Carmike Cuts Us A Break: New Discount Theater, $1 Popcorn And Drinks

March 11, 2009 10:00 AM 10 comments

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Carmike Cinemas is starting a new program, wherein Tuesday nights are dubbed Stimulus Nights and everyone gets popcorn & drinks for $1! We hadn’t realized how expensive movie food had gotten until we accidentally shelled out $11.50 for some nachos and a small drink the other day. We would usually just abstain from movie food, but for a buck, a giant tub of greasy popcorn couldn’t hurt! via Consumerist.

And in even better news, we’ve finally got ourselves a discount movie theater! Carmike is converting its Hickory Hollow 8 (yeah, Hickory Hollow is gross, we know) location to a $1.50 movie theater, and we couldn’t be more excited. But we hope you weren’t too attached to their Madison and Antioch locations, because they’ve been put up for sale. Bye bye, $9 movies and $11.50 snacks! For the grand total of $3.50, we can catch a flick, fill up our bellies on chemicals (on Tuesdays, at least), and dodge some bullets! via The Tennessean.

Will new discount prices get you to the movies more often?

Find your Carmike location here.

Photo by Dave Fancher.

  • eskaton

    I'm kinda tired of everyone hating on Hickory Hollow/Antioch. Sure, there's some crime here, but what about the old guy that just got beat up at Green Hills? and the other elderly fellow that got the crap pummeled out of him up in Rivergate last week? And I remember a story a year or so ago about a couple of guys found fornicating in the Cool Springs mall I believe it was.
    No place is immune to these types of incidents; I think there's an unfair negative image attached to Hickory Hollow

  • http://paulnich.blogspot.com Paul Nicholson

    here's the link to the listings showing for $1.50

    http://www.fandango.com/carmikehickory8_aagov/t…

    Very good news!

  • http://paulnich.blogspot.com Paul Nicholson

    I totally agree that people need to stop “hating” on one part of town over another. Real people live there and we don't need to make fun of them.

    Having said that…

    I lived in the Hickory Hollow area for 2 years (not just Antioch – the Hickory Hollow mall area itself, which is what is being hated on here). It was bad. From what i can tell, not much has changed in the 3 years since. In that time my car was broken in to 3 times and i witnessed a shooting at the mall. And sure all parts of town have weird crimes that happen. It is the routine petty criminal activity that sets Hickory Hollow apart from other parts of town. You can also check here for an interactive crime map– http://pdmap2.police.nashville.org (only works in Internet Explorer)

    But crime aside, it just isn't a “nice” part of town. You can't argue that. Traffic is absolutely horrible (second only to Green Hills i'd say), the mall is going downhill fast in terms of vacancies and the types of stores that are still there, and the area is generally on the downward slide.

    But in saying all of that: That is in no way a judgment about you or anyone else that lives there, and i totally understand being offended by cracks like this.

    But hey, Hickory Hollow ain't the Ritz.

  • eskaton

    I'm kinda tired of everyone hating on Hickory Hollow/Antioch. Sure, there's some crime here, but what about the old guy that just got beat up at Green Hills? and the other elderly fellow that got the crap pummeled out of him up in Rivergate last week? And I remember a story a year or so ago about a couple of guys found fornicating in the Cool Springs mall I believe it was.
    No place is immune to these types of incidents; I think there's an unfair negative image attached to Hickory Hollow

  • http://paulnich.blogspot.com Paul Nicholson

    here's the link to the listings showing for $1.50

    http://www.fandango.com/carmikehickory8_aagov/t…

    Very good news!

  • http://paulnich.blogspot.com Paul Nicholson

    I totally agree that people need to stop “hating” on one part of town over another. Real people live there and we don't need to make fun of them.

    Having said that…

    I lived in the Hickory Hollow area for 2 years (not just Antioch – the Hickory Hollow mall area itself, which is what is being hated on here). It was bad. From what i can tell, not much has changed in the 3 years since. In that time my car was broken in to 3 times and i witnessed a shooting at the mall. And sure all parts of town have weird crimes that happen. It is the routine petty criminal activity that sets Hickory Hollow apart from other parts of town. You can also check here for an interactive crime map– http://pdmap2.police.nashville.org (only works in Internet Explorer)

    But crime aside, it just isn't a “nice” part of town. You can't argue that. Traffic is absolutely horrible (second only to Green Hills i'd say), the mall is going downhill fast in terms of vacancies and the types of stores that are still there, and the area is generally on the downward slide.

    But in saying all of that: That is in no way a judgment about you or anyone else that lives there, and i totally understand being offended by cracks like this.

    But hey, Hickory Hollow ain't the Ritz.

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  • Ebony Carrethers

    Thank God for places like this one with 3children mother and father it is 35 to 40 dollars for a move l!!!!so thank u !!!!!! Ebony !!

  • Franzstuka

    Hickory Hollow was ruined by people who use terms like “hating on”…

    Remember when you could take your kids to sit in Santa’s lap, or get their pic taken with the Easter Bunny?

    Now, with the black thugs and hordes of illegals, the only way to go HHM is armed to the teeth…

  • Rich_e777

    Its called multi-culturalism and we have to accept it or be deemed racist.

  • Buckelam

    Blacks and Mexicans have ruined that area. They are better off as slaves. They can’t be trusted because they have no moral decency. They behave like children and animals acting on their most base instincts.