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   Al said, 2 months ago

   not much change in the movie experience, I see

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   Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

   “Southgate Cinema 3000” sounds familiar: I think I’ve been there. I like today’s point-counterpoint, with Opus as the voice of common sense….

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   opuscroakus70 said, 2 months ago

   The Boondocks animated series had a show with the same topic. Granddad had the kids sneak in pretty much a full course meal, and when one of kids pointed out the sign saying “No Outside Food”, he said “That’s why we hide it INSIDE our clothes!”

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   DroptmaStyx said, 2 months ago

   Only six bucks for a Coke? Those were the good old days!

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   poppabob said, 2 months ago

   Berke - you left off all the Left-wing Hollywood quasi-scientific documentaries on global warming, romance flicks featuring Babs, Redford, Hoffman, Beatty, and the endless stream of horror/slasher bombs. Yep, the industry has come a long way in 30 years!

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   desturbedlio said, 2 months ago

   ah, what good service

   NOT!!! :-)

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   jrbj said, 2 months ago

   I’ve noticed that most people in my region go to the budget theatres because they can’t afford the prices at first run threatres. I drive by the neighborhood budget theatre and the parking lot is jammed - and this is in the afternoon. I couldn’t figure out why this would be until it dawned on me that all these people are on unemployment and have nothing else to do.

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   John said, 2 months ago

   My wife and I both work and go to the budget cinema. We have better things to do with our money than spend $30 + snacks for the family to go to a movie.

   Are we supposed to be impressed because jrbj is too vain to save money? hah! That’s what’s wrong with the economy.

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   artybee said, 2 months ago

   The darned second-run “dollar” show costs $2 now. I haven’t eaten or drunk anything in a movie theater for many years.

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    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    Yeah, I could go for a small coke about now.

    COKE! IT’S THE REAL THING!

    Dig it!

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    jmworacle said, 2 months ago

    Pepsi RULES!

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    jack75287 said, 2 months ago

    OldHipster we don’t mean nose candy.

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    NyukNyuk2000 said, 2 months ago

    And they wonder why people don’t go to the movies anymore.

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    SherlockWatson said, 2 months ago

    In the future, all movies will go directly to video because no one will want to shell out $45 for a ticket. A shame, really, since some movies are best viewed with an audience; during the school play scene in The Addams Family, I was laughing and cheering along with the people around me, and it was great.

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    bashar327 said, 2 months ago

    I hope most people realize that movie studios are the ones responsible for the outragous prices at movies, not the theater’s themselves. Studios take about 90% of each ticket price. That’s why theater’s have to make it up with food and drinks. Just like software and CD’s, I think movie studios are pricing themselves out of potentially more, if not eventually fully out of, business.

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    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

    I save a heckuvalot of dough by sitting in the back of the drive in on the outside and watch the movie. Sure I can hear it!

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    pbarnrob said, about 1 month ago

    A few (just a very few) places in the country still have drive-ins. SoCal may still have a couple or three. “Movie? What movie? We couldn’t see for the steamed-up windows anyway!”

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    Shadoglare said, about 1 month ago

    Wow, a movie coke was only six dollars back then??