Why do Cinema's make me poor?

[Sheinen]

So I went to see 'Despicable Me' the other day in the local Odeon.

£26 for 2 tickets, plus £1 each for the 3D Glasses, £8.20 for a popcorn and Coke and £4 for the parking.

£39.20 for 2 people to see a kids film on a Tuesday night 3 weeks after premier.

I could buy the Blu-Ray for £13.97 in a couple of months and watch it as many times as I like. Hell I'd even have enough money left over to buy a 24pack of coke, 10lbs of popcorn and another film!

What the hell is making it so damn expensive?!

My theory: They're spending waaaay too much. Did The Last Airbender REALLY need to cost $280million? Think about the number for a minute... go through how many million dollars you'll ever have... 280...? I reckon a better film could have been made for far less, like £2million...feck-it, even that's ridiculous, £500,000 is more than you should really need to make a movie! I'll give the, by now, trite example of Paranormal Activity: $15,000 to make, earned $197mill gross.

They probably could have stood to have made 100 or so million less on that, tickets could have been £4 and they'd have made a killing!

My point here is that I'm not going back. It's a financially dumb move and frankly encourages more of this idiocy.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Because cinema's, like most people/businesses, like money.
They especially like yours.

But I know what you mean, going to the cinema is way too expensive.
It's like- "You want me to give you eight bucks for a packet of MnM's? F*ck of- Actually, no, I like MnM's..."

 

[Tekkawarrior]

Yet people are packing cinemas daily.

Where there is demand, there are companies waiting for the opportunity to put that demand to good use.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

*snip*

Edit your post before you get banned.

and go read the rules.

 

[DJDarque]

That's why when I go to the movies I don't buy anything except the ticket. I sneak in my own food.

 

[Pipotchi]

Its your fault for picking mainstream Cinemas.

I live in London and next monday I am seeing a double Bill of The Goonies and raiders of the Lost Ark for a total of £7

Tomorrow I am seeing the Social Network for £4. Popcorn is an extra £3

You just need to step outside the Vue/Odeon monopoly

 

[rokkolpo]

Dude I get a ticket in Holland for like 8-10 euro.

You are being swindled out of your money like a ************.

 

[teqrevisited]

£26 for two tickets? What the hell? Is that because it's in 3D?

Besides that I never buy food from them, always sneak it in.

 

[Vrach]

Get a bus or walk there, go to a cinema that's in a mall and bring in your own drink (just pick one they sell on hand anyway, they can't tell the difference) and well... shell out some mullah for the popcorn if you wanna go to the movie theatre, it's part of the experience. That's how I do it anyway

It's nothing to do with how much movies make, they only charge for the tickets (which are quite reasonably priced, it's an hour's work per ticket) it's the cinemas that add their own through food, drinks etc. in order to make money.

 

[DJDarque]

I don't mean to sound rude, but why are your movie tickets so damn expensive. I did the conversion (for my own sake) and how much you spent would be like me spending over $40 (US) for just the two tickets. If I went to the movies during the afternoon here a single ticket is $7. If I had to pay as much as you did I would never go see a movie ever.

 

[sms_117b]

£13 each, dude, you got screwed

£6.80 at my local CineWorld, and £8 for it in 3D.

Local Indy cinema's tend to be cheaper, just don't go back to Odeon

 

[EeveeElectro]

That's why when I go to the movies I don't buy anything except the ticket. I sneak in my own food.

I do that too ;D I don't think they care too much, I've had some haribos poking out my bag which they noticed and just shrugged off.

Seriously, £26? Last movie I went to see in 3D was £7 I think. I miss my student cards, tickets used to be about £4 with it. ):
They're like service stations when it comes to food. They can charge whatever they want because there's no alternative, unless you sneak some in.

 

[Verlander]

They are thieving bastards, trying to squeeze as much money out of the customer who they treat like shit, while laying off as much staff as possible by replacing them with machines that don't work properly

I've been boycotting cinema for a while now, mainly due to the "3d charge". Cinemas began to introduce a charge for 3d films to pay for the equipment they had to install to be 3D ready. Fine. They then (very predictably) DIDN'T drop the 3D charge when they had payed for the equipment (which the UK profits of Avatar alone would have payed for). This is also fine, because as a person who loathes 3D, I'm not about to watch them. THEN they stopped showing the 2D version of films in order to make more money from the 3D surplus. NOT FINE. I'm not forking out extra for a shittier quality film, especially when there hasn't been a decent film out since Kick Ass that has even had any slight appeal to me.

There are a few on my boycott, but most people are mindless sheep and go and pay anyway, or live in the middle of fucking nowhere, and the cinema is all they have for entertanment

 

[Scarim Coral]

Geez so it's about £13 for a single ticket? The cinema I go to are about £5-6, less then half the cost you have to pay.
In case you didn't know, the cinema pretty much send all their profit from the ticket sales to the box office/ film company so they get little. That why the food and drinks in the cinema are expensive.
Maybe you could sign up with Orange Mobile Phone since they do the whole 2 tickets for the price of 1 on a Wednesday but it depend what you are like on mobile phone (I'm not on a contract so I'm only pay as you go since I don't talk phone alot).

 

[Sheinen]

I don't mean to sound rude, but why are your movie tickets so damn expensive. I did the conversion (for my own sake) and how much you spent would be like me spending over $40 (US) for two tickets. If I went to the movies during the afternoon here a single ticket is $7. If I had to pay as much as you did I would never go see a movie ever.

My point entirely!

It's partly because it's 3D, partly because it's a big chain and mostly because it's a rip-off.

Even without the food the price is insane. It's cheaper to go during the day, when I'm at work, and in 2D - then they're only about £9 a ticket, but that's still just plain stupid.

And I'm currently in Liverpool - you get a bus. And it's in a shopping centre.

I checked, the cinema actually takes almost no money from the ticket sales, that £13 is set by the distributors who demand 'x' amount from the theatres. They're then forced to stick 400% on all the food and drink to stay in business. Something is backwards there!

 

[Pikey Mikey]

In Sweden, the ticket price is around 80-90crowns (about 7£) and I think That's much at times. I wouldn't go at all if the price was THAT high. But what makes a movie expensive? Certain actors and special effects, because you can't make a big movie without a ton of special effects these days =P, or maybe the directors are just idiots and don't use the money well

 

[Mr Montmorency]

Ladies and gentlemen, that was the reason why piracy exists.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

Well apparently the Escapist dislike people that roam the seas wearing eye-patches. So I edited this.

lol much better

 

[Ren3004]

I know that tickets here cost a little over ?5... You're getting robbed. Like people said before me, find a cinema that doesn't force you to sell a kidney... or two.

 

[Dexiro]

Which cinema are you going to?

In all the cinema's near me it costs around £6.50 for a regular ticket, and £8 for 3D. These are just places like Odeon and Vue.

And it's your loss if you're buying food at the cinema, bring your own!