Coke and a movie, now I'm broke!
June 18th 2010 03:16
Case in point: Harry Potter movies 1-5 earned a gross revenue of $5,234,335,499. Yes, that’s billion, not million. And it’s no wonder considering the price they charge us for a movie ticket.
Last week my mother-in-law and I went to see a movie and since we were planning on getting take-away afterwards, we decided to opt out of the snacks and just get a drink.
After ringing up my ticket and Coke whose size guaranteed at least two trips to the bathroom, the girl happily said, “That’ll be $16 dollars.” My mother-in-law, quite understandably, thought she had rung up both of our tickets together and began to correct the girl when I informed her that the price was just my ticket and beverage; which I now assumed was coming in a crystal goblet with my initials on the side –possibly a bit of an overstatement but you get my point.
Now, I’m not one to advocate breaking the rules, but I was really wishing I had accidently packed my .99 cent 1.25L of Pepsi in my purse before leaving the house. Or worn my dual-can, beverage helmet equipped with two cans of Coke and told them I had low blood sugar and needed to wear it for emergency purposes.
But I suppose part of the whole movie going experience is using a portion of your child’s college fund to make sure you have an endless stream of lollies and tooth-decaying, caffeinated drinks to keep you awake and broke for the next week.
So after shelling out the necessary capital we proceeded to the movie – Back Up Plan with Jennifer Lopez in case you are wondering –where aside from the woman behind me who apparently wanted to kick my chair every minute or two to let me know a good part was coming up, it was a cracker of a time!
And I was able to hold my trip to the bathroom until after the movie when I only took out one person running to the stall while cursing the over-priced, gargantuan drink.
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Comment by Nonymous
Philosophy Blog
One day I'll have to check the percentages on how much of your ticket price goes to the cinema, and how much to the production company. I suspect it's mostly to the cinema.