This weeks topic:
Movies cost way too freaking damn much
Yes we all know that the price of movies is just way to freaking damn high. I just wanted to vent a little cause everytime I go to the movies I have to think about taking a mortgage on the house. Seriously though I have thought about a movie fund where I save a little each week so after a couple of months I could afford to take my girlfriend and our kids to a show. Even then just the two of us going to see a flick is not a cheap date. Okay here is a breakdown of the cost of going to see a movie for a family of four:
Two adult tickets=$14.00
Two child tickets(if your kid happens to be 12 they are an adult, just don't tell them) $8.00
One large popcprn=$4.00
Two med drinks=$5.00
Two sm drinks=$4.00
Assorted candies=$6.00
If my math is correct once I add a little gas money I just blew a $50 bill out of the damn water. Now do not get me wrong I love the movies and yes I do not have to buy all the extras and I could try to make it to a matinee. Yeah I know I could sneak candy into the movie and fill the kids up before we leave, but there is just something about the atmosphere of a movie theater. You know throwing popcorn at each other, doing flips down the aisles, just acting like kids again. I think everytime I go to a movie with my kids I turn into one of them. I see all the candy and popcprn and I just have to have it. So I will continue paying the high prices to watch movies that I can rent in a few months (which I do anyway)
So who is to blame for the high prices at movie theaters? Well everyone wants their cut of the pie so there is not really one person or company to blame. The theaters do have a little leeway on the prices they charge, but you wont see that change much. I figure if you sold a drink at $1.50 instead of $3.00 you might sell alot more and it is possible it may even out in the end. The profit margin on a fountain soda is outrageous and charging $3.00 for something that costs you 15 cents boggles my mind, hell the damn cup cost more than the soda, maybe if I brought my own cup they would give me a discount? Of course there are times when money is low and you just cant pay those concession stand prices and over the years I have mastered the art of sneaking things into movie theaters. If there is a woman with me we bring the "movie purse", you know that thing that looks as if it is a part of your Samsonite collection? You could serve an actual 6 course meal for 5 outta that puppy. Then sometimes there is not a woman handy which means you are out with the guys or the kids. The ever popular, "I need this drink to take medicine and it is just water anyway" works well if you want to bring in a sprite or 7up, but those dark soda drinkers won't make it with that one. Instead they resort to the hidden can or 1 liter bottle trick. One I really like is the 1 liter bottle stuffed in your crotch. It works great and you might even get a phone number or two. Just have to work quick with this one cause if you want a cold drink you are gonna have to suffer some cold nuts. Otherwise if it happens to be cold outside a nice large coat hides things really well. Yeah yeah I know the ever popular shopping bag trick works well in theaters near shopping areas like in a mall or such, but that backfired on me once. I was rushing to make it to a movie before it started and I had this bag full of candy. Well I couldnt take a Piggly Wiggly bag onto a movie theater full of goodies, it would be kinda obvious. Instead I looked in my trunk and found an old Kmart shopping bag so I stuffed everything in it. I told the guy that took my ticket that I had just been shopping and I did not want to leave this expensive camera that I bought in my car cause it might get stolen. Well he smiled and said that there has never been a Kmart in town, but I could take my candy in anway. The Kmart bag had been in my trunk since I moved many months before, but I just smiled back and said thanks. And if its the kids who are with you it is easy to get them to stuff things in their pockets especially candy. Just trying to get it back from them can be a bitch sometimes. Just try and get back a hershey bar from a 10 year old.
Well I feel a little better now that I got this off my chest and I think I may have $50 worth of change saved up in my movie jar, hope they don't want these rolled up at the ticket stand. Your comments are welcome and appreciated just click on the tickets below or email me at Jakbenmbie@aol.com. Thanks for coming and enjoy the show.........
