“My afternoon ticket was $8.00. My cup of coffee was $5.00, and that was just a cup of coffee, no Starbucks wowee factor. My nachos were $5.00.”
A few years ago they put up a huge multiplex a few towns away; I was shocked and sure it would fail. The place is expensive, yet somehow packed all the time. I can only deduce that despite all of the technology, some people just want to “go out”.
I only go to the movies when the kids want to see something; I highly recommend the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies for kids. No racial overtones, the intact family (with THREE children) attends Mass, good laughs, all in all probably the last vestige of how life was and could be if we make it so.
“The place is expensive, yet somehow packed all the time. I can only deduce that despite all of the technology, some people just want to “go out”.”
I see that here in the Boston area, although a larger and larger component of these cash-flush types appear to be tourists - you can usually tell by the intact families, their dress and lack of tattoos.