As a note, I use netflix for Blu-Ray and DVD rental, so I hardly ever buy movies. I also tend not to watch them again once I've viewed them.

As for games, I love to buy them as I'll bring them over to my families house, or lend them to my brothers, and I buy a lot of them new (Thanks Nintendo for making games that never drop in price). I've considered Gamefly, but their service isn't nearly as good as Netflix and is more expensive.

I think the biggest way to save money on video games while still maintaining the same quantity of games purchased is to buy used via e-bay/amazon. The tough part with that is being willing to fall behind on the latest games. You can cut your bill to 1/3rd of buying new by buying 1 year late. I also like to use videogamepricecharts.com to find out which game is dropping in price the fastest.

its so hard to buy games new now an'days.

Not only that, it's also hard to justify prices on some new games.

Case in point:

Saw the game just came out for the 360. I had to talk my fiancee' out of *not* buying it, because I know that no matter how good the game is, that there's no way to justify $60 on buying a game like that. It makes it difficult because she really wants to play it, but I know that the game has the quality that may allow her to play 20hrs max....At $60 that's $3 an hour which is just way too high given the other games that her and I play.

So the better way is to rent something like that. However, where I live, Blockbuster charges $9 per game and STILL didn't have Saw in....For a few dollars more, I could have rented via NetFlix and kept the game for twice as long, or switched it out a few times.

Well in regards to the cinema I know In Australia that most indepenants cinemas and small chain cinemas charge less then the mainstream chains. For example Event Cinemas charges $14 for a student ticket and $16 for an adult and $12 for a child. They're a main chain and thats the most expensive it gets.

However smaller cinema I often go to charges 14 for an Adult and 12 for a student and 10 for a child. Which obviously gets a lot cheaper over the year. And an even small one charges 2 dollars less per ticket again.

Furthermore another cinema right near my Event Cinemas is a single screened cinema which charges only 5 per ticket, unfortunately you don't have any choice as to what movie is showing on the night for obivous reasons.

Another case is point in regards to Australia is that we have cheap tuesdays. So all tickets are around 2 dollars less every tuesday.

So in regards to saving money with the cinema I think a lot of it has to do with picking the right cinema, or going on tuesdays. Admittadly some of the cheaper cinemas are further away from where I live but since I travel via public transport I have a fixed travel cost of 20 Dollars Australian every week so it doesn't cost me anymore beyond some extra travel time.

Finally a lot of Cinemas here have loyalty systems which allow you to watch a movie for free after seeing a certain amount of movies. Although I think the best option is to simply have dinner before you go, so you don't need to buy the insanely expensive food at the cinema.

Anyway I don't know how much thats relevant to America, but thats how I save money.