It's a subtle point, but buying popcorn doesn't support the movie industry per se. Theater franchises have movies pushed down on them at dictated costs and the theaters must charge a dictated ticket price.
Theaters do not recoup the cost of the film rentals from the admission money. To put it in engineer friendly terms: (Asses in seats) X (Ticket price) < Film rental cost
The snack bar is what makes a theater franchise profitable. Popcorn and pop and licorice sales support the *theater*, which you need to do if you don't want to be condemned to watching LoTR or Shrek 2 on your 26" Sanyo. If you're seeing the movie, you're already supporting the evil industry...
1:24 am
Should it occur that you find yourself trapped in a dungeon, in a less then ogre form, with your stallion donkey, and your adorably deadly cat, who has a passion for floppy hats and tall boots, whilst only manacles, a cell door, and a castle wall armed with a milk frothier stand between you and your lady love, fear not, because through the improbable powers of magic, everything will work out.
How you ask? Well I won't spoil it for you, because I think Shrek 2 is a great movie, and worth the sticky floors, and uncomfortable seats, even if you sit on the end of a row, where boneheads with big feat tromp up and down past you stomping your feet each time they pass.
Why on earth would anyone want to endure such a thing, what movie could possibly entice me back to the sinister theater complex to be gouged of my 14 dollars for a ticket, and 10 dollars for my death tub, and sugar barrel (aka large popcorn with "topping" and ten gallon pop?) Without going into a tirade about topping, and I assure you I have a tirade stored up all about topping and the other fowl lies of the theater industry (from an inside source,) I will tell you.
Shrek 2, lets you forget for a moment all the tripe that has been pumped down the movie pipe line, and enjoy a well animated, well written, well spoken show. Now it doesn't let you forget for too long about the tripe, because it slips in all sorts of reference to pop culture, in a twisted fun way, so you can't hope to not laugh at some of it.
What it had that so many sequels don't is freshness. It wasn't the same jokes completely rehashed like Austin Powers 2 and Three, Charles Angels 2, and Beverly Hills Cop 2, 3. Just to pick on the principle actors a bit, but in this case it was fresh. Now the moral was the same, Beauty is skin deep, and thats a great moral anyways, especially in this age of EXTREME Makeover, and The Swan. I mean what person can't help but feel ashamed if you tell them the only way they can be pretty is to go to extremes, or to liken them to the ugly duckling. Except in the case of the Swan you have fifteen but ugly ducks and one swan. Can you say early childhood onset eating disorders as popular mainstream behaviour?
So I digress, the point being that Sherk 2, is fresh, funny, pokes fun, (even a little at itself,) is appropriate and amusing for all ages and shows a new level in detailed animation (not life like, but that is intentional.)
So spend you $$$, support the movie industry, (don't buy the popcorn,) and tell me one thing?
"The infinite possibility of magic fairy powers"
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1:43 pm
It's a subtle point, but buying popcorn doesn't support the movie industry per se. Theater franchises have movies pushed down on them at dictated costs and the theaters must charge a dictated ticket price.
Theaters do not recoup the cost of the film rentals from the admission money. To put it in engineer friendly terms:
(Asses in seats) X (Ticket price) < Film rental cost
The snack bar is what makes a theater franchise profitable. Popcorn and pop and licorice sales support the *theater*, which you need to do if you don't want to be condemned to watching LoTR or Shrek 2 on your 26" Sanyo. If you're seeing the movie, you're already supporting the evil industry...
1:24 am