Cinema owners oppose a megadeal that would see one of the last Hollywood legacy studios snapped up only five years after the demise of 20th Century Fox.
If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.
Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)
if you’re breaking even on the subscription + discount concessions, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to not subscribe and not feel obligated to go to the movie if you don’t or can’t want to? Also are you limited to 2 free movies a month or could you go more if you wanted to?
I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.
I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.
That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.
I like movies 😊
To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.
I recently started going a little bit more, because a new one with certified IMAX (but not the biggest screen) popped up around 25 mins from home. It’s technically in another (smaller) city and for some reason not a lot of people know it exists so it’s never full and still very clean. The IMAX tickets on discount Tuesdays are $5, so we try to go to matinee screenings on those days. There’s usually fewer than 10 people whenever we go and there have been times where we had the entire theater to ourselves.
I would otherwise never go if my only options are the AMCs, Cinemarks, and Regals in my area. The only other theater I go to is the stand-alone huge true IMAX cinema that I’m lucky to have in my city, but only for special movies.
People still go to the movies?
Yeah! I try to hit at least two a month!
If you can afford it, a lot of the theater chains have “clubs” where for a (imo) reasonable subscription price you get free tickets and discounted concessions. My partner and I spend $20 each on our subscriptions which is why we try to see at least two movies a month, combined with the discount on concessions we break even that way.
Through regal, idk about the other ones, there is also a reward system which I use for free concessions and free “premium” tickets (imax, 4d, etc)
if you’re breaking even on the subscription + discount concessions, wouldn’t it be more cost effective to not subscribe and not feel obligated to go to the movie if you don’t or can’t want to? Also are you limited to 2 free movies a month or could you go more if you wanted to?
I could go as many times as I want, some months I’ll go 5 or 6 times. I few films this year I saw twice because they were that good.
I personally actually like feeling like there is an obligation to break even, as it encourages me to see things I normally wouldn’t. I wouldn’t have gone to see Bugonia if i had to pay for a ticket, but I had a free afternoon and a free ticket so I saw it. I enjoyed myself more than I would have if I’d paid for the ticket.
That’s kind of where I stand with it, if not for the subscription I’d never feel like I could afford to go see some trash I’m pretty sure will be terrible just for the hell of it.
I like movies 😊
To be clear, I am aware it isnt a particularly good deal unless you were already seeing more than 2 movies a month.
That’s awesome, thanks for explaining.
I recently started going a little bit more, because a new one with certified IMAX (but not the biggest screen) popped up around 25 mins from home. It’s technically in another (smaller) city and for some reason not a lot of people know it exists so it’s never full and still very clean. The IMAX tickets on discount Tuesdays are $5, so we try to go to matinee screenings on those days. There’s usually fewer than 10 people whenever we go and there have been times where we had the entire theater to ourselves.
I would otherwise never go if my only options are the AMCs, Cinemarks, and Regals in my area. The only other theater I go to is the stand-alone huge true IMAX cinema that I’m lucky to have in my city, but only for special movies.
I do, but mainly stick to the 2nd run theaters that play older movies. Last movie I saw in a theater was Carpenter’s The Thing a couple weeks ago.
Rarely, because there are very few movies that are worth going to a theater to see instead of just waiting for it to come to streaming.