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re: Gosling: It's not the audience's job to save theaters, we have to make better movies
Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:14 pm to boxcarbarney
Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:14 pm to boxcarbarney
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I took 5 of us to see Project Hail Mary on Sunday
$100+ for tickets
$100+ for concessions
AC was broken in the theater. Hot as balls.
Making good movies will put asses in seats, yeah, but goddamn, something's gotta give with these prices.
Our AMC theater was $25 a ticket for the Dolby screen, which was badass, and they had huge reclining seats with seat heaters and big arm rests. I hate sitting next to strangers in a movie but barely noticed the guy next to me existed. Huge legroom in front of us so people going to the bathroom weren't a disturbance.
We ate dinner elsewhere before and they let us bring water bottles in.
I'll pay $25 for a ticket for that experience.
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Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:16 pm to LemmyLives
Smarter than what?
We don't go to as many movies as we used to. And when we do decide to go it shouldn't take some deep dive into discounts and searching different theaters within a 100 mile radius looking for the best deals like I'm shopping for a new car.
We don't go to as many movies as we used to. And when we do decide to go it shouldn't take some deep dive into discounts and searching different theaters within a 100 mile radius looking for the best deals like I'm shopping for a new car.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 4:28 pm to boxcarbarney
Where did you go that the tickets were that much? I went to Cinemark in Perkins Rowe in BR and it was about 12 bucks a ticket and I got to pick my seat ahead of time and recline back.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 5:18 pm to boxcarbarney
Not eat at the theater (popcorn is unavoidable,) for starters. My $10 ticket was with reclining seats.
The theater my kids like to go to offers $15 tickets, and $22 tickets. And premium parking. At A Cinemark nearby, "DBOX" seats are $14. 60 seconds across two websites. I'm not Grouponing anything.
Overall point is you could have hit Chili's beforehand and spent less on food, etc. Especially if there are females and kids involved, you have to know they don't see price tags, that's your job.
The theater my kids like to go to offers $15 tickets, and $22 tickets. And premium parking. At A Cinemark nearby, "DBOX" seats are $14. 60 seconds across two websites. I'm not Grouponing anything.
Overall point is you could have hit Chili's beforehand and spent less on food, etc. Especially if there are females and kids involved, you have to know they don't see price tags, that's your job.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 5:32 pm to RollTide1987
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genuinely enjoyed Project Hail Mary because it was good, old-fashioned story telling about two bros trying to save the people they loved back home.
Hope studio executives are smart enough to realize this point. PHM was great in spite of it being space/ sci-fi, not because of it. My guess is they’ll start making more alien human work together movies.
Completely missing the point of PHM, the plot and story telling that made it great.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 6:41 pm to LemmyLives
The plan was to eat beforehand, but as often happens, life got in the way and we grabbed some food at the theater.
Even if we’d eaten at home first, doesn’t change the fact that the theater experience is too fricking expensive.
Even if we’d eaten at home first, doesn’t change the fact that the theater experience is too fricking expensive.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 7:04 pm to boxcarbarney
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I took 5 of us to see Project Hail Mary on Sunday $100+ for tickets $100+ for concessions AC was broken in the theater. Hot as balls. Making good movies will put asses in seats, yeah, but goddamn, something's gotta give with these prices
These kind of posts remind me of when streaming was popping off and people complained it was more expensive than cable because they would stack every conceivable streaming service cost on top of each other rather than realize you can pick and choose which service you pay for monthly and cut and run whenever you want
First things first- there almost no activity available today that you can take a family of 5 out for and not spend 100 plus bucks.
Movie theater costs similarly - are a skill issue for the most part, most theaters offer discounts days and discounted times that would knock off 15-20 percent of that if you go on a Tuesday or Wednesday rather than a weekend. Keep in mind you’re paying a premium bc of the imax showing as well
Complaining about the food prices again, total skill issue. Just bring your own snacks. The minimum wage employee at the door does not care. You can pick up the same snacks at the dollar store for like 10 bucks total.
Finally, taking it a step further if you really want bang for your buck, if you are paying 100 bucks for 5 people to see a movie anyway, might as well buy 5 AMC passes, and you just 4x the same amount of spend, can go back to the movies 3 more times that month for the same price, then cancel it at the end of the month.
