If I plan to see two movies, (weekends, especially the last couple weeks of the year, I’ll see the matinee of one movie, go have lunch, and then see an afternoon feature) I always buy tickets to both.
I enjoy the experience of watching a good movie in a real theater and don’t think subtracting from their revenues is in my best interest in the long run.
Yeah, I did it plenty as a kid. Sure, it’s ethically suspect, but I didn’t have the money to buy the tickets, so I’m not losing sleep over it.
These days it’s rare I can block out the three hours just to see one movie in the theater. Most of my movie watching is in 20-minute increments on my laptop while washing the dishes.
Well, maybe and sorta and it depends. I have done it a few times. Twice, i found a manager type and asked how to pay for the second feature. The first time, he waved at my giant popcorn and drink and said “You already have!” and the second she said “Dont sweat it”.
Mind you, some theatres do care, but others dont as long as you buy stuff and are not boisterous. Of course, you can only hit the half empty shows for the "unpaid " version.
Yeah, that too. If you leave soon enuf they’d usually refund your $, so that’s not stealing.
I’m the goober who feels too guilty to smuggle my own snacks into the theater. No way am I committing an aggravated felony like watching an extra movie. What kind of sociopath do you take me for?
Ironically, I remember the movie I walked out of (Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever), but not the one I saw. Pretty sure it was a free promo ticket, too.
I did my ‘double features’ the old-fashioned way, as a late night science fiction picture show. By RKO. In the back row.
RHPS followed by “Phantom of the Paradise”, to be precise. Halloween season, 1977.
This. When I was a kid it was common practice. I remember the whole family sitting through Mary Poppins twice (and I haven’t seen it since). My sisters and I watched “Help” three times before finally leaving the theatre…
I recognize what you executed there.
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Maybe? Why do you want to know? I copied VHS tapes too. Call the feds.
Nope, never done it. I’ve never wanted to sit through more than one movie back to back.
I do smuggle my own snacks in occasionally, though. I’m such a rebel.
I love “Movie Day” as a special treat where I see two or even three different current movies in the same theater on the same day. (Generally this is at the local arthouse cinema when it accumulates a bunch of films-I-want-to-see-and-can’t-see-elsewhere.) But I always buy a ticket for each of them.
Occasionally if I’m leaving the theater but have another 10-20 minutes or whatever to wait for my bus, I’ll drop in to the middle of a random movie and watch it for a few minutes. But I wouldn’t try to sit through an entire movie showing without paying for it.
Ditto. For the same reason, I always make sure to buy some of the theater’s refreshments: overpriced, but worth it. (Also, I like theater popcorn and don’t ever really eat popcorn on other occasions, so it adds to the special-treat atmosphere.)
I usually do too–the only time I smuggle is when I want something specific that the theater doesn’t sell. I also take my trash out and throw it away instead of tossing it on the floor like most other people do. Way back in the Jurassic age of Usenet (around 1993) the company I worked with only got a few Usenet feeds and not much else, so I had some very eclectic things to choose from that I wouldn’t normally have read. One of them was a group for theater managers and others interested in that sort of thing. They posted often about how much of their revenue came from concessions, and how much of a pain it was for their employees to have to clean up the mess from slobs leaving their stuff tossed around. It made a real impression on me (obviously, if I still remember it all this time later!)
I’ve never moved to a different theater, to see a different movie, but one time in 1977 my mom and I just stayed in our seats and sat through a second showing of Star Wars.
I’ve never done it, but the idea doesn’t morally shock me nowadays.
I have gone to movie marathons a couple of times, though (one was the Marx Bros).
It really never occurred to me to do this. Are you that cheap?
Who would you do this with: a date, spouse, friend, kids?
Great example.
No, but when I was a kid in the 80’s, we took a quick peek into a theater showing another movie. It was kind of weird because we just walked in for a few seconds and walked out.
around here they wouldn’t care unless ya made a big deal of it at the 2 dollar movies ……
Well, in my first example, you had to leave the theatre complex to buy the ticket, and I had my popcorn and soda. So I asked, and the manager said- dont bother.
Good grief. All my days spent trying to make a dumb pun, and then I make one by accident.
I think I just leveled up in Dad.