[OnTheIce]

Lemmy Lemmy:

The movie theatre in my hometown is old school. Concrete sloped floor. We used to sit in the back row and let the beer bottles roll. Usually they'd get hung up on the seat-supports a few rows ahead of you, but once in a while, a bottle would roll clean to front of the theatre and smash to pieces against stage. Laugh like hell.

Best movie I ever saw in a theatre? Hard to call: Star Wars release in 1997? Maybe Terminator 2? No, it was the time that I took Shelly Whatshername to the Lindsay Mustang Drive-in, but I can't remember what the movie was.

Never been in a theatre that isn't slopped or made of concrete.

[andyt]

The one that had the most impact on me - Slaughterhouse 5.

Most deserving of big screen - tie between Thin Red Line and that Iranian flick - Color something.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

What? Hollywood studios screw the theatre itself? There should be a junkfood tax that everyone has to pay on all junkfood to compensate the poor downtrodden theaters.

Nope, just noting the business model. Without high margin products like pop and popcorn, movie theatres would cease to exist because they hand over 70-90% of all admission to movie studios. The next time you see a headline that some movie made $150 million over the holiday weekend, you can bet that almost every penny goes right back to the studios - the theatres are lucky if they keep enough to pay for the power in the theatre, nevermind staff or other costs.

The movie exhibition industry is like most others - some products are sold at cost or near cost and others have a high profit margin. Look at gas stations, they make most of their profit off of people buying snacks and other high priced goodies, not off gas. Drugstores make next to nothing off the drugs, but make it all off the fees they charge you to dispense it (as well as any other goodies you buy at the same time). Fast food restaurants make a killing off pop and french fries, but next to nothing on burgers. And so on...

Frankly, if people don't want to buy over-priced snacks, then don't do so. Theatre staff don't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy popcorn.

In the unlikely event the sarcasm was lost on you - I was giving a nod to the CD tax we all pay the CRIA to fund the poor artists who are stolen from when that CD is used to copy their music.

No, I got your sarcasm. Just figured I'd expand on my original point.

[Lemmy]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Never been in a theatre that isn't slopped or made of concrete.

You've not been to one built in the last 30 years then, I guess. Nowadays, the floors are a series of steps rather than a smooth, sloped concrete pad.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Lemmy Lemmy:

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Never been in a theatre that isn't slopped or made of concrete.

You've not been to one built in the last 30 years then, I guess. Nowadays, the floors are a series of steps rather than a smooth, sloped concrete pad.

I know exactly what you're talking about. When I lived in Leduc we had the old Gaiety theater. I don't know when it was built but it had the old slopped floor and love seats to boot.

Still waiting for the details on how you made out with Shelly Whatshername that night big guy

[Thanos]

Hopefully it turned out the same way as that scene in the movie theatre from "Diner" with Mickey Rourke and the box of popcorn.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Thanos Thanos:

Hopefully it turned out the same way as that scene in the movie theatre from "Diner" with Mickey Rourke and the box of popcorn.