Movies are cheap, been to a Major League Baseball Game lately? actually better to watch at home, no lines to restroom, don't have to walk mile and half and have to pay for parking to boot, seven bucks cold hotdog that looks like they stepped on it-and my favorite-no toilet paper and floors all wet.
We are about $100 to the cinema for our family of 5. Then if we go for a nice meal afterwards, its another $100. Forget that, just buy some popcorn from the shops and stream the film on the widescreen at home. Thats about $10 all in. So now its only 1 or 2 cinema trips a year for AAA rated films only.
Locally, it is $6 matinee, never crowded, always the best popcorn, and since I don't have a 50ft. screen it makes sense to watch blockbusters on it. 2 pops and 2 popcorns are $9. The larger movie theater, further away, has $2-$3 Tuesdays. Hollywood is making more than ever but now, a lot, comes from overseas markets like China.
No problem with the concept of movie theaters and it'll obviously be superior in most cases than watching it at home (from an experience standpoint) but the content is primarily the issue these days (been that way for years). Not surprisingly when my wife and I do watch movies we go to Landmark near us because we can actually watch something off the beaten path and usually with a bit more heart in it.
This has not been a good summer for movies. A lot of them have done poorly. But I think a lot of it is due to Netflix, Hulu and Amazon etc.... If you can watch a movie at home on your 60 inch 4K TV, it's a good alternative to going to the movies. You save 30-50 bucks and you have a choice of 10,000 movies, not one that starts at a specific time. It might not be the latest and greatest, but if you have never seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show, it's a new movie to you. I don't think it's the movies, it's the competition. And it's gonna get worse. There are a lot of sites that show pirated movies online for free. And a month ago or so, I read about a man in China that purchased a few thousand acres to build a world class movie studio that will crank out English language movies at a major discount to what it costs Hollywood. Show business is tough. Just in case anyone here is culturally deprived and has never seen Rocky Horror.
I don't go to the movie theater a ton, but I am pretty sure they go up in price every time I go. It always seems higher. Luckily my wife and I still have our student ID's lol so that is a small savings. But for my wife, son, and I it is around $33-35 for our tickets. Pretty high when you factor in popcorn and a drink we share. We've started buying more movies (mainly kid ones for my son) and getting them with the digital copy so I can just put all the DVD's up somewhere and just stream it on whichever TV whenever we want to watch it thru a chromecast. Any movies my wife and I watch I just rent. Can rent 20 movies for 1 theater trip! But I do still like to go occasionally and get the full big picture experience.
If you decide to go to a movie theater these days you could end up like this unfortunate guy. http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollyw...d-watching-shallows-california-movie-theater/