US copyright gestapo jails woman for filming birthday party at movie theater

[Maximus]

BTW, the snack prices are so high these days in US theaters because the distribution companies now have to demand 100% of ticket prices to afford to distribute, so snacks are the theater's only source of income.

And the 20 minutes of commercials before the show.

That more than anything else has lowered my desire to go to the theatre. I rarely buy snacks anyway.

[Martinus]

I'd go to more theaters if they didn't admit anyone under 21, and Jim Crow was back.

If I want to listen to darkies talking in their cellphones with teenboppers shits running around kicking my seat, I'd ride the fucking bus.  Or go to Red Lobster.

Don't they tell people to shut the fucking phones off for the showing? In Poland there is a warning played before every movie telling them to do so, or else.

It's kind of a shame they had to start doing this in theatres as well - few years ago people going to a theatre would be cultured enough to turn they cells off without being prompted to. Fucking youth these days. 

[Martinus]

Also, I think everyone who refers to a cinema as "a theater" should be shot, IMHO.

[grumbler]

Bogh, I guess we will just agree to disagree.  Long-term trends are down (since the end of the 2001 recession, inflation-adjusted box-office gross has declined, and ditto if we look at the last 20 years), and I disagree with you that the 2009 bump represents a long-term change in profitability.  Recessions seem to always help movie ticket sales.

But gross ticket sales doesn't reflect theater profitability.  The largest US chain reported its first profitable quarter in two years in 2009, but still lost $1.2 million for the first half of 2009 on sales of $255 million (http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/movies-sound-recording/12610313-1.html).  The firm lost $6.6 million in the first six months of 2008.  That doesn't sound to me like a business that can afford to alienate customers.

Again, I would emphasize that this is in the US.  In your country, it may well be different.

[grumbler]

And the 20 minutes of commercials before the show. 

You are correct.  Ironically, this has resulted in a tug-of-war between theaters and distributors, since movie trailers are free advertising and cost the theaters time they could spend on paid advertising.

[grumbler]

Also, I think everyone who refers to a cinema as "a theater" should be shot, IMHO.

Also, I think any Polacks who try to tell native English-speakers what words they should use in their own common expressions shot be shot, gutted, and his head impaled over a shithouse door, IMO.

[Syt]

Also, I think everyone who refers to a cinema as "a theater" should be shot, IMHO.

What's wrong with "(movie) theater"? It's not easily confused with stage plays.

[Martinus]

Also, I think everyone who refers to a cinema as "a theater" should be shot, IMHO.

What's wrong with "(movie) theater"? It's not easily confused with stage plays.

Movie theater is fine. But people talking about "going to a theater" when they in fact mean a movie theater/cinema are evil and should be destroyed.

[Maximus]

What's wrong with "(movie) theater"? It's not easily confused with stage plays.

Because that's what god intended when he made the English language: One word, one usage.

[Martinus]

Also, I think everyone who refers to a cinema as "a theater" should be shot, IMHO.

Also, I think any Polacks who try to tell native English-speakers what words they should use in their own common expressions shot be shot, gutted, and his head impaled over a shithouse door, IMO.

It's never used that way in the UK. So it's not about "native English-speakers" but more about "uneducated colonial hicks".

[Syt]

First movie showing in the U.S.: April 1896
First movie theater in the Poland: 1899

Also, the Empire of America has built: Hollywood and thus gets to call the venues whatever they feel like.

[Ed Anger]

Mart has fallen into Josq territory. That saddens me.

[Neil]

Also, I think everyone who refers to a cinema as "a theater" should be shot, IMHO.

Also, I think any Polacks who try to tell native English-speakers what words they should use in their own common expressions shot be shot, gutted, and his head impaled over a shithouse door, IMO.

It's never used that way in the UK. So it's not about "native English-speakers" but more about "uneducated colonial hicks".

How would you know?

Besides, as a Slav, you're not fit to judge us.

[grumbler]

It's never used that way in the UK. So it's not about "native English-speakers" but more about "uneducated colonial hicks".

Sure you wanna stick with that "never used that way in the UK," Polack-speaker?

[Josquius]

Mart has fallen into Josq territory. That saddens me.

How is that 'Josq territory'?