Tonight I took my son to see The Last Airbender. He was very excited to see it and although I did not really care if I saw it or not I went to the brand new CrossIron Mills theater, which is Cineplex's newest and fanciest theater. They were only showing it in Real3D which means an extra 3 dollars per ticket. So with one Adult and one Child movie ticket, 1 Large combo for me and 1 kids combo for him the grand total comes out to 49.82.
I remember when a family of four used to go to the movie (not that many years ago) and it came to 50 or 60 dollars for four tickets and four combos. Cineplex and the movie industry as a whole is complaining of poor box office numbers for movies. Well here's a thought, LOWER PRICES. When it costs a family of four over a hundred dollars to go to a movie do you really think they are going to go out even once a month, specially considering half the movies that are released are recycled crap that the parents saw when they were kids.
Don't blame piracy and the Internet for your low ticket sales, lets start by lowering ticket prices so the average person can go to the movies a few times a month and once that is solved maybe you can start producing original movies again.
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