Wow. Everyone was crying in the movie theater.

This doesn’t bother me anymore.

The Lovely Bones was a great film though. The movie was captivating and inspiring, but a part of me will never understand the protagonist, Suzie Salmon. I’ll never know what it was like to be a 14 year old girl who only wants love and the truth after her murder. I just can’t relate.

Theaters can really get you these days. The only positive aspect about Regal Cinemas is the film that you are going to see. The company decided several months ago to terminate their student admission price of a climbing $8.50 on Fridays and Saturdays. Their strategic selection of days to eliminate were perfect, as they’re the only days some students can make it to the theater.  Two adult tickets please for The Lovely Bones at 11:30PM. $10 adult admission tickets? Sure.

This explains why Cameron’s 1998 film, Titanic, is going to be kicked out of its #1 grossing box office worldwide spot of $1.8 billion by his newest film, Avatar, which is already at $1.4 billion in under a month’s time since it’s December 18th release.

However, there’s a major flaw to this system: Titanic didn’t have several different mediums to watch the film in with high price brackets that “compliment” the Regal experience. An adult admission at Regal Cinemas for the IMAX experience is $15. Children are at $12. The average ticket price in 1998 was $4.69. Regal was probably at $6.  What if films had a popular vote count versus box office gross? It would be neat to know that over 10 million people went to go see Avatar over the last several weeks.

These are paying numbers. Btjunkie.org has over 119,000 seeders to download the film illegally as a bit torrent file.

If anything, I’m just glad people are still paying for art. There’s obviously a demand for quality entertainment. But what if we gave that experience to customers at the cheapest price while still maintaining to make a dollar? It’s worth it to me in the long run.