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To: Simon Green
Hardly ever do I go to a movie theater. The big screen experience just isn't worth the hassle, the parking, the rude audiences making noise throughout the show.

Not to mention the cost. Thirty bucks or so for me and the wife is too much to take a risk on entertainment, when so much of what is produced is just garbage.

So many times I've started a "critically acclaimed" movie on a streaming service, only to abandon it within 30 minutes.

13 posted on 11/05/2017 10:29:47 AM PST by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: TontoKowalski

$30 is too much to spend on a one time viewing experience of a recorded program (technically there is no film, shot on video, projected digitally).

You can buy even high end DVD titles for under $30 (much less if you shop around or are willing to buy closeouts or even used discs online or locally, sometimes as low as $1-3).

Even if you gamble on a movie, watch it once, and sell it (yard sale, amazon, ebay, craigslist) you’d come out ahead.

It’s funny that even with lower than ever distribution costs, movie prices and digital albums haven’t lowered the price points to viewing/hearing the work.


27 posted on 11/05/2017 11:27:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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