edit// also 2 adults = £ 14.50 [$ 23.76 USD] wtf?!
oh my effing god.
don't even get me started on the prices at movie theaters these days.
yeah.
I first noticed that sh*t about 2 months ago on a date, took this girl to go see Public Enemies. and all we bought were the tickets because we had gotten food just prior, so there was no popcorn or drinks on the bill.
later that night I dump the crap out of my pockets and look at my receipt.
f*cking 30 dollars for 2 adults @ 9:10PM showing. 30 bucks!
what the hell.
and when I do get food, I don't normally get anything other than a large popcorn and a bottle of water. but now a god damn bottle of water (you know, that stuff that just falls from the sky) is $3.50!
3.50??
who decided that? they should have their balls hammered to pieces.
oh, and don't forget how they've begun showing commercials before movies. this has been coming for several years. it started with them running like one, single commercial before the previews. but it would be a good one, like one that was actually funny or cool and that you hadn't seen on TV very often if at all.
but now they show an entire, standard commercial break before the previews. I'm talking 4, 5, or 6 ads. and it's nothing special, it's the not-funny-trying-to-be-hip-dime-a-dozen Mountain Dew or video game ads that you've probably seen a thousand times that week.
your parents ever tell you stories about when they used to go to the movies?
it cost you like 5 bucks. total.
that's tickets and food for 2.
and then before the movie, you'd get newsreels, a weather report, some cartoons, maybe a Three Stooges short, and then some previews.
now it's 30 bucks just to get in the door and sitting through 8 minutes of advertisements just to get to the previews.
christ.
where'd I set my joint...