{"id":2426,"date":"2016-05-15T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2016-05-15T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T04:56:13","slug":"is-seeing-films-at-cinemas-worth-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/05\/15\/is-seeing-films-at-cinemas-worth-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Is seeing films at cinemas worth the price?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I took my wife and daughter to the local Event cinema to see Captain America: Civil War<\/em>. I loved the film but…<\/p>\n

Let’s see, where should I start?<\/p>\n

Price! Two adults and one child cost me $70 for the tickets alone. We did see it in VMAX. VMAX is supposedly a bigger and better screen, with better chairs and a better experience. Ummmmmm… Yes, the chairs were better but that was the only improvement that I really could feel. But $70! The question I ask is “was it good value?”<\/p>\n

I guess value is based upon the variables cost and expectation. I expect that for $70 I will get an immersive experience of the film. But I did not. Someone whipped out their iPad and the light distracted me. No cinema attendant came to stop them. I had to glare and hiss at the culprit. The person behind me was crunching away on chips and several people in nearby seats kept whispering. At least a couple of times mobile phones were switched on. It was really distracting.<\/p>\n

Years ago, when I was a kid,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I took my wife and daughter to the local Event cinema to see Captain America: Civil War. I loved the film but… Let’s see, where should I start? Price! Two adults and one child cost me $70 for the tickets alone. We did see it in VMAX. VMAX is supposedly a bigger and better screen, with better chairs and a better experience. Ummmmmm… Yes, the chairs were better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[102,103,104],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-gnlong","post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miscellaneous-rantings","tag-cinemas","tag-films","tag-movies","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-15_14-41-05.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}