Random Factoid #255

9 04 2010

A week ago, I almost blew a fuse at the ticket kiosk.  I had just looked on my iPhone Fandango app and seen that it was going to cost me $10.50 (too much) to see “Clash of the Titans.”  With parking garage traffic looking congested and not much time to spare before the movie started, I decided to grab my friend’s cash and bolt for the theater to buy the tickets.  The following conversation took place with the woman at the counter.

MARSHALL: I’ll have two tickets for “Clash of the Titans” in 3D at 1:40.

TICKET LADY: That will be $23.00.  Do you have your Regal Card?

MARSHALL: My gosh, have you all raised your prices?

TICKET LADY: It costs more for 3D.  (Side commentary: Well, DUH!)

MARSHALL: No, it didn’t always cost this much to see a 3D movie.

TICKET LADY: I don’t know.  (Side commentary: Yes, you do.  You just don’t want to get outsmarted by me.)

Then there was just awkward silence.  But I almost said, “You can’t keep raising the prices like this or you are going to start losing business.”

I could have used the price discrepancy to get my refund, and I could have used the quality of “Clash of the Titans” as further reason.  But I didn’t.


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Random Factoid #244

29 03 2010

I’ve heard a ton of talk amongst the box office reports this weekend about ticket prices at movie theaters skyrocketing over 20% in some places.  Honestly, enough is enough.  This is probably the first time that I have gone on the record about the ridiculous ticket prices, but I can assure you that it won’t be the last.

I looked through my movie ticket collection today and looked at how much the first ticket cost.  When I saw “Remember the Titans” in 2000, it cost $5 for a child’s admission.  In 2010, that same ticket at the same theater would cost $7.  That’s a 40% increase in one decade.  Insane.


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Random Factoid #158

2 01 2010

A trite, yet startling moment at the box office this afternoon.

As I purchased my ticket at AMC Studio 30, something struck me.  AMC had changed the shape of their tickets completely!  My instant feeling was panic – will this fit in my collection?  Thankfully, it is the same height as most of my tickets.  Crisis averted.


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Random Factoid #148

23 12 2009

I was faced with a tough decision regarding my ticket collection on Monday.  I attended an advanced film screening at the Angelika Film Center, as the last two factoids have informed you.  To gain entrance to these screenings, I usually have to present a piece of paper which they confiscate upon entry.

However, they did things a little differently.  We had to exchange our pass for a real ticket that didn’t have the name of the movie on it, only “SPECIAL EVENT.”

What was I to do?  None of these other advanced screenings had real tickets.

In the end, I decided to leave it out.  But I didn’t make the decision haphazardly; I thought long and hard, weighing my options thoroughly.


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Random Factoid #16

13 08 2009

I guess I just have tickets on the brain, so today’s factoid is another one about my obsession with movie tickets.

I once duped a friend into going to a later showtime of a movie because I had seen the theater that it was showing in and I had just been to see a movie in that same theater.  In an effort to make my collection more diverse, if you will, I convinced him to wait another 30 minutes under the impression that the more recent one was nearly sold out.


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Random Factoid #15

12 08 2009

When you buy tickets from the automatic ticket machine at my favorite movie theater (see Random Factoid #3), the tickets are not the same height as the ones in my ticket collection.  The ones I prefer look like this:

The taller ones look like this:


When I went to see “The Hangover” back in June, Edwards refused to let my 17-year-old friend buy me a ticket to the movie because it was rated R.  I then marched over to the automated ticket booth and bought my own, battling my hatred for the tall tickets.  When it printed, I made my friend switch with me because her ticket would fit better in my ticket collection.


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