movies

[lukethedrifter]

I guess it's family members who work the ticket booth and concessions. Pleasant people.

[go birds]

One of many reasons I love the Hi Pointe theatre. Fair prices on concessions, no commercials.

The Hi-Pointe popcorn is my favorite theater popcorn in the area. Great price, it's fresh, and the sizes are good (if I order a medium, I'm not getting 25 pounds of popcorn).

i know its cliche to complain about theater prices, but 2 tickets (matinee), a medium drink and a medium popcorn: $24

We only ate half the bag of popcorn. The small bag isnt enough and the medium is too big.

[lukethedrifter]

Sounds cheaper than wehrenberg

[Jocephus]

i'm surprised there were commercials. IIRC, seems like 10 years ago the places here tried to add commercials to the pre-movie stuff but it got just such a terrible response they removed them in under a year. i assumed this was the same all over, that there was a big enough backlash to having commercials at the theater.

[JL21]

Sounds cheaper than wehrenberg

I always found their matinee prices to be quite friendly. At least the movie ticket portion of it anyway. Concessions items are a totally different deal

[lukethedrifter]

Was trying to make the math work. Matinees must be $5 or so.

[go birds]

yea it was a smaller theater--matinee was $5.75/ticket

it would have been $24 for two tickets at the same time at a different theater

[go birds]

i'm surprised there were commercials. IIRC, seems like 10 years ago the places here tried to add commercials to the pre-movie stuff but it got just such a terrible response they removed them in under a year. i assumed this was the same all over, that there was a big enough backlash to having commercials at the theater.

Here's the thing ive noticed over the past couple of years--there are interview clips, trivia and ads sprinkled in before the lights go down. then there are commercials after the lights go down, then there are previews and then right before the movie starts there is the movie theater company intro (with a nice coke ad worked into that).

Its really ridiculous.

[heyzeus]

Saw the Big Short. I read the book a few years ago. Movie is self-referential and does an adequate job explaining the collateral debt obligations and credit default swaps while still being engaging for a movie audience. It's a bit on the nose, a bit too in love with its own cleverness with its winking asides. But I like that it at least hinted at the moral question of "these guys bet against the American economy and won, but at what price, and to what end?"

8 unicorns out of 10.

[cardinalkarp]

Ok seriously, there was nothing at Redbox so I tried Spike Lee's (first mistake) movie Chi-Raq. How has it not come out (or how did I miss) that they literally tried to rhyme every line in the GD movie?

Just couldn't do it, WAY to distracting and annoying.