Re cineworld : IS THIS LEGAL

You don't have to eat their food though, there's nothing stopping people from having something before or after the movie. If it's a 3 hour film then have a big meal before you go.

Why people for some reason feel the need to eat at that particular time while the movie is on is astounding. Do people here only eat when there is a film on the tv at home? No, of course not.

Unless the Cinema is in the middle of the desert and you have no means of cooking: ie no arms, then there is no reason for people to complain about the prices of the food when suitable alternatives are out there.
 
It's private property with an implied invitation for members of the public to enter.
This invitation can be withdrawn at any time at the by the owners or their agents.

Always quite handy for banning thieving little scrotes from shops as well!
 
Actually I do like Popcorn, just not from the Cinema ;), but what I don't like is people saying that just because we don't agree with the OP we must have a chip on their shoulder, when that isn't even true. On the contrary if anyone had a chip on their shoulder it was the OP at the time. :sleep:
 
Maybe because no-one would go to a restaurant that sold popcorn and a coke as your main meal! They sell snacks, not dinner.

The movie is the draw, the snacks bring in the money. Its really quite a simple business model if you stop and think about it, instead of simplifying the whole thing to "food=restaurant."



Well perhaps you've not worked in busy or profitable restaurants. A good business ALWAYS keeps track of what is and isn't profitable. It's what keeps them in business.

Now if you kept a record of your customers (as you generally would if you had an electronic booking system) and you were a busy restaurant that filled all your tables up in peak hours, who would you give a table to; the customer who orders no alcohol and earns you next to nothing, or the customer who orders four bottles of wine and brings in the money?

Now if you are not very busy, it would be different. Note that I said they only do this during busy perioRAB. That is basic supply and demand. If demand for your product (customers wanting a table) is higher than your supply (the amount of tables available), you'd be daft to hand out your supply to people who are not going to make you a profit. If supply is higher than demand, then you take whatever you can get.

But the similarity remains. Most restaurants make their money off the sale of alcohol - which is heavily overpriced (
 
I think people are being far too nice or far too confrontational about this.

The cinema staff have better things to do than take your food & drink off you. Hide it in your jacket pockets - they won't even know. If you look like a plausible "nice customer" that is what they will think you are.

I go to the Cinema several times a week (films allowing). I rarely buy food, and never buy drinks. I've not paid the 3D levy yet, either - though that's another story.
 
you can't complain if you're carrying a bag...I get searched when I go to football...I'm even helpful enough to open it and shove it in their face so they can get a good look...:p :D
 
I'd have thought in this paranoid world that we'd all be used to having our bags searched?

The movie companies are putting immense pressure on cinemas, ISPs and other organisations to combat movie piracy, since most pirate copies come from in-cinema camcorders. Whether you or I think this level of intrusion is justified is another story.

It sounRAB like cineworld are using this to ensure that people don't take their VASTLY cheaper refreshments into the cinema. Scumbags.

You can refuse to have your bag searched, but then the "management reserve the right to refuse entry", so they have you over a barrel.
 
Yeah, that's totally OTT. At worst, they're breaking the cinema's laws. But it's not as if they've actually stolen anything, unless you count as stealing metaphorically taking the food from the mouths of the cinema owners' chiildren, as in, reducing their profits by not buying their apparently ridiculously overpriced food?
So come on: how are they stealing??
 
That's just not true. The movie studios would like you to think that most pirate copies are rubbish quality shaky camcorder versions taken from the back of a cinema, to maintain the myth that the original product is better than the copy.

Infact the vast majority (over 95%) of pirated films are from screeners (issued to press before the movie is on general release), from master tapes, or copies from DVD releases where the film has come out on DVD in the USA before it's cinema release here. As they also have unskippable warnings/preaching/adverts etc. cut out, one could argue that they are sometimes a BETTER product than the original.

Of course you don't get the huge screen cinema experience with a pirated film though.

They could catch people filming in the cinema really easily if they wanted to, you don't need to bag search everyone.
 
Unless the cinema in question is prepared to supply a copy of those terms and conditions with every ticket sold, they would not have a leg to stand on. This is the point of having adequate notices to explain the cinema's policy regarding food.



Even if they wouldn't give it back, confiscated the contents or lost or damaged the items they were witholding?
 
I have wlecome everyone opinions on this though not willie wontie who just seems to be trying to rub people up.


for the record books I have no chip, this forum is for a debate and a debate is what I have got and I am not wound up but genuinely want to know what I can and cannot do bout they way things have been handled. I am not one to kick off without knowing the complete facts and most on here have been very helpful.

overall fact though there seem to be a few not happy with cineworld full stop not just a a bag search,.
 
Blimey thats unusual. I think I had mine checked once a few years ago. They have a sign saying have your unlimited card ready for checking but never do usually. I remember last year the staff let two women with a six year old girl into see Hot fuzz which was a 15 certficate. They blatantly queued up and bought two tickets and then went in with the six year old without being challenged. It wasnt until an hour into the film after this six year old had been subjected to an hour of swearing and violence and kept shouting that they cane in and told them to leave. This is the sort of thing they should look out for, not bringing in a few sweets!
 
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