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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
Moderator:	VAXCPU::michaudo.dec.com::tamara::eppes

Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

785.0. "Ticket sales and money collection" by BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY (Trouble with a capital 'T') Fri Mar 17 1995 19:32

    
    	A friend and I went to see "The Brady Bunch" the night it came
    	out.  We walked into the theater [this theater had recently
    	moved the ticket sales into the theater, right next to the
    	concession sales], bought a pair of tickets for the next show
    	and went across the street for supper.
    
    	Went back over to the theater 1/2 hour later, walked in the
    	door, went around the [long] ticket line and concession line
    	and strolled in to catch the movie.  Piece of cake.
    
    	Now this is NOT an advertisement for buying tickets in ad-
    	vance for a movie you know will generate alot of ticket sales.
    	The whole point of this is that we were never stopped when we
    	got back over there and were never asked to show our tickets.
    	We could have walked right in without buying tickets and saved
    	$6+ each if we wanted to.
    
    	How can they be this stupid ... not having someone inside the
    	place monitoring traffic?  Or do they feel it's not that import-
    	ant, and that no one is stupid enough to try it?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
785.1		SWAM2::SMITH_MA		`Fri Mar 17 1995 20:18`	9
	Where do you live? I know here in Los Angeles they practically have armed guards in the theatres. If you so much as leave the auditorium to use the restroom you had better have your ticket stub on you or they will escort you out. When we leave the theatre in a multiplex they usher you directly to the nearest exit. You're not really allowed to wander around. I've been stopped before just trying to cross the lobby to use the payphones after my movies has let out.
785.2	.....	SWAM1::MEUSE_DA		`Fri Mar 17 1995 22:03`	8
	geeesh.what part of L.A? I'm out in Simi, nothing like that goes on. Dave
785.3	next time dont pay	POLAR::WILSONC		`Sat Mar 18 1995 06:28`	6
	Perhaps the people who take your ticket dont really care if you have paid or not. If ushers at theaters in the United States are paid minimum wage, like they are in Canada, you get minimum effort. Some people call it solidarity, others call it laziness. Try it again, but dont pay.
785.4	A novel thought	MDNITE::RIVERS	And good bagels float	`Sun Mar 19 1995 14:13`	4
	Maybe they just expect you to be honest. kim
785.5		HELIX::MAIEWSKI		`Mon Mar 20 1995 16:26`	6
	In the Boston area there seem to be two areas, an outer area that you can enter without a ticket (which contains the box office and concessions) and an inner area for which you need either a ticket or the stub. Seems to work pretty well, George
785.6		BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Trouble with a capital 'T'	`Mon Mar 20 1995 17:13`	12
	RE: Kim >Maybe they just expect you to be honest. I thought of that, too, but just for a second. Then I dismissed it with a "Yeah, right". 8^) I am VERY honest, and would never try to sneak in for free ... but I'm sure there are lots of people who would.
785.7	Maybe they recognized you?	QUARRY::reeves	Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group	`Thu Apr 06 1995 22:24`	4
	I know I've had cases where I wasn't stopped in somewhat similar cases, but I've chalked it up to them recognizing me (not too many guys in their 30's with long ponytails in Nashua -- plus, when you see as many movies as me [72 so far this year] you become a "regular" at several theatres).
785.8		BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTY	Trouble with a capital 'T'	`Fri Apr 07 1995 13:47`	8
	Yeah, I guess it's possible, but I hadn't been there for months before that, and don't know anybody there. But there's a good chance we were the only 2 that came in and bought tickets beforehand, and they could have remembered that and let us go.