Just been to the cinema for the first time in ages... "Sorry, HOW MUCH?!"
10 August 2014, 04:29 PM
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I can't recall the last time I went to the Cinema, but I do recall I was also mortified to find I was getting little change out of £20 for the pair of us to watch a "regular" (not 3D) movie, then to be further insulted with the £5 Coke, £5 pick'n'mix, and £5 popcorn. So all in all I do recall the movie choice to be substandard (not that enjoyable) and yet I spent near £35 on filling my face with sugar whilst be disappointed........
The moral of this for me now is to do exactly what Steve states above, although I have given up to my projector as the lumens wasn't high enough to give a good enough image unless the room was dark.
I bought a LG 55" 3D TV for around £700 with 5 years warrantee from Costco and I acquire movies as when I require them, have the full (cough) sky package, and Im also subscribe to Netflix for box sets which keeps the family full entertained.
Rob
The moral of this for me now is to do exactly what Steve states above, although I have given up to my projector as the lumens wasn't high enough to give a good enough image unless the room was dark.
I bought a LG 55" 3D TV for around £700 with 5 years warrantee from Costco and I acquire movies as when I require them, have the full (cough) sky package, and Im also subscribe to Netflix for box sets which keeps the family full entertained.
Rob
10 August 2014, 04:37 PM
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A lot of years ago I was working in a UCI cinema in Ireland and the Main contractor for UCI told me they make all their money from the food and drink as ticket sales don't account for much, he also said a large coke cost 1p to make so lots of profit in them 
10 August 2014, 07:43 PM
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this stops traffic entering / leaving from 2 of the main routes in, so then everybody get stuck.
The roundabouts don't help, as everybody has to give way to them, and they don't stop, so they backlog stuff into the city from the other routes.
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11 August 2014, 06:49 AM
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I've been to the cinema quite a lot recently because my own home cinema system is packed away due to house refurbishment.
It is very expensive but I don't think it can be used as an excuse for theft which is what illegal downloading is.
It's no different to being in a restaurant and them charging you £25 for a bottle of wine that you can buy in Sainsburys for £7.
It is very expensive but I don't think it can be used as an excuse for theft which is what illegal downloading is.
It's no different to being in a restaurant and them charging you £25 for a bottle of wine that you can buy in Sainsburys for £7.
11 August 2014, 07:24 AM
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I've been to the cinema quite a lot recently because my own home cinema system is packed away due to house refurbishment.
It is very expensive but I don't think it can be used as an excuse for theft which is what illegal downloading is.
It's no different to being in a restaurant and them charging you £25 for a bottle of wine that you can buy in Sainsburys for £7.
It is very expensive but I don't think it can be used as an excuse for theft which is what illegal downloading is.
It's no different to being in a restaurant and them charging you £25 for a bottle of wine that you can buy in Sainsburys for £7.
11 August 2014, 09:18 AM
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DD is kind of right, at the end of the day you choose to pay the extrusion, the fact we don't like paying these prices doesn't make it theft.
It is just like anything else that usually involves money exchanging hands for a service, whereas if you were to do it yourself (whatever that maybe) it would be much cheaper, it is just that some of us find that maybe we don't like paying for this excessively inflated cost for a service because it is seen as immoral, expensive or unaffordable.
How many of you can make a darn good Steak with all the trimmings with meat from your local butchers for you and your partner? I guess £15-£20 would do it, then followed by a glass of bubbly for £7...... all this would be what..£60 in a restaurant?
I find that the prices of Cinema tickets is simply too expensive, yet I realise that they need to charge a reasonable amount to make a profit (or do they?), but I simply don't like paying these prices to watch a film that generally cannot guarantee to make me feel it was worth it, whereas at home, if the film is poor the choice of film is all there on a memory stick.
I no longer offer the wife to go out for a movie, I would sooner go out and buy that Steak from a Restaurant that I mentioned earlier LOL
It is just like anything else that usually involves money exchanging hands for a service, whereas if you were to do it yourself (whatever that maybe) it would be much cheaper, it is just that some of us find that maybe we don't like paying for this excessively inflated cost for a service because it is seen as immoral, expensive or unaffordable.
