cinema prices!

I dont find the fascination with eating at the cinema, I dont do it watching a movie at home, is it some sort of way of passage to eat and drink in a cinema annoying people?
 
Avatar was one film, that as an experience was well worth paying the extra to see it at the cinema. (And a good cinema at that)
 
Bennie-Mac said:
Itll be worth it when you flop down in thier super comfy seats though! God i love those seats :p
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I simply refuse to pay £7/seat in my cinema - their seats are so uncomfortable and crammed together! :mad:

Couple that with annoying kids making a pest of themselves by shrieking/screaming/talking loudly/shining pens/torches. :mad::mad:

I'd rather acquire the film myself, then watch it in the comfort of my own home. :cool:
 
Utter rip off, the price of hot dogs, drinks etc is ridiculous too! Free re-fills on pop corn and drinks in some place's in America! How good is that!

cheets64 said:
I dont find the fascination with eating at the cinema, I dont do it watching a movie at home, is it some sort of way of passage to eat and drink in a cinema annoying people?
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Boredom for the hours of adverts or the utterly crap movie you just paid a 10er to watch.
 
I used to go to cinema every weekend just for the sake of something to do. 5 years ago the AMC cinema in Birmingham I could buy medium popcorn, drink and ticket for a total of £5 during the day.

Now the prices are stupid and I very rarely go. Off peak times stops at 5pm when it used to be 6pm. Thursday to Sundays its £6.25 all day, this used to be peak prices at one stage which pushed the current peak prices to £7.25 and 3D Films are £8.00 plus £1.50 if you want the glasses.

I had to ask a member of staff what was going on with the prices when Iron Man 2 came out the cinema prices increase 3 times in 1 month!!! They said cinemas are basically pushing customers to pay the extra to watch the 3D films. What a joke!!! People like me can’t watch 3D films, no wonder loads are still turning to piracy to watch the latest films. As for the price of the cinema food, its day light robbery. Removing the small hot dogs so you have to pay £4 for the large and stopping free re-fills on drinks. Thank God there is a Tescos down the round from it.
 
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Cineworld Unlimited & Tesco make up my cinema experience.
£13.50 for as much film as I like per month - we can and have done a visit a week.
2x 500ml Coke for £1.70
1x Bag of Cinema Popcorn £1.20

I see any and all films I want to because it doesn't feel you're paying per film.
So you go and see things you probably otherwise would miss.

Me and the wife both have Unlimited cards - well worth it.
 
This reminds of the time our local Vue opened and we took the kids to see a film I cant remember, might have been the chronicles of narnia...:rolleyes:

Anyway I do remember how much it flaming cost and this was mainly down to the sodding ancillery sales as bigwigs term it! My kids ran over to the sweets, grabbed a paper cup each and filled them right to the top and then whacked them straight onto the scales which printed a label out which was a price ticket aswell. Both cups were a shade off £10.... Ten sodding quid each for sweets! As they were doing that my lass and I had picked up some crisps and a drink and then the kids come over and we pay at the counter.
Blew nearly £50 odd and I almost fainted lol. Never again!

We have a local Odeon thats been there for years and has always been pretty good for prices. My brother works in there so we also get the odd freebie. We got to see toy story 3d for nowt a while back thanx to him :D
 
Last film I saw was £4 for Inception in 2D.

Before that was £6 quid for Avatar in 3D.

But that's cause I refuse to go on any day other than Tuesdays. :)
 
so where does the 8minutes of extras come into it?

i saw it the first time and i doubt if il spot the extra 8minute scene
 
James_N said:
no wonder people pirate the films nowadays!!
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No, people pirate because they are tight.
A trip to the cinema need cost no more than £6 - £7 per person.
You don't have to have food and snacks and if you do then bring them from home.
The price of cinema is no justification for piracy.

Piracy is simply done by those people too tight with no morals.
They go on about "well if things weren't so expensive" and then prove just how low they are by pirating games that were released at $5 - just goes to show.
 
stoofa said:
No, people pirate because they are tight.
A trip to the cinema need cost no more than £6 - £7 per person.
You don't have to have food and snacks and if you do then bring them from home.
The price of cinema is no justification for piracy.

Piracy is simply done by those people too tight with no morals.
They go on about "well if things weren't so expensive" and then prove just how low they are by pirating games that were released at $5 - just goes to show.
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Some cinemas try to stop you going in with your own food and drink actually.
 
It is expensive, for sure. I can't understand people that moan about a £8 ticket for a standard film though. I have mates who won't object to spending £70 on a night out but still think "blimey" when faced with the price of a film. It's not a lot of money, and most people don't go more often than once a week, probably much less likely that that.

I never buy any food or drink in the cinema though on principle, it's extortionate.
 
As with the OP, last night I also checked out Harrow Vue, as I had two neices down from Leicester and I had a day of booked.

**** me sideways when I saw the ticket prices on the Vue website. They were incredibly overpriced and iirc Avatar (modern day smurfs) was higher priced than any other film at about £11.20 for an adult ticket.

Sod that.
 
Fusion said:
It is expensive, for sure. I can't understand people that moan about a £8 ticket for a standard film though. I have mates who won't object to spending £70 on a night out but still think "blimey" when faced with the price of a film. It's not a lot of money, and most people don't go more often than once a week, probably much less likely that that.

I never buy any food or drink in the cinema though on principle, it's extortionate.
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I can buy the bluray for close to the price of a cinema ticket here. That's why.

You complain about the food being overpriced, but so is the movie itself!
 
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