Going to the pictures last night cost me $5.50 per ticket, so its not too expensive to take a date. Apparently you get a discount if they are under eighteen. wink
I know in other areas its a lot more, and if you go with a family after all the other stuff it can add up. No wonder DVD are popular.
The price of the fizzy drinks and sweets just shocked me. They wanted $3.75 for a medium size Coke. o
I can't stand that salty popcorn crap with dodgy oil so I don't even know how much they charge for that stuff, but I bet its a lot.
It's about $8.50 each for a ticket here and the food and drinks are outrageously priced. And they don't sell water and won't allow you to take your own in.
We don't go a lot, just for big screen movies that don't translate to the small screen as well, ie LOTR.
Also i grew up going to the picture house on Portobello road where you could send out for Indian food and booze and smoke and evryone was quiet and enjoyed themselves.
Here you can't smoke, you can only drink liquid with fake sugar , the food's crap, and nine times out of ten you go to an R rated picture and there's a bloody baby crying.
The excuse is always the same, we couldn't get a babysitter. Gee, didn't you realize your lifestyle would change when you started breeding. Drives me nuts. Walked out of one R rated piccy, mainly violence, little nudity and asked for my money back as I couldn't hear for the kids. The manager was all, well I have to sell tickets. So I pointed out a few things he'd missed, like a screaming baby doesn't qualify as an adult, got my money back.
It's $9.25 here or $6.75 for a matinee...... and $5 for a small popcorn.
I usually take a large handbag and stuff it with bottled water and ziplock bags of snacks for the kids. They have yet to introduce bag inspections so we have got away with it so far, despite the big signs saying we can't bring our own food and drink.
I rarely go to the movies, though I see it happening more in the future. On the rare occasion I have gone alone (Harry Potter & Team America) I sneak in food and drink. I mean I don't have a problem with businesses trying to make a profit - but the markup on popcorn and soda is absolutely ridiculous.
Oh - and the tix are $8 at my local cinema. Although last time I paid the extra dollar to use fandango, because the lines are ridiculously long on a Friday. Definitely worth the extra 30 minutes of my time.
We went to the pictures a few weeks ago. I believe the tickets cost about $7. However, I had a pleasant surprise when a large popcorn and 2 large sodas only set me back $2. That little lot used to be almost a tenner, but I think the picture house where we go is having a hard time of it.
Going to the pictures last night cost me $5.50 per ticket, so its not too expensive to take a date. Apparently you get a discount if they are under eighteen. :wink:
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or an OAP :o
6.75 ish here, 50c less for the children , great :roll: .
I paid $10.25 to see Ray a few weeks ago at a cinema in LI. I go to Queens sometimes which is a bit cheaper at $9.75. I can get discount tickets through work which only cost $5.50 each but you have to wait two weekends before being able to use them.
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It's cheap here, under $7 usually and lots of cut price deals. But I spent the last 10 years in NYC and LA, so my sense of reasonable prices is totally shot.
On the popcorn and drinks thing. The reason they are so expensive is that it is basically the only way the theatre makes any money at all. This is particularly true on popular first run movies -- with those, the distributor's fee is really, really high and they get the lion's share of the box office. The percentage drops off after a while, so if the movie is a big hit and stays in the theatre for a long time, the exhibitor (i.e., the theater) actually gets to see a bit of box office for itself. But the numbers are such that unless they make a lot of money from concessions, they are pretty much screwed. If the movie is in rep, or has been out a while, or is a non-big studio movies, they can make more from the movie itself, hence some smaller second-run theaters and art house movie theaters have more reasonable charges for concessions.
So the upshot is -- blame the studios, not the theater.
It's like $9.75 here. Plus we have the rudest people on Earth in Vegas cinemas.
/stays home with a DVD player instead.
Yeah about $9 here. There is a flea-pit cinema in Niagara Falls that costs about $3 and $1 on selected viewings, but the movies are either old, foreign (read British), and the whole place reeks of milk.
It was about $16 for the three of us to see "The Incredibles" the other week and there was no discount for our four year old.
They just revamped the seats in our cinema, probably to compete with the brand new Carmike that opened up nearby. We tried to go there but they only take cash and I never carry the stuff so we had to go rough it back at our local Regal.
$16 for three of you is not bad. Did you buy any of their stinky popcorn?
If you rummage around in the rubbish bin you can find old pop cups, you can then wash them out in the toilet and fill them with water. It cuts down on the expense of dates. I always get her a fresh straw.
I dont go a lot usually the movies is not so hot i cant wait for it to come out on video and its stocked by netflix .
last time i went it was a matinee cost $4.50 each and we as always smuggled food and drink in .
I used to buy from the concession stands but i got screwed over once and thats all it takes, i asked for a large mountain dew with no ice and she said if i didnt have ice she would charge me for a large but put it in a medium as that was the equiilant amount of drink .
So you want to charge me$ 4.00 for ice with a little drink in it i said **well stick it **and just walked away .
F... um the movies price is expensive enough .
The old raincoat movie houses were better smelly seats , scratchy films lots of HARD ) breathing and coughing , but at least you got a drink at a decent price JK D D D D D
If you go for a matinee it's about $5.75, evenings can be $7.00 but it depends where you go. Downtown Boulder has a few flea pits for less.
They make all their money on the coke and popcorn and crap. We only buy it if we're taking one of Lucy's mates as well, otherwise it makes us look like cheap gits bringing our own cans of drink and sweeties in.
We have a great little movie house near us which costs $4.50 for matinees and they have $4 Tuesdays all day, even during the school holidays. Cash only (I think that is for all showings and days) and you can purchase tickets ahead of time by going to the box window. On Tuesdays you can't go to see the new hits for that price but the kids don't care and where it is located is a great place for kids to be dropped off and picked up without the parents worrying about them)
Don't know how much the popcord and drink are but when it is only $4 per person you don't mind maying a bit extra for the snacks)