| Posted by: sirdizzy at February 2, 2008, 11:31 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by CheerUpEmoKid There's only one theater near me in Brooklyn, and their matinee hours are before 5 PM Monday through Friday, and the first showing of the day weekends, but they usually show only bigger movies. So yeah, it's almost not even worth it. If I want smaller stuff I have to go in the city, and these days the Angelika and most everywhere else is charging $11.75 a ticket. My poor wallet never walks away without that freshly raped feeling. I think if tickets were that expensive I would have to curb a lot of my theatre going expierences. I mean me and my wife can go to a night showing, get there extra large combo with 2 large drinks, a big tub of popcorn and a candy for $25. What it would cost us for tickets in Brooklyn pretty much. I can factor in $25 every week for a night out and we do, we also usually got to dinner as well another $40. I mean if you can't go out enjoy dinner and a movie once a week why the fuck would you get out of bed and go to work. I mean I am not rich I... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: CheerUpEmoKid at February 2, 2008, 5:15 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | There's only one theater near me in Brooklyn, and their matinee hours are before 5 PM Monday through Friday, and the first showing of the day weekends, but they usually show only bigger movies. So yeah, it's almost not even worth it. If I want smaller stuff I have to go in the city, and these days the Angelika and most everywhere else is charging $11.75 a ticket. My poor wallet never walks away without that freshly raped feeling. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Le_Big_Mac at February 2, 2008, 4:51 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | I always have to go to the arthouse theater to see stuff like There Will Be Blood and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (as well as revivals). It's a drag because it's much farther away than the regular theaters. But, nonetheless, I'm as glad as you are to have it when necessary. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: sirdizzy at February 2, 2008, 3:43 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | We got Mesquite, Nevada about a 40 minute drive that has a theatre that occasionally plays stuff we didn't get. Its where I had to go last year to see Pan's Labyrinth. Plus you can get drunk and gamble a little bit, I love blackjack. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Kikabi at February 2, 2008, 2:48 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Congratulations! I sympathize with you prior plight. I live in a small city the same size as yours, and have the same monopoly problem. Fortunately, we do have one art house for indie films and another in a neighboring town not too far away. But it is such a drag when movies are put out as limited releases, since they don't come anywhere near us. (4 hour drive to LA, 8 hour drive to San Francisco) All we can do is pray for them to get wide releases that don't always happen. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: chasingbanky at February 2, 2008, 1:47 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by sirdizzy I work 8:30-5:30 M-F, the only time I can catch a matinee anymore is the weekends. Four or Five years ago when I was going to college and worked graveyards all I caught was matinees. I do love a nice good Sunday Matinee, I live in Utah, in a heavy church going town and the roads are half empty Sunday and the theatres only half full. when we saw Before the Devil Knows Your Dead two weeks ago for a Sunday Matinee there was me, my wife and another couple in the theatre and that was it. I like that our ticket prices are low, they were $6.50 and $4.50 tell last summer when they raised the price 50 cents but I didn't really complain its the first time they raised prices on tickets in our town in like 6-7 years from $6 and $4 respectivly. $7 doesn't seem to bad for an evening show. Aw right on. I live in a neighboring state and we don't get no kinds of love. I would move to Utah, but I never got treated to well there. In fact its the only place in the world I've had to appear in... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: sirdizzy at February 2, 2008, 1:38 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by chasingbanky shit I paid 7.50 for a matinée yesterday... I'd wait a couple extra weeks to be paying less for an evening ticket than I do a day time one. I work 8:30-5:30 M-F, the only time I can catch a matinee anymore is the weekends. Four or Five years ago when I was going to college and worked graveyards all I caught was matinees. I do love a nice good Sunday Matinee, I live in Utah, in a heavy church going town and the roads are half empty Sunday and the theatres only half full. when we saw Before the Devil Knows Your Dead two weeks ago for a Sunday Matinee there was me, my wife and another couple in the theatre and that was it. I like that our ticket prices are low, they were $6.50 and $4.50 tell last summer when they raised the price 50 cents but I didn't really complain its the first time they raised prices on tickets in our town in like 6-7 years from $6 and $4 respectivly. $7 doesn't seem to bad for an evening show. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: chasingbanky at February 2, 2008, 1:16 pm | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | shit I paid 7.50 for a matinée yesterday... I'd wait a couple extra weeks to be paying less for an evening ticket than I do a day time one. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: sirdizzy at February 2, 2008, 11:59 am | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Yes when the trailer features a rodent eating shit as its selling point, then I will refer to it as the shit eating chipmunks further more. It speaks volumes about the quality of the movie. And it is nice to finally join civilization. We do get smaller films but they take forever to get here and we don't get them all. For example we didn't get Jesse James but did get Atonement, Juno and Sweeney Todd after like a month or so. Also a lot of time the smaller films are only here for one week and then gone, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead was gone in one week (luckily I caught it) as well as Rescue Dawn (unluckily I missed it). | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Scarfather at February 2, 2008, 11:04 am | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by KenSPT Was it really necessary to call the Alvin movie "Alvin and the shit eating Chipmunks"? Yes. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Tweek at February 2, 2008, 10:56 am | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by KenSPT Was it really necessary to call the Alvin movie "Alvin and the shit eating Chipmunks"? Judging from the trailer, it's a little warranted. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: X-Nightcrawler at February 2, 2008, 2:08 am | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Cool. Living in a large city, I've never had that trouble. We got stuff like "Jesse James" in many, many theatres around here. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: sirdizzy at February 2, 2008, 1:59 am | | Topic: wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo Forum: JoBlo | | Ok there is this older theatre in my town behind the mall that has become like a step between the dollar theatre and the nicer theatres. The movies go from the nicer theatres to this theatre before they hit the dollar theatres. It also is usually the theatre of we get any smaller titles the films end up there. they are still a full price theatre though $5 for matinee, $7 for evening showing. So currently they are running Alvin and the shit eating Chipmunks, I am Legend, The Kite Runner, Enchanted and Michael Clayton. So as you see a mixture of cast off films mixed with some smaller indy films. Now all the theatres in town (we are about 70,000 population) are owned by one monopoly company and its been like that for over 20 years. Recently in a neighboring town they got a new owner but not us. Well the lease evidently ran out on this theatre behind the mall and the current owner didn't pick it up. So the Salt Lake Film Society snagged it up (they can get films in Utah better than anyone else, they were the fir... | | Read Entire Entry |
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