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[Disney Irish]

Six bucks for a first run movie in 2025 seems incredibly cheap. But if you can get it, do it! That's always been my motto.



No, not really. I mean, it's fun for me to recap the weekends and marvel (no pun intended) at some of Disney's most horrific box office bombs in recent years while the Parks Division cheaps out left and right and offers very little that is new or fresh.

But tracking individual movies on Tuesdays and extrapolating what that must mean for matinee business at suburban discount theaters? Nope. That's way above my pay grade, or passing interest. Not to mention that Connie, our pre-show hostess in the polyester jump suit here in the TP2000 Global Command Center, has Tuesday/Wednesdays off anyway.

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On Tuesdays it's just me and Mr. Johnson and the plywood consoles with blinky lights. Tuesdays are usually slow.



I'd imagine the same theater setup at the Del Mar Cinepolis is also available in suburban Chicago, or Cincinnati, or Charlotte. That theater experience may be a few bucks cheaper there, but then gas is a few bucks cheaper per gallon in the heartland than it is in California. But as I've travelled the country, things aren't that much different, just usually cheaper than California.



Yes. The very definition.



You must be one of those out of touch coastal elites I read so much about, going to movie theaters with reserved recliners and waitress service with overpriced beer and wine.

Are you ashamed of yourself? Do you sleep well at night, knowing that in Wellington, Kansas they only have non-reserved seats that don't recline and a lone snack bar with sticky counters and a Coke machine that needs a new CO2 charge?

You didn't even know that matinee pricing at your own local theater in Utah was cheaper, you thought that everyone was paying the same price you paid for Barbie in summer of 2023. So yes that is the very definition of coastal elite out of touch thinking. Just because YOU paid over $20 the one time you went to a movie doesn't mean that is what everyone else is paying.

By the way, what was the price for your trip to see The Last Showgirl in Las Vegas when you went a couple weeks ago? I'm betting it wasn't over $20.

 

[TP2000]

You didn't even know that matinee pricing at your own local theater in Utah was cheaper, you thought that everyone was paying the same price you paid for Barbie in summer of 2023.

I'm aware of what a matinee is, and how it's notably cheaper that a Saturday night ticket. I'm old, remember?

I know what a matinee is at a movie theater. I also know that you used to get great grilled cheese sandwiches at Woolworth's.

So yes that is the very definition of coastal elite out of touch thinking. Just because YOU paid over $20 the one time you went to a movie doesn't mean that is what everyone else is paying.

If I'm a coastal elite who doesn't know what a dozen eggs cost, that means you are one too. You live in the Bay Area and "work from home", remember? Seems swanky.

By the way, what was the price for your trip to see The Last Showgirl in Las Vegas when you went a couple weeks ago? I'm betting it wasn't over $20.

I have no idea actually. The Last Showgirl thing was the brainchild of a friend of mine, and he picked up the tab for that portion of the evening. I bought the pre-dinner drinks at Peter Luger's, however.

I try to pull my own weight, but I'd need to check my Amex bill for that Peter Luger bar tab. I don't really keep track at this stage.

 

[Disney Irish]

I'm aware of what a matinee is, and how it's notably cheaper that a Saturday night ticket. I'm old, remember?

I know what a matinee is at a movie theater. I also know that you used to get great grilled cheese sandwiches at Woolworth's.



If I'm a coastal elite who doesn't know what a dozen eggs cost, that means you are one too. You live in the Bay Area and "work from home", remember? Seems swanky.

Once again as stated many times when you bring it up, my working conditions have no bearing on this or any other conversation on this site.

I know how to do research, I know that prices are different across the nation, I know that just because I may pay X for something in the Bay Area that doesn't mean that everyone else pays that same price for the same product. I know that ticket prices in Duluth is different than in Miami which is different from Chicago which is different from Kansas City which is different from San Francisco or LA. I know that there are even price fluctuations within the same city for the same theater chain just miles apart. I know that I can go see one movie for $17 at 7pm and see the exact same movie for $15 at 9pm just 2 hours later at the same very theater.

Average domestic ticket prices are an average of ALL movies across the entire North America market, which as pointed out also includes Canada which typically has lower ticket prices than the US. And I know all this because I do research and not rely on an 8 second search.

I have no idea actually. The Last Showgirl thing was the brainchild of a friend of mine, and he picked up the tab for that portion of the evening. I bought the pre-dinner drinks at Peter Luger's, however.

I try to pull my own weight, but I'd need to check my Amex bill for that Peter Luger bar tab. I don't really keep track at this stage.

I'm sure your buddy didn't pay the same as you paid for Barbie.

 

[DKampy]

Six bucks for a first run movie in 2025 seems incredibly cheap. But if you can get it, do it! That's always been my motto.

You could probably get it too… most theater chains offer discounts on Tuesdays…. But you are not interested in movies…. Just complaining about box office and theme parks financials even though both don’t correlate in the same bucket

No, not really. I mean, it's fun for me to recap the weekends and marvel (no pun intended) at some of Disney's most horrific box office bombs in recent years while the Parks Division cheaps out left and right and offers very little that is new or fresh.

Finally said what we all suspected you only care about Disney’s perceived bombs

But tracking individual movies on Tuesdays and extrapolating what that must mean for matinee business at suburban discount theaters?

It is not just matinees it is an all day discount…. I have gone at night at my local (usually full price) theater and it was fairly crowed

Are you ashamed of yourself? Do you sleep well at night, knowing that in Wellington, Kansas they only have non-reserved seats that don't recline and a lone snack bar with sticky counters and stale Raisinets and a Pepsi machine that needs a CO2 charge?

They have theaters everywhere with reserved leather recliner chairs… it is the standard now..,maybe you have not noticed because you have not been to the cinema much since the Carter administration

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

You don't make fun of a fine aged wine like TP for aquiring years.

 

[DKampy]

You don't make fun of a fine aged wine like TP for aquiring years.

Who is making fun of him? we are just presenting facts