Cinema Costs!! - 2nd mortgage anyone?

ispartacus75

We hardly ever go to the cinema any more, but then with a 109" screen we prefer to watch movies at home on DVD or Virgin.

fanny

i once managed to sneak in a personal size pizza into the old cinema in bromley under my jumper. It was very warm but made titnaic more enjoyable.

where we go we pay £8 per ticket so £16 for the two of us and we dotn buy the food as to expensive..

if they did the membership cards i would use them but they dont so boo

Staciep88

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

Well, I am here for another rant:mad:

Just been looking online to book to go and see Quantum of Solace and cannot believe the prices!

To book 2 tickets online for 6.30 this evening
Tickets £6.80 each x 2 = £13.60
Card admin fee (?) £1.40
Total cost £15

But...

To buy tickets at the cinema for 11.45 on Saturday
Tickets £4.75 each x 2 £9.50
No admin fee!!
Total cost £9.50

So a difference of £5.50 to see the exact same film in the exact same place - am I missing something?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1:mad:

End of rant

I wish my local cinema was this cheap! 4 of us are going tonight at 8.50pm and its £7.65 each!! = £30.60

If we were to go between monday and thursday it would be £6.90 each = £27.60!

and then ya got the popcorn, sweets and the drinks = £££££'s!!

GrammarGirl

Tuesday is cheap day at Cineworld - all adult tickets are £4.70. Well, at my local branch they are anyway!

Triggles

We have Sky movies as well - I don't begrudge paying for the Sky subscription as we watch a fair amount of television in the evenings together, and I cannot see paying a fortune to go to the cinema. When you add up transportation, parking, childcare, movies, possibly snacks - it's cheaper just to have the Sky or buy the DVD when it comes out.

shopaholictiedtheknot

fanny wrote: »

i once managed to sneak in a personal size pizza into the old cinema in bromley under my jumper. It was very warm but made titnaic more enjoyable.

We have a pizza hut in the cinema complex and when my friend ate there before the film she was seing and then tried to take her leftover pizza (boxed to take home) into the cinema they said she wasn't allowed even when she explained why she had it - I would have thought that they wanted to encourage people to visit the complex - I mean what was she supposed to do with it? - madness!!

jackieb

Triggles wrote: »

We have Sky movies as well - I don't begrudge paying for the Sky subscription as we watch a fair amount of television in the evenings together, and I cannot see paying a fortune to go to the cinema. When you add up transportation, parking, childcare, movies, possibly snacks - it's cheaper just to have the Sky or buy the DVD when it comes out.

I love the experience of going. Saying that, i've went to cinemas when we've been away from home and hated it. I just like going to the one cinema - i've never found another one I like as much as that. I've also been to see films and the other customers have been noisy and disruptive. They're not like that at 'my' cinema. It's my comfort zone.

Silverbird

My local Cineworld started searching people and taking their bags away (locked in a cupboard and you get given a raffle ticket) about a year ago. Then they got rid of taking the bags away, but you had to let them search you and your bags and they would remove any sweets, drinks or food. I don't mind not eating in there, but I'm one of these people that must have a constant drink supply and there's no way I'm paying their prices for fizzy pop, so I always smuggle a small bottle of water in a large pocket of my coat. They tend not to search us if we just have coats and no bags. They particularly seem to target teenagers.

I had a friend who worked there and they were told to do it because they want customers to spend loads of money on their own food and drink in the cinema, as it's where they make most of their money.

My husband and I have had a Cineworld pass (£11.99 per month) for the past year, but we are going to give it up this month.

We've found that there is a lot of rubbish out quite a lot during the year and when you add that to the cold cinemas (they always seem to go overboard with air-conditioning at our local), the stupidly length adverts before your film starts, the possibility of getting searched and having drinks taken from you, the trip there and trying to find parking, noisy/immature people around you whilst watching ... it just didn't seem worth it.

We've 'discovered' Tesco DVD Rental and at £13.97 (as opposed to previously £24 total for our cinema passes each month) it's fab. For that money (there are loads of different options) we can have 2 discs at home at any one time and everything is sent and received first class and we can have as many discs as we want in a month (providing no more than 2 discs at home at any one time). We're currently enjoying the 21 day free trial and we're definitely going to go for it when it ends. The discs are sent incredibly quickly and the whole return process is a sinch and completely free. We get to order and watch films we've always wanted to see but never wanted to buy, films we missed at the cinema, films we want to re-watch and films that have not long left the cinemas, so we're really pleased. We get to sit in the comfort of our own home under the duvet with some nibbles and drink and it's flippin lovely. We'd been wanting to watch season 6 of ER, but hadn't been able to afford it, so we've ordered that and have been enjoying it. I only wish we'd found the service before! (and no, I don't work for them!!)

Sarah147

They make the money from the food, not from the films. I used to work in a cinema and the leftover popcorn gets bagged up at the end of the day and comes back out the next day. Nice. Also, there are signs behind the drinks dispensers saying to fill at least 50% of the cup with ice.

Makes me laugh when people go for the combos which are about £6 or so at our cinema and you get a bucket of pop. Nobody could physically drink that much pop or eat that much popcorn and the vast majority of it gets left. Why not order a smaller size? They are cheaper than the large combo sizes anyway. It's all a con.

I saw James Bond this week and used my free Odon voucher from Pigsback

Burlesque_Babe

good god, that's a lot of money.

I rarely go to the cinema - last time I went was to see Austin Powers 2!! :rotfl: