Movies

I love movies. At my old job I would go see movies all the time. I'd leave work about noon and head on out for a matinee. I think it runs in the family. I have two members of my family who are obsessed with movies. They both own a million and have seen every movie ever made no matter how obscure it may be. They are both screen writers. And it makes all the rest of us in the family more into movies than maybe we would be without them.

Somewhere in all my movie watching I realized that movie watching is expensive. I wonder what I was doing when I made this revelation. I must've watched a bad movie and then thought, "I just wasted freakin' 9.50!" and the realization of movie ticket cost swept over me.

So now I have to weigh how much I really want to see a particular movie with the cost of the ticket. Is _____ movie something that I really feel I would like to see on the big screen or would I be content renting it later? If I go see this movie on the big screen am I going to regret paying $7-10 on the ticket right after I leave the theatre?

But then again... movie rentals aren't exactly pennies and nickels either. I don't have netflicks or any of that stuff, so when I rent a "new release" it can be up to $5 vs. a older movie which can be about $3. It's no $9.50 movie theatre ticket, but if you rent enough movies those $5 add up.

And then there are the special movies that you can only see at nonchain movie theatres. Two tickets to see Warren Miller's new movie last year cost $40, Off Road to Athens and Pro each probably cost around $30 for two tickets. Definitely worth the show and the "free" gifts and all, but good grief.