Not saying ticket prices like most things haven’t gotten way more expensive, but it can be relatively inexpensive for going out and entertaining a family for 2-3 hours if you do it right
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:24 pm to boxcarbarney
quote:god bless the prytania theater
I took 5 of us to see Project Hail Mary on Sunday
$100+ for tickets
$100+ for concessions
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:30 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Me and Sun God Jr can get in for about $35 with popcorn and a drink at the Perkins Rowe theater
Not too bad these days honestly
Not too bad these days honestly
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:45 pm to Sun God
Yeah $35 for 2 hours of entertainment plus a drink/snack is a big win these days. I don’t think cost has much to do with poor box office performance
ETA I’ve never thought about this before, but there’s a generation of rich/city kids who only know the reclining seed / more upscale theaters now. That’s weird
ETA I’ve never thought about this before, but there’s a generation of rich/city kids who only know the reclining seed / more upscale theaters now. That’s weird
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 9:48 pm
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:02 pm to CatfishJohn
Paid 25 a piece for me and my son for IMAX early showing plus 40 for food/snacks. I would say it was still well worth it for the great theater experience!
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:04 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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ETA I’ve never thought about this before, but there’s a generation of rich/city kids who only know the reclining seed / more upscale theaters now. That’s weird
Yeah we always go to the most basic format so that obviously saves some money
It does have reclining seats and free drink refills
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:06 pm to GatorPA84
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Paid 25 a piece for me and my son for IMAX early showing plus 40 for food/snacks
Gawddamn
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:11 pm to St Augustine
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Barbie did well
Oppenheimer did well
F1 did well
Top Gun 2 did well
Project Hail Mary is doing well
Minecraft did well
Super Mario Brothers is about to crush it again
Quite a list you have there! Your last two are movies mom's take their 10 year old to, with a couple of friends, for a Saturday matinee.
I dropped Top Gun 2 on you as an example of a blockbuster. The rest? Only Barbie could be argued, and only because all the 50 year old white women went out together, had a few glasses of wine while dressed in pink oufits, and made a girl's night.
Ryan Gosling JUST came out and stated that he did not blame the audience for failing theaters, because HOLLYWOOD IS MAKING SHITTY MOVIES!
Almost everything is a rehash of a classic, and usually an abomination. I present the all-girl Ghostbusters as exhibit A. Gosling made a very good point, Star Wars fell off the map, a new Scream just got made, and I'm really looking forward to the next Godzilla movie.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 1:15 am to RollTide1987
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think it very interesting that he's married to Eva Mendes and that she retired from acting so she could raise their kids. He also seems guarded and private.
She’s stated that she never wanted kids. Until she met him. And as you pointed out, she voluntarily became a stay at home mom. Maybe there’s something to this man.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 5:42 am to Kinderman
I mean, he wasn't a bomb thrower (looking at you, Ruffalo), but I did not have the baby goose as the voice of reason on my 2026 Bingo card.
One just never knows, right?
One just never knows, right?
Posted on 3/26/26 at 7:23 am to greygoose
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Your last two are movies mom's take their 10 year old to, with a couple of friends, for a Saturday matinee.
Mario made $1.3 billion from reduced price showings only on Saturdays?
Damn. That makes it even more impressive.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 7:36 am to greygoose
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Almost everything is a rehash of a classic, and usually an abomination.
It’s just been overdone at this point.
I went to a ton of midnight premieres back in the day starting with the Star Wars prequels, Raimi Spider-Man, Nolan Batman, LOTR, Iron Man, Captain America, X-Men, and many others.
A lot of those movies were great, but it’s all just kind of run its course. The old material is exhausted.
Posted on 3/26/26 at 7:48 am to Jay Are
Holy shite. A Jay Are post and it's not a shite take. 
Posted on 3/26/26 at 8:38 am to greygoose
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Minecraft did well
Super Mario Brothers is about to crush it again
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Your last two are movies mom's take their 10 year old to, with a couple of friends, for a Saturday matinee.
MInecraft was widely popular. So popular in fact that it overachieved at the box office. And it became viral for people to act up in the theater during the Chicken Jockey scene and post it to tiktok. Which helped to drive ticket sales.
It also broke box office records:
Biggest opening YTD (as of April 7, 2025), ahead of Captain America: Brave New World ($88.8M).
Record opening for a Movie Based on a Videogame, outstripping Super Mario Bros Movie‘s 3-day cume of $146.3M in 2023.
Record opening for a Warner Bros-Legendary co-production, ahead of The Dark Knight Rises ($160.8M).
Largest Friday-Saturday-Sunday opening since Deadpool & Wolverine, $211.4M in July 2024
Warner Bros’ biggest Saturday of all time at $60M, previously Batman vs Superman ($50.6M)
Warner Bros’ biggest Sunday of all time at $46.3M, previously Barbie ($43.7M)
The only film in box office history to open to over $50 million and see no drop Saturday — instead, it rose by 4%. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropped 0% from Friday to Saturday but only opened to $41M.
Overall, biggest industry weekend of 2025 YTD with $205M, previously Presidents’ Day Weekend (3-day was $155.4M and 4-day $181.2M) and largest since Thanksgiving weekend 2024 ($277M)
Mario was also widely popular.
Neither of these were "we have nothing to do, let's go catch a movie at the matinee with the kids" kind of movies.
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