Nostalgia never includes the receipt. Two adults, two kids: tickets alone are sixty to eighty dollars in most cities now. Add the popcorn, the drinks, the candy, and you're past a hundred and twenty before the trailers even start. Then you sit through twenty-five minutes of commercials, which is insulting when you paid for admission. A family can buy two months of every streaming service combined for less than one theater trip. People aren't abandoning theaters because they hate movies. They're abandoning them because the pricing assumes it's still 1995 and there's no alternative.
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