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shmokes:
Higher volume means more space for inventory, more employees to sell the food, more space for lines behind the registers, etc.  I think, at least in the short term, the movie theaters are probably maximizing profits perfectly with their extortionate prices.  Now, if they charged reasonable prices they might, in the long run, bring in more customers altogether because people have an overall better experience.  But their prices are very well researched and tested.  If profits were higher with lower prices, prices would be lower.  Of course, what this means is that instead of grumbling while you buy popcorn, you have to skip the popcorn.  It's the only the way the prices will come down.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shardian on June 10, 2008, 10:30:11 am ---I am also unashamed to say we sneak in our own drinks and candy.

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Lol, me too.

I have a subscription to a movie magazine. Besides 6 magazines with movie news, it comes with 10 cinema tickets every year.

shmokes:
Saw Kung Fu Panda.  It was good.  It was nowhere near Pixar's best, IMO. 

Also, the opening sequence is traditional 2D animation and the art direction is freaking brilliant.  The whole movie should have been animated using this style.  Seriously, the second it switches into the now-typical CG animation you will be instantly disappointed.  It's still a good movie -- lots of fun.  And it's got a good (if incredibly unrealistic) moral.  But it would have been way WAY cooler if they'd animated the whole movie the way they animated the first few minutes.

ErikRuud:
Brad Bird is still with Pixar!  He is working on the mostly live-action film "1906".


--- Quote from: shmokes on June 09, 2008, 09:23:28 pm ---Yeah, Fox dropped the ball with The Iron Giant.  They didn't think hand-drawn animation had any life in it anymore and they didn't advertise the movie for ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  Luckily Pixar recognized the enormous talent behind The Iron Giant (Brad Bird -- writer/director) and scooped him up.  He wrote and directed The Incredibles and Ratatouille.  He just got wooed to another studio, though . . . Dreamworks maybe, or maybe he's heading up a new animation studio for Warner Bros.  Something like that; I can't remember.  Or maybe he's going to direct a live-action film.  I don't know.  At any rate, I don't think he had anything to do with Wall-E and he won't be doing the next Pixar film.

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shmokes:
Hmm . . . that's interesting.  That movie was originally announced as being produced by Paula Weinstein at Warner Bros.  Now it looks like Pixar is co-financing the film.  Maybe that was the set up from the beginning, but I'm under the impression that isn't the case.  I bet Pixar decided that they REALLY didn't want to lose Bird and made him a sweetheart deal.

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