Movie Theaters Finally Starting To Offer Much More Than Just The Show
from the it's-about-time dept
alex writes "Apparently some movie theaters are finally coming to the realization what's been going on in the industry . As been previously mentioned theaters have to offer more to the customers these days to draw them in." This certainly sounds like what many people have been saying the theater industry should do for quite some time. Yet, we still get stories from the head of the MPAA about how it's downloading that's causing the industry trouble, rather than a terrible theater going experience, awful movies, and much more competition for entertainment dollars. Also, it's not just the theater experience they're working on, but improving the content. Thanks to digital projectors these new theaters can offer live concerts or sporting events on the really big screen. As the article above notes, one of these new theaters lets customers watch baseball games (while serving beer and hot dogs) on the movie screens. Of course, the companies that are adjusting and are making these changes are smaller, independent movie chains. The big chains with their huge megaplexes are the ones still struggling and worried that people aren't going to the movies any more. Maybe if their executives actually went to their theaters every once in a while to try to "enjoy" a night out at the movies, they'd understand why.
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Commercials
Oh, and dump the GD commercials. I don't pay upwards of $10 to see the new Coca Cola commercial on a large scale. Marketing sometimes means being more creative than settling for the status quo...
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reserved seats
Allow us to book in advance, and allow us to pick seats like at stadiums. This Cattle Stampede method of seating is childish, and I'll wait 2 months, rent a movie and bring it to my buddy's house so that I can be comfortable as well as entertained.
Unfortunately, I think that adding a Balcony and a Dinner to the movie isn't going to give most people the incentive to come back to the theatre. Cinemas have lost the inertia, and they're facing churn now. Maybe if they rented paintball rifles so as to tag the holders of ringing cell phones and the white trash too lazy to get a sitter, there'd be incentive.
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Let's start with the really obvious
And some american theaters still serve beer (McMenamin's pub theaters in Portland OR for example) and don't have that stale beer smell. Not that beer is a requirement for a good experience, but it helps for the 20 and 30 something crowds out there.
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My ideas
2)Cell phone rings? Misdemeanor "Disturbing the peace" charges. If it was a crime to have a ringing cell phone in a theatre, I think more people would pay attention, especially these tween idiots.
3)Better food. Lower food prices. Popcorn shouldn't cost $6.
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My last experience at the local googolplex where for $8.00 I got to sit in an R rated movie listening to crying babies and jabbering teenagers while trying to enjoy my $4.25 small (stale) popcorn and $4.50 small (flat) soda.
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An open bar (after 9 or some hour so it is avoidable for those offended).
Love seats! (half the people in there are on a date...)
Tie up that kid with the damn orange flashight wand that combs the aisles 3 times during the movie for pirates [ARrrrrr!] and lock 'im in a closet! I'm tired of being spanked for something I didn't do.
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It also helps that in Europe, the beer is worth NOT spilling on the floor…
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I can't think of anything wrong with movies today.
-Seat-kickers
-Freezing Temperature
-Babies
-Mobile phones
-Screaming kids
-Incessant coughers/snifflers/throat clearers
-Sticky floors
-Grimy chairs
-Bouffant hair in the way
-Chewy popcorn
-No leg room your knees touch your chin
-Chatterboxes
-Soda that tastes like cough syrup
-Sardine seating
-Commercials
-Sound turned up too loud or too low
-Strange smells that aren't quite right
-People who come in 15 minutes late and sit right in front of you or behind you to kick your seat
-Overselling tickets to "pack da house" and those late people now getting po'ed and making a scene coz theres no seat left for them, save for the nosebleed row.
My head is starting to hurt now.
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Bah
Sadly I think we will see way more of that before we see major theaters trying to innovate.
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Movie experience
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