if the atmosphere was right i would really enjoy the superbowl at a theatre. Just not the lights down everyone is expected to stay in your seat experience. Something like a sports bar atmosphere with nice comfy seats.
Superheroes are humanities oldest and longest lived story trope. They are never going away.
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Yeah I think you could do football really well in theatres. You could get a lot of the best experiences, or a good reproduction of them, but without the worst stuff (traffic, cold temperature, uncomfortable seats, $15 beers, etc). Like they could price gouge beers and STILL come in way below stadium prices.
But I think ultimately being able to roll in at like 11:30, park, walk right inside to a tailgate atmosphere but indoors so it’s not freezing, chill for 90 minutes then watch the game in comfort with people cheering around you is pretty close to optimal for suburban dads.
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Yeah that actually sounds fun.
Sounds like you are describing many sportsbooks
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Yeah sports gambling if legalized would turn those places into legit moneymakers. I would absolutely go gamble every day of football season at a great big theater, especially if I had friends to attend with.
Who thinks that wouldn’t be fun??
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Come to Washington, apparently. I saw on TV last night a casino advertising exactly this.
Yeah it’s a legit good repurpose of the stadium seating style theaters, and modern sportsbooks (which I don’t live anywhere near… and wouldn’t travel to visit it’s not that fun to gamble lol) seem like a perfect proof of concept.
Venetian had this for a while and it seemed popular but don’t think you could bet right there. It was Emeril themed (lol).
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DraftKings or FanDuel should buy them up and do it.
Also. Every sports bar or sports pub I’ve been to.
I have never seen one of these with seating like at a movie theater.
Matt Levine is a very good writer.
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While this feels right as basic high-level advice, there are some complications that can make it tricky. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, for instance, doesn’t love meme-stock issuers taking advantage of dumb prices to sell stock, so if you’re going to do it you have to warn potential buyers that the price is dumb. (This is not much of an impediment; the buyers don’t care.)
NOOOOOOOOO welp it’s going down
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in asia, they dont $20 for pop corn in a theater. is it possible if going to the movies was cheaper, people would go more often?
In Japan at least, while concession foods aren’t jacked up, movie tickets typically cost around 1900 yen. Hardly cheap.
In related news, I got an email that MoviePass is coming back in some form. I may be able to get 10 people an early access pass if interested. I assume it’s not going to work the same way it did last time.
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I’m in
Yah for sure.
I usually live in places where tickets cost $3-5 and concessions $5 and go about once a week. If I were paying USA prices I’d maybe go a couple times a year only for stuff I was dying to see.
My current theater in Tbilisi, Georgia is pretty awesome. $5 tickets for lazy boys that recline all the way and in the back row (VIP) there’s a barrier that blocks off your view of all the rows below so you only see the screen.