We used to only go to the movies for things “worth” seeing on the big screen. Movies enhanced by seeing them so loud and large – aka action movies.
Then $5 movie nights started. At first it was on Wednesdays and Thursdays, for select movies only. But we started to see a larger variety of things in the theater because it was cheaper.
Then $5 movie night moved to Tuesdays and included all shows for the day! If we have the foresight to book in advance (because seats are reserved and good ones sell out fast), we’ll see almost anything we’re vaguely interested in – it’s only $5 each! Boo yah! (We go to about ten movies a year – I know this because I track them in a spreadsheet <— I’m so cool!)
The funny thing now is that I rarely want to pay more than $5 for a ticket. I only do that for movies I really want to see on opening night (aka anything in the Fast & Furious franchise). Movies are so hit or miss… I guess I’m okay wasting my time, but not more money?
The funny thing is, we recently paid $20 a ticket to see a VERY BAD movie, The Room, which we saw for the first time in San Francisco in November with Mica and Harrison. Right after we saw it there, I knew we needed to share its ridiculousness with some friends (Bobbi, John, Jen, and Troy) here. And we had the chance Saturday night! (What a fun night – we love our big group dates with these peeps!)
Tommy Wiseau was there again. The Q&A was completely bizarre and entertaining again. The movie started an hour and a half late, again (so at 11 pm, eek! Holy crap I felt like garbage Sunday morning.).
And we had fun throwing spoons, yelling at the screen, tossing the football, cringing during the sex scenes, and laughing at other people. I feel like I’ve done my duty to share the enjoyment of seeing this horrible movie in the theater (which is the only way it should be seen). My only complaint is that the sound quality in the theater wasn’t great – we could barely hear the dialogue, especially over people talking (reciting lines) over it. And I couldn’t hear audience member’s one liners well, which made me sad!
Anyway… I guess the point is I’ll pay $20 a ticket if I know I’m going to be entertained! But I (usually) don’t want to pay more than $5 when I don’t know if I’m going to be entertained, and am sometimes surrounded by rude movie viewers. (Seriously… can you get off your phone for the duration of a movie?! I look forward to that part of it! And that’s why I still go to the theater – I have to leave my phone in another room when we watch movies at home, if I want to pay attention!)
How could something be so horrible and yet so fun at the same time?!!! Thanks for making us old folks cool for one night. For the record, I was a mess all day Sunday. LOL!!
You’re welcome! I think it would be hard not to feel that way after being up so late, eek!
I’m so glad you could share this gem of a movie (and that you did it right–live showing with spoons!)! I was thinking: why is it so hard to describe TW in person? I can’t remember anything specifically he said, just that it was so weird, but I can’t describe what he’s like more than that! He’s just so out there.
I was horrified the first time I saw it because it was expensive and required being up SOOOO late, but as you know, it’s worth it!
Yeah, if you’ve seen the movie, you can compare it to that. But like said before, you just never know what he’s gonna say, and he’s so bizarre!
SO WORTH IT! Thanks for introducing us!
That movie must be quite the experience! Was it intentionally made to be bad, or did it just turn out that way and the director just embraced it?
The second one. He definitely thought he was making a real movie!
$5 movies sound great! I’ll have to look for something like that around here. But yeah, I pretty much just see movies in a theater now if it seems like the big screen would enhance it or its a group event with friends.
I wonder if it exists by you! Marcus Theaters does it by us. This place called Tinseltown does it too. And Regal, I think.
I have no excuse to not go to the movies more often as we live in a weird bubble where ticket prices are super cheap (when I paid $7.75/ticket for the huge D-Box theater for Captain Marvel I was shocked at how expensive that was, LOL). But I get lazy…again, no excuse because the theater is about a quarter mile from our house. Hmmm…maybe it’s the people? 😉
We feel too lazy to go almost every time we have tickets. It’s that we don’t want to leave the house, and yes, the people! We always encounter something interesting at the theater. Last night it was someone getting mad they couldn’t bring their baby to an R-rated movie (they told them the minimum age was 6).
The $5 movie… this is something my wife and I do. We have a Regal movie plex within a 15 min walk from our house. Tuesday all day is $5. Also on Tuesdays is half priced popcorn, which makes the largest size only $4.50. So we also have a hard time paying more, although here in Utah, movies are rarely above $12.
That is nice that the tickets aren’t usually that expensive to start! We got opening night tickets to Deadpool 2 last year and I think it was $18 a person! Ridic!
I love $5 movie nights! I’m with you – it’s hard for me to justify paying more for a movie. Although I tend to go to this upscale movie theater when I’m with friends where it’s more of an *experience* and always spend nearly $50 for just myself. It’s ridiculous!
This evening sounds like such a fun time although that 11pm start time makes me tired just reading about! (#grandma)
Oh, that is fun! We’ve done that sort of experience before and it’s very enjoyable! The place we go for $5 has recliner seats but no bar service at your seat!
I was so dead tired. Sigh. HA.