I went to the cinema last night and found that the prices had been put up, again! The tickt prices are ok, Im fine with that, but when it came to the popcorn and drink it cost me £6.00 ($12.00)for medium popcorn and a medium drink! Anyone else think this isridiculous?
Dude, yes. $6.50 for a freaken small box of nachos and some watered down cheese is a rip-off. Me and my buddies always stop by a walrgreens before we go to the cinema.
So, do your health a favor, and don't eat and drink junkfood while at the movies...I never do, I usually go out to eat after the movie, it's much better that way.
I went to the cinema last night and found that the prices had been put up, again! The tickt prices are ok, Im fine with that, but when it came to the popcorn and drink it cost me £6.00 ($12.00)for medium popcorn and a medium drink! Anyone else think this isridiculous?Pepsidesk
cause im a student it costs me £4.30 for the ticket which Im Ok with I suppose... but the prices of just popcorn and a drink is stupid... thankfully my local odeon is quite lax on letting you take in your own food so me and my mates all cross the road to tesco where we can get a bottle of coke and bag of popcorn for about £1.50 :D
Yeah, I used to sneak some sweets in from the shop around the corner butI cant do that anymore (diabetes). So now theres not much I can get except the popcorn.
I see movies for free at my school so the money I would use for admission I use for snacks so I don't really care, plus snacks are really cheap at the student life cinema
A little bag of Sour Patch Kids (my favorite candy) is $3.00.. I can go out and buy around two pounds worth for that much. The ticket prices aren't too bad.
The cinema actually gets very little money off of the ticket sales. They make all the money from consesion. So if everyone stopped buying food there they would go bankrupt.
Ticket and food prices are absurd. $9.75 for movie tickets here, $8.50 is the cheapest at the local place. It's around $10 for a ticket here in Boston. Luckily, I get the student discount so I can get $8 movie tickets, plus I have a special card that gets me $6 tickets at AMC theatres. In some places in CT, it's $12.50 for a movie ticket. For food, I either get nothing or go to a supermarket/convenience store for a drink and candy.
Simple solution - don't go. If you don't like something about a company, complain with your wallet. It's all about supply and demand. Companies will charge as much as they can to maximize profits. If enough people refuse to pay, they'll have to lower the price of their product to make it more desirable.
In britain people are allowed in with food from other places so it dosn't really bother me, but the prices need to be lower if we have to have so little leg room and a sticky floor
Yeah, prices are ridiculous. I just get movie passes from iCoke.ca, but i end up having to pay $15 for food and drinks. Without the passes, tickets are usually $10. I love the $4.25 tuesdays, though:P
Yeah, that's why I rarely go, unless if there is a movie I'm really dying to see. Food is not a problem for me when I go to the movies; I hate to eat while watching movies unless if I'm at home and I'm hungry. Luckily for me, there is a movie theater that charges four dollars -- at the most -- to watch movies that have been out of the regular movie theaters for a month or two.
That's why it's helpful if your girlfriend has a purse the size of a suitcase, it isn't even an issue to bring in outside drinks, food, whatever we want.
Yeah, that's why I rarely go, unless if there is a movie I'm really dying to see. Food is not a problem for me when I go to the movies; I hate to eat while watching movies unless if I'm at home and I'm hungry. Luckily for me, there is a movie theater that charges four dollars -- at the most -- to watch movies that have been out of the regular movie theaters for a month or two.ernie1989
Yeah, i have to local theaters that have new release movies ($12.50 seats) and then one that has the movies that have been out of the regular theater for 2 months ($3.00 seats)...If it is a movie i really want to see i go to the expensive theater, if not i have no issue waiting and hitting up the cheap seats.
IMO, I think the wake-up call for my parents about high cinema prices was the movie Doogal. $8 dollar tickets, jumbo popcorn and drinks, and a really crappy movie. It's a good thing that a nearby theater sells tickets for CURRENT movies for $2 to $4, only sacrficing a huge screen, but there's one theater where a big movie(like Pirates of the Carribean) is on, and the screen is pretty huge. And the concession prices are decent, but we still sneak candy in there.
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