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Posted on 01/18/2018 6:43:18 AM PST by C19fan
The National Alliance of Theater Owners (NATO) announced Wednesday that the national ticket average for 2017 rose 3.7 percent year-over-year to $8.93, up from $8.65 last year.
At that average, the estimated number of movie tickets sold last year is 1.23 billion. While that is only a rough estimate that does not account for the higher ticket prices for premium formats and theaters in more expensive cities like New York and Los Angeles, NATO’s estimate is the lowest since 1993, when “Jurassic Park” was the top grossing film of the year and an estimated 1.24 billion tickets were sold.
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When you pick up the local paper and see an advertisement for the six plex movie theater, and they are showing three superhero films, a CGI SI-FI movie, a fantasy movie and a kids movie, then the next week they are showing different movies, but still the same number of superhero si-fi fantasy movies you know it is not worth even going to a movie there.
Last time I was in a theater was for the remake of TRUE GRIT. Before that it was Master and Commander, and Gladiator. before that it was TITANIC. I got lots of really great adventure movies from the 1940s trough the 1960s on DVD. Who needs superheroes. Our young people truly live in an age of fantasy.
I stream films from Amazon Prime and You Tube to my Kindle Fire 10. Prime is $99 a year plus your state tax. I only saw three films last year in the theaters, including Dunkirk which must be seen on a big screen. Usually I wait for films to come out on DVD at the library for free.
Since I vote in the SAG awards, I get all the movies. I’ve watched 4: 3 Billboards, I, Tonya and another one I clearly have forgotten. They were disgusting, vulgar, poorly written, badly acted and I could only get through a hour of each of them. Why would anyone pay money for these anti-American flicks? (All of them had anti-American, anti-police, anti-family values dialogue.) The only one I watched through was Darkest Hour which was a good movie but could easily have been an excellent Made-for-TV show. No need to watch a small movie on a giant screen and pay $15 for it.
That was a great movie. As for this thread, I really can’t recall the last movie I went to a theater to view. For me it’s the context more than the price. The majority of what’s out there just doesn’t interest me. Then again, isn’t the line that the target audience is 15 year old boys still the norm?
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Sounds like you watch a lot of the same stuff I do and go to the movies about as often. I also have a ton of DVDs and Blu-rays; but most of them are of old movies starring dead people. I cannot think of a better adventure movie than 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood. My free year of HBO is about to expire, and I think all I watched on it was season 7 of Game of Thrones. All the recent movies they show do not interest me at all.
My wife and I used to be regular movie goers...
Years ago we gave up going to the movies except for a couple of times a years...
Everything Hollywood puts out is crap...
Another industry that believes it can belittle and insult it’s customers without paying a price.
Forget the fact that you are conservative in your thinking.
I can barely get through a list of Netflix “Chosen for You” promos.
As I said in my post, I only got through an hour of 3 of them. I walked out of the room losing patience. We were mailed maybe thirty movies and tv shows and we haven’t watched any of them. We cannot sell them or give them away because it is against union rules.
The simple answer: we’re not buying the crap they’re selling.
“Exodus” applies two ways here.
That and “7 Days in Entebbe.”
The NFL and the movie industry are seeing the wrath of loyal American patriots. We don’t want what they are selling.
Netflix is fixing to find out the hard way that if you didn’t want to see that cr@p at the cinema, on broadcast, or cable, why in the bloody blue blazes would you want to see it there?!?
Exactly. I look at the movies on Netflix, and there’s nothing really I want to watch, maybe except for some documentaries (which usually are available for free on YouTube).
From the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves School of Marketing.
Snort.
“What a cool business plan: Produce terrible films, overpay loudmouth actors and raise prices.”
Kinda like the PCNFL. The liberal Utopia will be complete when they, like Little Rocket Man, can to order us go to these events and pay for them as well, then wallow in the feigned approval and adulation.
“-———why throw $10 for a ticket and $12 for popcorn and a Coke toward some marginal film? Looking “
I thought that children were the only ones that needed refreshment during a movie.
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