Movie Theatres - How often Do you go to the Movies


How often Do you go to the Movies a Year, on Average?  

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  1. 1. How often Do you go to the Movies a Year, on Average?

    • < Once per year ?
      3
    • 1-3 times per year ?
      13
    • 4-7 times per year ?
      6
    • 8-10 times per year ? ?
      9
    • More than 10 times per year ?
      9
    • I dont go to the movies, I rent.
      1


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A friend and I were having an arguement on how often people go to the movies anymore. I argued that with the increase in prices and the poor quality of movies that are released that more people tend to rent. He argues that the same amount of people go to the movies and then buy it on DVD when it comes out. Personally I have been to the movie theatres 5 times in the last 5 years.

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I go maybe 1 - 2 times a year. I simply can't afford it any more often. Also, for other people, you have to take in to account the quality of home theater setups. Many people prefer watching it in the quiet of their home where they can be free from crowd problems and can, often times, get a better picture.

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I personally rather sit @ home and watch the movie. I can buy the DVD for $10-$20 and watch it as much as I want. I spent good $$ to have a decent home theater set up and it will always have priority over going to a movie theater. Just can't see spending $8 to see the movie once...

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After seeing Doom last year I'm done with move theaters. $8.75 for the ticket $10 more for a drink and a box of candy then 20 minutes of ads, want be doing that again. At the end of the movie people where tossing stuff at the screen and booing I was ready to get the hell out of there. It's not so much that the movie sucked as the whole experience sucked. Now we have cops that hang out at the theater and if they see anything that looks like a camera bag they will search you.

This reminds me of a song called Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffett

?Take for example when you go to the movies these days, you know.

They try to sell you this jumbo drink, 8 extra ounces of watered

Down cherry coke for an extra 25 cents. I don?t want it.

I don?t want that much organization in my life.

I don?t want other people thinking for me.

I want my junior mints. Where did the junior mints go in the

Movies. I don?t want a 12 lb. Nestl??s crunch for 25 dollars. I

Want junior mints.?

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I found this and thought it was interesting, especially to my side of the debate. So if we look at their compilation of statistical data, specifically #1, we can relatively assertain that the MPAA is making a respectable profit. But yet in #2, movie attendance is down aprroximately 2.4% or 30 million. So profits are up but attendance is down, from this we can say, fairly accurately, that those that attend the movies are paying the difference so that the MPAA can maintain their profit margin, which actually coincides with #4. In reference to #5, the data is flawed. The percentages that they use is missing a large portion of the population. 37% and 46% = 81%, so the question remains, "Who accounts for the remaining 19%"?. Could it be those that dont attend the Cinemas at all?

Now lets take a look at some statistical data.

1. US box office for 2004 was $9.54 billion. This represents a .5% increase over 2003's box office of $9.49 billion.

2. US admissions were down 2.4% in 2004, for a total of 1.54 billion. This compares to 1.57 billion in 2003.

3. The average cost to make and market an MPAA film was $98 million in 2004. This includes $63.6 million in negative costs and $34.4 million in print and advertising costs.

4. In 2004, the average ticket price for the US was $6.21. This represents a 3% increase over the 2003 average ticket price of $6.03.

5. In 2004, 37% of moviegoing population were frequent moviegoers and 46% were occasional moviegoers.

(Source Quotes from - http://www.mpaa.org/researchStatistics.asp)

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Two movie tickets: $17.00

The latest DVD during the first week of release: $16-18.

I'll take the DVD, thank you very much. Even if you buy a DVD of a film you've never seen, and don't like it, you can usually get 60% of your money back by selling it on Half.com or eBay. (Y)

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Wow. Thanks to Orange Wednesdays (For UKers: Text 'Film' to 241 to get two tickets for the price of one, if you're with Orange ofcourse), I go one a week (it there's something decent on).

- Brent

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Last movie I saw at the theatre was the 2nd Harry Potter movie. Couldn't tell you what year that was.

Who needs to go to the theatre when I have the internet :whistle:

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