Spring for a movie sometime, if you haven't lately. Ok...a matinee if you prefer. Sometimes they have cheaper prices. Sometimes. Here's what you spend on average. $8.50 per ticket. Three people costs $25.50. Snacks? Ok...how about a large popcorn and a couple of medium sized soft drinks. Nothing fancy, just movie watching basics. That's another $14 bucks. You've just spent $39.50 for a 2 hour viewing experience for you and two friends. That's more than a yearly salary for hard labor in many countries.
Does anybody wonder why the movie business is limping along these days and the cable industry (who charges perhaps twice this much for a month's worth of unlimited viewing) is booming?
Hello! We're in a bad economy at the moment. Unless you're a financial or auto business that's being bailed out by the Feds you might consider getting a bit more for your entertainment dollar these days.
Add to this the efforts by the cable industry to provide viewing option based on what people seem to want to watch, superior writing and directing over network television and a wide scope of variety and there's no contest. In fact there's no need for this obvious situation to become a news event at all. It's an explanation of the blatantly obvious.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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