Red Mosquito

Jorge wrote:

Jorge wrote:Am I a sucker for not canceling my movie theater membership yet? Supposedly my benefits (4 tickets a month) are accumulating and I'll be able to use them when the theaters open back up, plus they're desperate to keep my business so they keep throwing in free things (concession stand combos! more tickets!) in increasingly unhinged "PLEASE DON'T CANCEL US" marketing emails.

I have now accumulated 16 free (actually half-price because the cost of membership is roughly equivalent to the cost of 1 ticket) movie tickets and two free concession stand combos I can claim when theaters re-open. My options are to keep paying the monthly membership and keep accumulating stuff, or to pause my monthly payment (which I can re-activate when things get back to normal and still use all the stuff I've accumulated). I could also just cancel my subscription but then I can't use all the tickets I've been paying for during these months of lockdown.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i want to go to the theater so badly

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i want to go to the theater so badly

bart wrote:Keep it, take the maids along when they open back up

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i want to go to the theater so badly

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:That affordable rental is pretty sweet. Can you basically play any movie you want?

tragabigzanda wrote:That affordable rental is pretty sweet. Can you basically play any movie you want?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:That affordable rental is pretty sweet. Can you basically play any movie you want?

My wife did this for my birthday when we were dating, at the Somerville Theater. Not sure how much it cost. We watched Major League and The Sandlot.

That’s awesome! Is that the one in Davis Sq?

B wrote:A development under construction in my town has put up a Drive-In Theater. They just put up a screen, and all the projection equipment is in a steel shipping container. Probably cost them next to nothing.

It's up for a film festival, but they said they're going to keep it up afterwards to show movies during COVID.



https://chapelboro.com/news/arts/new-dr ... hapel-hill

B wrote:

B wrote:A development under construction in my town has put up a Drive-In Theater. They just put up a screen, and all the projection equipment is in a steel shipping container. Probably cost them next to nothing.

It's up for a film festival, but they said they're going to keep it up afterwards to show movies during COVID.



https://chapelboro.com/news/arts/new-dr ... hapel-hill

We were gonna go this weekend. My family of 5 would have to $72 to sit in our car and watch The Croods.