Movie Theater Popcorn REALLY is THAT Expensive


	Movie Theater Popcorn REALLY is THAT Expensive

BartendingBear

3-13-2009 11:04 PM

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BartendingBear says:

Either I'm cheap or smart, but whatever the case I never buy it.

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3-14-2009 3:15 AM

doodleicious

geez- i just do neither......couldn't tell you the last time i went to a theater

3-14-2009 4:35 AM

jmatts78

It still doesn't make sense to me why tickets and popcorn need to be expensive since they've brought back commercials to theatres... advertisers have to pay a large sum to have their ads played, so why doesn't it seem like that money is being put to good use?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd0efcfa-8f23-4695-b70b-e4b68a89fa38/2B282F66-6BAA-4924-A89F-73382A39D502/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive" href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive" style="font-size: 11px;">i.gizmodo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive">Here you see a movie ticket and kernel popcorn, as scaled to their price increase over the past 80 years. On your left, 1929. On your right, 2009.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/i.gizmodo.com/img/C857918A-5956-418D-B0E5-20DF2D6BD3BB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive">In 1929, The Great Depression popularized popcorn as a movie time treat since it was cheap, easy, tasty and somewhat filling. Back then, a bag cost you 5 cents. Now, a (small) bag costs you $4.75. Sure, our new bag is probably a bit bigger, but it's vastly more expensive.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive">adjusted for inflation, popcorn prices* have seen an ironic 666% price increase, while <A href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/movie-ticket-prices/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged MOVIE TICKET PRICES" class="autolink" linkindex="41">movie ticket prices</A> have increased a more moderate 66%. The above picture tells the story to scale, but just in case you're a bigger fan of numbers:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive"><P><STRONG>1929</STRONG>
Movie - $4.32 ($0.35 pre-inflation)
Popcorn - $0.62 ($0.05 pre-inflation)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive"><P><STRONG>2009</STRONG>
Movie - $7.20
Popcorn - $4.75</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive">Hollywood takes a majority of ticket proceeds (we're talking upwards of <A href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Story?id=5379179&page=1" linkindex="42">70%</A>) during the first few weeks a film is released.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://i.gizmodo.com/5169552/movie-theater-popcorn-it-really-is-that-expensive">So theaters fall back to popcorn, soda and candy to make money</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2B282F66-6BAA-4924-A89F-73382A39D502/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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