Is $30 a reasonable price for the theater experience?

I think movie theaters are pricing themselves out of existence.
The last movie I saw in a theatre was Maverick:Top Gun and it was a really fun movie but four tickets were about sixty bucks.
That's without snacks or drinks... I sneak the goodies in under a heavy coat.

Sorry fellow movie nerds but I'm pretty much just going to stream or rent most stuff at home from now on, there's NO money tree in my backyard.

Theaters are a F'n scam nowadays. I watched Napoleon at the Universal CityWalk the other day and it was $48 for two tickets plus $30 for parking.

YES $30 just for parking.

That put me at $80 without concessions. Also, this was the 11:30am matinee showing.

To answer your question; No I don't think $30 for a movie ticket is worth it, and I'm surprised theaters are still in business.

I'm lucky! My daughter works at a movie theater so I get free movies and half off consessions.

No!

It is expensive.

We tend to keep to $5 Tuesdays and not get concessions every time.

Every so often, I'll get a soda and my wife will get a wine. That gets it to $30 again.

I have no interest in going to the theater ever since I got an HD projector in 2017. I get the distinctive look of reflected light (which you can only get with a projector; direct-view TVs/monitors have a completely different look no matter how big they are) and a screen that's plenty big enough for the viewing distance in my living room (100" from 10' away). Also, I learned how to make movie theater-style popcorn many years ago, so there's no incentive to go to a theater to get that either. And I don't like people in general unless I have a good reason to, so watching a movie with a bunch of random people is a major con in my book, not a pro. Not being able to smoke, control the volume, and pause the movie are major cons too.

So no, $30 isn't a reasonable price for me, since I wouldn't bother to go even if it were free, unless they were doing something that's practically unheard of these days, i.e., showing a real film print (complete with an optical soundtrack) of one of my favorite movies. The last theaters around here that showed real film prints switched to digital in 2015, and even then, they only showed current movies, not any of my favorites.

At the theatre I go to, they have a Bar and generally, my sister and I when we attend purchase a 16 OZ Michelob ULTRA and food, actual food not snacks, and it comes to around $35.00 when we're done, not counting the seats which depending on when we go which most of the time is a matinee, it's around $15.00 a seat.. Granted, it does get expensive going to the movies, but movies were meant to be seen on the big screen and not reduced to Streaming where Ryan Reynolds gets paid $50 Million for a movie that cost less on NETFLIX to make than the big screen and that's sadly what I'm seeing now thanks to this Bogus Pandemic

I developed a love for movies and theaters very early in life, even worked in one as an usher during my teen years.
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