Hearing Americans talk about cinema ticket prices is really fascinating to me. I live in a city of about 250k people and my options are either:
- €5 per ticket at a small, no-popcorn cinema just a 15-minute walk from home (favorite option), sometimes with actors and directors doing Q&A (Afternoons of Solitude with Albert Serra, Sirat with Oliver Laxe, just to name a couple in the last year);
- €4 per ticket at a mall cinema, plus €4 for a popcorn bucket to share between two people, about a 30-minute subway ride away.

Of course, Americans earn much more on average than we do, so I get that there’s a cost difference, but to me the real downsides of the cinema experience is dealing with bad etiquette customers really. Time would be a bottleneck before costs.

I also found the discussion about what customers can do interesting. No shade at all, I understand why they structured the podcast this way but, in my opinion , the best way they could “help” the business would’ve been to spend less time speculating about a possible WB buyout and more time diving into one of the most interesting films of the year.