Stretching your budget is key when you’re unemployed but that doesn’t mean you should give up going to see a mindless blockbuster every once in a while – you just have to be willing to exchange your morals for a few bucks. One of the best ways to spend the day indoors, protected by air conditioning and total darkness, is to head down to your local multiplex theater with the goal of watching as many movies as possible. While there might be one movie worth paying for to see in the theater, “in this economy” the unemployed must decide whether the other ones are suitable for renting, watching on an airplane with distracting loud engines, or broadcast years later on TV halfway through the movie. Or, they could just watch them during a self-imposed double, triple, or quadruple feature.
With movie ticket prices increasing without warning and awful movies getting churned out these days, it’s almost justifiable to pay less to see more. Rather than avoiding the bad movie all together, the unemployed would rather “stick it to the man” in order to kill a couple hours. Before heading to a day of unemployment at the theater the unemployed will fill a backpack with microwavable popcorn, generic gummy bears, and a canned soda to crack open during a suspenseful scene. Sometimes they’ll throw in a sandwich too just in case they’re successful at watching several movies and can’t risk going to the concession stand. With a detailed movie schedule complete with notes indicating which beginnings and ends can be sacrificed due to overlapping movies and a simple change of clothing, the unemployed head to the theater determined to watch anything and everything as long as they don’t contribute to Zac Efron’s box office earnings.
Always try to find out the cheapest time to watch a movie in case a faded student ID no longer works. If there’s an AMC theater near you, movies before noon Friday through Sunday cost $6. That means if you wake up at 11:30am, you can roll out of bed, drive to the theater and catch a show – you’ll be in the dark anyway and if you’re worried about smelling bad, sit in the back. The first time trying to catch multiple matinees might just be a recon mission to see how tight security might be. Chances are the people working at the theater are teens or old people who should have retired but were forced to keep working when their 401ks disappeared – neither of the groups care about their jobs. If that’s the case, then sneaking several movies can be a breeze. If not, try to look out for other unemployed folk obviously doing the same thing and copy their moves. Who knows, you might just make some friends who will help save a seat for you, give you a ticket stub a paying moviegoer might have dropped, or give you movie reviews for what should be skipped no matter how high your unemployment boredom is.
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In case you are too lazy to create the detailed schedule, this website does all the heavy lifting for you: http://www.movie-madness.org/
It retrieves the listings and comes up with schedules based on various changeable parameters. Now you can efficiently stick it to the man.
Movie Madness is an amazing tool! Why didn’t I learn about this sooner?
The best thing about being unemployed is you get to do whatever you want whenever you want, as long as you still have the funds for it of course. lol. Watching multiple matinee movies all day, spending less than $10 that day, is a great way to spend time while avoiding the thought of being possibly poor in the future. Just don’t over do it, people, and you’ll be fine
Wow what a good idea. Especially since so many summer movies are about to come out. Before I lost my job I was thinking that I would have to go every few weeks spending about $40 a pop between me and my boyfriend. Hey screw him I’ll go during the week, spend $10 bucks and be done. That that “The Man”!