F'in brilliant! Just brilliant. Just when everyone is starting to have home theater systems that rival the theater expierence, and when rentals are instantly available on services like Netflix, you go and RAISE your prices...are you f'in kidding me? Don't tell me it's cost of inflation because tickets only went up a total of like $5 from the time of the first theaters to like 1999-2000. That's almost a hundred years, or .50 cents a year in increase and in the last ten years? Well it's gone up $5....that's right it freaking doubled in the last decade and you're gonna blame inflation? Pound sand you douchebags, see how much you can charge when no one's freaking coming, what'll you do then? Oh I know jack the DVD/BluRay price up to $100/ea and then we'll sit around and wonder why everyone's up to their ears in debt.
The price increase will mostly effect 3D and IMAX 3D showings where the already expensive $13-$15/ticket will be jacked up to $16-$19.50/ ticket. That's right folks, your now paying as much to see a movie once in the theaters as you would to buy the DVD and watch it forever. Hell, maybe there's a silver lining, if we boycott the more expensive, and might I add shitty, 3D format maybe we'll see an end to the already tired fad. These price changes will be on a per theater basis but you can bet your ass that there won't be one theater not raising prices once everyone else does it. This seems like a straight up, strike while the irons hot, money grab to me. I would be surprised if this wasn't a breaking point for a lot of your average movie goer's once you get to a certain dollar amount it stops being a "Well it's only 8 bucks" thing and starts being a luxury expense that can be easily cut.
So what do you say? What's your breaking point? What's the dollar amount that makes you call it a Blockbuster night instead of going out to the silver screen?
