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- inactive, on 04/02/2009, -1/+49Some of the folks I've seen working the Movie theatre consession stand shouldn't be trusted with sushi. That's a great to get very sick!
- AmyVernon, on 04/02/2009, -1/+47OK, there's NO way I would buy sushi at a movie theater. NO WAY. Espresso, sure.
- rwbrinso, on 04/02/2009, -1/+36My recommendation? Beer.
- yunus, on 04/02/2009, -1/+32Bring in actual fast food restaurants to run the food portion of the theater. Just double the menu prices for everything. That or alcohol, will increase your profits.
- wannaBdug, on 04/02/2009, -0/+26Let's all go to the movies. Remember the dancing popcorn and the hot dog running into the bun? Do we really need to pay $15 for a California roll?
- kismetropolis, on 04/02/2009, -0/+20Sushi is an extremely bad idea. It doesn't keep well in the best of climates, and given the type of people who usually work movies (teenagers), I'd call it ill advised.
- numb401, on 04/03/2009, -0/+15How about dropping ridiculous ticket prices?
- magamiako, on 04/03/2009, -0/+14Here's an idea:
Lower the god damn prices. You want people to buy movie theater food? Don't charge the same god damn price as a full course ***** meal. A family of 4 outing is easily a $60-$70 outing. Compare that with renting a movie and ordering a pizza and you can have a family of 4 night at home for $20. - Lavarock, on 04/03/2009, -0/+13stinky? what the *****? Wherever you're getting sushi you should stop getting any food from there.
- Megalomatthew, on 04/03/2009, -0/+11sushi? really? If you enjoy sushi, then that usually means you enjoy GOOD sushi. Theater sushi is just going to be crappy grocery store sushi packages but bumped up to $40. This sounds foolish.
- LaurenElder, on 04/02/2009, -1/+12Sushi is supposed to be fresh people! Besides that, not a lot of people are really into it. I love it myself, but would not opt for eating it in a movie theater.
- Josexph, on 04/03/2009, -4/+14My recommendation...weed
- BeShirtHappy, on 04/02/2009, -0/+10I with you Amy. Eating sushi at a movie theater is assuring that you'll be visiting a hospital after you leave the theater.
- Cre8iveone, on 04/02/2009, -0/+9Interesting, we have AMC Fork & Screen (used to be AMC Buckhed Backlot) here in Atlanta, GA and it's AMCs dinner theatre concept. They have a full menu and full bar and have just gone through with an entire rework of the menu and theatre in the hopes they can make it work. They don't have, nor do they need sushi! As it stands they went overboard on the fancy, you now get a fancier pizza, but pay what we used to pay there for a nice sized medium pizza. It's still better than the regular concession food, but the portions got smaller and the prices higher.
- mogebier, on 04/03/2009, -0/+9The high school morons who work at the movie theaters can barely put popcorn in a bag and this guy wants to trust them with FISH?
Oh yes. There will be no lawsuits with that idea. - rolf, on 04/03/2009, -0/+8That's too cheap. Considering the ridiculous mark-up on popcorn.
Perhaps theatres should just get cheaper. I never buy anything at the concession stand. The 90 minutes to 2 hours just isn't long enough to be really hungry and throw money away. I used to go to the matinee, but the price is a whopping $1 cheaper than norm (9.25 vs 10.50). If they just slashed prices a bit, maybe they'd sell more to make up for it.
I don't see why I should pay $3.50 for an M&M bag that any supermarket sells for $0.75. I'd pay double just for the convenience but quadruple just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. - yesbeegee, on 04/02/2009, -0/+8VIA Sushi? Maybe they need to work on differentiating the movie experience from a home theater.
- Bilbobaggins, on 04/03/2009, -0/+8In addition, it'll probably cost 10 bucks for ***** sushi.
- raphaeltmnt, on 04/02/2009, -3/+11Terrible idea. Everyone will be sneezing because of the damn wasabi.
- HurricaneDC, on 04/03/2009, -0/+8I thought it was supposed to be fresh fish. Dear god, I'm a cannibal...
- replaysMike, on 04/03/2009, -3/+10worst. idea. ever.
how about trying to serve your existing food at even remotely passable quality and lowering the prices first. that's why no one wants to buy your crap. - HurricaneDC, on 04/03/2009, -0/+7They should save themselves by not charging 5 ***** dollars for a large soda.
