how much do you think a cinema ticket cost these days.......?

catmiaow

I really liked Taken 2, I admit it wasn't as good as the first, but it was still good.

My nearest Empire is around £5 mid week and maybe a few pounds more at weekends, they do a £4 night. Odeon is the most expensive, at nearly double that price for one ticket!

unholyangel

I used to have a Cineworld membership. Was £13.50 a month and could see as many films as we liked. So even seeing 2 films a month, you'd get your monies worth. Sometimes once a month, we'd have a "all day sesh". Usually starting around noon, watching 2 films, then spending 1-2 hours having something to eat and chatting, then back in for another 2 films. The problem with the cinema card is you end up watching any old crap just because you don't have to pay extra.

However then I realised that within just a few months, I could usually buy said film on dvd for £10 or less and watch it as manyyyyyy times as i liked.

However at the start of the year I started using netflix (along with a service called unotelly). For less than £10 a month, I can watch US or UK version of netflix. Both have different titles available and new/old ones are regularly added/removed. The US one in particular has much more choice than the UK one. They seem to have quite a diversity, when I have friends round, we always manage to find something to watch quite quickly, even though we may have different tastes.

And in true MSE style, you can access netflix on 2 devices simultaneously, same with unotelly......meaning one person can pay for netflix and another for unotelly....meaning less than £5 a month each

SailorSam

And to think to see a 'Cowie' on the Saturday afternoon matinee might have been a shilling to get in, and we'd still try and sneak in the fire door.
Oh happy days.

http://www.terramedia.co.uk/reference/statistics/cinema/cinema_ticket_prices_2.htm

deanos

£6.30 at our Local, drinks , crisps , sweets are similar price to shops too maybe 10% dearer certainly no where near the price that Odeon try and charge !

http://www.thekinemainthewoods.co.uk/

pawsies

unholyangel wrote: »

I used to have a Cineworld membership. Was £13.50 a month and could see as many films as we liked. So even seeing 2 films a month, you'd get your monies worth. Sometimes once a month, we'd have a "all day sesh". Usually starting around noon, watching 2 films, then spending 1-2 hours having something to eat and chatting, then back in for another 2 films. The problem with the cinema card is you end up watching any old crap just because you don't have to pay extra.

However then I realised that within just a few months, I could usually buy said film on dvd for £10 or less and watch it as manyyyyyy times as i liked.

However at the start of the year I started using netflix (along with a service called unotelly). For less than £10 a month, I can watch US or UK version of netflix. Both have different titles available and new/old ones are regularly added/removed. The US one in particular has much more choice than the UK one. They seem to have quite a diversity, when I have friends round, we always manage to find something to watch quite quickly, even though we may have different tastes.

And in true MSE style, you can access netflix on 2 devices simultaneously, same with unotelly......meaning one person can pay for netflix and another for unotelly....meaning less than £5 a month each

I still think the experience of cinema can't be beaten- nice big screen, loud sound etc (not the annoying people or adverts though!). Hence why I'd rather go than buy dvd if possible.

Sharon87

£8.70 for cinema on a weekend? Can I live where you live lol. My nearest one is about £11 for a regular showing (Vue). I tend to travel a bit further to another Vue where it's a few quid cheaper and then use 1000 nectar points to knock a fiver off the price! (it use to pay for the whole ticket though, stupid nectar!)

I use to work at Vue a few years back, so saw lots of films for free. I rarely go now and know what not to eat lol. I do like the Ben and Jerrys stand though. But Vue you are allowed to take food and drink in, as long as it's not hot food like nandos, burger king, a chinese takeaway or pizza hut. Just some of the food items I've told people to eat before going in. Although I did allow one person to eat a big mac, as long as it was before the film started, he was already in his seat lol.

I really don't get people sometimes, how can you eat a chinese takeaway in a cinema?

Frogletina

Odeon senior screen is £3 and you get free tea and biscuits too. Very popular it is too, and anyone seems to be allowed to go in at whatever age - unless I've look older than I am for the last 10 years or so...but I have seen students in there

Faith177

We're really lucky where I am a new cinema opened in what use to be an old Odeon Cinema.

They are showing new releases for £4 any time any day.

Went to see Possession a few weeks back paid £8ish in total for my ticket, HUGE popcorn and a drink

pmduk

I go to my local AMC where it's £4 before noon or you can wangle a concession card which gives a £4.80 charge at other times.

mad_dr

For clarification: Food and drink policies at a few cinema chains are below. Suggest avoiding Cineworld because of their absurd justification alone. Either that or sneak your food in.

My local cinema is an Apollo. Last time I went they offered me a cup and ice for the bottle of water I'd popped on the counter whilst rummaging for my card to buy the tickets!

Cineworld: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/faq
"A strict NO FOOD AND DRINK policy" (their caps)
"As a food operator we offer a wide range of drinks and snacks to satisfy our customers but also protect our cinema furnishings and customers clothing. Not all movie-goers are considerate of others in their snack choices and we have needed to set clearer guidelines on what is appropriate."

I always thought they were a cinema, rather than a 'food operator'... The inane justification is pretty patronising to most people too. I'd respect them more if they just admitted "there are usually only 3 or 4 people in each cinema showing these days because our ticket prices are so high. Therefore, to make up some of the costs we incur we're going to gouge you on the food and drink. If you don't like it, go somewhere else."

Apollo Cinemas: http://www.apollocinemas.com/Terms.aspx
"Hot food brought from outside of the cinema may not be consumed on the premises."

Much more reasonable. Don't bring in that stinking kebab but feel free to pop next door to Poundland to stock up on food and drink.

Vue Cinemas: http://www.myvue.com/legal
"Hot food brought from outside of the cinema may not be consumed on the premises."

Same as Apollo.

Odeon Cinemas: http://www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/general-admission-terms-2009
No mention for food or drink of any kind being forbidden. There's no local Odeon to where I live so I have no idea if there are signs up forbidding food being brought in from outside. I'd take my own stuff in and refer them to the Ts and Cs (above) and try to negotiate on the basis that they ought to make the rules clear if there are any.

Empire Cinemas: http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk/index.php?page=privacy&id=51&tbx_site_id=30
"Only food purchased at the cinema may be consumed within the cinema."

Similar to Cineworld but without the rubbish justification.