{"id":70,"date":"2012-11-19T01:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T08:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-11-19T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T02:10:05","slug":"adult-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/2012\/11\/19\/adult-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Entertainment &#038; The Social Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>Helena Lin<\/strong>&#8216;s blog post, &#8220;<a title=\"PG-13 is so last year\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helenalin\/2012\/10\/24\/pg-13-is-so-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">PG-13 is so last year<\/a>,&#8221; she talked about the new Cineplex VIP Cinemas, featuring reserved seating, a specialty food menu, a private lounge, and a 19 and older restriction. However, this all comes at a relatively hefty cost of $19.50, $7.00 more than the general admission price. At the end of Helena&#8217;s blog post, she asked: <strong>&#8220;Would you be willing to pay extra for a \u201cVIP\u201d movie experience?&#8221;<\/strong> My answer is: <strong>Yes, I would.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"SilverCity Coquitlam and VIP Cinemas \" src=\"http:\/\/beaconnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cineplex-VIPAuditorium-lounge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For me, the experience of going to the movie theater isn&#8217;t all about the movie itself. Yes, it&#8217;s an important part of the &#8220;night out,&#8221; but as with most people, I usually go to the movies with my friends. If I just wanted to watch the movie, I could watch it online, or wait to rent the DVD. Therefore, I expect a more <strong>social experience<\/strong> when I go out with my friends. What we usually do is: go out for dinner together, watch the movie, then buy drinks (bubble tea) afterwards. With all this included in the VIP Cinema package, people like my friends and me can now get the entire &#8220;movie night out&#8221; social experience in one go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PG13 is so last year\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helenalin\/2012\/10\/24\/pg-13-is-so-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helenalin\/2012\/10\/24\/pg-13-is-so-last-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why Cineplex put the adult back into entertainment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/cineplex-targets-grownups-with-new-toronto-theatre\/article4612845\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/cineplex-targets-grownups-with-new-toronto-theatre\/article4612845\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cineplex VIP Auditorium Lounge\" href=\"http:\/\/beaconnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cineplex-VIPAuditorium-lounge.png\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/beaconnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cineplex-VIPAuditorium-lounge.png<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Helena Lin&#8216;s blog post, &#8220;PG-13 is so last year,&#8221; she talked about the new Cineplex VIP Cinemas, featuring reserved seating, a specialty food menu, a private lounge, and a 19 and older restriction. However, this all comes at a relatively hefty cost of $19.50, $7.00 more than the general admission price. At the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}