thesmithsmorrissey]

the reason the cinema is so expensive is because you're paying for the production costs of the experience.

The sound and optics systems installed especially

coupled with the fact that the cinema itself has to make a profit on its customers = expensive prices on tickets, concessions, etc.

You can't honestly believe the 3-D and extra-spacious reclining seats are coming out of the cinema's pockets

[Peterb]

The thought of going to the cinema makes me want to vomit. Sitting in a dark room with strangers, eating junk food, watching a screen that's too big and volume that's too loud. I can't even watch a full film, I have to break it down into 30 minute parts and watch it over the course of several days. Even then, I always sit there wondering why I'm even watching it in the first place: "NONE of this is real" is a recurring thought.
Not liking films puts a surprisingly large dampner on your social life, it seems to be the first thing people suggest when they want to meet up.

Hey DD, is it the unreality that puts you off movies?
What about all this American stuff on telly, like Madmen, Sopranos, CSI etc, do you watch them?
What about documentaries?
Radio is great. I'm a bit of a Radio 4 fan although my wife thinks it's a load of complacent middle class poncery.

[billy scissors]

I'm glad I will never see you in cinema.

If I ever win a lottery I'll start my own cinema (no food, no mobile phone policy).

I'd pelt her with popcorn hidden under my jumper

[Death Disco]

Hey DD, is it the unreality that puts you off movies?
What about all this American stuff on telly, like Madmen, Sopranos, CSI etc, do you watch them?
What about documentaries?
Radio is great. I'm a bit of a Radio 4 fan although my wife thinks it's a load of complacent middle class poncery.

Yes, it's the "not real" thing that causes me to switch off. I don't watch any of those Anerican shows that are so popular these days. I rarely watch tv at all, actually. And anything I do watch i watch on iPlayer etc.
Listen to podcasts too, but not sure about radio 4... Always seems to be the snidey, moaning "satirists" on their shows. Not my cup of tea at all.

[Death Disco]

I'd pelt her with popcorn hidden under my jumper

Or dead cats that I could smuggle in about my person. You could probably get 3 or 4 strapped to you without anyone noticing. I don't think cinema workers are trained to spot people smuggling dead cats. Or maybe they are, I don't know... as I say, I don't go to the cinema.

[DAVIE]

I rather like 3D movies in the cinema! I don't have a blu ray player, surround sound or a 3D screen, so when I watch things in 3D it makes things a bit special. I wonder what Star Wars will be like in 3D...Liam Neeson weilding a lightsaber in 3D? Woahh!

I actually bought a Star Wars 3D poster from HMV today

[Death Disco]

I rather like 3D movies in the cinema! I don't have a blu ray player, surround sound or a 3D screen, so when I watch things in 3D it makes things a bit special. I wonder what Star Wars will be like in 3D...Liam Neeson weilding a lightsaber in 3D? Woahh!

I actually bought a Star Wars 3D poster from HMV today

Star Wars isn't real. 3D is still only 2D. I don't understand how people can watch this. Surely there must be others out there who cannot watch films?

[CrystalGeezer]

Stars Wars is very real.