I understand that a lot of movies today are very expensive to make. Many cost Hundreds of millions of dollars and will take hundred of years of man hours to produce. "Pirates of the Caribbean" was one of these movies. It is easily an $8 movie, and I probably would have paid as much as $12/ticket to see it. It was really good.
"Snakes on a Plane" is not an $8 movie. It is not a $6 movie. It might be a $5 movie. Yeah, I think I would have happily paid $5 for a cheep joke of a movie and have been happy afterwards. But I'm not going to pay $10 to see a $5 movie. Few will. That is why so many movies bust at the box office. They are trying to sell their $5 movies for the price of a $10 movie. No one wants to pay that.
It's like VW trying to get people to pay the same amount for a Beetle as the person would shell out for a BMW. It doesn't make sense. Why don't Theatres have different prices for different movies?
2006-08-21 07:55:29 · 15 answers · asked by Dallas M 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
wow...that's a very good question...but it really matters on people's opinion...how do you know that people think snakes on a plane is a 5 dollar movie? For example, i thought pirates of the caribbean was a boring movie, but u think it was really good.
2006-08-21 08:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by Michele 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that because the demand is so high these days movie theaters make prices high because they know that people are willing to pay the price. They can't make different prices for movies because that would mean that they have to rate the movies from good to bad, and that isn't right, at least not in my book. I live in a place where there are two theaters nearby. One costs $2 and the other $7.50. I'd rather see a movie at the one that costs more because the service is better and the movie just comes out. But that is the opinion of just me. I think that it would be too much trouble for movie theatres to actually rate movies and make prices accordingly. It would be nice though.
2006-08-21 15:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Hanna T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who should decide what movie is a $10 movie and what is a $5 movie? Not everyone is going to like the same thing. If we all thought alike it would be a really long line to the bathroom, mang.
In short though, like everything else in the world, sellers get what buyers will pay. Thats why movies cost so much.
2006-08-21 15:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by Muley Bob 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at it this way, you got to see Pirates of the Caribbean and Snakes on a Plane for $16 -- not bad.
2006-08-21 15:07:11 · answer #4 · answered by Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the movies they are putting out these days aren't very good. a few years ago, on the first weekend a movie came out it would make like $50 million. now they are lucky if they make $20 million. since people aren't going to see movies as much, they have raised the prices so they can get more of their money back. of course as you mentioned, if the prices of movies are too high, people won't want to go see them.
2006-08-21 15:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by Niecy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess that's some sort of discrimination. Plus, it's all about opinions--some people loved Pirates of the Caribbean, some thought it wasn't that great. I can understand where you are coming from, but it's not very practical.
2006-08-21 15:06:02 · answer #6 · answered by Annie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oooooh, interesting concept. Assume that X million viewers will come and charge them a range of between $4 to $16 to see it. I would've paid $16 for X3 and would've been happy about it, but I would've wanted a refund for Superman Returns.
2006-08-21 15:12:20 · answer #7 · answered by Eric C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason why gas is so high right now, because its a monopoly..... copyright infringement laws protect these people from being competed with by "other" entities..... thats why they dont want Joe Computer geek burning DVDs..... as well as music CDs
2006-08-21 15:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by just_darin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A better question might be why is the popcorn so expensive, not to mention the other gold plated goodies. And the answer is the same GREED.
2006-08-21 15:17:20 · answer #9 · answered by Grody Jicama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They keep raising them because we keep paying them. There is a $1 a seat theater a half hour from where I live. It's worth the drive.
2006-08-21 15:10:06 · answer #10 · answered by marie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