The cinema...WTF !!!

go see it during the day off peak when its £8.10 vs £9.10 for peak time.

Use your 3D glasses that you brought with you, and your own food + drink.

Job done.

If you dont want the 3D its only £6 off peak.

No excuse.
 
its still 8.50 at the odeon cinema near me for a 2d movie at 14:10 on a thursday they only have 4 showings of it a week aswell
 
Nexus said:
I said I believe people should be able to afford to have a large number of kids before they do so, as children are a huge extra expense, however, they are a choice (despite being our future!)
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Trust me, the average person can never "afford" kids. They're bloody expensive, especially since you're not allowed to send them up chimneys any more ;).

My issue is that at my local cinema a child's ticket is only about £1.50 less than an adult one. There's not many industries that gouge you quite so badly for a 4 year old.

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As far as I see it, my point that a single ticket for a film costing just over a tenner is reasonable. Yes it adds up to a hell of a lot if you are taking the wife and four kids, but the individual ticket price, if each individual was paying their way is fair.
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Bearing in mind a new bluray is under £20, for a superior quality version of the film that I can keep, I would disagree that £10+ is reasonable.
 
youve got to lol when movies are making more turnover yet fewer people are going .... and then they say there getting hit hard by piracy ... pffffft iirc wired released a piece roughly when the writers strike was on about how crap the films were as late (at that period of time) and piracy was getting the blame ... *sigh* cant seem to find the link though so ignore ...
 
Bennie-Mac said:
Just to rub it in as i always do in cinema prices threads, £2.50 for me 2D or 3D :)
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That's really not great, when I worked at a cinema back in '96 we got 4 comp tickets per week. Not to mention free showings when the projectionists put films on to test the prints.
 
shorttricky said:
Bearing in mind a new bluray is under £20, for a superior quality version of the film that I can keep, I would disagree that £10+ is reasonable.
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It's down to personal circumstances and what you can afford.

The majority of people who go to the cinema, don't do it on their own, it's a social experience, where as, sitting at home with a Bluray can be quite the opposite.

You aren't technically getting the superior version on Bluray anyways, as that's 1920x1080 with a different aspect ratio. A film shown in a cinema is likely to be at 2K resolution with the intended ratio that it was designed to be shown in.

Do you buy every film you want to see on Bluray though? Where as if you see a film in the cinema, you haven't paid quite as much and can forget about it.

For a family though, renting or buying a film does of course make much more sense as it's a great deal cheaper.
 
It's down to personal circumstances and what you can afford.

The majority of people who go to the cinema, don't do it on their own, it's a social experience, where as, sitting at home with a Bluray can be quite the opposite.

If everybody is paying their own way, then it's really not that bad. Then also, I don't know many people who go the cinema now (unless using a monthly card) on any day other than Orange Wednesday... so you are then looking around £6ish a ticket.

You aren't technically getting the superior version on Bluray anyways, as that's 1920x1080 with a different aspect ratio. A film shown in a cinema is likely to be at 2K resolution with the intended ratio that it was designed to be shown in.

Do you buy every film you want to see on Bluray though? Where as if you see a film in the cinema, you haven't paid quite as much and can forget about it.

For a family though, renting or buying a film does of course make much more sense as it's a great deal cheaper.
 
Tombo said:
If it's costing you £80 you're doing it wrong, although those ticket prices are rather high.
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i think our local cinema is considered one of the "flagship" ones for odeon maybe thats why the tickets are rather high....

when its 40-50 for tickets your going to end up spending about £60 even if no one has any drink/food

seriously not worth it for a family, wasnt there a time when cinemas did family tickets that were fairly heavily discounted?

i know they still do the day where you can take a child and the adult gets in free but its not going to be on a convenient day for a lot of people
 
Nexus said:
It's down to personal circumstances and what you can afford.

The majority of people who go to the cinema, don't do it on their own, it's a social experience, where as, sitting at home with a Bluray can be quite the opposite.

