AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Cinemas!!!

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Raebell

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WHAT IS IT WITH OUR CINEMAS!!! :mad:

Why on Earth do we have to pay such incredible amounts of money to see a film nowadays? :confused:

In my local Cineworld it's:

Adults
 
I dont go to them anymore,just wait for the dvRAB to come out,last time i went i spent the first half hour watching adverts by which time half of my body had gone numb from sitting squashed up on uncomfortable seats,then by the time the film came on id drank most of my drink and eat half the popcorn
 
It's ridiculous isn't it. I used to work in a cinema on the refreshments stand and if a family would come in and buy 4 popcorns and 4 drinks, for example, i'd sometimes literally cringe when having to say the total that it all came to. The price of a large popcorn was more than we were on an hour!
It is bad when if a family wants to go to the cinema it turns into a
 
Running a cinema isn't exactly cheap.

For a start there are the costs of the premises - bear in mind this isn't a small shop outlet, even though you might be sitting in a small auditorium - there may well be 20 others in the building - it's a large area.

Staff. You need managers, ushers, projectionists, cleaners etc - there are quite a few people behind the scenes there, just because you don't see them they are still there and need paid too.

Film itself - The distributors are the ones who get the bulk of your money but the cinemas have to make it for them.
 
'A friend of a friend' (oh dear) worked at a cinema. He was told he couldn't allow customers to share a large popcorn between two cardboard containers since they cost more than the actual popcorn in them! And so we're paying
 
Yes but most of the time the service and the standard of the place doesnt match the prices they charge. I dont mind paying in the newer cinemas where the seats are designed not to make you numb and they are cleaned regularly but Ive gone to some cinemas where the floors are sticky and awash with food that the staff havent cleaned after the previous showing(im sorry but it is their job), toilets havent been cleaned, ie theres no toilet roll and half the toilets arent even working and the ones that do have wee/water all over the floors. You complain and you get some gormless twonk looking at you like you're the one with the problem.
 
It's been that way for decades. It's because of the '15' certificate, so in the eyes of cinemas that is considered the point where the patron is an adult, and seeing adult films (no, not that kind of adult film). So in some ways, blame the BBFC for having a '15', not a '16' certificate. :o
 
I totally sympathise so what I do is this:

1. If someone (kid, adult whoever) is talking, messing around or being generally annoying I ask them to stop once, then if they carry on I complain to an usher. If that doesn't work I ask for the duty manager and complain again. That usually gets them chucked out/hushed up and/or my money back.

2. If nobody on-site doesn't act on my complaint I get in touch with head office and complain to them as soon as possible telling them what happened - include date, time of screening, brief summary of events, and include names of ineffective staff if possible etc. More often than not you'll get some sort of compensation (tickets, monthly passes, free food etc) and you'll see a very different attitude the next time you visit that cinema - it's amazing what a kick up the arse from head office can do to sloppy staff!

Dirty toilets etc - complain and mention Environmental Health. Next time you use them they will probably be so clean you'd be able to eat your dinner of them (not that I'm suggesting you should or would want to of course..)

RE: The popcorn thing - it's true. The cost of the popcorn itself is so minor that it does indeed cost more for the buckets than the food itself. For cinemas, the food stand is effectively a licence to print money!

I've seen this from both sides - as a customer and having worked in a cinema for 3 years as a student. Oh, the stories I could tell you .. happy days!
 
Thus missing half the film!! It's so annoying. But I guess if you get your money back it's not so bad.



Lol, my tip having worked in a cinema is DON'T TOUCH THE HOTDOGS!!! Why anyone would ever want to buy them in the first place is beyond me (but trust me they were very popular) but trust me, you'd be wise not to go near them.
 
Blimey, the OP obviously doesn't live in London. I'd be thrilled to be able to see a film at such low prices. :(

Needless to say, yes I agree that cinema ticket prices are silly and off-putting.
 
Do you know what really annoys me the most - the food prices. I make a point of making a cinema date with my Dad about once a fortnight, and over the last couple of years I've noticed a massive hike in prices. We used to joke about it, like I would say "I'm going to the snack bar, what should I get?" and he would say "Oh just get a popcorn and a large sprite to share.... here, you'd better take this fifty". But now it seems that that's the way it's really heading. A small drink and a small popcorn in my local cinema costs
 
a friend of mine runs a small cinema in LeeRAB, only has 1 screen and shows about 3 films a day.

His cinema (like every cinema) only gets 5% of the ticket sales, the rest of it goes to the film companies....

they have to charge over the odd's for food, drink etc to stay open, like any cinema..

personally, i hate cinema's, because of all the idiots that ruin it for people... but thats the reason anyway :)
 
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