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marty998:
I am so out of touch... I'm at the movies for the first time in forever. I am stunned...

Advertised at the counter was a small popcorn and coke combo for $14.50!!!!

Gold class deal gets you 3 beef sliders for $25! People are actually paying for this. I watching the lines there and getting apoplectic 😵😵

mustachepungoeshere:
Oh let me blow your mind even more!

To see Star Wars: The Last Jedi at Gold Class (I'm not doing this, it's just an example):

$60 Gold Class tickets for 2
$80 Galactic Deal for 2 (cheeseburger dumplings , spring rolls, chicken sliders, sundae and 2 drinks)
$6.50 booking fee
= $146.50

kaypinkHH:
I used to LOVE going to the movies, but in cutting cable I also accidentally cut my link to movie trailers (yes I still get them online, but not as regularly as before). We dropped our movie attendance significantly in the past few years.

That being said, I remember going and standing in line for popcorn and thinking "when did we, as a collective society, decide it was commercially acceptable to buy a product marked up at 1275%."  Plus when the movie theaters started introducing DVX and AVX and 4D and VIP and Food at your seats etc. etc, it got to be too much. (Paying $25+ a person to see the movie is nuts!)

 

patchyfacialhair:
Theaters are certainly expensive nowadays. I've since rediscovered drive-in theaters (US).

There are two within an hour of me, both are about $9 per adult (kids are free), and include admission to 2 or 3 first-run movies in a row. Bring your own food/beverage, blankets, chairs, and relax. It's not the cheapest thing you can do, but it beats paying the same price for one movie only and limited options for snacks. Plus, with an infant, it's easy for my wife to feed the baby in relative privacy and not need to worry about offending folks if the baby is fussy.

Just Joe:
I go to one or two movies a year at most. I enjoy those movies very much b/c they are rare but the cost of of attending a movie with food is utterly ridiculous by my yardstick.

I enjoy rewatching some movies and most of the time I'll wait and rent the movie or even wait a year or two until I can buy the movie on DVD for cheap - instead of seeing it at the theater.

In order to properly "suspend belief" and watch my movie uninterrupted, I'll wait until our kids are in bed on a school night. Then break out the headphones. My headphones are pretty ordinary but they are capable of reproducing most of sound quality that the theater sound system does.

Night quite as great as a 40ft wide screen but it still has its pleasures. And I can pause for bathroom breaks.

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