March 31, 2005

Movie Prices Going Up!

Driving into work today, I heard on the radio that movie prices will be going up from May 1 2005. Only 2 operators will maintain current prices (for now...) and they are Overseas Movie and Cathay, bless their non-money-grubbing souls.

For the other cinema operators movie prices are going up from $0.50-$1.00 depending on the time and day of the week. In a nutshell,
Monday - Wednesday: $7.00 (from $6.50)
Thursday: $8.00 (from $7.50)
Friday - Sunday, eve of public holiday and public holiday: $9.50 (from $8.50)

Being the cheapskate that I am (and here's a tip: Hold up your hands to the light with your fingers straight out and touching each other. If there's lots of gaps that means that you tend to spend money freely. Mine, of course, have no gaps whatsoever. Hahaha.) I refuse to pay anything more than the absolute minimum for a movie, unless it's a great movie or someone else is paying.

Which basically means that I will never ever be able to watch a movie in Singapore again because
a) Monday night is "Desperate Housewives" and Comedy night.
b) Tuesday night is training night.
c) Wednesday night is conference call night.
d) Thursday-Sunday nights are cheapskates-stay-at-home nights.
e) Who's going to pay for me to watch a movie???

Time to get in all the movies I can before the deadline. So, anyone up for Spanglish, Hitch, Robots, In Good Company, 3-Iron (no, not a golf show but a Korean flick) and The Woodsman (starring my fav Kevin Bacon)?

Posted by scrabbyfoo at March 31, 2005 10:46 AM
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...or you could pay our friendly neighbors across the causeway a visit and erm, get your movie supply there. Come to think of it, I hear some of them even do delivery.

Otherwise you could start renting. Or start frequenting Cathay.

I volunteer for Robots, In Good Company, 3-Iron and The Woodsman. And I can loan you the DVD for Spanglish, if you want to save more moolah. Heh.

But aiyah, who cares, I'm going to watch my movies regardless. Maybe because, unlike you, I have lots of gaps. Heheh.

Posted by: Nat at March 31, 2005 01:54 PM

Or maybe you just have people willing to pay for you? :D

I'd rather not go to M'sia and buy bootleg copies, thank you very much. I'll just wait for you to buy some and borrow them from you.

Let's watch The Woodsman first, the run is ending! And then In Good Company, 3-Iron and Robots in that order?

Posted by: May at March 31, 2005 04:44 PM

If I HAD to watch one of those I guess I would watch The Woodsman.

Posted by: Desiree at April 1, 2005 10:42 AM