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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Movie Ticket Prices

Has anyone noticed that even before this economy started going down hill fast that movie ticket prices are out of control. Easily you can spend 10.00 on one ticket, how crazy is that? Why in the name of Mickey Mouse would you spend that much money on a ticket?

Every once in a while you come across a good deal like the drive in theatre in Warwick, NY offers two movies for $8.00 if you get in for the early movie, otherwise you pay the same price just for one. But why not go see both, you have three screens to tune into.

However this blogger has decided that the power of the Internet is far better than spending all these amounts for movies. Did you know that most films get released last in the USA? And if you're willing to deal with advertisements on the bottom or foreign subtitles you can actually watch most of these movies in the theatre or released for free? Even Blockbuster charges you $5.00 a movie. The only downside: buffer time... but do the math, you spend an hour and a half at dinner prior to the movie, then 2 hours in the movie + previews which is an extra 15 minutes... so my suggestion is you open it up, pause it, let it buffer and go have dinner... by the time you come back you have a full movie to watch and no previews to bother with. Thank the Internet Gods... (Mugsy gives this 2 paws up!!)
So in an economy where everything is crap and everything is too expensive try using the power of the Internet...besides everyone out of work gets tired of looking at the same job ads over and over again.