What stops you going to the cinema?

System

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny wrote: »

Always like a Hot Dog at flicks. Problem is our robotic staff cannot cook. Sorry, it is an experence and event to go to the cinema, but poor staff, no food, just buckets of stale pop-corn, no proper food is the reason I do not go as often. Thougfh now, I have my !!!!!! first, then the film, with taken in bag of smarties. Then to the pub for some wobbleade.

Slighly off topic and I know alot of people use it but I've never been a big fan of the word "!!!!!!". Not sure it should really be seen as an acceptable term for a chinese takeaway.

Hermia

I haven't been to a normal cinema for a couple of years. I do go to the NFT occasionally when I am in London, but that has a completely different atmosphere from a normal cinema. I don't go to cinemas anymore because...

1) Lack of choice of films. There is a 10 screen cinema near me, but it only shows mainstream stuff. Last time I went they were showing the latest Hollywood blockbuster on four screens (a showing started every half hour). There was apparantly only a few people in each showing. The guy working there said the only time all four screenings had been full was on the first weekend and on Saturday nights. Can they really not spare one screen for non-mainstream stuff?!

2) Ticket prices. My local cinema (which isn't a city centre one) is currently charging £9-11 for tickets.

3) Appalling behaved patrons. On the last two occasions I went to the cinema I had two girls who chatted through the film (the customers and usher kept trying to get them to shut up) and a family who ate throughout the whole film and went out to get refills three or four times (they had nachos, a hotdog, popcorn and sweets). It was 11am! One thing I love about the NFT is that people don't talk and don't eat nachos!

I have an DVD rental subscription and it's so nice to see so many non-mainstream films for so little money.

Zedicus

Hermia wrote: »

I have an DVD rental subscription and it's so nice to see so many non-mainstream films for so little money.

I find I go to the cinema less and less. There are so many good, non mainstream, films on BBC4 and other channels that, augmented with a few DVD's, the need to visit the cinema has all but passed. I would probably still go from time to time but for the many niggles identified in this thread which add up to detract from the experience to an almost overwhelming extent.

Makeandsave

For me its the cost, Getting there and back, ticket prices and snacks.

I get 3 lovefilm movies free each month (thanks to a fee account with RBS) so this does me

DCFC79

What would stop me from going would be the cost of refreshments, misbehaviour by other patrons(they just can't do without the phone or stop talkng for 90 mins) and noise/smell of people eating. I have a cineworld card so i make use of it by watching 3/4 a month.

ladylouise62

AT between £7.50 and £9 a time (and travel costs) it's very expensive for what is a very disappointing experience. People are noisy and disruptive, the seats uncomfortable and the floor is sticky and lumpy. The whole experience is 'industrial' and unspecial. 2 People are better off buying a DVD and even better, renting one. You might as well keep the savings and put towards a large tv to make it more like the cinema

DCFC79

ladylouise62 wrote: »

AT between £7.50 and £9 a time (and travel costs) it's very expensive for what is a very disappointing experience. People are noisy and disruptive, the seats uncomfortable and the floor is sticky and lumpy. The whole experience is 'industrial' and unspecial. 2 People are better off buying a DVD and even better, renting one. You might as well keep the savings and put towards a large tv to make it more like the cinema

If i didnt have the cineworld card it would be hard for me to find positives of going, id be more than happy to watch a film wirth friends on a decent tv with your own snacks and drinks.

Dunroamin

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.

Why not? Lots of people do, including me.

pimento

Our local Odeon has (according to them) been designated as a family cinema so doesn't show any of the good films. For example, we had to drive 20 miles to see Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (the Ian Dury biopic) and the same for Mr.Nice. This happens all the time.
I have no wish to see the kids films or chick flicks shown so we don't go.

Dunroamin

I prefer to go to the cinema after work rather than driving all the way home, faffing about and then driving back. I wish we had more films on with a start at around 1800.