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Topic: STAR WARS The Force Awakens getting great reviews
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Mike Blakesley
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Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-20-2015 11:21 PM
So Steve, why do you always want to dump all over everything?
The reason they think people care about the dollar figures is simple: People DO care about the dollar figures. It's interesting.
Bottom line - The movie is doing good business and getting great reviews.
This guy:
quote: Steve Matz
How much is that in real worth terms. When you can charge $20 for an adult ticket vs. the $1.75 of the 70's
...is an idiot. You are getting FAR more for your money now than you did in the '70s. Way more screens, way better sound, movies get out to more locations faster, more comfortable seats, etc. If we suddenly went back to the way things were in the '70s, there would be an outcry of anguish that would fill the galaxy and beyond. Also MOST tickets don't cost $20 today. The average is still around $8.
For the record, we had a bigger crowd here tonight (Sunday) than we had on any of the first 3 nights, in fact we had double the crowd tonight than what we had Friday. So I'm sure a LOT of people are thinking everything's sold out, and/or they're waiting for the "crowds to die down."
Either way - the movie is getting fine word of mouth and virtually everyone I'm running into on the street is telling me they want to come see it. We've already had multiple people come and see it twice, and one guy has been here 3 of the 4 nights so far and says he's coming back to see it more times.
So while I still think week 4 will be a dead zone around here, it's going to play fine thru the holidays.
There's always gotta be nay-sayers I guess.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-22-2015 09:17 AM
There is now all this press hype about how many hundreds of millions of dollars any movie made over its opening weekend. The media doesn't even bother to report how much a movie made at the end of its theatrical run anymore. It's only about opening weekend. The media's attention span is that short, and they think the public's attention span is that short too.
The funny thing is the $100 million, $200 million or even $500 million opening weekend tallies mean very little. How many tickets were sold!? Specifically how many people watched the damned movie!? The media and movie industry NEVER report that because it wouldn't be very impressive against bona fide blockbusters of decades past and might bring attention to how much more it costs to go to the movies now.
quote: Mike Blakesley
You are getting FAR more for your money now than you did in the '70s. Way more screens, way better sound, movies get out to more locations faster, more comfortable seats, etc. If we suddenly went back to the way things were in the '70s, there would be an outcry of anguish that would fill the galaxy and beyond. Also MOST tickets don't cost $20 today. The average is still around $8.
Not around here, and this isn't even the big city. Ticket averages could only dip anywhere near $8 by including every discount available at theaters and equally weighing small town theater ticket prices against bigger city theaters that have far more customer traffic. Most people are going to first run theaters and paying evening adult ticket prices. Standard evening ticket prices at our new Carmike theater go over $11 per ticket when you include the sales tax, add $3 for 3D, $4 for IMAX and $7 for IMAX 3D.
Most tickets may not be costing $20 per ticket, but movies like the new Star Wars sequel are indeed getting a huge chunk of their earnings from those kinds of high priced tickets. Here in Lawton it does indeed cost nearly $20 per ticket to watch the new Star Wars movie in IMAX 3D, $17.50 plus 8.75% sales tax. Order them from Fandango and the price will be over $19. The IMAX house in that new theater has, by far, the highest seating capacity in the complex.
quote: Steve Guttag
I dunno...I think if today's people saw theatres of the '70s (not built in the 70s but survived into the 70s)...they'd like them for their LARGE SIZE, balconies...etc. I'll take a good Art Deco theatre over a "modern" theatre any day. There is more to a theatre than just the electric seats though those can be a nice addition. Most of the cinemas today are just uninspired boxes.
Yeah, uninspiried boxes with what looks like a giant TV screen. If the customer pays out the wazoo for a "premium" experience chances are he'll be watching a 'scope aspect ratio movie letter-boxed on a screen lacking masking and curtains, just like the HDTV set in the living room at home.
But why shouldn't commercial movie theaters go with common width screens? The serious compromises in the design of the d-cinema playback and projection hardware all but dictate a glorified TV screen approach.
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