I'm not sure what they are smoking. I just checked there website and the Naperville theater is charging 13 bucks a seat. Even people who are still interested in going to the theater and aren't afraid of covid can go to a Cinemark matinee for 5 bucks. I'm guessing they have no choice with all the debt but people will simply stop going if they have other options. Anyways, that's a lot of boarded up theaters. Maybe Disney or Amazon will buy them.

The impending death of public spaces is going to be sad, even if a lot of people had stopped going to the movies anyway. But I liked restaurants and libraries and trains and minor-league hockey games.

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Going to the movies has always been about more than the cheapest ticket. I'm sorry you're poor.

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That's just not true, and it certainly is even less true now.

Theaters should want to get people in the door to buy their food/drink. High ticket prices are bad for that.

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For real. I never understood complaints about ticket prices. If you like seeing movies in a theater $13 for a ticket should not price you out unless you're struggling to put food on the table. I don't think that applies to many folks here.

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If you want that super theater thing, you pay $13. I think I've paid as much as $19 a ticket for one of the Star Wars at Vernon Hills.

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I'll pay premium for a reserved/reclining seat.

I gave up on movie theatres (and movies in general) about a decade ago. Mostly because with comfortable seats I now tend to fall asleep!

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LOL yes I'm headed to the food pantry as we speak. I'm just very picky where I spend my entertainment dollar. I'll gladly pay 100-300 dollars to see a favorite band of mine live in the expensive seats. Then I take that 8 bucks I'm saving by going to Cinemark instead of AMC every week and use that 400 bucks for something else. Maybe you consider that being cheap, fine. I like spending hard earning money wisely. If you are rich, good for you. Most people have to budget.

I made it a point to specify the exact opposite

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I don't think I've gone to the movies and not paid extra to see it in the special DOLBY theaters that each AMC has 1 or 2 of. The screens are better, the sound is far better, and the seats are for more comfortable than any shitty $5 theater.

Stay home and torrent the movie, cheap fucks.

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lol, Dolby, that reminds me of before the internet when you had to call for the movie times, ("HELLO MOVIEPHONE") and the jackoff on the recording would go on about the movie is in Dolby this and Dolby that...just give me the times asshole!

Great Seinfeld episode btw

You better believe it. Giddy up!

anyone under 40 wouldn't understand that episode these days.

Just saying...the person looking for the most frugal movie ticket is not AMC's target consumer. Additionally, their target consumer outnumbers the frugal movie theater consumer considering there are a lot more AMC / Regal / Cineplex than the tetanus themed movie theaters.

One also doesn't go to Crate and Barrel and bitch that their prices are more expensive than Walmart.

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Stars and Scrubs theory. My dad lives by that. He will use his K-cup a second time to save $0.45, but used to drop money on breakfast for all of us at Walker Brothers every other week when we lived up north. His thing has always been for me to not get trapped by the boring and mediocre middle.

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Yeah, lets just close any sort of public space. Yay! This is the future I'm sure everyone wanted!

The same people who take a weird sort of sadistic delight in AMC dying because they just sit in a dark room watching forty hours of Netflix a week are also the ones who confounded by their persistent depression. Which of course they've blamed on capitalism or whatever.

One of the things I don't understand about the media class's hegemonic position on the death of public spaces being Actually Good is that they've all chosen to congregate in one of four cities notorious for their exorbitant rents on small living spaces, the tradeoff being, wait for it, public space. I suppose they can live such lives equally well in Boise or Grand Rapids at this point. Maybe there are slightly fewer takeout options and it's harder to do blow with your colleagues, but the streaming in a dark room is just as good, and the fresh air wouldn't hurt.

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If you're a guy who likes to do blow I can't imagine it's hard to find in just about any city in America. Even the shitholes have folks who are too decent for meth.

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But you haven't really done blow until you've done it with a guy who wrote for Deadspin

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Boise is pretty hot right now with Californians.

But the real reason these people dont just live in Appleton or even the suburbs is there's no social capital in it. And that matters to people who devote thousands of hours every year to binge watching shitty television and are thus bereft of any skills or hobbies. Bragging that they live in Big Bad New York City, even though they spend a negligible amount of time outside their apartments, is basically the only interesting thing about them.

People don't live in the suburbs?

If there is a social capital allure to City life, it fades over time. At least in my friend group. Everyone that I know that lived in the City has been following the L or Metra Northwest, or the Metra south, southwest, with the exception of a small few. And MANY have or are leaving City jobs to work in the suburbs (or nearby) they live in.

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Were talking about a particular class of people who's cultural influence (and just overall vocalness) is exponentially greater than their share of the population. There's still a lot of them though.

They basically live in the city and complain about everything yet they really only watch streaming television most of their waking hours and dont ever leave the house. Not even for food. They also like social media a lot.

Yeah, they're on Twitter saying things like this:



"If we shut down the entire country completely and didn't let people out of their homes under any circumstance whatsoever for a whole month, we would beat this thing.*

*We would not actually beat this thing."

Maybe this is second nature if you're already sequestered for the most part. Everyone can't live that way. And someone always has to bring your food, or "supply rations."

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You even captured the odd sort of giddy susceptibility to blatant Chinese lies and propaganda.

Dunno about suburbs, but houses for sale in Town and Gown zip codes are off the market same day they're listed. Been that way all summer.

Homes in Montana are going for above asking price with only virtual tours.

Not hard to pay $65,000 when they're asking $60,000.

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