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Theatre Owners Plan New Amenities to Lure Back Moviegoers

Seeded on Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:12 PM EDT
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entertainment, movies, theatres
Seeded by Derek van Vliet
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Theatre owners are trying everything they can think of to generate more ticket sales. I feel bad for them. It's not their fault that movies generally suck nowadays.

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But it is their fault they think 20 minutes of commercial before the previews is ok while charging me more for admission. At least at home I can fast-forward through them.

I refuse to go to my local theater anymore for two simple reasons:
- They let people haul in their babies and children to late night shows. If you can't afford a babysitter, you probably shouldn't be going out anyway and the theater shouldn't be letting families into a 10:50PM show for an R-rated movie.
- A complete lack of common courtesy for other theater-goers. People either won't shut-up or just have a lack of consideration for their surroundings. Last movie I went to, some guy with a group of 6 other people fell asleep and started snoring in the row behind us. I turned around and they just looked at me like "what are we supposed to do." Theater ushers could greatly help with this.

I hope that the decline in theater attendance forces chains to continue to re-evaluate their business model. They can't control bad movies, but they can do a much better job preventing a bad movie-going experience.

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