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From: SMS on 9 Mar 2010 15:24
Dan Birchall wrote:

> Unfortunately, there don't seem to be as many second-run places around
> as there once were. :(

Must be hard to run a theater charging only $1 to see a movie. They just
re-opened a long closed second-run theater near me, and they are
charging $3.75. That's a good deal, but since you can get most DVDs for
less than $8 now, you really have to want to see the movie in a theater
to pay even $3.75.
From: h on 9 Mar 2010 16:46

"SMS" <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote in message
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> Dan Birchall wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, there don't seem to be as many second-run places around
>> as there once were. :(
>
> Must be hard to run a theater charging only $1 to see a movie. They just
> re-opened a long closed second-run theater near me, and they are charging
> $3.75. That's a good deal, but since you can get most DVDs for less than
> $8 now, you really have to want to see the movie in a theater to pay even
> $3.75.

Especially since you have to put up with other people in the theatre. Seems
there's always one talker or screaming brat. I can't remember the last time
I went to a movie theatre.


From: Les Cargill on 9 Mar 2010 20:47
Zuke wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dan Birchall wrote:
>
>> rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com (Rod Speed) wrote:
>>> Spork wrote
>>>> Theater prices are insane.
>>> Sure, havent been in one of those for something like 35 years.
>>
>> I'm fortunate to live in a town with a "second-run" discount theater.
>> If a movie looks like it might be amusing but not necessarily worth a
>> $9 ticket, I can wait a couple months and see it for $1.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there don't seem to be as many second-run places around
>> as there once were. :(
>
> That's because the bedbugs ate them.
>


Ah! That's why all the admonitions to "don't let the bedbugs
bite" when I was a kid. If they'd only known.

--
Les Cargill
From: Les Cargill on 9 Mar 2010 20:50
Spork wrote:
<snip>
> I would happily pay 50 - 60 dollars a month for
> a netflix on demand that has everything.

Netflix' on demand is very limited, but the high end
( 2-3 discs at once ) subscription is not that much.
And you don't have to store the discs.

--
Les Cargill

From: SMS on 10 Mar 2010 13:42
Dan Birchall wrote:
> "SMS" <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote:
>> Dan Birchall wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, there don't seem to be as many second-run places around
>>> as there once were. :(
>> Must be hard to run a theater charging only $1 to see a movie.
>
> Yeah - really, they're only making any money off the concessions, for
> which they charge typical movie theater prices. :) But even if I shell
> out for a giant lemonade or whatever, it's still only half the price of
> a ticket to the big theater out at the mall.

Yeah, but those second-run theaters suffer from the same problem of
people bringing in their own food and drinks. What's really bad is the
people that bring in small cooking appliances and start preparing food
inside the theater. The one near me had to turn off all of power outlets
in the theater during movies, and now they only turn them on when
they're doing cleaning.

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