June 4, 2025 • 11 mins
Thor went to the movies recently and noticed a few things that made him upined the experience a little. he let us hear about it todya during Thor's Midweek Meltdown
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now the show is happy to bring you. I'm pissed,
or have some respectors. Midweek melt down?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, here we go every Wednesday, or let's lose
on a subject or something that's bothering him. What is
it this week that it is bothering me?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I can't believe Emily is not here. I mean two days.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You're not going to melt him?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
No? No, no, actually opposite. Stay home, okay. I don't
want to get sick. I cannot get sick right now.
I get sick right I'm just so busy. I can't
get sick right now. Emily, stay home, okay forever. No,
that is not what the rants about. The rants about
something that used to be near and jeer to my heart,
(00:49):
and it's not near and jeer to my heart anymore.
I'm talking about the movie theater. Oh I I did.
I used to love going to the movies. Ye loved it.
I would go with Eddie. We'd have our date night
whoa on Thursday nights. We'd see Go to Islands, I
mean if the movie, if if the if the premiere
was in mirror Mesa Islands, or we would go right
(01:10):
after the show. Sometimes it was great but then COVID
ruined the world and uh, a little bit of an overreaction,
and and movie theaters really never came back, and then
streaming services started and it just didn't come back. So
I've probably been to the movies twice in the last
what three years. I saw a dead Pool Wolverine, and
(01:32):
I saw Mission Impossible on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So and the first and the other Mission Impossible. So
three times in the last three years. And I realized
why when I went to the movies, because I remember
when this all started, like years ago, when it's like
a movie theaters are reopening, and I think we did
a survey of like, are you still going to go
to the movies now you can watch it at home?
And I was one. You were there saying no, we're
(01:55):
I'm still gonna go. There's nothing you can't beat the experience.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, you had a very strong stand, especially about action movies,
like oh, you can watch a rom com at home,
but you said when it came to certain movies like
the New Top Gun, the New Mission Impossible, You're like,
you have to go to the theater.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Then I got a lgg G four TV and it's incredible.
I mean, the TV is incredible. I have a sold system.
I spent a lot of money on this stuff. This
is what I care about entertainment systems. Honestly, after what
I saw on Saturday, it's better. No I decided to
(02:31):
break down ways that they can make the movie experience
better and bring people back to the theater. So this
is more less of a rant, more of an advice column,
less of a rant, more of an advice commed. No
AMC did first of all, too many options. I go
(02:51):
to my app with it Flickster to look at movie times,
and there is standard. You're a Fandango man, there's standard,
there's a sign seating, there's IMAX, there's IMAX, not a
signed seating, and there's too many options. Just give me
standard or not or a sign seating, and that's it.
Because each option has their own price. And then the
(03:14):
prices are ridiculous. I mean, the prices are insane. It's
fourteen ninety five, thirteen ninety nine, twenty one sixty if
you want, if you want, you know, a leg room.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's just it's insane. I think it's because there's so many,
so few people going, they're trying to give you more.
They try to give you more option, and they will
have to make money back somehow, And I guess that's
so they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Here's gonna be the theme of my rant. Some money
is better than no money, AMC. And what do I
mean by it? They're not the only What do I
mean by that? What do I mean by some money
is better than no money? Eventually you're gonna be gone.
After what I saw on Sunday, movies will be gone.
There would not be people going to the movie theaters anymore.
It's just too expensive to buy these tickets. When Sinners
(04:00):
you could you could have saw in the theater that
would it would have probably cost me sixty bucks to
me and my wife's the Sinners in theater. Or I
could just wait an extra couple of months and see
at home for free because I pay for Pete Cock
Hbo Max. So some money is better than no money.
They're gonna get so lower the ticket prices. Baby, you
don't need to. It doesn't It shouldn't cost me twenty
(04:22):
one dollars a ticket to see a movie seventeen ninety nine,
to see a movie that's number one, number two. I
was there and leg Low and Stitch is a big deal,
which is really annoying, and they're trying to sell them annoying.
