[Psitticine]

I agree completely. While I'm not exactly on the side of the file sharing sites, I feel they really aren't the big issue. There are many movies that we didn't go to see in the theater simply because we're fine with waiting just a very short while and paying much less to watch it in our own comfy home with no noisy strangers or sticky floors.

My wife, my 3 stepkids, my stepdaughter's boyfriend, and I all went to see Star Wars 3, which is the first movie I've seen in a theater in ages. I don't even want to go into how expensive that was.

Where I grew up, there was a historic old theater (the State, to be precise) that they didn't know what to do with. In an effort to get more business, they got it declared a historical landmark. The business didn't come, but the theater couldn't be turned into anything else because it was now, well, a landmark. So they made it a 99-cent place instead and suddenly were making a heck of a lot more money.

I know the theaters have problems keeping afloat, but maybe they are just using the wrong pricing model. Cheaper seats are filled quicker, and maybe they'd be filled quickly enough to actually increase the profits.

Oh, and I HATE it when some stupid movie ad tells me I've "never seen/experienced/whatevered something like this before". Pfeh! Don't you dare presume to tell me the depths of my own experiences!