My roomie & me decided to go see the movie Thor today. We had read the reviews & opted not to see it in 3D. It'd been a few months since I had been to a theater. We wanted to get out of the house & just have a fun day. Going to a movie sounded like a reasonably good idea.
Oh what little we knew. In February when I went by myself, I paid $8 for the non-matinee ticket & $4 for my drink. I thought $12 was expensive, but it had been a while since we had gone out anywhere, so what the hell? Right? Hah! Let's take a look at those prices, shall we?
Two matinee tickets came to: $12
Theater special for two large drinks & popcorn cost: $18
Gas over to the theater in Fort Smith, AR cost: $10
That comes to a total of:
Now, if I had gotten candy at the theater for the both of us, it would've tacked on $10 more. That would've been a total of $50. I would've been another $6 if the movie had been in 3D. I pay around $19 a month for Netflix & can see all the movies the mail can get or that I watch on streaming.
It's hard to enjoy a movie when you feel like you just got gouged. There is no movie out there worth paying $20 + to see. I realize that the gas cost isn't the theater's fault, but still we all have to pay gas to get to theater, so I think it should be taken into consideration.
Oh well, Thor was an OK movie & this was a lesson learned. A sad lesson, I used to love going to the theater, but I can't afford to pay that much to see a movie. Good-bye theater, it was nice knowing you. Now it's just Netflix & me.
Hope you had a good holiday weekend.
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