They're trying to sell well because like there was like
thirty kids all running into the theater at the same time.
And I told my wife, I go, that's never going
(04:42):
to be this guy. I mean, you want to take
you're going to have a kid. If you want to
take our son to the movies, you gotta go with.
I am not doing it, not doing it. Do I
love my kid? Yes? Do I like other kids?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think we can know that about it. There was
a commemorative Leelo and stitch cup that they're saw at
the AMC thing. I'm cute.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
This is in Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The lower the prices people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This whole popcorn bucket craze that seeing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We bought a large popcorn and a large sadag we
split extra well I think butter butter. It was just
all but just the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Extra large popcorn bucket with just butter.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, uttle hot tub.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Extra large large popcorn, large soda.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, guess how much that was? Ooh guess.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Thirty bucks nineteen ninety nine went a little too high.
Contact out of the thirty you're at nineteen ninety nine,
and the popcorn sucked. It was like crappy popcorn. You
can't give you, Orville Reddenbocker, you can't give you Orvo
I don't know, you can't give you there to popcorn.
(05:54):
It's ridiculous. Lower the prices and some mighty is better
than no money. We hit him tar before we got there,
and we loaded up on candies, shoved it at my
wife's person. Well, too bad because I didn't want to
spend eight dollars from milk nuts. What are we doing?
You want me to come entice me a little bit?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't even want to tell you how much it costs.
When just me and my daughter went to see Lee
Lo and Stitch at the lot.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That well, yeah, so that's you know, one of these
fancy dudes. Yeah, and then they have like way bigger
food options there that's gonna cost you fifteen bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And if they bring it to you, then you're tipping
them like you're like a hundred like one hundred bucks deep.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Why do it?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Some money's better than no money. Now we get into Okay,
I'm in, I got my seat I'm in the theater.
I'm here. Yeah, the movies. I know there's trailers, Eddie.
What used to do my favorite part of the movie,
the trailers? That's right, not anymore?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Why you know why?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Because every movie gets promoted by the trailer online months
before it comes out. So I've already seen it fifty
I've already seen four different variations of this movie online.
So when the movie said it was gonna start three twenty,
I assumed three forty. The movie didn't start until three
(07:13):
fifty four. We had thirty four minutes of trailers and commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, what are you doing, AMC? And the movie you
saw is a two hour and fifty minute movie. Yes,
so that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I was there for a whole day. Take hour shifts
this movie?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Okay, Uh, you know I agree with you on that.
Like if if the movie starts at three twenty, you
need to start showing the trailers at three because that's
what they used to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I thought so well, they would do those pop quizzes,
which I missed. We don't do that anymore, Marie.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We don't do that. What you said, Maria Munulas, she's
not there, but you give him the quizzes, and why
do we quizz I don't need to see trailers for
terrible movies.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm never gonna see. Well, that's not that's there's this
Michael Fastbender movie that's coming out where he's like getting
divorced and they're they're fighting over the house.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Who's seeing that?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Like it looks awful, But like I get if you
want to show me like Superman trailer one trailer, I
get that, but you don't need to show me a
half hour's worth of trailers. Also, a MC can you
stop with the commercials promoting your business? I'm there? You
got me there? I mean they all do that. You
got me?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Is getting any smoke?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, I'll give smokeg you got me there, I'm there
if you really want me. Also, the Cole Kidman commercial
before the movies. I can't deal it with the Cole kimmen.
And that's this guy's right the face. Now, if you
told me Sidney Sweeny's gonna and maybe jumping on a trampoline,
I'm gonna be there. She's jumping on a trampoline. She's
(08:46):
bouncing up and down, and she's she's not popcorn flying everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
She's fine everywhere. Thank you, this is great. Come on,
grow up.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm just and can we update the screen? I mentioned
this screen. I get that it's big, but the picture
quality not that great. I was tied. Whether I'm at
a regal, whether I'm at an AMC, whether I'm out
a lot, they're not. My TV is better than that.