If everybody is paying their own way, then it's really not that bad. Then also, I don't know many people who go the cinema now (unless using a monthly card) on any day other than Orange Wednesday... so you are then looking around £6ish a ticket.

You aren't technically getting the superior version on Bluray anyways, as that's 1920x1080 with a different aspect ratio. A film shown in a cinema is likely to be at 2K resolution with the intended ratio that it was designed to be shown in.

Do you buy every film you want to see on Bluray though? Where as if you see a film in the cinema, you haven't paid quite as much and can forget about it.

For a family though, renting or buying a film does of course make much more sense as it's a great deal cheaper.
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2K is 2048×1080 which is quite frankly pathetic for a cinema display. I paid over £10 for a ticket for the digital IMAX screen in Norwich and you could easily see the pixel outlines on the display.
 
Nexus said:
It's down to personal circumstances and what you can afford.

The majority of people who go to the cinema, don't do it on their own, it's a social experience, where as, sitting at home with a Bluray can be quite the opposite.

You aren't technically getting the superior version on Bluray anyways, as that's 1920x1080 with a different aspect ratio. A film shown in a cinema is likely to be at 2K resolution with the intended ratio that it was designed to be shown in.

Do you buy every film you want to see on Bluray though? Where as if you see a film in the cinema, you haven't paid quite as much and can forget about it.

For a family though, renting or buying a film does of course make much more sense as it's a great deal cheaper.
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Ratio aside, I would disagree that the picture is superior at the cinema. Admittedly my local cinema is a 10 screen multiplex that would have only had 4 screens in it when I was young, but films look so much better on bluray.

I certainly don't buy every film on Bluray, but I buy "cinema" films on that format. You know, the sort of films that I used to say "I want to see that on the big screen". Now it's "I really want to see that on Bluray".

A film has to be really exceptional for me to bite the bullet and fork out for cinema tickets. The only films that have made me want to pay out this year have been Avatar (for the 3d), Inception and the soon to be released Tron Legacy (again for the 3d).

I'd still say the cinema is too expensive though. The cinema was a huge thing for me as a kid, because the screens were huge, it was relatively cheap (especially for kids) an films took forever to come to video (pre-dvd for our younger readers). Now the cinema is so expensive, and films come to DVD/Bluray/Sky so fast that it's a much easier decision to wait.

LOTR: Return of the King I remember we couldn't even book tickets for the first 10 days, because we'd left it too late. Avatar and Inception we saw the week of release, both at 8pm. Cinema was less than half full for both.
 
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Whilst I don't go to the cinema much also due to the cost I also don't go due to the level of advertising. I mean who really wants to sit through 45 minutes of mostly TV adverts for a 90 minute film? Advertising is one of the big reasons I dont have a TV.

I remember when it was only 15-20 minutes of only film trailers!
 
Another awesome thing I've noticed cinemas doing. (Was reminded of this after seeing Despicable Me the other night)

Why are the screens always so damn cold?
Just turn the air-con off FFS, save some of that cash you're continually whinging about.
Wind, rain, sun or snow. Season-wide icy coldness. Enjoy freezing your ******** off! :(

Aside from that issue the other night the cinema was actually quite good for once. There were only about 10 other people in watching, that'll do it. :)
 
35mm film is something like 10 mega pixels+. In any case, a blu-ray is a pale imitation of the cinema.

And this is coming from someone that is an avid lover of home cinema, with a projector, surround sound etc. :)
 
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If they sold 720p x264 blu ray rips (4gb-6gb) as soon as the movie was released, i think i might be tempted to buy it. That or i would just wait till someone else buys it and uploads it to the internet.

It sucks that a new movie like skyline comes out this weekend in the states and it will be like 3-6 months before i can download a 720p rip. :(
 
they were going to start releasing every film 3 weeks after the cinema date but cinema chains aparently didnt like the idea, because people would just wait and get the blueray
 
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