Movie? What Movie?

There is NO movie on earth worth $8.50 to go see it. That is entirely INSANE. The movie theater raised it rates. Wow. I get to sit in a seat beside smelly people, listening to them gossip, play on their cell phones, and see a small screen movie. Nope. Ain't gonna happen. We bellied up tonight to see "Nacho Libre" with Jack Black - - don't bother. It's not even worth $2.50. Disjointed, choppy, and unabsorbing, the humor falls short of anything I would have expected from Jack Black or director Jared Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite fame). So when the cashier demanded $17, I was shocked. Almost $20 for two of us to see a movie. Without yet buying popcorn, pop, or candy. Also...foot high letters on the doors alerted us that "NO OUTSIDE DRINKS OR FOOD ALLOWED" yeah. right. So hubby wanted popcorn. Another $4.50 for a SMALL bag of popcorn. Cheapskates. Whatever happened to popcorn containers that didn't collapse in your hand when you shared? Then when we were finally seated in the theater, we endured 15 minutes of COMMERCIALS. Yes. Commercials. As in...Cola advertisements, Cell Phone Service advertisements, and Automotive advertisements. Like real 3 minute commercials. Then another 15 minutes of coming features...and they were all CARTOONS. Don't they have real people acting in movies anymore? And last but not least...Nope. Not the movie...a REVIEW of the the 15 minutes of commercials & previews that we just watched. 35 minutes and we have yet to see the movie we paid to see! No more. So from now on...it is Pay Per View on Satellite. Another thing we discussed...why do movie theater cashiers have more security (behind a window with a little circular metal microphone) than do any grocery store, inside bank teller, or 7-11? Is somebody going to pull a weapon and demand to see the movie without paying?