What stops you going to the cinema?

System

To give a poll any validity you always need one positive option, plus a none of the above option. I used to write polls for a living and this one is too slanted to be useful.

The results of this poll could have been quite interesting if it had been conducted intelligently

dibuzz

I can't vote as there isn't an option for "nobody to go with"
My kids don't want their old mum with them, they'd rather go with their friends and there's nobody else, I couldn't go and sit on my own.

romylou_2

I would love to go to the cinema more often, like we used to. The problem is that our closest one is over 30 miles away. Thats 60 miles of fuel when we are watching every drop at the minute.

Then there's the cost (nearly £20 for 2 adults) to see the film
Ridiculous price of sweets/popcorn and juice.:(

We now order flims in HD from Sky Box Office for £3.99 per film for all of us. We can pause it to go to the toilet......:o
We can watch from the comfort of our own livingroom and it doesn't cost anything to get there:T

We can't afford to go to the cinema any more and now would class it as a luxury outing.

fluffnutter

dibuzz wrote: »

I can't vote as there isn't an option for "nobody to go with"
My kids don't want their old mum with them, they'd rather go with their friends and there's nobody else, I couldn't go and sit on my own.

Ooh, I always go alone! I make a point of it. It's a real treat for me. Plus I never can understand why cinema-going is seen as such a social occasion anyway. You sit in the dark, stare at a screen and ignore each other. What's sociable about that?!

Pluck up the courage dibuzz. It's liberating. Once you're immersed in the film you'll soon forget the lack of company. There are loads of single viewers in there anyway - you won't look odd.

fluffnutter

goater78 wrote: »

To give a poll any validity you always need one positive option, plus a none of the above option. I used to write polls for a living and this one is too slanted to be useful.

The results of this poll could have been quite interesting if it had been conducted intelligently

Jeez, it's a bit of fun on an internet forum, a jumping-off point to chat about cinema experiences. It's not some ONS survey.

tanith

Its just too noisy, hurts my ears so we just don't go anymore.. well sometimes on a Thursday as its 'cheap' day...£7 for two of us.. and the parkings free.

shaun_from_Africa

goater78 wrote: »

To give a poll any validity you always need one positive option,

But how can you give a positive option when the poll is designed for, and aimed at people who don't do something?
It only needs validity if it is trying to show bias or favour one way or the other, which isn't the reason for the poll here.

If the poll was entitled
"what do you think of the Cinema"
and all of the options were biased towards people who don't go, then I would agree with your point, but this isn't the case.

The poll is aimed solely at people who don't go to the cinema and is not asking for input from current cinema users, so what positive option could be shown?

Surely if you used to write polls yourself, you can see the difference.

Zedicus

goater78 wrote: »

To give a poll any validity you always need one positive option, plus a none of the above option. I used to write polls for a living and this one is too slanted to be useful.

You really do post some old guff, don't you? If you knew as much about polls as you claim (and from the ignorant nonsense above I suspect you're making your alleged experience up) you would realise that you are way off the mark. If a cinema company conducted a poll because it wanted to know what it needed to do to increase custom do you really think there would be a "Nothing, everything is perfect" option? What would be the point? They cannot improve the experience for people who think it's perfect. The poll already caters for people who go to the cinema. Many people would go more if were not for one or more of the annoyances listed above.

The results of this poll could have been quite interesting if it had been conducted intelligently

Plenty of people seem to think the poll is intelligent enough to be worth responding to and it already seems to have gathered some interesting data. You seem to have an axe to grind considering that you have made several silly, negative, posts to a poll that you claim is pointless.

VfM4meplse

I agree with the OP, the cinema has become an increasingly less enjoyable experience.

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Other people.

That is:

1. those that can not keep quiet for just a couple of hours.

Including those that manage to get mobile 'phone reception in the cinema and have loud conversations. At least the days of smoking in cinemas are long over.

With the advent of huge TV screens and easy access to recent films, who wants to spend money sharing an environment with undesirables when you could be comfortable in your own home, eating and drinking what you like?

CathWales

I LOVE the cinema, but don't drive and so the nearest cinema is a £20 return fayre before you even pay for the ticket. I'm a wheelchair user and if I took the train I'd be double-tracking on myself as the local cinema is on a different train line so would have to take 2 trains or go to the Capitals cinema. There a re plans for a more local cinema, but I don't know when/if work is due to commence on it.