How many of you can make a darn good Steak with all the trimmings with meat from your local butchers for you and your partner? I guess £15-£20 would do it, then followed by a glass of bubbly for £7...... all this would be what..£60 in a restaurant?
I find that the prices of Cinema tickets is simply too expensive, yet I realise that they need to charge a reasonable amount to make a profit (or do they?), but I simply don't like paying these prices to watch a film that generally cannot guarantee to make me feel it was worth it, whereas at home, if the film is poor the choice of film is all there on a memory stick.
I no longer offer the wife to go out for a movie, I would sooner go out and buy that Steak from a Restaurant that I mentioned earlier LOL
11 August 2014, 09:36 AM
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Are you for real???? 
You go to the cinema and they actually tell you how much you are going to have to pay before you hand over the money. If you choose to pay them than how can it be theft?
Or maybe your local Odeon operates differently. Maybe you are walking down the street minding your own business and they employ people to run out of the cinema, surround you and threaten you, Ray Winstone style, to cough up your credit card. Then they drag you into the foyer with a mob of East End gangster flick heavies surrounding you and threaten to torture the PIN number out of you which you duly give them whereupon they take £50 off your card. Then they frog march you and your family into the latest Hobbit, Potter or superhero movie or whatever other tosh they are showing..
That would be theft... and a whole heap of other things
Actually come to think of it, that's about the only way they could ever persuade me to sit through a Robin Williams movie!
You go to the cinema and they actually tell you how much you are going to have to pay before you hand over the money. If you choose to pay them than how can it be theft?
Or maybe your local Odeon operates differently. Maybe you are walking down the street minding your own business and they employ people to run out of the cinema, surround you and threaten you, Ray Winstone style, to cough up your credit card. Then they drag you into the foyer with a mob of East End gangster flick heavies surrounding you and threaten to torture the PIN number out of you which you duly give them whereupon they take £50 off your card. Then they frog march you and your family into the latest Hobbit, Potter or superhero movie or whatever other tosh they are showing..
That would be theft... and a whole heap of other things
Actually come to think of it, that's about the only way they could ever persuade me to sit through a Robin Williams movie!
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11 August 2014, 10:25 AM
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I took the family to watch Guardians of the galaxy yesterday at the "X-plus" screen with Dolby "atmos" (poverty model Imax IMO)
4 tickets
4 sets of 3d glasses
1 bag of popcorn
2 x bags of m&ms
£68
Thankfully we all really enjoyed the film!
What I'd like to see not that I ever will but I'd love to be able to feed my cinema ticket into a machine on the wall of the cinema foyer and buy the film I've just watched to take home, I think more folks would buy films immediately after a showing than 3 months later when they see it in asda!
4 tickets
4 sets of 3d glasses
1 bag of popcorn
2 x bags of m&ms
£68
Thankfully we all really enjoyed the film!
What I'd like to see not that I ever will but I'd love to be able to feed my cinema ticket into a machine on the wall of the cinema foyer and buy the film I've just watched to take home, I think more folks would buy films immediately after a showing than 3 months later when they see it in asda!
11 August 2014, 10:29 AM
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What I'd like to see not that I ever will but I'd love to be able to feed my cinema ticket into a machine on the wall of the cinema foyer and buy the film I've just watched to take home, I think more folks would buy films immediately after a showing than 3 months later when they see it in asda!
11 August 2014, 01:13 PM
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I used to go to Orange Wednesdays quite a bit when I was younger. Exactly that, younger. I can't stand it now because it's full of loud groups of kids, teenagers and students. I guess you pay more for the quality of people that surround you... 
11 August 2014, 03:46 PM
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Refund for what? You'll have seen the film, and that's what you're paying for. If they allowed refunds because people can claim they didn't enjoy it, then that's the end of cinemas as a business
Nope, that was crap, didn't like it. Nor that, Or indeed that. Rubbish, all of them!
Nope, that was crap, didn't like it. Nor that, Or indeed that. Rubbish, all of them!
Admittedly you can hardly ask for a refund if you have sat all the way through it, much as you can hardly complain about a meal if you have eaten it all.
The cinemas wouldn't go out of business as most people who go to watch a film enjoy it, at least enough to not want a refund.
11 August 2014, 03:47 PM
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