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Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Mac Date: October 12, 2011, 11:46 am
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Talk about your movie going conflicts here...
Not really a commercial, but more of one those pre-movie
reminders. I love it
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRD53bcAM8E
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 12, 2011, 11:54 am
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I very rarely go to the movies anymore because of asswipes
talking to each other, on phones, texting, big heads with bigger
hats on 'em. My biggest pet peeve is kicking the back of my
seat.
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When I do go to a movie on that very rare occasion, I usually
wait a couple of weeks to avoid the majority of the crowds and
it's either the early matinee showing or the last showing
because I know the room will be mostly empty.
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Mac Date: May 16, 2014, 1:43 pm
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Ain't gonna work...
[glow=red,2,300]Who Wants Movie Theaters To Be More Like
Airlines?[/glow]
[quote]When in-flight movies became popularized on commercial
planes in the early 1960s, air travel was like riding in a movie
theater in the sky. Now going to the movies is going to be like
riding in an airplane on the ground. Cineplex has announced
they’ll be testing a new service at their flagship theater in
Toronto. And when I say a new service, I really mean to say it’s
an old service just with a new service charge. The idea is to
make center auditorium seating cost more to patrons, because
that’s a favored spot. I guess. Personally I prefer aisle seats,
especially at theaters with tighter space between rows. The only
time I like to sit in the middle is at an IMAX show.
Earlier today I saw a headline for this announcement and I
immediately thought about how some airlines gouge their
customers with added charges for a checked bag or for more leg
room or for an aisle or window seat. Even though it’s the
opposite on a flight — people prefer not to be in the middle —
it sounded liked Cineplex was inspired by Spirit, for example,
as they’re one of the worst offenders as far as taking something
previously standard and tacking on a surcharge, especially if
it’s liable to make the customer at all comfortable. I was
rather surprised to find that the theater chain actually
acknowledged an airline industry influence in their
announcement.
“It’s really about providing our guests with choices when they
go to the movies,” said spokesperson Pat Marshall, as quoted by
The Star. “I sort of position it akin to an aircraft where you
have your regular coach seating, then you might want a bit more
amenities, so you go into business class, and then you have a
first-class.”
But sitting in the middle seats is hardly like sitting in first
class on a flight. Unless they’re going to be bigger and
sectioned off from the lower class customers and come with a
complimentary glass of champagne. If you’re going to make an
airline analogy for something like this, you’re only going to
make it more apparent that it’s like making customers pay more
for a window seat. Or for a headset. It makes me think that next
they’ll charge extra if we want to bring a sweater into an
over-air-conditioned auditorium. Meanwhile, many cinemas already
have D-Box motion seats, which lets us feel even more like we’re
on a plane, specifically one with a lot of turbulence.
There’s also something that Cineplex ought to realize, and
that’s a very big distinction between a movie theater and an
aircraft: we need the latter a lot more than we need the former.
Sure, there are other forms of transportation, but none as
speedy and convenient as air. And when you’re on a flight,
there’s not a lot of freedom of choice. That’s why the airlines
can get away with a lot of the crap they currently are getting
away with. The only alternative is to pay a whole lot more for
better seats. But if you gotta fly, you gotta fly. Movie
theaters can’t get away with a whole lot these days, because
it’s a lot easier for people to just not go to the movies. If
you gotta watch a must-see movie, you can wait and rent or
stream the thing in a matter of months.
You’d think that the smarter thing to do here would be to offer
cheaper tickets for the less desirable seats. Knock off a few
bucks for the front two rows or the seats all the way over to
the side. But theater owners don’t do that kind of thing.
Sometimes they’ll try to avoid increasing costs, like when they
keep a concession price the same but decrease the size of the
popcorn bag or soda cup. But in spite of the interest of theater
owners to introduce cheaper ticket prices, there will always be
more interest in introducing new fees for things they try to
make seem like a good deal.
If this sort of practice is kept up, one day we won’t have any
more cinemas, because everyone will stop going to them, and an
in-flight screening won’t just seem like being in a movie
theater in the sky, but that will be the only kind of movie
theater there is.[/quote]
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Neumatic Date: May 20, 2014, 4:48 pm
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I went on a little mini-rant about this on Twitter the other
day, my basic point being that outside on inflation and cost of
operations, you can't raise prices without adding value. And I
got news for these theaters who think this can work: the ushers,
who spend about 30 seconds cleaning up the theater between
shows, aren't going to care who's sitting where. No one's going
to be checking those assigned seats.