And people think Starbucks is expensive? Wait till the movie theaters start selling their own cappuccinos. - kilodelta, on 04/03/2009, -0/+6BIG ***** WIRELESS 7.1 HEADPHONES THAT BLOCK OUT THE CHATTER OF TEENAGERS.
that'll get me back into a theatre. - darkciti2, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5Here's how the movie industry can solve it's problems:
1) bring back the ushers/bouncers with the high-intensity flashlights. I shouldn't have to get out of my seat and miss the movie to complain about missing the movie due to some loudmouth *****. if you don't bring back ushers, install annoyance joysticks that we can point at someone's seat. If more than 4 people point to that seat, the person is booted from their seat
2) open the plastic polyethylene wrapped snacks during payment and pour them into a silent cardboard container suitable for the viewing area
3) create a separate seating area for tweenagers.
4) grease the seats regularly. GREASE. Not WD-40. WD-40 is a quick fix; not an industrial one. GREASE the joints on the seats. Regularly.
5) Issue a magstripe/barcode customer loyalty card. To get it, you do a phone check. Your phone must be in Airport mode during the movie, or you die.
6) Have "sensible adult matinees". No tweenagers / old ladies / old men.
7) A homing spotlight that focuses a high intensity light on any seat that has a decibel level above "SILENT". The more they talk or "explain", the more intense the light becomes. The only person affected by the light is the yapper. The instant they STFU, the light goes out. None of the other movie watchers would be affected by this light and they wouldn't even know it happened.
8) Install daggers into the seatbacks of ... well, I should stop here.
Protip: Movie Theatre owners: take the ***** out of your ears, and go watch a movie sometime and observe the ***** that we the watchers hate.
The "traditional" theater is dead. We have that ***** in our theater rooms in our basements. If you want us to go back to AMC-12, you're going to need to up the ante a bit and offer us something new. Otherwise, you're a dinosaur waiting to die.
The new airlines are doing it, so you can too.
We want to watch new movies readily, comfortably and undisturbed.
Act accordingly and you'll stay in business.
Conducting business to ancient MPAA guidelines will only make you ancient. - Haoie, on 04/02/2009, -2/+7Sushi.
Sushi covered with hot butter.
Hmm? - LOCK3D, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5I haven't watched a movie in a theater in many years. I have many reasons against going out to a theater and very few reasons for going.
Sound
The last few films I saw in a theater were painfully loud. I have pretty sensitive hearing, so it was almost unbearable. Like being right in front of the speaker stack during a concert of a band you hate. A decent home theater system does just fine and best of all, I get to control the volume.
Price
The price of admission is really only a slight deterrent for me. It could certainly be a bit lower, but I don't think it's that outrageous. The price of everything else, such as food and drink, is insanely high. There is no question here about which is cheaper, home vs. theater.
Sanitation
The seats and floors are biohazards. In some theaters, it would be difficult for them to create a more disgusting environment without having rivers of raw sewage running down the aisles. I'd also prefer to use my own bathroom over a public one. Call me crazy.
Enjoyment enhancement
Most theaters don't serve alcoholic beverages and the few that do charge far too much for the piss in a plastic cup they call beer. I can't smoke in a theater (tobacco or pot) or pause the movie. Even the "big screen" doesn't do it for me. I'd rather watch a film on a nice hdtv at home or a friend's place. I just enjoy it more. I find I'm also much less critical of films that I didn't pay $15 or more to see, but that might be partially due to the copious quantities of pot, fine ale and good food consumed while watching.
I just doubt there is anything they could possibly do to make me want to go to the theater again. Maybe if they gave away or even sold cheaply some cool swag relating to that film I was going to see or just saw, that I could only get at the theater. I don't mean crap like booklets and stickers. I mean cool collectibles. Toys, watches, hats, shirts, boxers, watches, sports gear, toys, etc.. I'd probably go out to see a film again if I got something cool to keep. I'd at least feel less ripped off. - ancientdinko, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5sounds pricey...looks like I'll have to sneak my sushi into the theater inside my coat
- endustry, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5All I want is a headphone jack in the seat rest like they have on airplanes so if I end up sitting next to some ***** who feels entitled to talk during the movie, I can turn to the phones and tune his ass out.
