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From: miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Movie Theaters vs TV etc
Summary: such as the Madison Theatre on Madison Avenue...
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Date: 12 Jun 89 17:36:39 GMT
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In article <8906112228.AA20686@multimax.encore.com>, bicker%prl.decnet@NWC.NAVY.MIL ("PRL::BICKER") writes:

> Going to a theater, paying $12.50 for 2 tickets, maybe another
> $9 for popcorn and drinks

Sounds like you got off cheap on the munchies.  A good alternative is to bring
your own.  Use caution, however; there are (apocryphal?) tales of patrons 
being ejected from theatres for bringing their own eats.

Are there any "revamp" theatres in your area?  We have a local theatre that is 
a recently refurbished BIG 1940's movie theatre, with $3.00 ticket prices and 
VERY cheap munchies.  They show second-run films; right now they're showing 
_Working_Girl_, so that's not too far behind the mainstream theatres.  If you
have such a theatre in your area, patronize it and forget the others.
Encourage your friends to do the same.

> THEN having to sit though 20 minutes of commercials before the film

This is unacceptable.  Commercials were shown a few years back at some local
theatres, and when the commercials came on the audience booed, hissed, and
threw things at the screen.  It didn't take long for the commercials to
disappear.  You could try the same thing.  Now, if there were some way to
similarly pressure theatre owners to show classic cartoons before the 
feature... 

> AND maybe having commercials inserted into the film (soda pop, beer and 
> munchies shown prominantly by brand name) is really getting to be to much.

This is indeed becoming a major problem.  I don't have any good thoughts on how
to fight this trend.  Does anybody have any ideas? 

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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