to go to a movie. We just got back from taking my daughter to her first movie. We saw Beauty and the Beast in 3d. For two adults and a child it was $37.50. Add another $20 for a popcorn and a drink. How can people afford to do this very often, much less a high school kid to take a girl on a date?

thats why they go parking, see what you have to look forward to

Never, ever, ever.

Yep. That and the generally pitiful quality of movies in recent years are the reasons why I've been to maybe 2 or 3 in the last 5 or 6 years.

The last movie I went to see at the theater was in 2002 or 2003, I believe. I did not realize it had gotten so expensive. Dang. No wonder my mom takes her grandkids to the cheap movie place in Cleburne, instead of to the one down the street from their house in Burleson.

It's expensive being a family man. I spent less money single and hitting the bars 5 nights a week than I do now. But I will say I like who I am, and the people around me, much more and I'd pay ten times over to keep it that way

Cinemark in Lancaster is like 3 bucks for first run movies. Yes you have to pack heat to get throught the parking lot but it's a good deal. I let the wife and kids take the lead, she has the 9mm and I cover them with the .45. She takes the big purse stuffed with popcorn.

Netflix

Or

Order pay per view movies from uverse, $6 and yo can watch them for 2 days

We go maybe 2-3 times a year. Went yesterday afternoon and the price for a matinee showing was $7.50/each. May be a while before I go again.

Just do it, quit your complaining

Yea going to the movies is expensive.

I quit going, to much $$$

We try to only go and catch them at the before 5pm price which is $5-6 a ticket.

No wonder so many families have movie night at home. Many of the movies are out on DVD's just a few weeks after they open in theaters. At $20.00 to buy the movie, you are still ahead by $30.00-40.00 by waiting just a few weeks. It is even cheaper if you rent the movie.

tinseltown in grapevine is waaaayyyy cheaper than most other places. like 6 bucks a ticket. maybe less. thats where we usually go if we wanna see a movie. we go to about 5 movies a year.

I don't go. Don't understand why people pay that much for so little entertainment.


But to be fair, the cost of a movie ticket is less than the cost of a Crown Royal at the bar.

+1.

you sound like my FIL..

"$20 for my phone bill?" (yeah DB, it'd be more if you weren't on my plan)

+1.

but at least with the crown, you are guaranteed a return on investment.

Last movie for me at a theater was the "Indiana Jones Great Boulder Flight".
Had 1 really good gunfight scene .

been so long since I payed to get into a movie I think maybe it was a John Wayne first run, may have even been in black and white.

Okay.... we need to work up a spreadsheet that cross references this thread with any number of other threads that talk about our group visitng BPS, Cabellas, Acadamey, Tacklewarehouse, etc.

I am always amazed at how many people talk about dropping "a couple of bills" or getting $150 - $250 rods or buying $15-$20 lures.

Most, not all, but most of us spend a lot of discretionary money on different things. My wife and kids love movies, so I figure if I can spend the money I do on fising (because I don't really need any more stuff), then I can spend money entertaining them.

I mean really, you spent $50 going to a movie.....where else did you spend $50 this week?

couldn't make it to the truck stop last night so I saved mine.

Everything is expensive.....

I went grocery shopping with my wife last week and just about passed out at the final bill.... We didn't get that much either.

Last movie I saw at the theater was "The Bucket List" before that something like "Top Gun". But I get tripped up in BP a lot.

We only go to the Matinee pricing $5 and No 3D, not worth it. And get a combo pack of popcorn and drinks, for (2) $10 and (3) $12.
For 2 to go we do it for $20, For 3 to go $27.

Thats why I dont go...at least thats the excuse I use. We can watch a movie in the man cave for 5 bucks!

HEY!! It's only money, go to the movies, for cryin' out loud!!

Everybody in our trailer park goes to those fancy Movie Theaters! And buys the BIGGEST cokes and HUGE BUCKETS of popcorn!

We live in .............A TRAILER PARK!!

I've lived in the DFW are since 1989, and have been to two movies, the last being Castaway, and the projector broke with about 30 minutes left in the movie. Weird thing is that I don't feel I've missed a thing, and have saved tons of $$.

+1.......Ted Dyer... YOU ROCK!!

Last time I went to a movie theater I saw Willy Nelson....starring in "Barbarosa". Yep...it's been awhile.

It is 4 bucks a ticket.

We took a few kids and moms to see Chimpwrecked at fossil creek and they tickets were 7 each (for a matinee) what a ripoff.

I try to goto grapevine or the $1 movies. I also smuggle in a juice box for my kid.

Smugglin juice boxes

ok that sounds kinda wierd/dirty when you say it like that.

my 11 yr old went to the movies on a field trip and had to buy her own drink and snacks for the first time...she couldn't believe how expensive it was. Now she knows why we smuggle candy in.

You almost gotta be from Southlake!

My new hotazz girlfriend worked at a movie theater over christmas while she was home from school... one of those movie tavern places (in colleyville)
Damn she knocked down some good money

Was cheap for me though, we went to 6-7 movies in 4 weeks, didn't cost me a dime and IT was all you can eat. SCORE

I don't like 3D movies, so I save there. Plus, here if you go on Tuesdays, it's matinee prices all day. There just aren't a whole lot of movies I want to go pay to see.

I have no problem spending the money on my family. It's just that that is high for a movie. There is no reason a movie should be over $7/ticket, Much less $13.

yep it is thats y i dont get any popcorn or soft drinks

Hey, Dually, have you been to the theater in Clifton? I've thought about taking my niece and nephews, but I've never been.

I miss the old drive in movies for a $1 per car load.

Drive in here down the road is $5 for 2 new releases. Cooler o' beer and air mattress in the back of my truck is a recipe for weekend greatness.

Well, then, let's add in the costs of video games systems for the kids, a trampoline, American Girl dolls, countless Lego sets, etc. My kids sure as heck aren't deprived, and, when I buy fishing tackle, there is a great chance that the kiddos will get to use/enjoy a lot of it, as well--they love fishing, and we enjoy time spent doing that MUCH more than going to the movies. I feel like I was robbed 90% of the time I do go to the theater. Fact is, I hate going to the movies, and my wife enjoys it, so she takes the kids. I love fishing, and my wife hates it, so I take the kids. I hear what you're saying, but I don't see going to the movies as critical to living a quality life.

The indoor theaters here are meeting points for future felons and their hood rat gf's. Then you got those groups of people who haven't grasped the concept of sthu during a movie. It's sad there has to be a shift of cops in the lobby. All this in a nice part of town!

THIS is probably reason #1 I don't go.

Lss I sure have not, in fact i guess i didnt know there was one.