- enantiodromia, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4wrong direction.
if you want normal people to come to your theater, let them bring their own food and drinks, but provide them with tasty items as well. - threepm, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4Here's an idea... LOWER TICKET PRICES and CONCESSIONS by 1-3 bucks across the board... People will start seeing movies again.. Oh ANNND... Do not allow screaming kids in the theater... Bring back the EXPERIENCE in going to the movies.
- shrudheuie, on 04/03/2009, -3/+74 tix = 40 bucks
4 popcorns = 16 bucks
4 small drinks = 13 bucks
I assume the sushi will be more than the popcorn so lets say
4 sushi rolls = 35 bucks (very conservative)
Knowing that 1 trip to the movies cost you a quarter of your soon to expire unemployment check...
PRICELESS - mohammadahsan, on 04/02/2009, -0/+4i don't see why you'd have to double the prices, I'll bet fast food companies would pay for the space to sell cheap ***** food to theater patrons.
- inyearstocome, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4Sounds more like a problem at the movie licensing level. Hollywood makes a ***** ton of money on their films and leave the theaters with very little. Redistribute that money... no actor should be paid tens of millions for one lousy film.
- molotovcat, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4I don't think I'd eat sushi made of fresh people.
- yunus, on 04/02/2009, -0/+4Movie theaters don't make much money on ticket sales, they make it on the concessions. So the price would need to be at least doubled to provide a restaurant that can pay the rent on a building 20X larger than it needs to be.
- cadmiumpaint, on 04/03/2009, -2/+6i'm not gonna trust movie theatre sushi prepared by a high school dropout who's stoned off his ass and hates his job.
- vio3, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4What a stupid idea. When people talk about a dinner and a movie, I'm pretty sure they don't mean both at the same time and at the same place.
They can do that at home if they want to. No need to go out. - analogkid01, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4This is a good idea, because raw fish is *exactly* what you want people to be dropping on your theater floor and leaving unattended for two or more hours at a stretch.
- Langford, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3I'm not a big sushi fan, but I once went to a theater that had food, tables, and chairs in it like a restaurant, and it wasn't half bad. The movie on the other hand, stunk outright, but it would have been bad no matter how we were seated.
- arobar, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Agreed. Theaters do whatever they can to save on cost. Do I want the 15 year old high school drop out making my rainbow roll? No thank you. Some of the sushi places around here don't even do the stuff justice, and sushi is *all they do*. I can only imagine the tremendous slide in quality control movie theater sushi would have.
- mynameisjudge, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Uh. No. Bring on the beer, and your theater will blossom. .
- DeadSkinMask, on 04/03/2009, -2/+5There are many adjectives I would use to describe Sushi and "Stinky" is not one of them.
You must be getting some pretty terrible sushi in your home town... - lhbaker, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3I don't care if it's the best sushi ever, I am NOT eating it in the dark.
- arobar, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Cineplex Odeon theaters around here (Toronto) have done that. There are theaters with Burger Kings, KFCs and Taco Bells in them. The price is, in fact, double for most menu items. This has done nothing to save the theaters... They're still hurting.
- LordBalderdash, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3drive-in's require a lot of real estate, warm & dry weather, and darkness. so they can't operate in most places in the late fall, winter or early spring, can't operate during the day, have to cancel & give refunds (while still paying employees) if it rains and can't start a feature until after 9pm in the summer.
i love drive-ins, but they're extraordinarily difficult to run and make a profit, which is why most of them are gone. - inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3I hate that you're right. lol
- shu315, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Very out of touch. As for AMC acquiring a former Starbucks executive as CEO in hopes of turning things around? Questionable.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Ya I want my puffer fish cut by some pimple faced teenager with his pants hanging down
- vio3, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3The movie tix are too expensive as well as the concessions ($4 for only a "small" bottled water and over $5 for a "small" popcorn here in LA) and on top of that stuff, the last time I checked, America was in a recession. Hence the cinemas aren't doing well right now. Nothing to do with, people not interested in popcorn/candy at the movies anymore, but they just can't afford to indulge in stupidly overpriced fun anymore. Does the douche who owns the movie theatre even know how many people have lost their jobs just in 2008 alone? Buy a newspaper/computer before announcing stupid new ideas about your struggling business.
- GoKings, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Lower the prices, and work out some way to get those annoying people to shut-up! I try to avoid the movies because I don't want my movie by 15 kid that go to the movies because they don't have cars screaming and yelling all throughout the movie. Some theaters give different people little buttons that they can press when someone is getting rowdy and they come in and observe and take them out. How hard is that?
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