Holy shit that's outrageous. Me, 2 other adults and 1 kid all saw Spider-Verse 2 at the fanciest theater I know the other week.
It was like $7 a ticket. You're being robbed.
If you live in a city, movies are needlessly expensive. AMC does half price tickets on Tuesdays, so if you can schedule around that you can go see a movie for what people used to be able to pay. A group of us try to see IMAX movies on Tuesdays for 'only' $12 a ticket.
Am I wrong about the city thing? Anyone in the burbs/more rural areas seeing prices like OP's?