The picture quality it just is. Oh you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, it is, but but it's not as big.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It's as big. Also, I sat there for thirty minutes
of the commercials. There's two hour, fifty minute movie. I
gotta tinkle. But you have like one bathroom and it's
by the edge, it's by the exit, so I gotta
you can't. Can you give me some more bathroom options?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Please? I'm over that's theater.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Could you give me some more bathroom options? Each theater
should have a bathroom right next to it, like you,
That makes sense. Give me a better, cheaper experience, and
more people will show up, and if more people show up,
you make more money. It's just it's it's it's supplying demand.
You're charging too much. The experience isn't as good as
(09:58):
it used to be. Im sorry, Tom, Tom Cruise needs
to tell you this theater, this show has been meant
to be seeing the movie.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's not well, I mean, I think you're just now
too old. I'm not to go to the movies. I'm
not because you're you're a grumpy guy. I'm not who
needs a urinal next to the theater? Like that's that's
a little ridiculous, you know, and you just shouldn't go.
That's well, just stay at home, you enjoy your TV.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I wish I could enjoy going to theaters, whether it's
the lot, whether it's regal, whether it's a MC, whether
it's I don't know what the theaters are here, but
but you know, I wish I could go. I wish
I could go. But you need to make the experience
better and cheap. Your two is your family of four
going to see Lego and Stitch?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I have a family.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How much would it is toward box.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
A freaking movie?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If my kid goes, Papa wait and he's talking about
I'm gonna call you popp talking at my little shir
my shirt, and he goes he wants to go to
the movies, I go, Hey, put on Disney Plus in
the in the man?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Kid?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Now, Yet you have to wait big guy, I'm not
spending forty hours for you to go see a movie
too grumpy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You're too grumpy. Yeah, this isn't for you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Make it less expensive, more people will go Okay, what
a genius.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, thank you, totally
And now the show is happy to bring you. I'm pissed,
or have some respectors. Midweek melt down?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, here we go every Wednesday, or let's lose
on a subject or something that's bothering him. What is
it this week that it is bothering me?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I can't believe Emily is not here. I mean two days.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You're not going to melt him?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
No? No, no, actually opposite. Stay home, okay. I don't
want to get sick. I cannot get sick right now.
I get sick right I'm just so busy. I can't
get sick right now. Emily, stay home, okay forever. No,
that is not what the rants about. The rants about
something that used to be near and jeer to my heart,
(00:49):
and it's not near and jeer to my heart anymore.
I'm talking about the movie theater. Oh I I did.
I used to love going to the movies. Ye loved it.
I would go with Eddie. We'd have our date night
whoa on Thursday nights. We'd see Go to Islands, I
mean if the movie, if if the if the premiere
was in mirror Mesa Islands, or we would go right
(01:10):
after the show. Sometimes it was great but then COVID
ruined the world and uh, a little bit of an overreaction,
and and movie theaters really never came back, and then
streaming services started and it just didn't come back. So
I've probably been to the movies twice in the last
what three years. I saw a dead Pool Wolverine, and
(01:32):
I saw Mission Impossible on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So and the first and the other Mission Impossible. So
three times in the last three years. And I realized
why when I went to the movies, because I remember
when this all started, like years ago, when it's like
a movie theaters are reopening, and I think we did
a survey of like, are you still going to go
to the movies now you can watch it at home?
And I was one. You were there saying no, we're
(01:55):
I'm still gonna go. There's nothing you can't beat the experience.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, you had a very strong stand, especially about action movies,
like oh, you can watch a rom com at home,
but you said when it came to certain movies like
the New Top Gun, the New Mission Impossible, You're like,
you have to go to the theater.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Then I got a lgg G four TV and it's incredible.
I mean, the TV is incredible. I have a sold system.
