Movie Ticket Rant

[Abbie Normal]

This is not the strongest rant in recent weeks, but here we go.

I understand I am not like the average person. I keep all my movie tickets and have since the mid 90's. I have all the ticket stubs to every movie I have taken my kids to too.


It really pisses me off how some theaters still print the tickets on these little ass pieces of paper and how they are too lazy to print the whole movie title on the ticket. I am not saying they should have to print Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but at least give me Harry Potter 6.

I am lucky that Pacific Theaters print their tickets on paper that is like 2.5" x 2.5" and usually puts most of the names on the tickets. I usually go to the Pacific Theaters, but a few other of the theaters I go to still use the little paper version.

Charge me an extra quarter and give me a real sized ticket with the whole title printed on it.

Not good
http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Phil/hurtlockerticket.jpg

Yes, a weak ass rant, but I have not been unhappy lately.

[Mr.HyDe807]

I don't really mind if it doesn't have the whole name, I know it's the ticket from the movie I saw, so it's all good for me.

My movie ticket rant would go to my Friday the 13th midnight showing. I printed 3 out on Fandango and all was good. Unfortunately, I notice that there was an extra copy on each one, so i figured all i needed was one of them so I cut them in half and gave mine and the other 2 to my brother and his friend.

So, upon arriving there, I hand the ticket to the ticket counter, who looks and says "Do you have the bottom half?". Now, nowhere on the ticket said that you had to have the bottom half, so I said "No", and the woman just sighs as if I'm a moron. Nothing on the slip said I needed both tickets, it just had the copy, and she says she can't take it unless I have the bottom one. There's 15 minutes left towards the movie and she says that I should go back to my house and pick up the extra copy, which is 20 minutes away. So there, I'm annoyed and just ask for another ticket, being that I'm a pussy and do not want to deal with rambling bullshit. She then keeps repeating that I should have brought the bottom half, and I just throw it right back and say that there was nothing on the ticket that said I needed it.

[Abbie Normal]

Yeah, I know Hyde, but then I have to write the rest of the title on the ticket and I have crap handwriting. It is bad enough that some of my tickets had to be re written, because the heat transfer film typing on the tickets seem to fade.

[CyclicNightmare]

This isn't exactly the same, but fuck movie theatres whose tickets are printed on receipt tape. Fuck that.

[Abbie Normal]

This isn't exactly the same, but fuck movie theatres whose tickets are printed on receipt tape. Fuck that.

sure it is. fuck them in the ear.

[Badbird]

It's a formatting thing. But unlike a full size sheet of typing paper that you can print on in complete paragraphs, tickets are very small and aren't exactly the best word processors.

They have to fit the title, date, time, theater number, price - and make it all legible at a glance. Paper costs money, so the bigger the ticket, the more it costs, and considering most of them end in the trash, that's not something theaters want to spend a lot on (think of the thousands of tickets printed in a day).

[The Postmaster General]

This isn't exactly the same, but fuck movie theatres whose tickets are printed on receipt tape. Fuck that.


Yes, this is what I thought they were ranting about, and this is exactly what bugs me. It's that glossy-like paper where the ink smears off and other issues. The half-a-stub thing has never bothered me. It's usually not hard to figure out what movie it was, though I have had some that reading them turned into a scene from Reservoir Dogs... "Hey I found this old ticket stub. What's that name? Lies? Body of Lies? True Lies... True Lies... Where the Truth Lies? Lies..."

[Dom Shady]

Just out of curiosity...what is the purpose of keeping your ticket stubs? This is a genuine question.

[Abbie Normal]

Just out of curiosity...what is the purpose of keeping your ticket stubs? This is a genuine question.

I don't know. It is fun to look back and see all the movies you have been to. Every now and then you come across a movie where you say to yourself,"I actually paid to see that movie." or "I remember I took this girl and after the movie we..........." They are memories. It is also cool to show you were part of top grossing weekends or stuff like that.

[Jig Saw 123]

It really depends what theater you go to. I've noticed that cheaper theaters like UA Movies have cheap ticket stubs that fad easily and put a quarter of the full movie title most of the time, but a Cinemark theater has colorful tickets and feature the entire title, but the ticket is still small. The best I've come into contact with has been from AMC theaters. The stub is the size of two regular stubs combined and features a lot more information on this single ticket.

