Thing In New York City More Gets Expensive Again
This weekend movie tickets here in town will cross the magical $20 threshold for the first time, perhaps never to return the more economical $19.50 of yesterday. Granted, this tariff will only apply to IMAX showings of the 3-D extravaganza Shrek: The Only Role In Which Mike Myers Is Tolerable These Days, but you bet your ass that if enough people cough up the dough this time, the prices will migrate to other pictures. And dough they will indeed cough up: This is a children's movie. What else are parents going to do with their kids on the weekend? Take them outdoors? Read them a book? Talk to them? The streets of Park Slope are going to be a goddamn ghost town Saturday and Sunday, so if you actually have to be in Park Slope you might want to take advantage. Anyway, movie prices! Why, back in my day, you could see two features and a couple of cartoons in between for a nickel, with plenty of change left over for licorice sticks at the concessionaire etc.
Bingo! Television: the substitute for good parenting, or How To Shut Your Little Brat Up
Soon, on TBS, you'll be able to see a bear masturbate for free.
You forgot to mention the dinnerware they used to give away at movies in olden timey days!
THIS.
Wait what? Are you making up stories or is this for serious?
Dish Night!
http://www.southernscribe.com/p_tales/dish_night.htm
Remember when you could smoke in theaters? No, because you're not OLD.
Jean Shepherd (aka Ralphie from A Christmas Story). "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash." (short story collection). Funniest description of dish night I've ever read (and how.)
Ugh. This gives people license to act like bigger assholes than they already do.
"I paid $_____ and I'm going to enjoy the hell out of it."
When I lived on a major pedestrian route between the Back Bay and Fenway I heard this suburban idiots who came "into the city" (Boston, a city! Hahaha!) for their annual Red Sox pilgrimage. They thought it was fine to puke, piss, shit, pass out, and/or fuck on my stoop because they overpaid to see a ballgame.
I hate everyone. Is it beer o'clock yet? Am I the 100,000th post yet?
*call me
Why, I remember back when a baseball game was more expensive than a night at the movies.
You know what doesn't cost twenty bucks? Anthology Film Archives!
I'm also a fan of the Cobble Hill Cinemas- $6 Tuesdays and Thursdays!
Is this where I recommend the new BAMcinematek weekend matinees?
The popcorn's a deal at $49.95 for the small vat size.
Plus free $5 refills.
Plus the free Myocardial Infarction, if they cooked it in Coconut Oil.
I read to and talk to and play with my kid every bloody day, am I a bad parent for distracting her with a movie for a couple of hours?
You're only a bad parent if you don't teach her the necessary glassing and stabbing techniques she'll need to survive in the future.
If that movie involves Mike Myers, yes.
@LondonLee: Not as long as you remember The Human Centipede is not the same as The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
@scroll: Thanks for just besoiling one of my all-time favorite reads of Kiddie-Lit 101.
$4 movies, si vous voulez.
penny candy ftw.
OH LOOK! AMC wimped out and changed the prices to $17-$19. http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/TE8738.html. Looks like Shrek's getting a paycut in the near future.