[geeks] Weekend movie notes

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:30:36PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> About six months ago, ticket prices here dropped from $13 to $7.50. 
> 
> Spirit was done entirely under Linux (from what I read).

A while ago, we had 7 theatres in the county.  3 normal ones, 2 art
house ones, a drive in and a 2nd run place.

The one of the normal theaters remodelled and expanded and cut their
prices to be lower than the other 2 normal ones.  Now the other normal
ones are out of business, and the remaining normal one keeps jacking
their prices higher and higher since you have to drive an hour or more
to go anywhere else.

The drive-in keeps hiking their prices also.  The 2nd run place
is a real hell hole.  People screw in the back, you find unpleasant
things (like undies and used condoms), there is (well this is a bid
improved I'm told) violence.  And they keep raising their prices also.

One of the art houses is struggling and rarely showing movies.  They
had been doing typical arthouse faire, but their distributer was
awefull to them and them their landlord used their parking lot to hold
construction materials while renovating it's next door site.  Now when
they do show films, they are so independent that they had to get them
straight from the artist (meaning that artist doesn't have an
exclusive distributer yet, so the film are affordable, and of more
interest in many ways).

That just leaves the other art house that hasn't changed in the 7
years I've been going regularly, either in price are environment.  The
place is a lot older.  It is also somewhat run down.  But they get a
number of good films in and I try to go when I can.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd