Fans Paying $150 For 'Dark Knight' tickets

[CheezeFlixz]

http://wcbstv.com/entertainment/dark.knight.tickets.2.774172.html

That just ridiculous. They are showing it at the theater here in my little rinky-dink town and the ticket here are $6.00 and not sold out.

I want to see the film but I wouldn't pay $150 for a ticket ... hell I wouldn't pay $20. I'm sure it's good but no movie is that good IMHO.

[AnubisVonMojo]

Looks like the "Oscar of the Living Dead" hype started by Warner Bros. taking advantage of Ledger's death as a means to promote the movie has worked. Originally I was going to see this on opening weekend with the rest of the comic crowd, but now that it's become this abominably trendy thing for all the hipsters and indy movie crowds to latch onto, I guess I'll have to wait until it cools off enough and they go onto their next "hip thing"... in other words, I'll see it next week or the week after.

[Captain Tars Tarkas]

for $150 I want my own theater so no idiot will get a cell phone call, be browsing on their iPhone, or make "witty" remarks. 

[Mr. DS]

I'm going to aim in at a $6.00 matinee personally. 

[Jack]

Was just reading about this movie on another board.  Everyone's bragging it up to the sky.  Of course, they did the same thing with the last movie, and I keep changing the channel after 10 minutes every time it's on TV.  Meh...whatever.

[Trevor]

http://wcbstv.com/entertainment/dark.knight.tickets.2.774172.html

That just ridiculous. They are showing it at the theater here in my little rinky-dink town and the ticket here are $6.00 and not sold out.

I want to see the film but I wouldn't pay $150 for a ticket ... hell I wouldn't pay $20. I'm sure it's good but no movie is that good IMHO.

Yikes: $150 is almost 1200 South African rand. I want to see TDK but not at that price, no sir.

[AndyC]

for $150 I want my own theater so no idiot will get a cell phone call, be browsing on their iPhone, or make "witty" remarks. 

I agree. I wouldn't even pay the regular price of admission to sit in a crowded theatre, much less fork over $150 to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with people straining their necks on the extreme right side of the front row. If you can wait until now to see it, a couple more weeks is no big deal. The movie's not going anywhere. When I used to live closer to a good multiplex, I'd usually count on waiting an extra week or two before I considered a blockbuster available to me.

One notable exception was The Phantom Menace, where the theatre added a bunch of extra showings. I went in the middle of the night. It was still relatively full, but it wasn't packed and the people there were all serious about watching the movie.

The mad rush to see a movie always makes me shake my head, but now that I very rarely get to see a movie in the theatre, I'm finding it downright baffling. I'll consider myself lucky if I get to see anything on the big screen this summer. And the Dark Knight isn't even at the top of the list if I do.

[the master]

i went to the bigest theather around the day before yesterday to see it
and there was 10 15 tops in the theather
thats what i get for going at 3:10
great film but not worth that much money