I spent a lot of money on this stuff. This
is what I care about entertainment systems. Honestly, after what
I saw on Saturday, it's better. No I decided to
(02:31):
break down ways that they can make the movie experience
better and bring people back to the theater. So this
is more less of a rant, more of an advice column,
less of a rant, more of an advice commed. No
AMC did first of all, too many options. I go
(02:51):
to my app with it Flickster to look at movie times,
and there is standard. You're a Fandango man, there's standard,
there's a sign seating, there's IMAX, there's IMAX, not a
signed seating, and there's too many options. Just give me
standard or not or a sign seating, and that's it.
Because each option has their own price. And then the
(03:14):
prices are ridiculous. I mean, the prices are insane. It's
fourteen ninety five, thirteen ninety nine, twenty one sixty if
you want, if you want, you know, a leg room.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's just it's insane. I think it's because there's so many,
so few people going, they're trying to give you more.
They try to give you more option, and they will
have to make money back somehow, And I guess that's
so they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Here's gonna be the theme of my rant. Some money
is better than no money, AMC. And what do I
mean by it? They're not the only What do I
mean by that? What do I mean by some money
is better than no money? Eventually you're gonna be gone.
After what I saw on Sunday, movies will be gone.
There would not be people going to the movie theaters anymore.
It's just too expensive to buy these tickets. When Sinners
(04:00):
you could you could have saw in the theater that
would it would have probably cost me sixty bucks to
me and my wife's the Sinners in theater. Or I
could just wait an extra couple of months and see
at home for free because I pay for Pete Cock
Hbo Max. So some money is better than no money.
They're gonna get so lower the ticket prices. Baby, you
don't need to. It doesn't It shouldn't cost me twenty
(04:22):
one dollars a ticket to see a movie seventeen ninety nine,
to see a movie that's number one, number two. I
was there and leg Low and Stitch is a big deal,
which is really annoying, and they're trying to sell them annoying.
They're trying to sell well because like there was like
thirty kids all running into the theater at the same time.
And I told my wife, I go, that's never going
(04:42):
to be this guy. I mean, you want to take
you're going to have a kid. If you want to
take our son to the movies, you gotta go with.
I am not doing it, not doing it. Do I
love my kid? Yes? Do I like other kids?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think we can know that about it. There was
a commemorative Leelo and stitch cup that they're saw at
the AMC thing. I'm cute.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
It was thirty dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
This is in Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The lower the prices people.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This whole popcorn bucket craze that seeing.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
We bought a large popcorn and a large sadag we
split extra well I think butter butter. It was just
all but just the.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Extra large popcorn bucket with just butter.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, uttle hot tub.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Extra large large popcorn, large soda.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Okay, guess how much that was? Ooh guess.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Thirty bucks nineteen ninety nine went a little too high.
Contact out of the thirty you're at nineteen ninety nine,
and the popcorn sucked. It was like crappy popcorn. You
can't give you, Orville Reddenbocker, you can't give you Orvo
I don't know, you can't give you there to popcorn.
(05:54):
It's ridiculous. Lower the prices and some mighty is better
than no money. We hit him tar before we got there,
and we loaded up on candies, shoved it at my
wife's person. Well, too bad because I didn't want to
spend eight dollars from milk nuts. What are we doing?
You want me to come entice me a little bit?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't even want to tell you how much it costs.
When just me and my daughter went to see Lee
Lo and Stitch at the lot.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That well, yeah, so that's you know, one of these
fancy dudes. Yeah, and then they have like way bigger
food options there that's gonna cost you fifteen bucks.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And if they bring it to you, then you're tipping
them like you're like a hundred like one hundred bucks deep.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's insane.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Why do it?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Some money's better than no money. Now we get into Okay,
I'm in, I got my seat I'm in the theater.
I'm here. Yeah, the movies. I know there's trailers, Eddie.
