Comments on: Movie Ticket Sales In 2017 Reached Lowest Levels Since 1995 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/movie-ticket-sales-2017-1995-20180102/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:36:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Recently.Reaped https://staging2.theplaylist.net/movie-ticket-sales-2017-1995-20180102/#comment-157540 Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:31:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=378826#comment-157540 I still enjoy going to the movies, but now I have kids and going isn’t about just me or me and my wife paying for tickets. I have to buy 4 tickets, it’s at least $50 for the experience. I still go a few times with friends and it doesn’t cost as much, but again I have a family and I spend time with them. And I’d rather have my kids doing stuff than watching it more than vice versa.

The cost is a big factor. As a teen we have $5 movie nights, my friends and I would see just about everything that came out for $5 and then maybe $5 more for a drink and popcorn. The concession prices are out of control. I refuse to pay that much unless I get a movie pass from Costco which severly reduces my costs. If I don’t do that I bring my own snacks which are at least 1/3 of the cost.

Because of these factors, I save my movie going experience for tentpole films that offer more on the big screen than a good drama that can be viewed on a tv screen.

I also think the movie studios will get greedy with VOD and charge more than a movie ticket to view the films that way and still bitch and moan instaed of lower the cost and making up for the differecne in volume.

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