[The Postmaster General]

Just out of curiosity...what is the purpose of keeping your ticket stubs? This is a genuine question.


It's along the lines of scrap booking. Like Abbie says, sometimes it's fun to look back. Nostalgia.

[Dom Shady]

Understood. I usually come across ticket stubs as I'm doing some house cleaning and am like "O yea, I saw this movie with so and so", so I know what you mean.

[Film Fan BeAm2k]

This is not the strongest rant in recent weeks, but here we go.

I understand I am not like the average person. I keep all my movie tickets and have since the mid 90's. I have all the ticket stubs to every movie I have taken my kids to too.


It really pisses me off how some theaters still print the tickets on these little ass pieces of paper and how they are too lazy to print the whole movie title on the ticket. I am not saying they should have to print Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, but at least give me Harry Potter 6.

I am lucky that Pacific Theaters print their tickets on paper that is like 2.5" x 2.5" and usually puts most of the names on the tickets. I usually go to the Pacific Theaters, but a few other of the theaters I go to still use the little paper version.

Charge me an extra quarter and give me a real sized ticket with the whole title printed on it.

Not good
http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/Phil/hurtlockerticket.jpg

Yes, a weak ass rant, but I have not been unhappy lately.

I keep all mine too. Have for many, many years. I have a shoebox practically full of them! I always thought I was a weirdo until I read this rant. Lol. So thanks! :)

[Abbie Normal]

I keep all mine too. Have for many, many years. I have a shoebox practically full of them! I always thought I was a weirdo until I read this rant. Lol. So thanks! :)

There are several people on here that keep their ticket stubs. You are not weird. At least not for this crowd.

I have mine sorted by year and date.

[A.J. Hakari]

$7 is a bargain?!

[ericdraven]

$7 is a bargain?!

It's better than paying 12 dollars. I actually salivate when it's 7 dollars.

[A.J. Hakari]

I guess I've been spoiled. $6 here for a matinee; $7.75 for a night show.

[ericdraven]

I guess I've been spoiled. $6 here for a matinee; $7.75 for a night show.

Yeah. My local theater has those exact prices, and my Regal has the price at like 12 dollars.

[sirdizzy]

Count yourself lucky my local theatres print on thermal paper which means in 6 months time all that is left is a blank white piece of paper. I use to keep my tickets when they were actual tickets there is no point now because in 6 months all I am left with is a piece of blank white cheap ass paper.

[MightyCelestial]

I guess I've been spoiled. $6 here for a matinee; $7.75 for a night show.

Here in the Chicagoland area it averages around $10 to $11.50 per for a regular showing.
Which is why when it comes to a movie with overall negative critical reviews or general bad word of mouth,
& then someone will advise me that I should see it & just make up my own mind, I usually respond with "f#ck that".
Even though I realize that I'm always taking a chance,
still,
whenever I walk into a theatre, I want the odds more in favor of a good movie that a piece of crap.
Heck, for the kind of money it costs these days (plus let's not forget the price bloated concession snacks), I don't even want to see a movie that's just so-so anymore.

[sirdizzy]

It's 7.50 here for night showings and 5.50 for matinees so I guess I shouldn't complain about the crappy thermal paper tickets.

[Abbie Normal]

Took a gal to "The Time Travelers Wife" and all the ticket said was "Travelers". I hate to have to write the rest in.

[drc5145]

This actually comes to me at a perfect time. I recently went to see Robocop at a local movie theater near me and because I had to buy my ticket at the cafe and NOT at the ticket booth, My ticket was a weak-ass paper receipt. This came on the heel of having seen Ghostbusters a few weeks earlier at THE SAME THEATER and getting an actual movie ticket. It baffled me why they made the switch that day.

[JimmmyChopblock]

I used to collect my ticket stubs from ages 15ish to 22. A few moves to new apartments later I ended up throwing them out, figuring it was extra baggage and there wasn't a point to keeping them.

I now really regret doing that, and have thought about starting to collect them again but it kind of feels like I "broke the chain" and it just wouldn't be the same. I'm strange.

[Abbie Normal]

Off topic, but related to what Jimmmy said. I moved several times from 1996-2003 and I was lugging around boxes of VHS cassettes. I had hundreds and hundreds of tapes. I was so happy when I started throwing them out. I threw out a huge box o porn vhs tapes and boy were the neighborhood kids happy. Thank God for computers and the internet.