What used to do my favorite part of the movie,
the trailers? That's right, not anymore?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Why you know why?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Because every movie gets promoted by the trailer online months
before it comes out. So I've already seen it fifty
I've already seen four different variations of this movie online.
So when the movie said it was gonna start three twenty,
I assumed three forty. The movie didn't start until three
(07:13):
fifty four. We had thirty four minutes of trailers and commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, what are you doing, AMC? And the movie you
saw is a two hour and fifty minute movie. Yes,
so that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I was there for a whole day. Take hour shifts
this movie?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Okay, Uh, you know I agree with you on that.
Like if if the movie starts at three twenty, you
need to start showing the trailers at three because that's
what they used to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I thought so well, they would do those pop quizzes,
which I missed. We don't do that anymore, Marie.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We don't do that. What you said, Maria Munulas, she's
not there, but you give him the quizzes, and why
do we quizz I don't need to see trailers for
terrible movies.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I'm never gonna see. Well, that's not that's there's this
Michael Fastbender movie that's coming out where he's like getting
divorced and they're they're fighting over the house.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Who's seeing that?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Like it looks awful, But like I get if you
want to show me like Superman trailer one trailer, I
get that, but you don't need to show me a
half hour's worth of trailers. Also, a MC can you
stop with the commercials promoting your business? I'm there? You
got me there? I mean they all do that. You
got me?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Is getting any smoke?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Okay, I'll give smokeg you got me there, I'm there
if you really want me. Also, the Cole Kidman commercial
before the movies. I can't deal it with the Cole kimmen.
And that's this guy's right the face. Now, if you
told me Sidney Sweeny's gonna and maybe jumping on a trampoline,
I'm gonna be there. She's jumping on a trampoline. She's
(08:46):
bouncing up and down, and she's she's not popcorn flying everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
She's fine everywhere. Thank you, this is great. Come on,
grow up.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm just and can we update the screen? I mentioned
this screen. I get that it's big, but the picture
quality not that great. I was tied. Whether I'm at
a regal, whether I'm at an AMC, whether I'm out
a lot, they're not. My TV is better than that.
The picture quality it just is. Oh you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, it is, but but it's not as big.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It's as big. Also, I sat there for thirty minutes
of the commercials. There's two hour, fifty minute movie. I
gotta tinkle. But you have like one bathroom and it's
by the edge, it's by the exit, so I gotta
you can't. Can you give me some more bathroom options?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Please? I'm over that's theater.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Could you give me some more bathroom options? Each theater
should have a bathroom right next to it, like you,
That makes sense. Give me a better, cheaper experience, and
more people will show up, and if more people show up,
you make more money. It's just it's it's it's supplying demand.
You're charging too much. The experience isn't as good as
(09:58):
it used to be. Im sorry, Tom, Tom Cruise needs
to tell you this theater, this show has been meant
to be seeing the movie.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's not well, I mean, I think you're just now
too old. I'm not to go to the movies. I'm
not because you're you're a grumpy guy. I'm not who
needs a urinal next to the theater? Like that's that's
a little ridiculous, you know, and you just shouldn't go.
That's well, just stay at home, you enjoy your TV.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I wish I could enjoy going to theaters, whether it's
the lot, whether it's regal, whether it's a MC, whether
it's I don't know what the theaters are here, but
but you know, I wish I could go. I wish
I could go. But you need to make the experience
better and cheap. Your two is your family of four
going to see Lego and Stitch?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I have a family.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
How much would it is toward box.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
A freaking movie?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
If my kid goes, Papa wait and he's talking about
I'm gonna call you popp talking at my little shir
my shirt, and he goes he wants to go to
the movies, I go, Hey, put on Disney Plus in
the in the man?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Kid?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Now, Yet you have to wait big guy, I'm not
spending forty hours for you to go see a movie
too grumpy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You're too grumpy. Yeah, this isn't for you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Make it less expensive, more people will go Okay, what
a genius.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, thank you, totally
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