I wish we had those kinds of luxurys, ours just has decent seats, popcorn, soda, nachos and candy. they even cut cost by instead of having the nice looking tickets they basically just print out a piece of a receipt for ya. I mean if I wanted to I could probably find a way to fake it.
It's been many years since theaters used pre-printed tickets rather than terminal-printed ones. in the 1980s, I worked at the first theater that had computer-generated tickets - AND took telephone reservations.
You could probably fake the tickets, though you'd have to get the paper right - not easy, since it's custom-made for each theater chain. You could even get away with it for a while. But the problem is that sooner or later, unless the theater has a huge turnover and you attend only on busy-but-not-sold-out nights, people will start figuring out that they never see you at the cashier's booth or the ticket terminals. Then it's a simple matter of reviewing security video footage and the tickets stubs collected by the doorman - they actually save the stubs, because they have to be able to prove to the studios how many seats were sold for a given show to calculate the studio's cut. Unless you've also cracked their ticket numbering system, they'll find your fakes in an audit (with your fingerprints on them, should they take it that far), they'd catch pretty close to every single fraudulent ticket you printed. (Stub audits such as those could even be the way they catch on to your plot, since they do hold them periodically and randomly. A stub from a forged ticket would trigger a more widespread audit very quickly.) You could wear gloves all the time and not leave fingerprints, but they'd still be able to track you by video surveillance, since the more movie screenings they audit and find your stubs in the mix, the less likely it would be anyone else who attended all those shows - and couldn't produce a single shred of evidence of having purchased a ticket.
I don't think forgery charges would apply, but theft would since you're seeing movies you didn't pay for, and if the total in ticket costs was high enough, it could go past misdemeanor territory straight into felony land. It's the kind of thing you could only get away with if you were in a large area with a lot of theaters from the same chain and you attended at different times of the day and days of the week - a lot of trouble for a few free movies. The cost in gas would probably cancel out a lot of the money you saved not buying tickets.
Wow, can I make a tangent, or what?
Most cities have the luxury theaters now. With the La-z-boy recliners, drinks, waiters, etc. By the way, if you ever want to see a nightmare of a theater, step into NYC's theaters. Sweet holy ballsack they're awful. o_o
Then you've just been to the wrong theaters. Try catching a movie at the Radio City Music Hall or the Ziegfeld - they're the two largest single-screen theaters in the city - possible even the country. The AMC chain has also been introducing theaters with recliners and reserved seating. I was planning to hit one up near my home (it's in Fresh Meadows) for a triple feature last week: "Thor", "The Avengers", and "Thor: the Dark World", all on one bill. But my mother-in-law had spent the night in a hospital emergency room and I had to be around to bring her there the night before and bring her home that day.
We're not up to drinks and waiters yet, but there is a Cinema Drafthouse that opened in Yonkers, just north of the city limits.
