So we’re at the Sherman Oaks Galleria waiting in line to buy tickets to
"Crash".\u00c2\u00a0 And when we get close to the window, she notices it.\u00c2\u00a0 The price.\u00c2\u00a0 $10.50.
\u00c2\u00a0Now she can afford it, and actually, I paid, and to tell you the truth I had
no problem with it, I mean I pay $14.00 at the ArcLight, but the price stuck
with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean they always inch it up by fifty cents.\u00c2\u00a0 To the point where
they finally hit ten bucks.\u00c2\u00a0 Now OVER ten bucks?\u00c2\u00a0 Why exactly?\u00c2\u00a0 Was there any
improvement in the theatre?\u00c2\u00a0 Was it some kind of new projection system, was it
going to WOW me?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well, I don’t go to the movies that much anyway.<\/p>\n
And after last night, I’m not sure if I’ll go ever again.<\/p>\n
Oh, don’t get me wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll go.\u00c2\u00a0 But, like some angry punk song, I want to
burn the multiplex DOWN!\u00c2\u00a0 Because of the fucking COMMERCIALS!<\/p>\n
Like I told you, I really didn’t mind the $10.50.\u00c2\u00a0 But for the $10.50 can you
at least RESPECT ME?\u00c2\u00a0 Try to make my experience nice, since you DEPEND ON ME??<\/p>\n
This is the point Mel Karmazin doesn’t get.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor Clear Channel Entertainment
for that matter.\u00c2\u00a0 If I’m PAYING, if I’ve joined the CLUB, you’ve got to treat
me with RESPECT!\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of bombarding me with the heinous words of your
corporate "partners", you should be GIVING ME SOMETHING!\u00c2\u00a0 Like I’m supposed to respect you, feel sorry for you, even LIKE you when you’ve plastered the joint
with profit-making DRECK??\u00c2\u00a0 And I don’t want to hear one more fucking time that
it’s about lowering the price of tickets.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s double-speak if I’ve ever
heard it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not about lowering the price of tickets, it’s PURE GREED!\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe
it starts with the artist…then again, maybe that’s why nobody believes in
today’s artists.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe why after you’ve seen the Spice Girls\/Britney
extravaganza once, you don’t have to see it AGAIN!\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of like the peep show, or
the freak show at the carnival…they get you once, you want to see enough to
be an expert, talk with authority, but you don’t want to go BACK!!<\/p>\n
Ads for TV shows…\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, if I wanted to watch TV, I would have STAYED HOME!<\/p>\n
And then Coke.\u00c2\u00a0 So you dress it up like a little movie, with good-looking
twentysomethings frolicking in the sunset…you think we don’t see the BOTTLES?\u00c2\u00a0
You think we haven’t been subjected to enough marketing messages that we don’t
know it’s an AD??\u00c2\u00a0 Do you think we don’t know that Coke is one of the biggest
scams of all TIME??\u00c2\u00a0 Selling a penny of syrup for a buck??\u00c2\u00a0 Things don’t go
better with Coke.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, they might go better with COCAINE!\u00c2\u00a0 But I’ve NEVER EVER
had an experience enhanced by Coca-Cola.\u00c2\u00a0 Furthermore, it makes you FAT!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s
kind of like smoking ads.\u00c2\u00a0 The cool people in the spots DON’T EVEN USE THE
PRODUCT!\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to hang with them, you’d better ABSTAIN!<\/p>\n
They went on and on.\u00c2\u00a0 To the point where there were only two TRAILERS!\u00c2\u00a0 I
mean just when we were bitching about twenty minutes of previews they made it
WORSE??\u00c2\u00a0 Like I said, are they in touch with their customers AT ALL???<\/p>\n
Movie attendance has been off for months.\u00c2\u00a0 They keep saying it’s about shitty
movies.\u00c2\u00a0 And I think that’s a factor.\u00c2\u00a0 But the other theory is more
significant…people would rather watch the flicks at home, on their time.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean it’s
not like I could call Pacific Theatres and tell them to hold the screening,
I’m running a bit late, traffic is HELL!\u00c2\u00a0 I got there on time, to watch a
MOVIE, but having gotten me there through subterfuge, as a captive, they threw
marketing spot after marketing spot at me.<\/p>\n
You can’t steal the movie theatre experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Just like you can’t steal the
concert experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Will these motherfuckers stop BLAMING the audience for
revenue decline and start RESPECTING the audience, looking what THEY, the
purveyors, are doing wrong instead of bizarrely blaming their CUSTOMERS??<\/p>\n
Your business has no RIGHT to exist.\u00c2\u00a0 It depends on patrons.\u00c2\u00a0 Patrons who
don’t need your product to survive.\u00c2\u00a0 You’d better make it pretty damn nice, and
attractive, or you know what?\u00c2\u00a0 PEOPLE WILL TAKE THEIR MONEY ELSEWHERE! <\/p>\n
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