Cinema Costs!! - 2nd mortgage anyone?

mrcow

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

:mad: mind you saved myself £9.50 and didn't have to sit through a boring boy film :rotfl:

Sorry, so you wrote to a cinema complaining about the price of going to a film that you didn't even want to see?

ceebeeby

Wow - I didn't know cinemas searched you to find your hidden sweets etc. Gosh, all sorts of bad bad images of hiding mars bars are popping into mind!

shopaholictiedtheknot

mrcow wrote: »

Sorry, so you wrote to a cinema complaining about the price of going to a film that you didn't even want to see?

LOL yeah it was my OH who wanted to see it and I agreed to shut him up:rotfl: :rolleyes:

shopaholictiedtheknot

Max_Headroom wrote: »

Went for a free walk along the Downs last week. Was outraged at the cost! :mad:

By the time you take into account chartering the helicopter we flew there in, aviation fuel, a pilot, and the caviar and chamagne we ate whilst we were there, we didn't get much change from £20,000. Just for a walk on the Downs!! I'm going to write to the council.

Seriously guys, £6-50 a person for a great evenings entertainment isn't much money really is it? Sure you can add on fuel costs, parking and food, but the cost of petrol is hardly the cinemas fault and if you find the food too dear, don't buy it. If you can't last a couple of hours without stuffing your face then it's a bit of a sad job.

Perhaps you have the luxury of plenty of money to splash around - lucky you! PS I would try and curb your sarcasm a bit some folks may find it offensive!:p

mummytofour

Try being a family of 7, then see how its impossible to do anything. We went to the sea life centre last week, took the train and had pizza at pizza hut, finished off with a few quid on the pier £150 quid!

Max_Headroom_3

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

Perhaps you have the luxury of plenty of money to splash around - lucky you! PS I would try and curb your sarcasm a bit some folks may find it offensive!:p

I'd hardly call less than seven quid "the luxury of plenty of money to spash around".

Would you?

mrcow

mummytofour wrote: »

Try being a family of 7, then see how its impossible to do anything. We went to the sea life centre last week, took the train and had pizza at pizza hut, finished off with a few quid on the pier £150 quid!

Completely off topic, but have a look into getting a National Trust family membership. It's only £61.50 for the whole family at the moment with £20 cashback through quidco.

I'm getting one for my family for Christmas this year. There are five of us so we'll save the membership fee just by visitng two attactions (and you'll probably do it in one lol!).

Just my little tip for some cheap and interesting days out for next year

shopaholictiedtheknot

>Quote<Went for a free walk along the Downs last week. Was outraged at the cost! :mad:

By the time you take into account chartering the helicopter we flew there in, aviation fuel, a pilot, and the caviar and chamagne we ate whilst we were there, we didn't get much change from £20,000. Just for a walk on the Downs!! I'm going to write to the council.>Quote<

I was referring to your above statement

themagics

we went to see the new bond on sat as a treat! i've started a part time uni course so i save £3 on my ticket if any of you are students look into it or if your kids are check out if you have to show the uni card on collection of tickets as pre booked tickets are usually collected thru a machine

Idiophreak

Hmm...You happen to have hit on my favourite subject here...rip off cinemas. Where to start.

The adverts say "It's the experience that counts" - for me, the cinema "experience" includes a drink and popcorn or a hotdog...by my reckoning, most places that's well over a tenner's worth of "experience" there. Something like £13 (depending on the cinema) round here. Which doesn't sound so bad, for a night out. Then you think about the cost for, say, 4 of you to go and have this "experience" - anything from £40 to £60 - are you nuts?

Think what you can buy with £60 - a couple of chart DVDs, a DVD player to play them on, a tonne of hotdogs, massive bags of popcorn (I actually quite like the microwave stuff, at least it's freshly popped and warm), all the coke you can drink...

Someone mentioned the pirate ads... "You'll have your view spoiled by the one person that gets up to go to the bathroom" - errr...hello? Don't you get that at the cinema too? "the sound will be poor and crackly" - most cinemas? SNAP! "the picture will be poor quality and out of focus" - most cinemas? SNAP!

Hate to say it, but I have a fairly decent home cinema and both the picture quality (obviously not size...although, having said that, one of the screens at the local odeon isn't much bigger than your average telly these days) and sound are *heaps* better than that available at most cinemas...The occasional place you go and think "yeah, this is pretty good in here", but that's the exception rather than the rule. I also have a fully reclining leather sofa at home - a comfort level not quite matched by most cinemas...

Where's the service? how are they protecting the "experience"?...I saw an usher the other month for the first time in about 5 years - and he came in because *I* made a noise raising my voice to the foreign exchange kids that were all talking on their mobiles, listening to music etc (consequently I might have been the only person in the country not to enjoy the Dark Knight). The amount of times I've gone and the cinema and it's been filthy, popcorn all over the place. At the local Vue I've had them once project the film half on the screen, half on the wall besides it and *twice* they've just completely failed to work out how to use the projector and I've had to have a refund. These people just aren't putting any effort in to trying to justify the high costs of their admissions.

As it stands, I really find going to the cinema stressful, rather than fun - which is sad, as I love it - so I tend to only go when there's a *really* big release I want to see, probably once every couple of months. When I do go, I generally use Nectar points to pay for it, or free vouchers (the good news about having a cinema that screws up so frequently - you quite often get extra free tickets out of it) and don't eat any food or have a drink. I've given up on the idea as cinema as an experience...which, as I said, is sad.

I appreciate in this post I may come off as one of your film snobs/militant film buffs, but that's really not the case. Sit me in a clean cinema, play the film, in focus, with half decent sound and give me some peace and quiet...too much to ask? Apparently.