This is just giving people more reason to skip the theatrical
window and wait for the disc or streaming version. The money
saved on tickets (which would be more, cause you know the high
ticket price standard would be the LOWEST price, NOT the highest
price) would go towards a bigger, higher-resolution TV (which
are becoming cheaper by the day).
Raising the ticket prices arbitrarily puts one more barrier
between the customer and the product, which is the stupidest
business plan you could possibly hope to come up with. You need
MORE reasons to bring people to the theater: more movies, more
variety, special events, etc. They do Fathom Events but those
are few and far between, they only happen one night at a time
and they aren't advertised much (I only ever hear about it when
I'm ALREADY in the theater for something else). Sometimes
they'll show a revival of a movie or a live concert or a play,
but imagine if they did more. What if one weekend they showed a
whole season of Game Of Thrones. I'd go in an instant! They
could have a food truck or BBQ or whatever, charge 20 bucks or
something and I bet they could fill TWO theaters. What if Vimeo
did a nationwide week-long campaign of their latest, greatest
hits in the theater, like a mini-festival? I bet people would
go.
Movie theaters aren't places where people go to see Hollywood
movies: they're communal spaces with multimedia, and there's SO
much potential there to be explored, but they don't do that
because they only see themselves as delivery systems for a
specific, narrow band of content (Hollywood films), and they're
not making a good return on that anymore. They should be doing
what home systems CAN'T do, and doing it as best as they can.
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Neumatic Date: May 20, 2014, 8:42 pm
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Op-Ed on The Dissolve
HTML http://thedissolve.com/news/2285-op-ed-movie-theater-seats/<br
/>about movie theater upcharges.
Oh, I'm so dreaming of having the space/cash for a big 4K TV.
Even though it would be way too big for my room, I kinda want
one right here next to me.
Admitting that makes me feel like a terrible person.
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 20, 2014, 11:30 pm
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What's your average ticket prices per your location (talking to
you Mac and Neumatic). Theaters in my eyes priced themselves out
of my pocket years ago. It became worthless to go for a lot of
reasons as the movie going experience was not worth the price of
admission....and this was matinee for me. Everything has to line
up for me to see anything in a theater now and with each passing
year, my trips there have become practically non-existent.
Taking a cue from Neumatic's recent Film Festival, THAT is about
the only thing that would get me back in their seats. But that
would be an exception as it's an event.
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Neumatic Date: May 20, 2014, 11:34 pm
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I think it's about nine-ten bucks for a ticket, but I only go if
it's a must-see on the big screen and I get the biggest screens
(1, 2, 10, or 16). I'm royally annoyed they don't put that
information on Fandango when you order the ticket if it winds up
being on the ticket you print out a second later. I would order
many more tickets if I knew what theater I'd see them in.
I listed out all the movies coming out until the end of the year
that I'd consider seeing in theaters, and the price wound up
being about the same as what I spent on the whole film festival.
10 days = seven months. And that's if I see every movie I
listed, which is unlikely. I already skipped two.
I assume you put your theater ticket money to a nice TV, Chip?
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 20, 2014, 11:41 pm
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[quote author=Neumatic link=topic=402.msg28367#msg28367
date=1400646885]
I assume you put your theater ticket money to a nice TV, Chip?
[/quote]
Yep. One for the Living Room and currently looking to replace my
Bedroom TV which is on the verge of crapping out. Not sure what
make or model I'm going to go with, but it's gonna be minimum 42
inches, 1080p, etc....
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 20, 2014, 11:44 pm
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The other thing I did put a lot of my movie going fun into was
just buying boatloads of new DVD's on release day. Every
Wednesday at Best Buy (when I actually went there). I would
average around 5-6 DVDs per week. It got insane and eventually I
was racking up more titles than I was actually watching. Soon I
had a huge stack in the corner, 40 dvd's high. At that point I
went cold turkey and stopped buying all together with the
exception of TV series that I just couldn't do without.
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Re: Movie Theater Pet Peeves
By: Neumatic Date: May 20, 2014, 11:49 pm
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I have a MASSIVE collection of DVDs. What stopped me was being
able to rent them all in the mail or stream them combined with a
massive lack of income. Neumatic poor, baby. Of course, I
can't bring myself to sell any of those DVDs, and some are even
starting to rot, I've had them so long.
I kinda want to get a 4K TV when I have disposable money, but I
feel like since there's so little 4K content, I'd just feel like
I'm watching low-res stuff all the time. I do like that motion
smoothing though, I know a lot of people don't, but it feels
more 3D than 3D to me. I'm really curious to see what VHS looks
like through that. Like you're looking through a waterfall or
something.
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